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I’m a little embarassed at how long ago a friend asked me to turn these cigar pens for them!
As it’s been mentioned, this 30 Projects in 30 Days Challenge is a great excuse to wipe the dust off some stagnent projects and get them done! These cigar pens are going down as projects 5 & 6 of my 30-in-30 Challenge. The blue pen is an acrylic with black chrome hardware. The orangish pen is an unknown wood with gold hardware.
I wish I knew what the wood is in the orange colored pen, the grain is really beautiful. I’d love to get a piece large enough for a top on a side table.
The other two cigar pens were finished several weeks ago. Those are both acrylics.
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Russel
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#1 posted 1441 days ago
Great pens Darryl. The unknown wood looks like Tulip Wood. At least that’s what I recall being told it was. I have a couple pens from that and it is a beautiful wood.
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Splinterman
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#2 posted 1441 days ago
Nice pens Darryl…..good looking jobs.
a1Jim
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#3 posted 1441 days ago
great looking pens,well done
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WoodMosaics
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#4 posted 1440 days ago
I was thinking that it looked like tulipwood also. Did it smell like roses as you worked it? Tulipwood is in the rosewood family.
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Karson
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#5 posted 1440 days ago
I was going to guess Tulip Wood. But some great looking pens.
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matt garcia
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#6 posted 1440 days ago
VERY nice!!!
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darryl
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#7 posted 1440 days ago
it did have a smell about it, but I didn’t think it was very pleasant. it was wax covered too, would tulip wood typically be covered like that?
Russel
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#8 posted 1440 days ago
As I recall, the blanks I had felt a bit on the waxy side. Don’t know if it was natural or something put on.
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MarkWilk
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#9 posted 1440 days ago
Excellent pens. I’m a big fan of the Cigar style pens, and they are big favorites at the office, too. It’s the most requested pen after the Polaris/Atlas style. You did a terrific job with the acrylic. It’s always touchy for me. I can’t get the speed dialed in correctly for finishing acrylic, yet, but I keep trying.
The orange wood has a great color. Was it very oily while you were turing? I had a similar color wood blank that I couldn’t identify for an early pen, and it has a very oily residue for a while after turning. Took a while for the finish to take.
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#10 posted 1440 days ago
Very nice pens Darryl. I liked the orange one.
Sharad
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darryl
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#11 posted 1439 days ago
Mark – the orange wood was not oily at all & seemed to take the finish just as well as any other wood I’ve used. on the blue acrylic pen with the black chrome kit, I sanded it with a piece of 600 grit paper and BLO… seems to help polish it up a bit.
Thank you Sharad, I like the orange too… to bad it was a give away!
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