Texas Ebony and Bloodwood Cigar Pen

Nice job, Buddy. Hey are you plannin on coming down anytime soon? Shop is totally different and still a mess. E-mail me if you are. (It’ll give me a little time to straighten up.)

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Thanks Obi. I’ll check with SWMBO and see if she would like to make a run. She has a cousin in Turlock. Probably not this weekend given current commitments.

How are things going?

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Smooth turnings Wayne!

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as if you need to ask if there’s any interest…

nice pen, I’ll see if I can make a twin – or fraternal cousin.

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Wayne -

Awesome pen. What is the wood species?

. . . any interest? . . . a blog?

Ditto scott’s comment! Of course a blog! And, well, as things go on LJ . . . well yes we will need and afternoon chat on pentuning and penmaking!

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I belive this is a description of the tree this comes from – Pithecellobium ebano

http://nativeplantproject.tripod.com/texas_ebony.htm

Sounds like I should get working on the blog. Probably not tonight. Early morning meeting tomorrow.

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Wayne, What’s the end lamination? Bloodwood?

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

Nice looking piece of wood – I wish I had the time to try my hand at that. Does the bloodwood darken with age and loose its vivid redness?

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Nice pen Wayne. Looks like you have the knack of making pens.

-- Bill, Turlock California, http://www.brookswoodworks.com

Awesome Wayne! So can you please explain how I can make one? Thanks for the link, it describes this speices perfectly and it does has a coffee/tobbacco smell.
I have a G1067z lathe, I may need different pieces to hold blank.

The pen mandrels support a variety of lathes. MT #1, MT #2, shopsmith, etc…. I’m guessing your Grizzly Lathe is uses a MT #2 mandril.

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Wayne, How do you hold the round wood on the bench? :-) and how do you sharpen the “pen” plane blade? :-)

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Really nice Wayne. I’d like to see a blog. Pens are on the one of these days list.

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I need a demo Wayne, how many blanks will it cost me for you to produce, direct, edit and star in a 3 minute Movie?