Are tired of these yet???

I am not getting tired of them. In fact they are refreshing designs that you are doing. Keep’em coming.

-- Mike, Missouri --- “A positive life can not happen with a negative mind.” ---

I really like the combination of ebony and aluminum. Nice!

-- I just got done cutting three boards and all four of them were too short. (true story)

Pretty neat,nice work.

-- BiLL @wee3

When you stop making them beautiful … well … then, I might be tired of them.

Not yet ;-)

-- -- Neil

Pens are cool – I like pens – nothing wrong with posting pens!

When I have a pen made from every known species of wood – maybe I’ll get tired of them. Oh, wait – no there’s then laminates and acrylics and stones and ….

Yeah and I JUST got started getting pens … it’s gonna take a while …

-- Eric M. Saperstein, Master Craftsman www.artisansofthevalley.com

Wow – very impressive. I love pens, have a few but nothing like these babies.

-- Harold

seeing imagination at work is never boring.

-- Mother Nature created it, I just assemble it. - It's not ability that we often lack, but the patience to use our ability

Nice looking pen and well done.

helluvawreck aka Charles
http://woodworkingexpo.wordpress.com

-- If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. Henry David Thoreau

I assume you maybe inserted the aluminum rods for the dots? They look so perfectly indexed, are you able to comment on your process? I would love to learn or at least try.

The pens certainly are different than anything I have seen lately, superb job.

-- Glenn, Nova Scotia

Thanks Glenn

Yes I use aluminum rod cutoffs for the dots. I use an indexing wheel in conjunction with a jig I made for a router to do the drilling and also the segmenting of pens that I have shown before such as the Holly and Gabon segmented pen or the Curly maple and bloodwood segmented pen. You can look in my album to see those if you want.

The jig that I made was an idea I used from John Lucas. You can google his name and look for router jig for wood lathe. I adapted it to fit my Jet 1014vs wood lathe. He has a pdf file on the net and also wrote an article in Woodturners magazine a few years ago. If you google him you will have no problem finding it.

Good luck and hope that helps.
John T.

-- John T.

No, keep them coming. Very creative.

-- Backer boards, stop blocks, build oversized, and never buy a hand plane--

Thanks John for the info. I will have a look.

Glenn

-- Glenn, Nova Scotia

Very Nice Project! Thanks For posting!

-- ENJOY YOURSELVES GUYS!!!