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31st December 2015, 12:58 AM #1
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2015 Christmas Pens
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2015 Christmas pens
Christmas pens selected by my immediate family as their favorites. From L to R
Queensland Walnut
Red Silky Oak with Black Bean and Silver Ash veneer.
Palm - stabilized
Black walnut, QLD Silver Ash with Burdekin plum accent rings
Red Silky Oak, QLD Silver Ash with ebony accent rings,
QLD Maple with veneer accents - an experimental design.
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These are from the Agent 99 pen blanks shown earlier. Playing with blanksMobyturns
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31st December 2015, 02:17 AM #2
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They all look great from here
Nicely done
Les
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31st December 2015, 10:18 AM #3
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nice collection
family would have been happy with them
am sure
cheers Tony
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31st December 2015, 11:13 AM #4
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The pens look quite nice, I especially like the black palm. I think I made a slimline pen out of it but very hard to finish. I think I ended up using heaps of CA. If it was not stabilized would it tend to split/splinter?
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31st December 2015, 04:15 PM #5
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A wonderful collection of pens, much work went into them, and yes, Black Palm does finish well.Amos
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The palm is a local palm (not black palm) which is showing some promise but it is quite variable in its turning properties and not much usable wood in the base of the palm. Some normal samples hold together well, others splinter badly even with light cuts with a very sharp skew. This sample was stabilized with "Cactus Juice" (I think??) by Matt (mattm82) as a favor after I sent him some palm knife scales. It seems to be a lot more predictable with the turning properties after stabilization. Some of the stabilized samples still have cracks in the blank, so something to work on. I will have to check out a setup to do some stabilizing myself.
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2nd January 2016, 01:03 PM #7
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I had some Black Palm, and it exhibited the same characteristics of splintering, I also tried stabilising with cactus juice and initially with CA (when I didn't have Cactus Juice) it helps tremendously, still have to be careful in turning. Amos
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