Thread: Tiger Myrtle JR Gent

Hmm yummy, very nice

ooo .. now this looks good...

Love the timber. Looks like you've done a great job turning and finishing it. The black background, however, makes it a little dark and hard to see details.

David a real nice job on the pen the fit up and finish are very good. I must agree with Cisco though that the background is a bit much. Try a white or grey

The sun is out today so I can take photos outside.

I do like the grain and colour of Tiger Myrtle, looks like a good job on the pen also!Amos

very nice pen
like that tiger myrtle

The pen is great, love the finish, I want to comment on the irony of simplicity in your finishing, ie 320 grit, four coats of thick CA etc.

Now for my observation we David and I made one of the first swaps in the last pen exchange, I was in Sydney for the WWWood Show and I can vouch for the outstandingly beaut finish and workmanship of his New Guinea Rosewood Pen he swapped with me. Now the consensus of most pen makers is we need to avoid the excessive heat generated with finishing particularly sanding, 320 is so innocuous compared with my finishing wet and dry down to two thousand and that fine grit really heats the blank. So it is apparent to me David has given us a clue how to simplify and save a real lot of grief along the way, I for one say thanks.

Regards Peter.

Hey Peter

I got two pens coming your way in the next few days (when I get a chance to scratch myself). I have finished the konkaberry and burl eucalypt (is that how you spell them?).

I think the trick of sanding is that once you get to 240 grit, you stop the lathe and sand with the grain, then you sand with 320 grit with the grain as well. The sanding with the grain doesn't take long (10 sec in each grit). I take the extra step of going to 400 grit if it is a burl, another 10 secs.

320 is so fine anyway, I think any more than that is a waste of time.

Timberbits

Very nicely done.
Good match of fitting to the timber and good fit and finish.
the second set of photos are much better.

Very nice work, well done. The Tiger Myrtle is a beautiful timber.

nice

G'day Timberbits,

Excellent timber, excellent pen! Gotta love those "capped" pens

Hijack .... Stirlo, silver medal in what?

ps. Congratulations

Silver metal from South Africa. Must be for running away from the lions. An old cranky farmer once told me he doesn't have as fast as he can from the lions, only faster than the slowest person in the group.