Thread: October pen swap pictures

Cool Soundman - love it when someone is also impatient for the end of the month

Funny, I thought the Mulbery would have turned out better than the London Plane looking at the blanks, but your pens look the other way round to me.

Gee, I'd better get on with mine.

nice pens mate, greeny etc. is it just me or does mulberry not polish up real well. my pen from it look rather dull and judging ( only by the pic ) yours is a bit dull to (is it better in real life? ).

cheers

btw. aren't pen swap photos meant to go up first of the month?

Stirlo, the Mulberry can be polished up. You just have to load it up with heaps of oil or probably about 10 coats of shellawax and EEE.
If you have a look here and look at post 33, you will see one I did out of the same tree, which I did about 5YRS ago.

yeh i think the mulbery being dark and coarse grained... its sort of glossy but there is no real light comming out of it.

the london plane looks a lot like gravilia and banksia but in a lighter form... I like it.
the mulbery has its own charm.

I got four pens out of the blanks but the others aren't here at the moment.

these two will go up to wendy.

cheers

Originally Posted by djstimber

Stirlo, the Mulberry can be polished up. You just have to load it up with heaps of oil or probably about 10 coats of shellawax and EEE.

thanx mate. i haven't assembled yet so i'll chuck em back on and repolish.

cheers

Originally Posted by djstimber

Stirlo, the Mulberry can be polished up. You just have to load it up with heaps of oil or probably about 10 coats of shellawax and EEE.

TEN Coats ??????

Ok .. please x-s'plain . .

Will coat after coat of glow etc build up layers??? .. I thought that it fused into the wood:confused: ..

Also, is it better to shellawax, EEE, shellawax etc etc .. or just layer up the shellawax?

Ive also noticed that if ya try not to touch the thing for a week or so, it holds its finish much betterer

Rich.

PS ... It aint November yet !!!!

Originally Posted by soundman

yeh i think the mulbery being dark and coarse grained... its sort of glossy but there is no real light comming out of it.

the london plane looks a lot like gravilia and banksia but in a lighter form... I like it.
the mulbery has its own charm.

I got four pens out of the blanks but the others aren't here at the moment.

these two will go up to wendy.

cheers

Thanks Soundman - They look fantastic!

Cheers
Wendy

They look good Soundman and i reckon tou are right about the top one.

Here's another simple question: what is the gold contraption at the top of the pen for? Does it serve any useful purpose or is it an adornment?

Is there a 101 faq or pen parts anywhere?

The gold protrubance on top is the twist actuator for the pen mech.

Yeh I've been thinking about a pen101 series of threads.

cheers

"Superfine, diamond, zebra, captivated ring, crosses, feathers,
tiger stripes, camel humps on a sesame seed bun!"

See the blue feathers, superfine under the captive rings there is brass so that super fine I think plus it a slimline so I got this covered both ways. .. It all dissapeared. Jude you are the master no way can I do them. Diamond see in the feather. The zebra is the black and white acrylic, 2 captivated rings. The cross is the bottom half. Feather is blue. Tiger stripes are in the orange acrylic , camel hump on the lower half mid way down. The sesame roll as you can see.
NAHNAH I had fun brains been working on this since I seen it. See I will try anything on my lathe once.
bye Toni

sorry forgot photo

added the picture this time. I apologise
Toni

LOL love it Toni, that should throw Dazzler for a wobbly

Thanks DJ that plan I hope LOL
Toni

"ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH," he said and dashed into the corner thrusting his head under a pile of cushions in an effort to hide. "Poor widdle lathe", he thought, "What ever did you do?".

How about one with bark on it? Or a piece of old bleached limb?