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My Pen From USA Swap partner John aka walshjp17
Hi All,
As Title suggests here the pen and the rest of the contents of my parcel from John
The Pen is JR Gentleman's from Exotic Blanks and the blank is a piece of doubled dyed (green & yellow) Buckeye Burl,
The blank has figure which I couldn't seem to capture as good as it is in real life, and the more an more I look at it the more I like it,
I hope John likes his parcel as much as i liked mine
The blanks that came with it are as follows L-R,
2x Black Line Cypress, (as John has said maybe a fancy name for Spalted Cypress)
Bradford Pear, (has a massive sentimental value to John)
2x Flaming Box Elder (my Favorite)
and 2x Spalted Sycamore (has a lot of figure)
I cant wait to turn some really nice pens out of these blanks.
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Cheers ben
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beedeejay Australia Day Pen Swap Haul
Found a box from Australia in the post today:D. Beedeejay's pen and some blanks were safely included. Ben sent me a fabulous postable Jr. Gent II from Timberbits wrapped in Hairy Oak. Sanded thru 600, 13 -15 coats of CA, wet sanded w/1200 and MM thru the grits and buffed with auto polish. The photos (even if they were better) cannot do justice to this fine writing instrument.
Included were a beautiful bunch of blanks (BBB) including my favorite Red Mallee Burl. Accompanying the RMB are Mango, Camphor Laurel, Australian Red Cedar, Huon Pine (do like this one as well), some small Red Collabah Burl blanks and a hunk of Hairy Oak from the same bunch that the pen came from.
Apologies for the photos, still trying to get the hang of this.
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My outstanding pen and box from Fortunato Amos De Pasquale
I recieved my pen from Amos today. What an supurb pen! I amhonoured to have received not only a pen crafted by Amos but named by him aswell. Amos has crafted an outstandingpen which he has named, The Northern Lights of Aurora Borealis, meaning “thedawn of the north”. The blanks he has used was cast by Jeff Powell (The MasterScroller) of the IAP, and the star was cut out by intarsia work. Amos includedsome awesome wood and acrylic blanks that i look forward to turning in the nearfuture.
My Pen from Michael Moncur
Received my pen from Michael today, a beautifully crafted Streamline in Cocobolo with custom Centre band. In fact, my son was watching as I unpacked it, and because the centre band had Essendon colours he took a shine to the pen, so I customized it for him.!! Thanks Michael, Amos:):2tsup:http://i1213.photobucket.com/albums/...ps0e6deaf7.jpghttp://i1213.photobucket.com/albums/...ps08d33996.jpghttp://i1213.photobucket.com/albums/...pse589884b.jpg