Thread: Jr Gent

Hey There,

What an awesome pen, I really love the Inclusion of the Bark, Did you have to stabalize it with CA or anything ??, (I probably would have before turning), I still love it though.
We would call that a Barron over here, but depending where it was made, as to what it is.

HazzaB

Originally Posted by HazzaB

Hey There,

What an awesome pen, I really love the Inclusion of the Bark, Did you have to stabalize it with CA or anything ??, (I probably would have before turning), I still love it though.

Thank you sir ... and the only CA I used was on the bark areas (and a little coffee grounds to fill with). It really was a hard piece of wood and had to sharpen my chisel a couple of times while turning it.

We would call that a Barron over here, but depending where it was made, as to what it is.

Hmmm, here the Sedona and Baron use the same bushes and these were totally different.

I bought these kits off a fellow on IAP and can't remember for sure what they were called because they sat in a pile with other kits before I got to them and the memory bank was a little cloudy.

Well done indeed sire!!

Very skillful of you to keep it all together.

Doesn't appear to be a lot of depth or gloss to that finish. It looks well finished, just not what I expected in view of reel seats I have seen here.

Originally Posted by artme

Well done indeed sire!!

Very skillful of you to keep it all together.

Thanks ... sharpen the chisel a few times to make it as easy as I could.

Doesn't appear to be a lot of depth or gloss to that finish. It looks well finished, just not what I expected in view of reel seats I have seen here.

Actually it looks the same depth wise as the reel seats.

Not sure if it was bad lighting outside, my taking the pics with the the wifes Olympus point and shoot freehand or that is is basically a light colored wood and all the depth is in what is the light (actually yellow in color) area.

I'll try using the light tent and my Fuji S7000 and see if I can improve upon it ...

great piece of wood, it sure is hard to keep those knots in place

done a few where i have been on my knees looking for that piece of knot to glue back in

great job

MIK

Great finish and excellent looking wood Ron.

They are called JR Gent over here same as my JR Gents Rio Pens.

Jnr Gent it is, great feautures in the blank, looks like it needed stabilizing with CA before turning, Amos

what a beauty ron

Originally Posted by MBUMIK

great piece of wood, it sure is hard to keep those knots in place

done a few where i have been on my knees looking for that piece of knot to glue back in

great job

MIK

Thanks ... I actually cleaned up all the sawdust around the lathe expecting to have to hunt for knot pieces. But they stayed put.

Used thin CA and dribbled it on the knot. Turned and as small holes appeared I jammed coffee ground into the void and used CA.

Originally Posted by Woodenink

Jnr Gent it is, great feautures in the blank, looks like it needed stabilizing with CA before turning, Amos

Thanks you Amos. The only CA used on this pen was the knots hoping to attempt to keep the biggest one together.

When I got these blanks (last year?) they were green and damp. Just left them in the box they were sent in until I took this out to turn.

The timber was hard ... really hard. The knot was hard except for small voids as you turned.

Originally Posted by mkypenturner

what a beauty ron

Thanks Troy ... getting ready to turn another piece of that 'sneezing timber'

I will put the mask on for this one

One of my favorite styles. Looks very nice.
There has been confusion over drill bit sizes. One of my major pet peeves.

Originally Posted by Rifleman1776

One of my favorite styles. Looks very nice.

Thanks! The wife spotted it this AM and took it and wrote with it and when she handed it back to me the knots of the upper and lower barrel were not in alignment anymore.
Confused I pull a little bit and the center band coupler slides right out of the barrel.

hope this is a one time issue as I have more of these kits. Put some blue loctite to see if that holds.

There has been confusion over drill bit sizes. One of my major pet peeves.

Mine too ... I don't know how many drill bits I own but too many.

Originally Posted by rhossack

Trying to play catch up with pens I owe in swaps

This is what this started with ... a nice invasive shrub from Texas called Salt Cedar.



I think this is a Jr Gentlemens pen but not 100% sure but I'll call it that until someone corrects me.

This was a really good study in patience and perserverance ... Measured the parts and decide this is a Jr Gent according to that wonderful bushing and kit guide.

I finally locate some instructions and it says to use a 25/64" and 15/32" drill bits. Soon discovered that there was no way that the tube was going to fit the 15/32" hole and finally find message talking about 1 12.5mm drill bit.

Not owning one and not wanting to buy another drill bit I posed a question on our local pen turning forum and was rewarded with Russ telling me to use a piece of 1/4" dowel, cut a slit in the end and then cut a 1/2" wide strip of sandpaper and ream the hole to size. This worked like a champ!

I watched with interest Pete's use of the waterborne products and the after Russ Fairfield demonstrated dipping it at one of our Pen Club meetings
I decided to give this a try.

This is one of the General Finishes Waterborne Enduro Polyurethane Varnish and while I've used it on reel seats this is the first pen I tried it with.

This blank had some red highlights and that is why I chose Enduro. It is pink in color and I wanted to try to highlight the Red and not have it disappear when the finish was applied.

Dipped three times and after the last dip I put it in my 'hot box' to speed up the curing. The red shows through the finish.

When I polished it and put a coat of kiwi natural shoe polish on it I see in the bark inclusion that the finish hadn't filled all the tiny pits and a little of
the polish shows as white specs. (not sure how to remove that)

What doesn't show up in the pic is the lighter areas that look like reflected pools of light.

Hi Ron

Just a short question which you can give a long answer. When you say dip, do you mean you dipped the finished tube into enduro? What about runs or droplets at the end when you take it out of the dip to dry? Does the dip go inside the brass tube and how will this affect the pen parts being pressed together?

Thanks mate

Rog