Thread: Mango Polaris

Mango wood looks real good and a good looking pen.
David

That is a really nice pen!!

Hehe ! sometimes ,just sometimes ,we are allowed to gift ourselves ,That should be a Keeper for sure ,cheers ~ John

G'day Sturina,

I sure as hell can't see anything wrong with that one. I love the swirl of the grain in the wood

But would you mind telling about the disasters so hopefully I can learn from someone else's mistakes instead of my own all the time

Ady

Hi Adynaton. I still have lots of mistakes to learn from. I had a couple of acrylics go crack. The first was to much heat, the second and third (hang head in shame) was tool at wrong angle with too big a gap between blank and rest and just got it jammed cracking the blank. Then I got distracted sanding the edges of a wooden blank and sanded too much wood of leaving insufficient to turn and get a good fit. Had a tube let go in the blank and some pine just not wanting to turn. I tried something a little fancy but the wood just chipped too deep to fix (sharpen that chisel i here you say, I did). Luckily this was not all on the same day!

In summary though all these are mistakes that get made and could be avoided if I listened to others and decided not to try and re-invent the wheel when I turn. Lots of fun though whether the break or not.

Thats a Awesome pen well done mate

Ian

That's a nice piece of wood. Seems very orange though. Is there a colour cast to the images? Is that how it looks IRL?

Regardless of the colour though. I love the grain pattern. Mango is a dice wood regardless of which way it's cut. My pen I've using now is my first Sierra made from a tree in my parents home, and 2-odd years later, it's still looking great.

Nice job.
Russell.

Hey Sturina,

Very Nice pen, I have a lump of Mango here somewhere, I'll have to find it and do something with it. Just got to remember where it is

HazzaB

Hi Russel. Just lookied at the photo again and it is definately lighter in real life.

Thanks for the feedback guys

Awesome looking pen

Beautiful pen. I have done some mango but a lot paler.

G'day Sturina,

Thanks for the tip offs. There are a couple of mistakes you have made that I haven't. Yet

Ady

Last time I tried to turn a Mango, it flew off the mandrel and splattered all over the joint . Great pen mate !