Thread: Some Nice Timber Pens for a Change !!

Nice bunch of pens, top marks for those. You are right about the timber pens not being made so much these days. I remember not too long ago it was difficult to get a pen turner to turn a pen other than timber. Nowadays, ti seems most pens are acrylics. Guess its supply and demand..Must admit there are some really nice acrylic blanks out there.

All very worthy contenders there , I think the plastic pens are more what people are used to so relate better to them, Just perceptions though, I think my acrylics outsell the wood ,but not by much with general pens being so cheap ,I think that when people buy a hand crafted pen ,they may have a sneaking suspicion that they are not as durable as the tried and true "plastics" hehe, I spend a lot of time educating customers at the markets as just exactly what they are getting and what goes into it.
Cheers ~ John

Now that is a great set of pens

Well done. All those pens are worthy of a craftman. Congrats.

Wow, I love those first three, especially the Tamarind. I've actually got a Tamarind seedling in my greenhouse, wonder how many pens I can get out of it?

I enjoy both types of pens, although I do like figured woods more than plain. Turning resins is hard, but finishing is easy, and timber, turning is easy, and finishing hard, relatively anyway. Each to their own, I say.

Russell.

Nice bunch of pens Tony, your finish looks first rate.

Does that Beefwood one look as good as it does in the photo ? From here it looks great!!
That blank is out of a large lump that I collected while I was in Weipa, I have cut a number of pen blanks from it and given a few away, but I am yet to make a pen from it myself.

The spalted Northern Tamarind is from a bunch of blanks that I cut from a branch that fell in the bush not far from my house during a storm.
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Originally Posted by Ironwood

The spalted Northern Tamarind is from a bunch of blanks that I cut from a branch that fell in the bush not far from my house during a storm.
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Well now you're just showing off Is it punky?

A lot of the new trees I've planted in my yard are with future use for pens in mind. The question will be whether they grow quick enough, and I live long enough, to get any use out of them. Despite the fact I do more in Resin than anything, I still think timbers with a story are the most special pens. A bit hard to have a resin with a story.

Russell.

Originally Posted by BoomerangInfo

Well now you're just showing off Is it punky?


Russell.

Russel, about half of them have a little punkiness in them, some more than others. I find a drizzle with some CA as I'm turning takes care of it.
I gave a heap to Troy, he stabilized them in his pressure pot, but I am not that well set-up.

Perfection as usual Tony, but is that a fingerprint I detected on one of the pens??

Brilliant mate.

Greg