First Segmented Pen Finished With Ca

**PenTurner** · 10th March 2007, 03:19 PM

Firstly, a big thank you to all of you who have encouraged and educated me along the way, and also put up with simple questions from some one who needed to know, this pen is the start of more to come I hope. Questions you answered earlier in the piece, what should I buy?, band saw, table saw, etc?, how do you use CA? How do you do Segmented pens? all those answers were ringing in my mind as I started this pen, I also had a copy print out of how Skew made his pen, and a copy print out that I got from somewhere that Toni pointed out.

Picture 1, Sawed up the pieces with the drop saw and layed them out, the very 1st piece I was using a small piece

of pink ivory, holding it to the saw with a wooden stick, I heard "bang" and I still do not know where that piece is!?

So I used longer piece and made sure it was held down with my wooden extension quite firmly, cut the piece successfully

, I waited until the saw stopped spinning before lifting it off the cut.

I cut up Pink Ivory, Ebony, and an unknown piece of Australian wood. layed them out as they were cut out.

2. I used CA to glue them together and Accelerator to speed up the process.

3. I sanded away the rough edges on the belt sander and a fairly good looking piece resulted
What I noted was that my cuts need to be more accurate, so that the pieces will fit snug one to another, possibly using a clamp before trying to use the accelerator, so that minimum gap shows between pieces.

4. pen turned ok on the Lathe, I could feel the different hardness or softness of each wood as I turned, I sanded down to 15000.

5. Noting the gaps between some of the pieces I determined that I would not only use CA, but use CA only as a finish.

As far as I can make out it is an ok looking pen, but there are some flaws in it that I wish were not there, mainly the under turning of the ends

, for this time I will put up with the flaws in the segmenting, and hope that in future it will improve.
I owe it to all of you who have encouraged me, and am satisfied with the result this time. As usual, comments and constructive advice is welcomed, thanks Amos

**Simomatra** · 10th March 2007, 03:38 PM

Well done Amos

That is my next project thanks for the pictorial Like the colours

**old dog** · 11th March 2007, 10:35 AM

the extra time put in really payed off well done your pen looks great,

**Fireman sam** · 11th March 2007, 10:43 AM

well done

Andrew

**Skew ChiDAMN!!** · 11th March 2007, 05:57 PM

Looks good enough to eat!

(Have I mentioned before that I love Licorice All-sorts?)

I will say that the way you did it was the "hard way," but IMHO it's also the one that produces best results. I don't mean the tools you used, (a Drop-saw for pen blanks?

) I'm talking about cutting the blanks into lots of little pieces like that.

An easier way is to cut each blank into pieces length-wise (not across, like you did) and clamping/gluing them together to form your pattern in a wide "super-blank." Then cut it up, either square across or on the diagonal, into segments one pen-blank long, joining those together to get the final length. Sounds complicated, but simple to do... and no worries about getting angles right.

The disadvantage (if you can call it that) is that instead of the grain running the length of the pen, it'll run across the pen resulting in some end-grain turning.

I like this effect with some woods, it tends to change how they look.

**Penpal** · 11th March 2007, 06:29 PM

Unusual choice to laminate,end result worth all the effort,when you assembled the pen in the pic of the finished pen I reckon if you take the centre band off because the angle cut matches so well it will give it continuity,just have a look and tell me what you think,I have done this a bit lately and like the results. Sent the info to .com instead of .net,fixed that and resent. Hi Peter

**Humber** · 11th March 2007, 07:38 PM

Its a beautiful pen Amos. Well done.
I can see what Penpal is talking about - taking out the centre band too.

**BernieP** · 11th March 2007, 07:58 PM

G'Day Amos

Very nice pen, another one to file away

Cheers
Bernie

**PenTurner** · 11th March 2007, 08:00 PM

Skew, I can see the advantage of having a good bandsaw, my el cheapo ($80) is good for cutting off ends etc, but when it comes to making a straight cut, length or width it is terrible, shifts all over the place. I know ,I just have cut up 3 pieces length ways tonight and have had to sand each piece because of the cut. Thanks for the input, . Peter, I will try what you said about removing the centre band and see how it looks. Thanks everyone else for your comments, Amos

**lubbing5cherubs** · 11th March 2007, 08:55 PM

beautiful
Toni

**Jaydo** · 11th March 2007, 09:05 PM

very nice pen,
im interested in how long it took you to make that
it looks like it would have taken some time.

cheers,
jayden

**PenTurner** · 11th March 2007, 10:38 PM

Peter and Humber here are the pics without centre band, Jaydo it took about 4 Hrs, I used accelerant to speed up the hardening of the super glue(CA), thanks again to all for encouragement, Amos

**DOUBLE G RANCH** · 12th March 2007, 05:00 AM

Nice pen, the colours are great.

I too don't have a good band saw so I am limited in what I can do. My first segmented pen was the result of a mango blank tearing out so I ended up adding padauk so I could finish.

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