Your new favourite pen has arrived...

DeVore

Gentlemen,

This last year I have applied myself to the manly arts of turning wood. One can also turn other things like plastics and resin so I got to thinking... I needed a new pen and what would I want my pen to be made out of?


I think we all know the answer to that.




Behold... is it not beautiful?

Wibbs

Very cool D. I imagine a pen also has the advantage that you can use unusual woods that might not come in large sized raw material? What wood is it?

endacl

Wibbs wrote: »

Very cool D. I imagine a pen also has the advantage that you can use unusual woods that might not come in large sized raw material? What wood is it?

Don't answer! This could be a guessing game.

DeVore

Eh... are you two serious?!


There is a hint in the pics underneath it


Hint: its not wood...

Ruu

Looks tasty!

247music

Stabilised wood?

Wibbs

I. Am. An. Actual. Atomic. Powered. Moron.



In an alternative Matrix universe, my stupidity could power a small village or even a town. I'm thinking Dingle. Yea Dingle.

I think that's as close to a proper blokes pen as I can imagine. Hourglass figure to boot. In other news, you're completely mad.

Stheno

Looks like amber?

I have a pen made out of wood

Wibbs

Oh and BTW if you ever do want some different wood for smaller projects like the above I have chunks of hawthorn, mahogany, cherry, beech, lilac, even tree fern drying out in my shed(don't ask…)

Wibbs

Stheno wrote: »

I have a pen made out of wood

I call mine a pencil S… *gets coat, slinks off*

DeVore

Why would I put amber under the grill ....

Stheno

Wibbs wrote: »

I call mine a pencil S… *gets coat, slinks off*

Mine looks like a pencil but is a fountain pen

DeVore wrote: »

Why would I put amber under the grill ....

DUH missed that

DeVore

Wibbs wrote: »

Oh and BTW if you ever do want some different wood for smaller projects like the above I have chunks of hawthorn, mahogany, cherry, beech, lilac, even tree fern drying out in my shed(don't ask…)

Yeah, that's all good stuff.. the more usual woods (mahogany, cherry and beech) I have but lilac and hawthorn sound good and I'm always looking for dried stuff like fern to put in resin and make pen blanks out of!

Wibbs

I've a rake of tree ferns down the back of my garden overgrown jungle*. They might suit your purposes well I'd imagine. The fronds are a lot tougher, almost plastic in consistency when compared to the native ferns anyway. Hawthorn is quite a pale wood, close grained, but it's a hard wood. Very. Good for carving, preserves detail. Lilac is a bit meh D, no real standout TBH.






*I have a microclimate going on. I've even a few baby tree ferns that have naturally grown from spores.

Zebrano

You have finally tipped over the edge.

jimgoose

Am I to undetstand that this rather fine weapon is milled from sausage meat? Well hoofed, that man. Although I personally would prefer billet aluminium.

Wibbs

Zebrano wrote: »

You have finally tipped over the edge.

There's an edge? I say jump.

jimgoose

Wibbs wrote: »

There's an edge? I say jump.

It does set a chap to wondering about this 3D printing malarkey, mind you...

DeVore

"milled from sausage meat?!" ....

... Pearls before swine!!


That is finest Danish bacon, wrapped around pen cores, grilled to a crisp, dunked into a resin bath, turned to shape and buffed to a shine!


I even nibbled the ends to make them square. (I have a making-of video coming soon )

T.

jimgoose

DeVore wrote: »

"milled from sausage meat?!" ....

... Pearls before swine!!


That is finest Danish bacon, wrapped around pen cores, grilled to a crisp, dunked into a resin bath, turned to shape and buffed to a shine!


I even nibbled the ends to make them square. (I have a making-of video coming soon )

T.

I am literally aghast with wonder!!

Pat Mustard

Can I suggest something like this as the next project:

endacl

You can't put a decent edge on a rasher.

Pawwed Rig

Perfect gift the next time Enda meets Dave across the water.