Some recent turnings

[seabat]

This is a LCP pen and pencil in Amboyna Burl

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This LCP is an alternative material made form the bark of a Red Fir Tree

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This reel seat for a Fly Rod is from Amboyna Burl

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[Uncle Cracker]

Simple and elegant. Nice stuff.

[leehljp]

Great looking work! Love the looks of the bark!

[Whaler]

Beautiful work.

[jking]

Very nice. On the second pen...is the bark cast in resin?

[seabat]

Simple and elegant. Nice stuff.

Thank you Mr Cracker

[seabat]

Great looking work! Love the looks of the bark!

Thanks Hank ...

I like the marbled look the 'Bark' gives but it is a pain to work with as there is lots of holes, voids and beetle tracks through the bark.

I used lots of coffee grounds as a filler on this one.

This pen was made up of 4 rings. The dark color is hard like wood and the light colored is soft.

The soft stuff peels like those 'Peel & Sketch Charcoal Pencils' where
you could grab the end and peel off the skin to reveal the charcoal.

[seabat]

Thanks Dick ...

[seabat]

Very nice. On the second pen...is the bark cast in resin?

No ... I cut 4 rings from the bark with a hole saw and then glued and trued the bark rings.

Used lots of coffee grounds as a filler and this pen was dipped 15 times in Lacquer using Ed Blysard's method and still not all the tiny voids were filled.