Amboyna Burl Cigar Pen

by JakeMay 20, 2009

I don’t know what happened, oh look! A sparkly, but I guess I got sidetracked and managed to put off finishing the pen I was working on. More about that later, but right now, I just wanted to post a picture of this Cigar Pen.

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Follow up to Previous Post

by JakeMay 18, 2009

Occasionally there are days when it just doesn’t do to get out of bed. Today was one of those days.

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Arizona Silhouette – Called the Home of Eye Candy for a Reason

by JakeMay 17, 2009

Bill did it again, but then it seems he always does. I went out yesterday to start turning a cigar pen that I had cut, drilled, and glued up on Friday. I had gotten 4 ready for turning this weekend, and had already turned and finished one in acrylic. The one I started on next was from a blank of Amboyna Burl I had purchased over a year ago from Bill Baumbeck at Arizona Silhouette and managed to forget about. Or it may have been that with Amboyna Burl, I was just too intimidated by its incredible figure to risk making a pen that was not worthy of the beauty of the wood.

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Welcome to The Penpoint::Your home for elegant hand-crafted pens

by JakeMay 16, 2009

Welcome to the Penpoint. I am going to try and make some regular posts here to let folks know what I am getting done. Hopefully it will serve to keep me motivated and active working in the shop to make new and interesting pens to post about.

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