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Cigar Pen

Blue Illusion Cigar Pen

by JakeMay 23, 2009

I think I may be learning a bit about taking pictures of small items, at least I hope so. It certainly seems to me that the pictures I took of this Blue Illusion Cigar Pen came out well. I took them outside using natural light.

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Curly Koa Cigar Pen Completed!

by JakeMay 22, 2009

Yes! The Curly Koa Cigar Pen has been Completed! I will get it listed on Etsy sometime later today. After a complete do-over on the top finish, the result is very pleasing, well, at least I am pleased with it. I did realize what caused the problem in the first place though, or at least I realized what I did different the first time than I normally do.

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Finished with this Curly Koa Cigar Pen? I don’t think so.

by JakeMay 21, 2009

This just really has not been my week for finishing pens. I am working on a Cigar Pen in Curly Koa (a really pretty piece too I might add), and had finished turning it on Tuesday and started applying finish.

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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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