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Zeta and Mistral in Bog Oak

GSteer

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It's been a while since I've finished a pen, or posted, so here's two. Both for my Dads 70th this weekend, should make him feel a bit younger considering the wood is thousands of years older than him!

Finished with melamine lacquer and matted with wire wool.

Zeta in Gun Metal / Chrome with English Bog Oak

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Mistral in Rhodium / Black Titanium with English Bog Oak
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Two very well matched pens, very nicely finished.....you can see a lot of thought has gone into those...:drool::drool:
 
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I have not had the opportunity to turn bog oak. Its it difficult to work with? I like the subtle effect of the grain showing through the dark colour. Lovely pens.
 
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Thanks everyone! It's hard to tell in the photos, and get a wide enough dynamic range with the entire pen/background, but there are some lovely dense black grain rippling through the Mistral piece.

Terry: I've a selection of bog oak pieces which range from very flakey (which I think will require stabilisation) to very dense ones, I've only turned the denser/darker ones myself so far. A quick sharpen of the skews during turning was needed and it's a bit tougher to sand but I don't mind that. I tend to use a skew rather than a scraper as a I get the feeling that bits might fly off if approached like that due to the grain. On each I've turned so far I've had a couple of very small crevices where I've rubbed in the swarf and added CA to fill in, this is probably just me being overly cautious and not really required.
 
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