Beech and red veneer slimline

[TK woodman]

Cut on the bandsaw to add the veneer

 

[Buckeye]

It's nice but the veneer is not quite so well defined as recent examples.

Peter

 

[Penpal]

Love the Alfresco effect very real life and normal. Thanks for showing sometimes doing it your way is refreshing.

Peter.:waver::waver:

 

[Les ELm]

Nicely done for cutting on the band saw.
Did the dye in the veneer run where the center band is?

Les

 

[TK woodman]

Nicely done for cutting on the band saw.
Did the dye in the veneer run where the center band is?

Les

No It's just where 3 pieces of veneer have crossed over.

 

[Terry Q]

I had the same results you did. The blade I used was 1/16 x 24 tpi. Should be fine enough but the problem is the set of the teeth. A scroll saw blade has very little set while a band saw has much more. The poor pic of my blade shows how wide the blade is. The rough cut comes from making the curves. As you cut the curve the outside edge of the tooth drags. Maybe you could experiment by holding a stone against the side of the blade to knock down the sharp corners of the teeth. Another thing I found was holding a pen blank and pushing it through the band saw I was fairly shaky and felt confined. I made these 2 blocks to allow myself more exaggeration of movement. If you slow down your feed rate you loose concentricity of movement through the curves. If you speed up you exaggerate tooth marks in the curves. Damned if you do and damned if you don't.

 

[Jim]

Damned good effort Tony, especially as it was cut on the bandsaw ..

 

[Bill Mooney]

A good try using the bandsaw, not the best for fine cutting.

 

[TK woodman]

Thank you for your replies - I could have cleaned the cut lines as i do when segmenting to produce a clean line but i like the effect of the broken edge and i can call it an individually designed hand made pen. It's interesting that a more manufactured look is set as the normal by pen turners

 

[Buckeye]

Thank you for your replies - I could have cleaned the cut lines as i do when segmenting to produce a clean line but i like the effect of the broken edge and i can call it an individually designed hand made pen. It's interesting that a more manufactured look is set as the normal by pen turners

I don't think that it is a more manufactured look that is set as the normal, I think it is professional and meticulous looking cut, rather than a poor looking cut, that is generally strived for, that makes it thought of as normal

Peter

 

[wm460]

Very nice pen Tony.

 

[Woody]

A good effort when I was thinking of using the bandsaw Terry Q did tell me I wouldn't like the finish think I will stick with the fret saw but if you like it then that's what counts well done you