Leatherbound Lizard Sirocco pen

[Leatherlass]

Hello fellow Pennoisseurs, hope you are all keeping safe and well.
Here's a commissioned Sirocco pen I made this week.
The leather is veg tan with a hand painted lizard. It was nice to put my tiny artist brushes to good use again

 

[Bill Mooney]

That looks like another winner Christine.

 

[geordie0928]

A fine Pen, maybe you could start a thread off on how to do it.

 

[fortress]

Very nice Christine, how is the image sealed?

 

[alan morrison]

A great looking pen, Christine, that anyone would be pleased to own.

Alan

 

[woodhacker]

thats one really special pen.

 

[Penpal]

Coincidence Christine,I grow tiny Carnivorous Cephalotus plants from West Australia. I grow in a three foot fish tank wholly modified in the lounge. Calling in to where I bought the tank and lots of bits this week I marvelled at the Aussie Blue Tongued Lizards and various other tame breeding stock in the shop. Fantastic use of that pen kit I find difficult to design around,I love the mechanics but find the contra angles of the banding etc.

You bit all my worries with the most superb of beautiful pens.

Kindest regards for your superb work.

Peter.

 

[flexi]

Your a very talented lass..... that's another stunner....really nice

 

[wm460]

That is a beauty Christine.

 

[Leatherlass]

Thanks for your lovely comments again. Much appreciated. I'm making an axe sheath now
I can imagine the beautiful diverse reptiles you have in your country Peter, we only have a few in the UK but I find them fascinating little critters.

 

[Leatherlass]

Very nice Christine, how is the image sealed?

Hi John, I use fiebings leather dyes and finishing products so its quite permanent. Its a bit of a double edge sword as it means if I make a mistake I have to bin it and start all over again.
I like to wear the cotton glove when sewing it on the tube just to keep it all nice and clean.

 

[Neil]

Thanks for your lovely comments again. Much appreciated. I'm making an axe sheath now
I can imagine the beautiful diverse reptiles you have in your country Peter, we only have a few in the UK but I find them fascinating little critters.

Christine, those few that we do have are mostly politicians though.

 

[golum]

Christine, those few that we do have are mostly politicians though.

 

[Mark James]

Superb finished pen! I do love your work.

Stay healthy

 

[wm460]

Christine, those few that we do have are mostly politicians though.

Only dangerous snakes we have are the ones with two legs.

 

[silver]

Christine that is one superbly dressed pen. I doff my cap on your abilities. Stunning.

 

[JTWC]

A really nice pen, very different from the usual pens.

 

[Pierre]

Hello fellow Pennoisseurs, hope you are all keeping safe and well.
Here's a commissioned Sirocco pen I made this week.
The leather is veg tan with a hand painted lizard. It was nice to put my tiny artist brushes to good use again

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Normally I would have sent a PM to Christine to say thank you, but I would like to say it publicly.

I commissioned the pen as a wedding anniversary pen for my wife in July to celebrate our 38 th. As a result of the Covid outbreak we were having major postal problems in France for deliveries because the post office was quarantining the post for weeks . So I asked her to make it early and send it early in the hopes that it would make it here in time for the anniversary. Well sods law kicked in and it arrived today a couple of weeks earlier that I expected!!!! So guess what?? well because I am especially vulnerable, she (my wife) has borne the brunt of all the outside shopping and working whilst I have been sheltering, so I just though I would give it to her as token of my love and appreciation ( blast I will have to find another anniversary present!!).

Anyway she loved it and the picture was just like the lizards that we watch every sunny morning at breakfast on the wall of our veranda.

So a huge thank you to Christine it was perfect and I have to say very much better than the photos show. It is just so tactile .

AND Happy Birthday for tomorrow 15th May Christine (Leatherlass), may you have many more

 

[Leatherlass]

Merci beaucoup Monsieur for my Birthday wishes and I am so pleased your pen arrived safe and sound and more importantly, that you both like it
Christine

 

[Pops92]

Just joined this site and already cannot stop looking at it. Love the Sirocco but this one is on a different level. Absolutely love it.