My very first Sierra.

[edlea]

I was quite pleased how it turned out.

 

[bellringer]

Now the Pen is very nice but the wood is a puzzle

 

[edlea]

Now the Pen is very nice but the wood is a puzzle

Shall we see if any of the gang can place it ?

 

[Jimjam66]

I'd be proud of it too, Ed. nicely done! Bit dark for sycamore, might be Elm?

 

[Neil]

I was quite pleased how it turned out.

As you are a self confessed newcomer, may I offer some comment and criticism?

Its very well turned, you have avoided the temptation on this pen style to make it straight, and have incorporated a gently curve. The other extreme is to make it far too thick, ending up like some kind of medical probe. Take a caliper measurement of it and record it so that next time you make one of these you can refer to it. I don't measure mine anymore but do it by eye down to around 13.1mm (ends are 12.15mm). I can usually get it very very close without calipers, feel is sometimes a better guage than the eye. As for the wood, could be a multitiude, but as there is no grain to talk of and the colour could have been influenced by the finish that you put on it we could be guessing for an awful long time! The wood would not be my first choice if I'm honest, it's a bit insipid. George Watkins who posts as Cornucoppia on other websites and runs his website Home (he makes blanks, ironically from wood and resin - take a look they are spectacular but expensive and not for slimlines!) told me something which has always stuck in my mind, lifes too short to turn crap wood.

 

[Terry]

Nicely turned pen Ed with as Neil says gentle curves. I'm not sure if the wood is a burr difficult to tell and I'm guessing the finish is friction polish as it doesn't appear to have a high gloss that you get from ca.

 

[Woody]

Well done Ed nicely turned and finished I suspect the wood looks a lot better in the flesh