Sneezewood Vertex Rollerball with Gun Metal Plating By Heartwoodturning

[Heartwoodturning]

I make pens everyday. I enjoy it so much it is my full time job now as well as my hobby. Every so often I make one which I fall in love with. I gave this one to Graham who owns one of the shops who stocks my work.

This is my third completed Vertex rollerball pen. I made the other two out of Welsh Cherry and English Walnut.

I am not very good at taking photo's and the light in and around my house is bad so you will have to forgive any picture quality issues.

I really like the way the gun metal plating goes with the colour of the Sneezewood. Sneezewood is my favourite wood to work. It is the colour of gold and is very user friendly. It can have a hologram like effect when the light is catching it. It is nearly impossible to source in the uk. I look on the internet most days trying to find more. If anybody has any for sale please pm me as I am beginning to get very low on stock.

The clue is in the name with this wood. If you work it on a lathe without a mask you start to sneeze. After this your nose starts to produce an impossible amount of mucus and the sneezing gets worse. Then your eyes start to run and you look like you have been crying. Some people get a headache after this stage. I tried it one time because I did not believe the stories. Once was enough, all the above happened to me apart from the headache.
This is one of my favourite pens I have ever made.

 

[Woody]

Nice pen the wood is one to avoid me thinks LOL

 

[Heartwoodturning]

Thanks for the comment. Positive comments from other turners mean a lot to me. The wood is fine if you are masked up. Just remember to keep the mask on during tidy up or this will happen :blah1: !

 

[chas_41_uk]

Nice pen Chris
But what a name for a wood

 

[bluntchisel]

Nice work, Chris - but count me out for turning any of that wood!

Bob.

 

[wm460]

Great looking pen Chris.

 

[Macaronytony]

Great looking pen Chris got a few of these to do myself.
Going give the wood a miss I'm way to clumsy for that..

 

[Bammer]

Nice work, I like the Vertex but don't fancy any of that wood ...

Thank god there isn't such a thing as Runswood ...

 

[Jim]

It is a good looking pen Chris, and thanks for the heads up regarding the wood ..

 

[Penpal]

What a masochist Cris I have heard read used challenging wood a mate of mine if he gets near Camphor Laurel his nose bleeds flat out so one mans probs may not be anothers but lining up to one species can lead to lifetime allergies. on the ends the rolls or whatever the timber reminds me of Tasmanian timber with that fleck in it alround it makes as you have a beaut pen.

At our recent Wood Working Show I said one demonstrator from Sydney who works for the company I just bought a rare Orange Boxwood piece he confided he goes hysteric if he touches this timber.

I too like Vertex.

Peter.

 

[Vic Perrin]

Very nice Chris



Most of the wood that I turn is enough to make anybody cry

 

[Heartwoodturning]

Nice work, I like the Vertex but don't fancy any of that wood ...

Thank god there isn't such a thing as Runswood ...

If you cook over a Tambootie fire I guarantee you will, for the rest of your life, regard it as Runswood. It makes your tummy really very bad indeed! I would like to point out I have not tried this!

I am very tempted to use my only blank of Stinkwood this week. It smells awful when you turn it apparently! The blank smells really bad. I imagine it's going to be like turning smelly bogwood on steroids. I'll wear my mask. I'm sure I'll be fine right up to the moment I take it off and have to leave the workshop disgusted.

It's quite thin if my memory serves me right so it will end up dressing a slimline kit. If I make it I'll post it on the forum.

 

[stiofanpadraigcrafts]

great looking pen

 

[Les ELm]

Interesting looking piece of overturned Timber.

Les