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| This pen was made by Rich Kleinhenz and Kevin Bergen for Scott Greaves' birthday. Kevin designed and constructed the blank, Rich made the pen. The CB is made from aluminum, it features turquoise-stone-filled rings.
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Kevin made the blank, an Indian motif. The coyote track has special significance in the Apache culture. Woods used are birdseye maple and red cedar, and also bloodwood for the inlay (along with black veneer)
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The kit used is a CSU little Havana with long tube. It should have been an A.S. El Toro with long tube but I grabbed a wrong part when the glue was wet. The AS kit uses a single-entry thread, the CSU version has 4 entries.
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The skin is glued on the tube, filled with BB's, corks in the ends and standoffs glued on. The BBs keep the tube from floating. The corks keep the BB's in and the resin out. The wooden standoffs keep the tube off the bottom of the mold. |
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| Plastic cake pan mold filled with several tubes ready to cast. |
The resin is in the mold after degassing with a vacuum pump. The resin comes from the can bluish, turns greenish after adding the catalyst, and cures water clear. Amazing!
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The infamous HF pressure paint tank is hooked to the air source and doing its job...squeezing those nasty air bubbles too small to see. |
A finished casting. |
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| Individual blanks cut and paired and ready to turn...the fun part. I cut on the band saw, remove the corks and BBs and square the ends and they are ready to turn. |
The finished product: Kurt's pen and pencil set. |
The Paduak case for Don Ward's BD pen done by Bob Ireland and Emory McLaughlin. |
Don Ward's BD pen is made of spalted Mango and walnut with makore veneer. The segmentation was done in multiple stages. First was doing just the ‘x’, then turned the blank over 90 degrees and another ‘x’. This is what the curved black lines around the shown ‘x’ are. Two blanks are made at once. One blank is taped onto the top of the other and a wavy line is cut along both, at the same time, so that one half of the top blank matches the other half of the bottom (and vice versa). They are then glued them together with a veneer separator. The process is repeated. Tape one blank onto the other, and cut another wavy line. The original blanks are glued back together, except now they have the other blank as the center of the eye. |
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| Kevin Bergen and Emory McLaughlin combined their talents to create the above pictured pen and pen holder for Scott Hettel's birthday. |
Kevin chose to fashion the rustic hand-hewn pen holder as a perfect contrast to Emory's wonderful aluminum pen. |
A look at the back side of the stand. |
Scott's pen and stand. |