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Sometimes commissions are a pain in the pinnacle.

Phil Dart

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Normally I quite enjoy making pens from customers pieces of wood, but this order was not much fun. The wood was a pinnacle on an Edwardian something or other and had been outside for donkey's years rotting away, and would I make as many pens as possible from it please. I think he was expecting about 20.

Started with about 30 inches by 4 inches of what turned out to be douglas fir I think - and ended up with only three pens, an awful lot of sawdust, and a bit of kindling. The customer already has one of the pens, so here's a photo of the other two - and the rotten pinnacle.

The kits are Berea Elegant Americans from Turners Retreat, and the finish is melamine lacquer.

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DJB Penmaker

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As Paul said I'm surprised you got any at all. The ones you did get are nice looking pens [emoji106]

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GeordieB

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More patience than me Phil I would have binned the wood bought a few blanks :funny: Lovely pens tho mate :thumbs:
 

Penpal

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Resurrecting rubbish is a challenge three down nowhere left to looking at that picture.

You did so well with the two shown.

Peter.
 

Graham_C

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Couple of beauties Phil, especially from the raw material you had to work with! :thumbs:

Had a similar issue a while back - should have had enough for 8 pens but got only two. Fortunately, they only wanted two :phew:
 

Terry Q

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Phil it looks like you did well to get 3. I think Doug Fir makes a very nice pen. I have some blanks with over 30 growth rings per inch. Lots of drama when cut on a slight bias.
 
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