Olive wood

sammy · Oct 28, 2017

I wasn't going to show this because it is a failure. It is a modified slimline with an olive wood blank. It's a failure because it was supposed to have a bumpy grip between the lower burnt lines. It was trying out a technique used by Japanese netsuke carvers to raise bumps on a piece of wood. I tried it on a piece of lime and it worked perfectly but obviously the technique doesn't work with Olivewood.

fortress · Oct 28, 2017

It looks great to Me George, very well done with that failure. :thumbs:

Penpal · Oct 28, 2017

Should be good to hold George like your solution.

Peter.

Pierre--- · Oct 29, 2017

George, can't you show us the bumps you made in the lime? Sounds interesting.

sammy · Oct 29, 2017

Pierre--- said:
George, can't you show us the bumps you made in the lime? Sounds interesting.

Hi Pierre,I managed to find the stump of lime I tried it on. it is 12mm in diameter and although it was difficult to photography I think it shows the ideas reasonably clearly. I will try it again on a lime wood pen to see if it works out better.
the method is called ukibori.

Thanks for your interest.
George

Phil Dart · Oct 29, 2017

Love the shape you've put on your pen George. I don't know about ukibori, and I've just had to google it to find out what it's all about. Could it be though that olivewood is too oily for the technique to work?

wm460 · Oct 29, 2017

Great looking pen George well done. :thumbs:

Les ELm · Oct 31, 2017

Nicely done.

Les

Graham_C · Oct 31, 2017

Interesting :thinks:

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