Two Carbara Pens, originally uploaded by rgdaniel.

Two new pens in a new format I’m trying, called “Carbara”. One is the coffee beans in white acrylic seen earlier in a standard slimline, and the other — just in time for Christmas — is my Halloween pen… orange acrylic with black chrome fittings…

These pens are a little [...]

Two Pens – African Spalted Stinkwood and Coffee Beans in White Acrylic, originally uploaded by rgdaniel.

The stinkwood is quite subtle, but rewards deep gazing… like a burl almost… not sure how much actual spalting made it into the finished pen here…

The coffee bean pen is anything but subtle… actual coffee beans embedded in white acrylic… [...]

More Pens, originally uploaded by rgdaniel.

These are available (i.e. not part of an order) Species include (l-r) curly maple (2), cherry (2), walnut (4) and a lone pau ferro on the right. Oddly, the four walnut pens are all quite different, despite coming from the same piece of wood and getting the same treatment… no [...]

Five More Pens (Sorry, I know this is boring), originally uploaded by rgdaniel.

Actually made 6 pens today, but one had a teeny tiny flaw that caused it to fail my stringent quality control. My wife seems happy to have it though.

This time we have (l-r) Paduak, Zebrawood (x2) and Pau Ferro (x2).

The Paduak and the [...]

Five Pens for Karen, originally uploaded by rgdaniel.

Made these five “Designer” pens today, a new record! The trick is to not worry about the quality… that was a joke, they’re awesome… orders are piling up… Christmas is coming, hint hint…

From left to right, the woods are Pau Ferro, Lacewood, and Paduak, Paduak, Paduak. I’m LOVING [...]

Three Pens

Originally uploaded by rgdaniel

Having some fun with replacing the store-bought centre band with wood centre bands of contrasting material that I turn along with the pen.

The first one we saw in an earlier post, purpleheart with maple bits. The second is curly maple, the third is from a very nice piece of cherry burl, [...]

Lamp and Pen

Originally uploaded by rgdaniel

A very productive day at the office today! My Best Pen Ever (if I do say so) made of purpleheart with a maple finger-grip area and a maple centre band (replacing the “comes with” band). Including some nice little groove details on the maple bits… not sure I can bear [...]

Two Pens – Zebrawood and Paduak

Originally uploaded by rgdaniel

Just finished these two pens: One is a standard slimline in zebrawood (with a very cool “eye” feature in the grain). The other is a first try at a so called European-style pen, made from paduak (pah-DOOK).

The European-style pen is a little trickier to make. It involves [...]

mmmm… Comfort Grip

Originally uploaded by rgdaniel

This is a comfort grip pen I made from Zebrawood… I think I like these better than the standard slim line pens, but then I have big fat hands…