{"id":330,"date":"2009-11-16T16:19:46","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T21:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/2009\/11-16-two-pens-zebrawood-and-paduak\/"},"modified":"2009-11-16T16:19:46","modified_gmt":"2009-11-16T21:19:46","slug":"two-pens-zebrawood-and-paduak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/16\/two-pens-zebrawood-and-paduak\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Pens &#8211; Zebrawood and Paduak"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"><a title=\"photo sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rgdaniel\/4109703793\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2678\/4109703793_d8c93637d2_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rgdaniel\/4109703793\/\">Two Pens &#8211; Zebrawood and Paduak<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/rgdaniel\/\">rgdaniel<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Just finished these two pens: One is a standard slimline in zebrawood (with a very cool &#8220;eye&#8221; feature in the grain). The other is a first try at a so called European-style pen, made from paduak (pah-DOOK).<\/p>\n<p>The European-style pen is a little trickier to make. It involves cutting a tenon under where the centre band is. Consequently, the centre band is actually on the lathe during the process, and as a result of THAT, I ended up first scratching the centre band, then finally sanding away the gold plating trying to &#8220;buff it out&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>So the paduak pen won&#8217;t be leaving the house, but live and learn, next one should be perfect!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Pens &#8211; Zebrawood and Paduak Originally uploaded by rgdaniel Just finished these two pens: One is a standard slimline in zebrawood (with a very cool &#8220;eye&#8221; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-woodworking","tag-turning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}