{"id":363,"date":"2009-12-18T22:41:55","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T03:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/2009\/12-18-two-pens-african-spalted-stinkwood-and-coffee-beans-in-white-acrylic\/"},"modified":"2009-12-18T22:41:55","modified_gmt":"2009-12-19T03:41:55","slug":"two-pens-african-spalted-stinkwood-and-coffee-beans-in-white-acrylic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/18\/two-pens-african-spalted-stinkwood-and-coffee-beans-in-white-acrylic\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Pens &#8211; African Spalted Stinkwood and Coffee Beans in White Acrylic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left; padding: 3px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rgdaniel\/4196649184\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2538\/4196649184_6d7db51d81.jpg\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rgdaniel\/4196649184\/\">Two Pens &#8211; African Spalted Stinkwood and Coffee Beans in White Acrylic<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/rgdaniel\/\">rgdaniel<\/a>.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nThe stinkwood is quite subtle, but rewards deep gazing&#8230; like a burl almost&#8230; not sure how much actual spalting made it into the finished pen here&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The coffee bean pen is anything but subtle&#8230; actual coffee beans embedded in white acrylic&#8230; it&#8217;s actually not bad to work, compared to pure acrylic&#8230; the coffee beans just turn to powder, or to coffee grounds I guess&#8230; smells like Starbucks when you&#8217;re working it&#8230; but it leaves a lot of little voids, which need filling with crazy glue and the coffee powder&#8230; I missed a few here, but still, not too bad&#8230; The centre band is purpleheart.<\/p>\n<p>I had two blanks, and cut them to length in preparation for a larger one-piece pen style I&#8217;ll be trying out next. The resulting two offcuts were just the right size to combine for this pen. Waste not, want not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Pens &#8211; African Spalted Stinkwood and Coffee Beans in White Acrylic, originally uploaded by rgdaniel. The stinkwood is quite subtle, but rewards deep gazing&#8230; like a burl almost&#8230; not sure how much actual spalting made it into the finished pen here&#8230; The coffee bean pen is anything but subtle&#8230; actual coffee beans embedded in [&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-363","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\/363","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=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}