Perfect Fit Pencil in cherry

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SteveJ

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When my son and his wife moved out of town almost 5 years ago she gave me a branch from the cherry tree in their back yard asking if I would make a pen out of it. I stored it to let it dry completely before turning it this week.

She wanted a .5mm pencil which, as far as I can tell is only available in the Schmidt DSM 2006. I've made a number of perfect fit pencils for another son who used them throughout middle school and high school, so made this for her. It came out much nicer looking than I expected.

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I will give it to her tomorrow!
 
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Cherry is a lovely wood for making pens and pencils !!

Nice work, Steve !!!

I love the 3 decorative black rings near the nib !!
 
magpens said:
Cherry is a lovely wood for making pens and pencils !!

Nice work, Steve !!!

I love the 3 decorative black rings near the nib !!
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For those rings I cut grooves and attempted to burn them with wire, something I've done before, but I couldn't get the cherry to burn. I ended up painting the grooves. Then the paint ran when I applied the CA finish...
 
SteveJ said:
For those rings I cut grooves and attempted to burn them with wire, something I've done before, but I couldn't get the cherry to burn. I ended up painting the grooves. Then the paint ran when I applied the CA finish...
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Whatever ..... those rings still look really good and add a lot to the overall appeal of the pencil !! . Well done !!
 
Great work I like Cherry good all round wood turns easy and finishes well. Sure made a good job Steve
 
SteveJ said:
For those rings I cut grooves and attempted to burn them with wire, something I've done before, but I couldn't get the cherry to burn. I ended up painting the grooves. Then the paint ran when I applied the CA finish...
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I usually use Piano Wire no problem also I use a piece of Formica works well. But whatever you did it gave the desired effect.
 
Kcimdrib said:
I usually use Piano Wire no problem also I use a piece of Formica works well. But whatever you did it gave the desired effect.
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I wonder if my wife will miss it if I took one out of our piano....
I was using copper and it failed before getting the cherry hot enough.
I like burning instead of painting, so I'll lay my hands on some better wire at some point.
 
I generally use a guitar string, but it's even easier to notice when you've stolen one of those.

Tangent: Has anyone come up with a method of CA finishing that can maintain the "grippyness" of burned lines? I've never been able to get a decent finish over them that doesn't completely fill in the grooves.
 
Bats said:
I generally use a guitar string, but it's even easier to notice when you've stolen one of those.

Tangent: Has anyone come up with a method of CA finishing that can maintain the "grippyness" of burned lines? I've never been able to get a decent finish over them that doesn't completely fill in the grooves.
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Don't think you will achieve it with CA but Melamine Laquer will give a good finish and not build up in the grooves.
 
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