My New Annual Tradition

Almost every year, between Christmas and New Year, I disappear into my shop to make something. Usually a project of some random woodworking nature. For example, last year I made a Mission Style Lamp with a White Oak base and Mica Shade:


This year I was not inspired - Christmas was fairly low-key, with us staying home due to COVID. On Monday I was going through my cutoff bin looking for something to make a pen out of, and then decided that would be my "project" for this week....


I started randomly combining various cutoffs with other cutoffs, mixing in a little colored veneers and vulcanized paper here and there. I'm about halfway through my pile of "new" segmented pen blanks (about 20 so far), but here's a snapshot of my progress. It's kind of fun to mix it up and see what turns out. (pun intended).



Happy New Year everyone! Looking forward to 2022.

What a cool random assortment! Interesting combinations of color and texture. Kind of a Forrest Gump assortment, "you never know what you're gonna get".

Yohzza! That's a lot of nice segmenting. Very nice.

Nice work ! !

The colored veneers add a lot, don't they ? ! !

Happy New Year to you too ! . . . and to all the other IAP folks !

Very nice

Well done!

qquake said:

Great group of pens. I love the lamp, too.

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Thanks. I had been meaning to make one for several years, so I just decided to last year. A lot of compound angles to figure out for the lamp shade. The base was pretty straightforward. I use the lamp everyday as my reading lamp.