ldb2000
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No PM required . Get your collective butts in your shops and come up with something better than has been posted already . You need something that will WOW the membership .
Freestyle Pen Contest
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chriselle
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I stand firmly by my tampon tube. I believe...it will absorb all the watered down attempts at true artistry I've seen so far.
ldb2000
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Well I think my paperclip baton is wonderful too but neither will sink that wet blanket .
ldb2000
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Guys just remember this is the Freestyle Pen making contest not a freeforall slugfest . We are supposed to post the Best Freestyle pen we can make , don't just stand on your past accomplishments ( no matter how small they were ) go and think up a new style or make that killer blank you always wanted to try . James has the right idea , make a really nice blank and stay out of the line of seltzer fire from the clowns .
chriselle
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If that's the case Butch....I'll be back around...oh...April..ish!:turtle:
ldb2000
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Well Chris , whatever works for you , although the contest ends before that so ....
I've gone back to a design that was really cool but too much work to be sellable . I just want to see that sponge wrung out , I hate sponge bob , really dumb cartoon .
I've gone back to a design that was really cool but too much work to be sellable . I just want to see that sponge wrung out , I hate sponge bob , really dumb cartoon .
workinforwood
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WHAT !!! Didn't you see the episode where squidwards toilet was begging for mercy from Patricks use??? That's the best!:laugh::laugh::laugh:
I've made some new pens, but seriously I made those two pens specifically for this contest and they were a lot of work. Then I found out this contest didn't exist from Cav. Then it did exist. I never would have posted them in the open forum otherwise. I don't expect to win, just putting my hard work out there because it's equally worthy to anything else. There's so many great people with great pens, I don't know why they don't throw them into the hat.
I've made some new pens, but seriously I made those two pens specifically for this contest and they were a lot of work. Then I found out this contest didn't exist from Cav. Then it did exist. I never would have posted them in the open forum otherwise. I don't expect to win, just putting my hard work out there because it's equally worthy to anything else. There's so many great people with great pens, I don't know why they don't throw them into the hat.
PenAffair
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ldb2000
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I had to endure endless episodes of sponge bob with my kids a few years ago , I still can't walk down the kitchen supply isle in the local supermarket without a serious case of post traumatic stress when I get to the sponges .
I'm surprised you don't expect to win with the soggy sponge , everyone else does .
I really am surprised that we haven't heard from several people who should be posting a pen or two here , maybe they are waiting till all the silliness calms down
jttheclockman
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When you say freestyle, does it have to be a completly made pen or can you use a kit and just make the blank??? This looks like this went all different directions. More bashing than pen making.
ldb2000
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Yes JT , we got a little carried away 
. Any kind of pen is fine , just make it the best you can do . A really nice segmenting job on a kit pen works .
. Any kind of pen is fine , just make it the best you can do . A really nice segmenting job on a kit pen works .
davinci27
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Any pen will do. Freestyle is just that. It only has to be a pen. To give you a little added motivation, there is a prize for the best Kit pen. That prize will be awarded to the best pen that uses an unmodified kit, and is completely independent of first prize, or second prize. You could win both first prize and the best kit pen prize In actuality you could win up to 4 prizes: best kit pen, (1st, 2nd or almost made it), best trash talker and random voter. There are still 2 prize packages that I haven't figured out what to do with yet. So your chances to win could only go up.
jttheclockman
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To Be or Knot To Be
OK then. This is actually a twofold entry but let the chips fall where they may. This is my attempt at the famous KNOT. The yellowheart is a Sierra Vista with yellowheart as the main body and has a combo-yellowheart, redheart, holly and black veneer knot. Both are top coated with 5 coats of CA and polished.
The redheart is a sierra with redheart as the main body and has a combo-- redheart, yellowheart, holly and black veneer knot.
The knots were cut at 60 degrees and it is a 4 cut knot. Thanks for looking.
I have been asked if the design goes all around the pen and the answer is here.
OK then. This is actually a twofold entry but let the chips fall where they may. This is my attempt at the famous KNOT. The yellowheart is a Sierra Vista with yellowheart as the main body and has a combo-yellowheart, redheart, holly and black veneer knot. Both are top coated with 5 coats of CA and polished.
The redheart is a sierra with redheart as the main body and has a combo-- redheart, yellowheart, holly and black veneer knot.
The knots were cut at 60 degrees and it is a 4 cut knot. Thanks for looking.
I have been asked if the design goes all around the pen and the answer is here.
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ldb2000
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Nice pens JT . I like the infill inside the knots , nice touch .
Marleb
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workinforwood
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Hey, we have a new member..It's Marcel! Long time no see. I'm not going to take it easy on you in this room. This thread is about who has the best pen, not the best hose stretcher!
pssherman
Member
OK, I can't win a prize if I don't enter, so here are my 2 entries.
Entry #1; Rhodium and black titanium Majestic fountain pen made with honey locust. I chose to use this wood since it has some figure to it but does not draw undue attention to it.
Entry #2; Rhodium classic twist pen made with maple burl.
Now that I have entered, let the fun begin.
Being the oldest of 10 children and having taught college students for over 20 years, there ain't nothin you can say/write that will phase me. But give it your best shot anyway. You know you want to.
So, let's see what kind of infantile responses can be posted from all of you pre-pubescent children. Yea, you know who you are. Being the nice guy that I am, I won't mention names (there are too many anyway) or bash your pens (at least for now). Maybe later, we'll see.
You can't get under my skin and you know it, but I double-dog-dare-you to try. Wimps.
Entry #1; Rhodium and black titanium Majestic fountain pen made with honey locust. I chose to use this wood since it has some figure to it but does not draw undue attention to it.
Entry #2; Rhodium classic twist pen made with maple burl.
Now that I have entered, let the fun begin.
Being the oldest of 10 children and having taught college students for over 20 years, there ain't nothin you can say/write that will phase me. But give it your best shot anyway. You know you want to.
So, let's see what kind of infantile responses can be posted from all of you pre-pubescent children. Yea, you know who you are. Being the nice guy that I am, I won't mention names (there are too many anyway) or bash your pens (at least for now). Maybe later, we'll see.
You can't get under my skin and you know it, but I double-dog-dare-you to try. Wimps.
workinforwood
Member
Great...now we have a washed out teacher displaying washed out photographs of wanna-be big dog pens. Just so you know, none of us are pre-pubescent, but Roy is post-pubescent! His wife is sending me one of his pens to install a life-lock button in the end.
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pssherman
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Jeff,
Based on the comments I have seen here, I figured just about everyone here is pre-pubescent. Or if not in actual age, then surely in their intelligence and thinking capacity.
Based on the comments I have seen here, I figured just about everyone here is pre-pubescent. Or if not in actual age, then surely in their intelligence and thinking capacity.
OKLAHOMAN
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Just to make Russell happy here is a pen I made today, a few months ago Jeff sent me some scroll cut outs that he glued to a piece of plywood and made a box around it for me to pour some PR around and make some blanks, we called these Picaso's revenge. This is a take off on that called Lots-a-worthless-wood-scraps.
Go ahead and bash to your hearts content...
Go ahead and bash to your hearts content...
PenAffair
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Thanks Roy, glad you finally figured out the rules :biggrin:
I think I'll take a sabatical from the "compliments" for a while though, so we don;t scare off people actually wanting to put pens in :redface:
Russell.
I think I'll take a sabatical from the "compliments" for a while though, so we don;t scare off people actually wanting to put pens in :redface:
Russell.
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hewunch
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OK Here is my entry This pen is made to look like a stained glass window in a brick wall. It has over 275 pieces of wood including Sapele, Walnut, Spanish Cedar and more. The window is only on 1 side.
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ldb2000
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OKLAHOMAN
Member
I agree, funs over time to see some outstanding work. Russell it's ROY hope you don't mind me changing it. Good luck to all and lets save all zingers for the last day.
PenAffair
Member
Oops, sorry about that. Original post changed. Who's Ron, and can he loan me a million bucks I wonder??
Russell.
chriselle
Member
Whew!! That was fun guys...20 or so pages of chuckles. Cheers!
ldb2000
Member
OK now folks ....Lets sink the sponge ....
BigShed
Member
After all that I enter the room with some trepidation!
Anyway Butch, ldb2000, suggested in another thread that I enter this pen in this contest.
Don't quite know why, it is neither free, nor does it have style:wink:, but here goes anyway.
Consider it entered (sorry Skippy, couldn't find any stainless cartridges or bullets!)
Anyway Butch, ldb2000, suggested in another thread that I enter this pen in this contest.
Don't quite know why, it is neither free, nor does it have style:wink:, but here goes anyway.
Consider it entered (sorry Skippy, couldn't find any stainless cartridges or bullets!)
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ldb2000
Member
Fred I think you are wrong , it might not have been free but it does have style .
CSue
Local Chapter Leader
Geez! For awhile I didn't know if this was a real PEN contest or another kind . . . "family site and all."
Now I think I can post my entry.
Now I think I can post my entry.
Marleb
Member
What goes around comes around
Hey Jeff,
Sorry to say I was a member of this board before you made your first pen: I just wasn't very active, mostly lurking.
As a matter of fact I was a member of all three boards we have met in before you joined them.
I noticed you entered a very nice "Sponge Bob" pen holder, but your pen (that is what he is holding, right?) is only showing a bunch of "digs" (at least that's what I call them on mine, when I'm a little too agressive in turning) I thought this was a pen contest, not a best PEN-HOLDER contest. Guess I'll just have have to recheck the rules.
Hey Jeff,
Sorry to say I was a member of this board before you made your first pen: I just wasn't very active, mostly lurking.
As a matter of fact I was a member of all three boards we have met in before you joined them.
I noticed you entered a very nice "Sponge Bob" pen holder, but your pen (that is what he is holding, right?) is only showing a bunch of "digs" (at least that's what I call them on mine, when I'm a little too agressive in turning) I thought this was a pen contest, not a best PEN-HOLDER contest. Guess I'll just have have to recheck the rules.
davinci27
Member
In all the trash talk I was sure somebody was going to mention that. I can't believe it didn't come up till post #231.
davinci27
Member
Fred, you need 2 pictures of the pen to enter. please post another picture so yours will be in the running
After all that I enter the room with some trepidation!
Anyway Butch, ldb2000, suggested in another thread that I enter this pen in this contest.
Don't quite know why, it is neither free, nor does it have style:wink:, but here goes anyway.
Consider it entered (sorry Skippy, couldn't find any stainless cartridges or bullets!)
tim self
Member
Tim that looks like it has been laying on the ground of a building site for over a month. You might have cleaned the dirt off first
OKLAHOMAN
Member
Lou, the Statsmen brought tears to my eyes. Thank you for sharing it.
me2cyclops
Member
looks like you missed a couple spots sanding that first one
jttheclockman
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Lou
That second one has got some meaning behind it. Great job and alot of work. Thanks for showing.
That second one has got some meaning behind it. Great job and alot of work. Thanks for showing.
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VisExp
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Still inspiring us.