Pretty Wood Pen Contest Voting Round One

Brian G · Feb 20, 2018

We're going to have two rounds of voting. The first round reduces the field from 38 to 10.

We have a change to the prize structure. Instead of first, second, and third place, plus two random draw prizes, we have six placing prizes and three random draw prizes:

First Place: Choose either Norseman Drill set from Mark James or Magic Skew from T. Shadow and Co. (not both)
Second Place: whichever of the two the first place winner doesn't select
Third Place: $50 Gift card from George's Bits of Timber
Fourth Place:$50 Gift card from hcpens
Fifth Place: $50 Gift card from Kallenshaan Woods
Sixth Place Ring neck pheasant blank set for jr gent from JohnU

Random Draw for all entrants that don't finish in the top 6:

Genuine Pretty Wood Pen made by Lou Metcalf
Pretty wood pen blanks donated by greenmtnguy
An IAP-embroidered "drool towel" donated by Mr. and Mrs. stonepecker.

Thank you to all of the donors for the fantastic prizes.

Not let's get on with it!

Choose your top 5 pens

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Pen 1: Bocote

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Pen 2: Flaming Box Elder

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Pen 3: Red Oak

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Pen 4: Amboyna Burl

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Pen 5: NH Oak Burl

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Pen 6: Hawaiian Curly Koa

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Pen 7: Spalted Curly Maple

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Pen 8: Spalted Maple

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Pen 9: Spalted Amboyna Burl

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Pen 10: Buckeye Burl

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Pen 11: Buckeye Burl

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Pen 12: Amboyna Burl

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Pen 13: Spalted Big Leaf Maple Burl

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Pen 14: Norfolk Island Pine

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Pen 15: Figured Pau Ferro

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Pen 16: Maple Burl

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Pen 17: Stabilized Maple Burl

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Pen 18: Maple Burl

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Pen 19: Spalted Beech Burl

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Pen 20: Curly Koa

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Pen 21: Dwarf Juniper Root Burl

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Pen 22: Honduran Rosewood Burl

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Pen 23: Honduran Rosewood Burl

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Pen 24: Spalted Tamarind

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Pen 25: Old Growth Redwood Lace Burl

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Pen 26: Texas Mountain Laurel

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Pen 27: Tamarind Burl

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Pen 28: Cherry Burl

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Pen 29: Wild Cherry Burl

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Pen 30: Amboyna

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Pen 31: Amboyna Burl

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Pen 32: Cherry Burl

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Pen 33: Spalted Pecan

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Pen 34: Stabilized Box Elder Burl

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Pen 35: Honduran Rosewood Burl

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Pen 36: Corrugata Burl

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Pen 37: Sequoia Burl

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Pen 38: Thuya Burl

chartle · Feb 21, 2018

Wow thats a lot of pretty pens!

Karl_99 · Feb 21, 2018

Beautiful pens! Difficult to get to 5...

SpecialV4213 · Feb 21, 2018

Tough competition. Beautiful pens. Good luck to everyone.

Brian G · Feb 21, 2018

Indeed. Each time I received an entry, I drooled a little.

Everybody did fantastic.

Regrettably, I found out that Rick G's entry didn't make it to my email box for some reason. As a small consolation, I'll include him in the opportunity to win a random draw prize.

ajollydds · Feb 21, 2018

Brian G said:
Indeed. Each time I received an entry, I drooled a little.

Everybody did fantastic.

Regrettably, I found out that Rick G's entry didn't make it to my email box for some reason. As a small consolation, I'll include him in the opportunity to win a random draw prize.

That's a great gesture. I second that motion.

Brian G · Feb 22, 2018

Still plenty of time to vote.

chartle · Feb 22, 2018

Brian G · Feb 23, 2018

As expected, there's a jumble in the top 10 so far.

I'm impressed with the number of voters (125) that have voted as of this post. Thank you for taking the time to vote.

Polls for the first round close Saturday night.

RobS · Feb 23, 2018

oh man that was so hard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rockytime · Feb 23, 2018

Too bad the turned barrels were shown assembled into pens. The pens are all so beautiful I don't know if I am voting because of the pen or the wood blank. Perhaps if all the beautiful woods were all on the same pen kit.

Pen Zen · Feb 23, 2018

A fantastic bunch of pens overall. A couple questionable choice of pen kits IMO but even then a great display of both beautiful wood and great skill. But to me there is still one pen that stands out above all the others, number - .

Brian G · Feb 24, 2018

A little more than four hours left to cast your top 5 votes before the poll closes.

I'm impressed with the number of voters for this contest. Thank you all for stepping up!

MikeL · Feb 24, 2018

Outstanding selection. Well done pens!

Brian G · Feb 24, 2018

Round One is done, thanks to 147 voters! That's a fantastic turnout.

I'm keeping the results of Round One closed until the contest is all done.

I'll have Round Two voting posted tonight.

Pretty Wood Pen Contest Voting Round One

Please choose your top 5 pens

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