Ya just gotta love Cocobolo

[OldWrangler]

Digging through my lumber stack looking for something to turn, I ran across a piece of Cocobolo that I had put aside last year and was gonna turn sometime later. It was just big enough to get 4 blanks out of it so I made 4 pens. Pens is a RT Euro in gold and finish is CA/BLO to 12,000 MM and a polish with Brasso.

This wood is so easy to work with, cuts clean, takes are hard glass polish and has a smell that I kinda like. Too bad so many people are alergic to this wood.

 

[randyrls]

Very Nice George! One of my favorite woods too!

I keep the dust collector on when ever cutting, turning, or sanding to help reduce sensitivity.

Cross cut looks exquisite!

 

[dkarcher]

Beautiful pens George!

 

[Grizz]

Really nice. My favorite is the fourth one.

 

[marcruby]

Nice pens. I especially love the open grained, multi-colored pieces of cocobolo like those youve captured with those pens.

 

[rd_ab_penman]

Very well done.
Cocobolo make great looking pens.

 

[toolcrazy]

Yep, you gotta love Cocobolo.

Gorgeous pens. Nice work.

 

[bitshird]

Beautiful grain, fortunately I haven't built up any allergies YET, I'd love to get hold of some Cocobolo with that nice of grain.

 

[angelofdeath]

wow....awesome looking pens....keep up the great work and the finish is awesome

 

[ldb2000]

Beautiful pens George . Glad to see you back .

 

[wdcav1952]

Dang, George, those are some beauties!!

 

[Rifleman1776]

You are right. You cannot go wrong with Coco. If there were to be only one turning wood, I would pick Coco.
Only downsides is the allergy thing. Do be careful with it. And, it is so popular that it is almost common.

 

[OldWrangler]

Randy, interesting that you noticed the cross cut pen. I am making up 2 more cross-cuts today. They don't seem to turn any different and have some really interesting pattern. If they are any better than these last 4, I'll post a picture tonight but most likely they will be about the same....just mildly spectacular. Gotta love that Cocobolo!!!

Hurricane Ike dropped over 400 trees in my small sub-division and would you believe I didn't find one Cocobolo. Bummer

 

[TBone]

George,

Great looking pens. Coco is a great looking wood that's easy to polish.....if you aren't allergic.

 

[CSue]

Very nice work, George! Very nice! Cocobolo is one of my favorites, too. Especially when you get pieces like that!

 

[desertyellow]

What is not to love about cocobolo?
Especially when it looks like that !

 

[dntrost]

Man those are pretty I can see we do need to get together as soon as I get back I got some things to learn from you

 

[papaturner]

Awesome pens,I too really enjoy turning cocobolo.

 

[thewishman]

Beautiful! I can see why you set that piece aside.

 

[NewLondon88]

I love the variety of colors cocobolo comes in. Yours are bright and vibrant!
Very nice.

I just cut up some planks. Some of it is read, some brown, some gold, some Black & Tan, some is red .. Love turning it, hate breathing it. (I actually like the smell, but I can't smell anything for a few days afterwards)

 

[reddwil]

Awesome pens George