mobyturns
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Great to see Alan's development of Yosegi pen blanks and progress as a fellow maker.
I've been making inlay banding in the more traditional manner then incorporating it into pen blanks for several years now and have also done quite a number of Yosegi inlay banding blocks. These are some I have constructed in the past month or so, but have not turned the pen blanks from them so far.
Hopefully I won't keep getting distracted with new ideas for patterns
but now that I have seen Alan's approach to make the whole blank in the Yosegi style I may try a few myself. I have a number already completed with CA awaiting final sanding / polishing, and have been sitting there a while.
The 1st image is the banding blocks simply stacked with a 6 mm or 1/4" spacer between them to take a photo of them, 2nd photo is with face cheeks laminated on and ready for cutting into blanks. The inlay banding is typically 7 to 8 mm wide or approx 5/16" with the veneers typically 0.6 mm or 0.025".
I've been making inlay banding in the more traditional manner then incorporating it into pen blanks for several years now and have also done quite a number of Yosegi inlay banding blocks. These are some I have constructed in the past month or so, but have not turned the pen blanks from them so far.
Hopefully I won't keep getting distracted with new ideas for patterns
but now that I have seen Alan's approach to make the whole blank in the Yosegi style I may try a few myself. I have a number already completed with CA awaiting final sanding / polishing, and have been sitting there a while.The 1st image is the banding blocks simply stacked with a 6 mm or 1/4" spacer between them to take a photo of them, 2nd photo is with face cheeks laminated on and ready for cutting into blanks. The inlay banding is typically 7 to 8 mm wide or approx 5/16" with the veneers typically 0.6 mm or 0.025".
