The Phoenix

[workin for wood]

First ever full intarsia on a pen, far as I know anyhow. It's a 20 pc intarsia that wraps all the way around the pen and is only 1/8 thick. The wood background is only 1.5 mm thick maple with turquoise dye. It's a modified cigar, the nib is tapped and comes off to refill the pen. The finial on the top of the pen twists to activate the refill. The clip ring is hidden inside the pen. It's all mostly good, but you see wierdness perhaps inside the plastic PR, well those are micro bubbles, thus I consider the pen a failure and gave it to my mother. I will have to go back and remake a new one to cast and try some new tips to eliminate the micro-bubbles that like to stick to wood.

[3_M]

Hi Jeff,

I don't care if you had some bubbles, to me you are still an expert of trying something new.

Mike M

[Pajaro]

Now your are just showing off Jeff. LOL. Looks great.

[Janette]

That's awesome! Did you have to use a micorscope to shape that What a great idea, intarsia pens. Guess you wouldn't use a lot of wood but the details would be a killer! You're always inspiring us Jeff. Thanks for sharing.

[greatdane2]

Wow, that looks like an awfull lot of work. The pictures show off a whole new way of doing things. Hope you can get these to where you like them. I expect everybody else would be happy with your first attempt, we allways pic apart our own stuff.
Well done. Some pics of this as you make it would be nice.

Alan.

[workin for wood]

Thanks. Yes, this is micro small and doesn't use much material, heck doesn't even require a pen kit. The resin is the most expensive part. When I perfect how to put the resin on with no bubbles, which can be done, I figure this pen and a home made pen box will cost me $20 in materials and easily fetch $300, where with an actual intarsia I find it difficult to fetch that type of money, especially that sort of profit margin. It is a fatter than usual pen, but not too fat to use, probably around 5/8 wide. You can do such interesting things, but it takes trial and error for a pen. You draw a triangle, but when you wrap a triangle around a cylinder, it doesn't look the same as how it was drawn...it can become an arced triangle and longer than you anticipated.

[f250]

Jeff,

Nice work and I sure can understand how you feel about the bubbles. Keep at it and I KNOW you'll get it just the way you want.

I will have to try the fret/inlay pens I've seen you do a couple of on here. Intarisa pens, wow I'm a long ways off from that.

Thanks for showing us

Tom