Osage Orange Kit Pen

[rhall_8]

This is my third pen creation. I decided to use some old osage firewood with a pen kit I had sitting around. I think it turned out well.

[fprookie]

wow, this looks very good

[richardandtracy]

You are right. It turned out brilliantly. Congratulations, which are especially heartfealt as I cannot turn wood at all. Acrylic, yes. Wood, no.

 

From my experience of this sort of classic pen kit, the threaded portion of the section is vulnerable to cracking, so I ended up using pen kits with metal sections because they are more durable (worth remembering if you sell kit pens and don't want to disappoint your customers)

 

Regards,

 

Richard.

[rhall_8]

Thanks for the tip!

[Russ]

Osage Orange is a remarkable wood. Very dense, very hard. I remember it feeling like stone when using an axe to cut roots after pushing a tree out with a tractor. No wonder it was used for fenceposts and bows.

[SDB777]

This was firewood? Can't image burning this stuff as hard as it is?!?!?

 

This material does make for some really nice closed-end pens too, so make sure you make yourself some blanks that are a little longer then standard for later use. And don't forget to make some crosscut too, really get interesting when done that way!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scott (nicely done) B

[rhall_8]

Thanks for this tips, Scott! I definitely want to do some more closed end pens, but I am not outfitted for that yet. Osage makes really good firewood. I work for a tree company, and we love burning that stuff. The denser the wood is, the hotter it burns, so it makes a nice fire. Have you ever tried to cut threads in Osage? With it being so dense, I wonder if you could make kitless pens out of it.

 

Royce

[lovemy51]

hi, Royce. do you sell these? i bought one just like it (same wood) on ebay a while back... possibly from you(?). but, since you say this is your third pen creation, i could be wrong... this one looks good, BTW!

[rhall_8]

Thanks for the support! I haven't sold any yet, so it was probably someone else