Three successes!

Last night I made my first fountain pen! Made from padauk, it came out really well (I am using the picture of the open pen as the background to my title at the top of the blog):


I also made an Olivewood click pencil. This one looks a lot like the Olivewood click pen that I made a while back, but unlike that one, this one actually works. Some nice grain in this one, even though my photography does not do it justice:

Here is the Classic American click pen that I made over the weekend. It looks a lot like the other Classic American pens (the ones that twist), but on this one you press the top to get the point of the pen out:


The interesting thing about that one is that I used the new reddish piece of cocobolo for it, and yet it came out brown (with interesting grain, but still...). Just goes to show that you can never really tell what the inside of a piece of wood is going to be like, in terms of colour. You can tell what the grain will be like, but that is it.