More Pens

There was a request for a set of pens to give as gifts, so I'm showing here the six pens I made.

I think the top one is bloodwood, and number 4 & 5 are Myrtle wood. The rest is all a guess.

Enjoy, but be careful of the splinters.

Santa Set

I've been carving some Santas that are meant as gifts for friends. These are about 6" tall, basswood with wood burnt beards and hair for texture. There is a fourth Santa in the picture that was carved for me.

 Here you see them, each with a different design, but the same basic shape and face. My next step is to paint them, along with a couple of other Santas I started last year but did not finish.

The woodburner I used is the soldering iron type and the best tip available was the soldering iron tip. So I took a piece of copper wire the flattened it with a hammer. Once it was thin enough to fit in the knife cutter adapter, I shaped the end to facilitate texturing the beards and hair. While it did work the temperature did not stay hot enough to do as nice a job as I would like. Copper also gets soft when heated so maintaining a good edge was difficult.

In addition I turned a globe from WP and carved a bead design around the shape. Then I wood burnt the holly leaves and berries on the globe and it to is ready for painting.

Enjoy, and be careful of the cold.