A Pen

Harry · #1 22nd July 2012, 07:50 PM

But no, not just any pen, a pen for our very own Dragonlady. Now that she is an Attention Whore of World Renown, she must have a suitable pen for signing autographs.

myrtlewood.JPG

Chacoguy · #2 22nd July 2012, 07:51 PM

Holy Shit, that ROCKS!

Random Precision · #3 22nd July 2012, 07:55 PM

That is a very nice pen. This should help push her attention whoring up to the next level.

ps: What type of wood is that? The lighter spots at first look like water droplets, but I can see that they're in the grain pattern.

Harry · #4 22nd July 2012, 08:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Random Precision

That is a very nice pen. This should help push her attention whoring up to the next level.

ps: What type of wood is that? The lighter spots at first look like water droplets, but I can see that they're in the grain pattern.

Sorry, it was in a previous attempt at posting, but one of my kittens stepped on the keyboard and erased it. It is myrtlewood, I think. I've had it so long I've actually forgotten what it is, but I'll go with that. It came from Oregon, that much I'm sure of.

hilarity n. suze · #5 22nd July 2012, 08:08 PM

Beautiful pen.

And

for kittens stepping on the keyboard and erasing things. My cat (though not a kitten) has made a couple of posts here. Probably more coherent than some of mine.

Edit: The incoherent ones were all the cat's.

Random Precision · #6 22nd July 2012, 08:13 PM

Well it sure is pretty, whatever it is.

Dragonlady · #7 22nd July 2012, 07:53 PM

Oh Harry, its perfect! And it's CLICKY!!

The wood is beautiful!

Thank you.

humblebumble · #8 22nd July 2012, 07:55 PM

Wow! Nice pen!

Harry · #9 22nd July 2012, 07:58 PM

Thank you, folks

(way to suck up, HB...the check'll be in the mail soon...I promise)

wring · #10 22nd July 2012, 07:56 PM

SmartAleq · #11 22nd July 2012, 08:07 PM

Sure looks like myrtlewood to me--whatever it is, it's a stunning danged pen!

Harry · #12 22nd July 2012, 08:17 PM

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Originally Posted by SmartAleq

Sure looks like myrtlewood to me

Thanks for that input, Smartie. Next time I drive through that area I'll stop and get some more...I'm about out of it.

SmartAleq · #13 22nd July 2012, 08:24 PM

Can't go ten feet down the coast without running into a store selling stuff made out of myrtlewood!

Harry · #14 22nd July 2012, 09:16 PM

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Originally Posted by SmartAleq

Can't go ten feet down the coast without running into a store selling stuff made out of myrtlewood!

You have to go all the way down to the area where the stuff in the shops is made to get the raw wood, though. At least you did 25 years ago. I like to search through the stacks and find what I like, not what some guy on the internet wants to sell me.

SmartAleq · #15 24th July 2012, 08:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Harry

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Originally Posted by SmartAleq

Can't go ten feet down the coast without running into a store selling stuff made out of myrtlewood!

You have to go all the way down to the area where the stuff in the shops is made to get the raw wood, though. At least you did 25 years ago. I like to search through the stacks and find what I like, not what some guy on the internet wants to sell me.

I have no idea if it's still there, but at some point there was a funky little shop in short SE Portland, on 7th I'm thinking, which sold nothing but bare ass exotic woods. Dude would take bits and pieces of it and make very nice cutting boards, but those were the only fashioned items in the whole place. The rest was just weird exotic lumber of about a billion different types. I do remember the guy showing me some of it, (zebrawood, I think?) and explaining that you never want to use that around food because it's toxic.

Man, I miss being a delivery courier, I used to find the neatest shit that way. Like big crayons in bright fluorescent (literally, like black light glowy) colors used to mark lumber--they have sample sizes that are only about five times the size of jumbo crayons and they gave me a couple of every color, which I plan on using some day to do a hippie style mural on the ceiling of Time Bomb.

Okay, I'm just rambling now. Carry on!

mothedrine · #16 22nd July 2012, 09:00 PM

Oooo. Very pretty.

I don't want to put the wrong spin on this but . . . you do know I have a serious stationery fetish right? Maybe you could post a bigger pic?

Oh, nevermind. I think I can make that work.

Harry · #17 22nd July 2012, 09:11 PM

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Originally Posted by mothedrine

Oooo. Very pretty.

I don't want to put the wrong spin on this but . . . you do know I have a serious stationery fetish right? Maybe you could post a bigger pic?

Oh, nevermind. I think I can make that work.

Is that stationery, or stationary? And no, I've tried bigger pics without success. There's too much distortion that I don't need to learn how to correct.

Wolf Larsen · #18 22nd July 2012, 09:28 PM

Excellent pen, Harry.

See Brian? People who aren't dicks get cool stuff.

Harry · #19 23rd July 2012, 05:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Wolf Larsen

Excellent pen, Harry.

See Brian? People who aren't dicks get cool stuff.

Oh, it gets worse than that. I am, after all, mostly human, so his existence on this board will probably keep me from doing a Christmas pen giveaway this year, unless I can figure out a way to filter him and a few others out, so they can't enter.

taters · #20 23rd July 2012, 06:39 PM

That's beautiful, Harry. I

I still love mine and showed it to my friend who is a pen lover and collector. She loved it. When I told her how I came by it, she told me I was very lucky to have such a nice person do something like that for me. I use it all the time at home. I won't take it to work or I'd never see it again.

wring · #21 24th July 2012, 10:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Harry

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Originally Posted by Wolf Larsen

Excellent pen, Harry.

See Brian? People who aren't dicks get cool stuff.

Oh, it gets worse than that. I am, after all, mostly human, so his existence on this board will probably keep me from doing a Christmas pen giveaway this year, unless I can figure out a way to filter him and a few others out, so they can't enter.

Panacea · #22 23rd July 2012, 05:10 AM

This is perfect for Her Highness!! Good jorb Harry.

Harry · #23 23rd July 2012, 07:01 PM

I'm pleased that you're happy with it, and that it's made you the envy of your friends.

Carolia · #24 24th July 2012, 09:38 AM

You do such amazing work, Harry. I can't even wrap my mind around it--our Drags is a lucky attention whore!

Harry · #25 24th July 2012, 10:12 AM

Drags has become a friend IRL, so the jury is probably still out on how lucky she is, but I thank you for your kind words.

Dragonlady · #26 24th July 2012, 11:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Harry

Drags has become a friend IRL, so the jury is probably still out on how lucky she is, but I thank you for your kind words.

I'm saving this information for a future thread that will be ALL ABOUT ME.

Harry · #27 24th July 2012, 12:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Dragonlady

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Originally Posted by Harry

Drags has become a friend IRL, so the jury is probably still out on how lucky she is, but I thank you for your kind words.

I'm saving this information for a future thread that will be ALL ABOUT ME.

Another One!?

Dragonlady · #28 24th July 2012, 12:50 PM

Mateomasfeo · #29 24th July 2012, 03:02 PM

Well, it is better than a sword...

Harry · #30 24th July 2012, 08:31 PM

Unless you need a dueling scar to impress the ladies.

Wolf Larsen · #31 25th July 2012, 04:36 AM

I have some zebrawood that I'm saving for the right project. Hardwoods are getting really expensive.

Harry · #32 25th July 2012, 07:54 AM

Smartie, if you could find a name and address for that place, I would really apreciate it.