Finally got this gavel complete(Due Monday!)
The handles are 'featured' on the
thread where I had requested 'assistance' orienting the 4 different species of the handle.
African Blackwood(two pen blanks glued end to end), Aspen, White Oak, and Black Walnut. The different species are representative of the officers of the 'organization'.
Last year I made two gavels for use by two of those officers. This year I made one for one of those officers who really enjoyed using it this past year. Since he has 'moved up' in rank, and last years gavels stay with the 'office', I decided to make him a 'personal' one.
It was originally to be an inch larger in diameter and longer(the head), but a slip of the skew tore out a very deep chunk.
The head was made from a piece of the same fished out of the river log that last years pair was made from(very dry).
[ATTACH]11399[/ATTACH] North
[ATTACH]11400[/ATTACH] South
[ATTACH]11401[/ATTACH] East
[ATTACH]11402[/ATTACH] West
The
next post displays the 'head'!