Eleventh Pen

      My next pen is made from Cherry and Maple.  In fact, my next few pens are made from Cherry and Maple because that was the wood I had the most of.  For this design I took the idea of cutting two blanks at an angle along the length and took it a step farther. First I made a Cherry blank and a Maple blank.  Then I cut those two down the middle and glued a Cherry half to a Maple half and vise versa.  After they had dried I cut them at an angle from top left to bottom right, the same way I did in pen number five, using the same measurements.  I then matched the halves back up so that the woods mirrored each other on opposite sides of the pen.  The woods form an X intersection where they meet.  You can kind of see this in the picture, but it is bury and not at the best angle.  I should have taken another one. 
    I discovered when you go to clamp the halves together after the angled cut, they tend to slide apart.  This didn't matter too much during pen number five, but since I was going for that nice X intersection I had to be careful.  The intersections still aren't as nice as I'd like them to be.  You also get the neat curve going around the pen where the edges meet.