Ironwood and ivory by PETE TONKIN

tikkler

tikkler

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The forearm and butt sleeve are built from desert ironwood Burl. The rings are ebony with ivory diamonds and dot inlays and the rings in the center of the handle are ebony with barbell inlays of ivory and silver diamonds with .015 border of ivory. The handle, points and windows are ivory. The inlays in the points and windows are elongated notched diamonds of .999 silver with web malachite inlayed in them. The joint, buttcap and ferrules are ivory. the veneers color are black, white and teal
Best regards,
Pete Tonkin



check out this BADASS BLUE TORNADO

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Wow the last 2 Tonkin's are super nice, some of best work in the world. Thanks for the close ups, great camera work. Jeff
 
jeff olney said:
Wow the last 2 Tonkin's are super nice, some of best work in the world. Thanks for the close ups, great camera work. Jeff
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I completely agree.

I would love to hear Petes opinion on working with Desert Ironwood.

Living in Arizona I have always loved that wood. I hear that it is very difficult to work with and eats up the tooling. Its one of the hardest woods around.

Very nice cue!

Congrats to the new owner and the maker.
 
It's the first part of July and the Winner of the 2012 Cue of the Year has already been decided...okay, maybe a little premature, but this is one of the best I've seen! Beautiful design and obviously the execution speaks for itself! :smile:
 
what a beauty

Great looking cue, for many reasons. The workmanship speaks for itself. I would be interested in hearing more about burl desert ironwood. I once bought a custom folder knife by a famous maker that had this wood on the scales, ( pieces forming the handle over the liner). The wood ran the cost of the kife to almost double, but made it unique and was the only one I have ever seen. I was told at the time it was rare and very hard and durable and of course looks great. I have never seen a cue made from it.
 
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That cue is absolutely striking.

It has so many elements that I love combined in a seamless execution for a synergistic whole.

And...I really dig the veneer colors.


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tikkler said:
Who else besides me is in the " SUCKER FOR BLUE VENEERS CLUB"
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Yeah....I'm guilty..... :)

Blue is my favorite color anyway but I don't prefer blue for everything. Somehow blue veneers seem very regal in a cue, at least to me.



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I hate to tell you guys, BUT

Chopdoc said:
Yeah....I'm guilty..... :)

Blue is my favorite color anyway but I don't prefer blue for everything. Somehow blue veneers seem very regal in a cue, at least to me.



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Teal is a green color. I appreciate seeing the cue, awesome cue by the way, cause Desert Ironwood is one of the woods I am having in my next cue. Teal is also one of my veneer colors.
 
Snapshot9 said:
Teal is a green color. I appreciate seeing the cue, awesome cue by the way, cause Desert Ironwood is one of the woods I am having in my next cue. Teal is also one of my veneer colors.
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True enough.

I generally prefer a very vivid sort of blue. This isn't that, of course, but as a blue fan I sort of "commandeer" the color and call it blue since I like it. Teal could be said to be a blue-green or a green-blue I think, with a variety of shades, some of which lean more toward the blue...so it isn't "proper" blue. But I feel like calling it blue casually is OK....especially if one just digs it. :)

This I definitely like. :grin:

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breaknrun said:
I completely agree.

I would love to hear Petes opinion on working with Desert Ironwood.

Living in Arizona I have always loved that wood. I hear that it is very difficult to work with and eats up the tooling. Its one of the hardest woods around.

Very nice cue!

Congrats to the new owner and the maker.
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Desert Ironwood is a differnt wood to machine it does not make wood chips it come off in a very fine powder. You have to were a dust mask when machineing and sanding it the dust is horrable. The best way I could describe it is it's like machining a combination of dirt and wood.
 
Desert Ironwood is one my most favorite woods.


Pete executes... There's no more to say.


Holy smokes those are some close pics, even your dust looks big. :grin:
 
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CMD said:
Desert Ironwood is one my most favorite woods.


Pete executes... There's no more to say.


Holy smokes those are some close pics, even your dust looks big. :grin:
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I apologize to Pete for these dusty pics......it was another late night photo shoot....lol. Sucks getting old
 
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