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Pen Blanks are a minimum of 3/4" x 3/4"
All blanks will come with one COA per blank. COAs are 4" x 6" card stock with foil embossed COA seal.
All blanks are cut as they are ordered.
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🇺🇸 US Flag Resin Pen Blanks - Red Metallic & Blue Metallic Stars
Two-Blank Set | Perfect for Two-Part Pens
🎉 250th USA Celebration Special - Only $17.76 per set!
Regular Price: $20.00 Special Patriotic Price: $17.76
Product Specifications
- Blank Size: Two Short Blanks, each a minimum of 2.5" long × 3/4" diameter round rods
- Style: One Red Metallic with White Wavy Stripes + One Blue Metallic with White Stars
- Material: Premium Alumilite Urethane Resin
- Compatible Kits: Rollerball, Fountain Pen, Big Ben, Cigar, and most other two-part pen kits
Material Story
Light up your lathe with these show-stopping US Flag Resin Pen Blanks! One vibrant red metallic blank features flowing white wavy stripes, while the matching blue metallic blank is filled with crisp white stars. Together they create a bold, patriotic masterpiece that celebrates everything America stands for.
Made from high-quality Alumilite Urethane Resin, these blanks offer excellent stability, beautiful depth, and a stunning metallic shimmer that catches the light from every angle. The detailed star and stripe patterns make every pen a true statement piece — perfect for veterans, first responders, patriots, or anyone who loves turning with pride.
Why You'll Love These Blanks
- 🇺🇸 Eye-catching red, white, and blue metallic design
- Perfect pairing for classic two-part pens
- Premium Alumilite resin turns smoothly and finishes like glass
- Great gift idea for holidays, retirements, and military appreciation
- Limited 250th Anniversary pricing — $17.76 per set!
Usage Tips
These resin blanks turn beautifully with sharp carbide tools at 1,500–2,500 RPM. Take light cuts and use wet sanding from 400 up to 2000+ grit for a mirror finish. CA glue works great for any small voids.
Pro Finishing Tip: For that deep, glass-like shine on these metallic US Flag blanks, we highly recommend finishing with Magic Juice Polishing Compound. This 6-step system is specifically formulated for resin and delivers incredible clarity and pop on metallic flakes!
Shipping & Returns
2-5 business days standard shipping. Free Ground Shipping on orders $200+. 30-day returns on unused products.
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US Navy Ship Wood
Blanks are 3/4" x 3/4"
Wooden Wave Blanks are pre-tubed blanks with a label cast of the ship's seal and wood from the ship. These blanks are designed to work with Sierra Clone or Bolt Action pen kits. Sierra Clone tubes are 2-1/4" x 27/64" and Bolt Action Tubes are 1-31/32”.
All blanks are cut as they are ordered.
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USS Alabama (BB-60) is a retired battleship. She was the fourth and final member of the South Dakota class of fast battleships built for the United States Navy in the 1940s.
After entering service in 1942, the Alabama was deployed to protect convoys in the Atlantic Ocean. In 1943, she was transferred to the Pacific for operations against Japan, helping with the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign that began in November 1943. While operating in the Pacific, she served primarily as an escort for the fast carrier task force to protect the aircraft carriers from surface and air attacks. She also frequently bombarded Japanese positions in support of amphibious assaults. She took part in the Mariana and Palau Islands campaign from June–September and the Philippines campaign from October–December. After a refit in early 1945, she returned to the fleet for operations during the Battle of Okinawa and the series of attacks on the Japanese mainland in July and August, including several bombardments of coastal industrial targets.
The Alabama assisted in Operation Magic Carpet after the war, carrying some 700 men home from the former war zone. She was decommissioned in 1947 and assigned to the Pacific Reserve Fleet, where she remained until stricken from the Naval Vessel Register in 1962.
The USS Alabama was preserved as a memorial museum ship in Mobile Bay, AL.
US Navy Ship wood fibers from the USS Arizona BB-39 Embedded object Blanks
27/64" blanks are for Sierra Clones
Custom Tube sizes available upon request.
USS Arizona was a Pennsylvania-class battleship built for and by the United States Navy in the mid-1910s. Named in honor of the 48th state's recent admission into the union, the ship was the second and last of the Pennsylvania class of "super-dreadnought" battleships. Although commissioned in 1916, the ship remained stateside during World War I. Shortly after the end of the war, Arizona was one of a number of American ships that briefly escorted President Woodrow Wilson to the Paris Peace Conference. The ship was sent to Turkey in 1919 at the beginning of the Greco-Turkish War to represent American interests for several months. Several years later, she was transferred to the Pacific Fleet and remained there for the rest of her career.
Aside from a comprehensive modernization in 1929-1931, Arizona was regularly used for training exercises between the wars, including the annual Fleet Problems (training exercises). When an earthquake struck Long Beach, California, on 10 March 1933, the Arizona's crew provided aid to the survivors. In July 1934, the ship was featured in a James Cagney film, Here Comes the Navy, about the romantic troubles of a sailor. In April 1940, she and the rest of the Pacific Fleet were transferred from California to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, as a deterrent to Japanese imperialism.
Arizona was bombed during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. After a bomb detonated in a powder magazine, the battleship exploded violently and sank, with the loss of 1,177 officers and crewmen. Unlike many of the other ships sunk or damaged that day, Arizona was irreparably damaged by the force of the magazine explosion, though the Navy removed parts of the ship for reuse. The wreck still lies at the bottom of Pearl Harbor and the USS Arizona Memorial. Dedicated on 30 May 1962 to all those who died during the attack, the memorial straddles but does not touch the ship's hull.
| Name: | Arizona |
| Namesake: | State of Arizona |
| Ordered: | 4 March 1913 |
| Builder: | Brooklyn Navy Yard |
| Cost: | $16,000,000 |
| Laid down: | 16 March 1914 |
| Launched: | 19 June 1915 |
| Commissioned: | 17 October 1916 |
| Decommissioned: | 29 December 1941 |
| Struck: | 1 December 1942 |
| Identification: | Hull number: BB-39 |
| Fate: | Sunk during the Attack on Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941 |
| Status: | Memorial wreck |
| Class and type: | Pennsylvania-class battleship |
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| Length: | 608 ft (185.3 m) |
| Beam: | 97 ft (29.6 m) |
| Draft: | 29 ft 3 in (8.9 m) (deep load) |
| Installed power: | 12 water-tube boilers; 29,366 shp (21,898 kW) (on sea trials) |
| Propulsion: | 4 shafts; 4 sets of steam turbines |
| Speed: | 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph) |
| Range: | 8,000 nmi (15,000 km; 9,200 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement: | 1,087 (1,358 in 1931) |
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Sierra Clone (27/64") Embedded |
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These single blank tubes are a custom label cast image of the USS Baltimore. The ends of the blank sections are a short piece of wood salvaged from the Princeton.
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US Navy Submarine Wood
All blanks will come with one COA per blank. COAs are 4" x 6" card stock with silver foil embossed COA seal.
All blanks are cut as they are ordered.
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USS Bremerton (SSN-698), a Los Angeles-class submarine, was the second vessel of the United States Navy to be named for Bremerton, WA. The contract to build her was awarded to the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation in Groton, CT on 24 January 1972, and her keel was laid on 8 May 1976. She was launched on 22 July 1978 and commissioned on 28 March 1981.
When USS Los Angeles was decommissioned on 23 January 2010, Bremerton became the oldest commissioned submarine in the US fleet. On that day, Richard O'Kane's cribbage board was transferred from Los Angeles to Bremerton, a tradition that dates back to World War II.
On 20 July 2017, she became the longest-commissioned U.S. Navy submarine, at the time, surpassing USS Kamehameha (SSBN-642). On 6 April 2018, she returned to Pearl Harbor from her 16th and final deployment. When Bremerton was inactive in 2018, the cribbage board was transferred from Bremerton to USS Olympia (SSN-717).
On 20 April 2018, USS Bremerton left Pearl Harbor for the last time en route to Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, WA to enter the submarine recycling program.
Bremerton was officially decommissioned on 21 May 2021, at the U.S. Naval Undersea Museum in Keyport, WA.
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These single blank tubes are a custom label cast image of the USS Brooklyn. The ends of the blank sections are a short piece of wood salvaged from the Brooklyn.
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USS Brooklyn was a sloop-of-war authorized by the U.S. Congress and commissioned in 1859. Brooklyn was active in Caribbean operations until the start of the American Civil War at which time she became an active participant in the Union blockade of the Confederate States of America.
With her one 10-inch gun and twenty 9-inch guns, Brooklyn was a formidable fighting ship that could deliver damaging broadsides, and served on the Atlantic Ocean coast as well as the Gulf Coast of the United States in intercepting blockade runners. Brooklyn also served gallantly attacking Confederate forts and other installations on the Mississippi River.
Post-war, Brooklyn remained active, serving for some years in the European theatre, as well as circumnavigating the globe. She was retired in 1889 and sold in 1890 after having well served her country for over three decades.
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| Launched: | 1858 |
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| Commissioned: | January 26, 1859 | Length: | 233 ft |
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| Crew: | 335 officers and enlisted | Speed: | 11.5 knots |
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one 10" smoothbore gun twenty 9" smoothbore guns |
US Navy Ship Wood
Embedded object Blanks
27/64" blanks are for Sierra Clones
All blanks will come with one COA per blank. COAs are 4" x 6" card stock with silver foil embossed COA seal.
All blanks are cut as they are ordered.
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USS California (BB-44) was the second of two Tennessee-class battleships built for the United States Navy between her keel laying in October 1916 and her commissioning in August 1921. The Tennessee class was part of the standard series of twelve battleships built in the 1910s and 1920s, and were developments of the preceding New Mexico class. They were armed with a battery of twelve 14-inch (360 mm) guns in four three-gun turrets. California served as the flagship of the Battle Fleet in the Pacific Ocean for duration of her peacetime career. She spent the 1920s and 1930s participating in routine fleet training exercises, including the annual Fleet Problems, and cruises around the Americas and further abroad, such as a goodwill visit to Australia and New Zealand in 1925.
California was moored in Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 when the Japanese attacked the port, bringing the United States into World War II. The ship was moderately damaged by a pair of torpedoes and a bomb, but a fire disabled the ship's electrical system, preventing the pumps from being used to keep the ship afloat. California slowly filled with water over the following three days and eventually sank. Her crew suffered heavy casualties in the attack and four men were awarded the Medal of Honor for their actions during the attack. She was raised in April 1942, repaired and heavily rebuilt, and returned to service in January 1944.
The ship thereafter supported the amphibious operations conducted during the Pacific War, including the Mariana and Palau Islands campaign (though she was damaged in a collision with Tennessee and thus missed the Battle of Peleliu) and the Philippines campaign, during which she took part in the Battle of Surigao Strait. She was hit by a kamikaze during the invasion of Lingayen Gulf in January 1945, after repairs, joined the fleet supporting troops fighting on Okinawa during the Battle of Okinawa. Her crew took part in the occupation of Japan after the end of the war, and after returning to the United States via the Indian and Atlantic Oceans, was laid up in Philadelphia in 1946. She remained in the fleet's inventory until 1959, when she was broken up for scrap.
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| Name: | California |
| Namesake: | State of California |
| Ordered: | 28 December 1915 |
| Builder: | Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California |
| Laid down: | 25 October 1916 |
| Launched: | 20 November 1919 |
| Commissioned: | 10 August 1921 |
| Decommissioned: | 14 February 1947 |
| Struck: | 1 March 1959 |
| Identification: | Hull symbol: BB-44 |
| Fate: | Broken up, 1959 |
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| Class and type: | Tennessee-class battleship |
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| Beam: | 97 ft 5 in (29.69 m) |
| Draft: | 30 ft 2 in (9.19 m) |
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| Speed: | 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph) |
| Range: | 8,000 nmi (15,000 km; 9,200 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
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| Aircraft carried: | 3 × floatplanes |
| Aviation facilities: | 2 × catapults |
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Jr Set (12.5mm Embedded Cap & Wood Post) |
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These blank sets have a cap\upper tube is a custom label cast image of the USS Constitution. The diamond shape contains an embedded swatch of cloth salvaged from the sail of the Constitution during the 1927 renovation. The lower\post section of the set is a short blank of white oak wood salvaged from the Constitution during one of its many renovations. |
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These single blank tubes are a custom label cast image of the USS Constitution. The diamond shape contains an embedded swatch of cloth salvaged from the sail of the Constitution during the 1927 renovation. The ends of the blank sections are a short piece of white oak wood salvaged from the Constitution during one of its many renovations. The grey sections on the edges of the images for these three blanks is covered by the wood. |
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The Extra COA for Wood Blanks is for purchase with the an all wood blank. |
For Custom Single or Double Tube purchases, please indicate in the checkout notes block what pen kit you need the tubes to fit. All Embedded blanks will ship after May 1st.
USS Constitution, also known as Old Ironsides, three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy and the third of the six original frigates authorized for construction by the Naval Act of 1794. She is the world's oldest commissioned naval vessel still afloat. Constitution is most noted for her actions during the War of 1812 against the United Kingdom, when she captured numerous merchant ships and defeated five British warships: HMS Guerriere, Java, Pictou, Cyane, and Levant. The battle with Guerriere earned her the nickname "Old Ironsides" and public adoration that has repeatedly saved her from scrapping.
Today, Constitution's stated mission today is to promote understanding of the Navy's role in war and peace through educational outreach, historical demonstration, and active participation in public events as part of the Naval History & Heritage Command. As a fully commissioned Navy ship, her crew of 60 officers and sailors participate in ceremonies, educational programs, and special events while keeping her open to visitors year-round and providing free tours.
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These single blank tubes are a custom label cast image of the USS Corry. The ends of the blank sections are a short piece of wood salvaged from the Corry.
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These single blank tubes are a custom label cast image of the USS Cumberland. The ends of the blank sections are a short piece of wood salvaged from the Cumberland.
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The first USS Cumberland was a 50-gun sailing frigate of the United States Navy.[1] She was the first ship sunk by the ironclad CSS Virginia.
Cumberland began in the pages of a Congressional Act. Congress passed in 1816 "An act for the gradual increase of the Navy of the United States." The act called for the U.S. to build several ships-of-the-line and several new frigates, of which Cumberland was to be one. Money issues, however, prevented Cumberland from being finished in a timely manner. It was not until Secretary of the Navy Abel Parker Upshur came to office that the ship was finished. A war scare with Britain led Upshur to order the completion of several wooden sailing ships and for the construction of new steam powered ships.
Designed by famed American designer William Doughty, Cumberland was one a series of frigates in a class called the Raritan-class. The design borrowed heavily from older American frigate designs such as Constitution and Chesapeake. Specifically, Doughty liked the idea of giving a frigate more guns than European designs called for. As a result, he called for Cumberland and her sister ships to have a fully armed spar deck, along with guns on the gun deck. The result was a heavily armed, 50-gun warship.
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| Launched: | May 24, 1842 |
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| Commissioned: | November 9, 1842 | Length: | 175 ft |
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| Crew: | 335 officers and enlisted | Draft: | 21.1 ft |
US Navy Ship Wood
Embedded object Blanks
27/64" blanks are for Sierra Clones
All blanks will come with one COA per blank. COAs are 4" x 6" card stock with silver foil embossed COA seal.
All blanks are cut as they are ordered.
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The USS Des Moines (CA-134), the second ship of that name in the United States Navy, was the lead ship of a class of heavy cruisers. She was the first ship in the United States Navy to feature the auto loading Mark 16 8-inch/55 caliber gun, which was the first of its type in the world.
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| Name: | Des Moines |
| Namesake: | Des Moines, Iowa |
| Ordered: | 25 September 1943 |
| Builder: | Bethlehem Steel Company |
| Laid down: | 28 May 1945 |
| Launched: | 27 September 1946 |
| Commissioned: | 16 November 1948 |
| Decommissioned: | 6 July 1961 |
| Struck: | 9 July 1991 |
| Identification: | Hull symbol: CA-134 |
| Fate: | Scrapping completed by ESCO Marine, Inc., Brownsville, TX on 16 August 2007. |
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| Class and type: | Des Moines-class heavy cruiser |
| Displacement: | 17,000 tons |
| Length: | 716 ft 6 in (218.39 m) |
| Beam: | 76 ft 6 in (23.32 m) |
| Draft: | 22 ft (6.7 m) |
| Propulsion: | 4 shaft; General Electric turbines; 4 boiler; 120,000 shp (89,000 kW) |
| Speed: | 33 knots (38 mph; 61 km/h) |
| Range: | 10,500 nmi (19,450 km) at 15 knots (17 mph; 28 km/h) |
| Complement: | 1,799 officers and enlisted |
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US Navy Ship Wood from the USS Enterprise (CV-6)
Solid wood Blanks are 3/4" x 3/4"
5" x 3/4" Long blanks
2.5" x 3/4" Short blanks
Extra COAs are $2 each
All blanks will come with one COA per blank. COAs are 4" x 6" card stock with foil embossed COA seal.
All blanks are cut as they are ordered.
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USS Enterprise (CV-6) was a Yorktown-class carrier built for the United States Navy during the 1930s. She was the seventh U.S. Navy vessel of that name. Colloquially called "The Big E", she was the sixth aircraft carrier of the U.S. Navy. Launched in 1936, she was one of only three American carriers commissioned before World War II to survive the war (the others being Saratoga and Ranger). She participated in more major actions of the war against Japan than any other U.S. ship. These actions included the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Battle of Midway, the Battle of the Eastern Solomons, the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, the Guadalcanal Campaign, the Battle of the Philippine Sea, and the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Enterprise earned 20 battle stars, more than any other ship, and was the most decorated U.S. ship of World War II. She was also the first U.S. ship to sink a full-sized enemy warship after the Pacific War had been declared when her aircraft sank the Japanese submarine I-70 on 10 December 1941. On three occasions during the war, the Japanese announced that she had been sunk in battle, inspiring her nickname "The Grey Ghost". By the end of the war, her planes and guns had downed 911 enemy planes, sank 71 ships, and damaged or destroyed 192 more. Enterprise was decommissioned February 17, 1947 just after the end of World War II after just shy of nine years of service.
USS Flint (AE-32/T-AE-32)
$20 - 1.5â" x 5ishâ" round blanks
$15 - 3/4" x 3/4" x 5â" regular blanks
(Some have a slightly rounded corner)
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USS Flint (AE-32/T-AE-32) is a Kilauea-class ammunition ship of the United States Navy, and was named after the sparking rock flint (not, as is commonly thought, the city of Flint, Michigan). Flint was constructed at the Ingalls Nuclear Shipbuilding Division, Litton Industries, Inc., Pascagoula, Mississippi. The ship was delivered to the United States Navy at Charleston, South Carolina, on 30 August 1971.
| Name: | USS Flint |
| Awarded: | 8 March 1968 |
| Builder: | Ingalls Shipbuilding |
| Laid down: | 4 August 1969 |
| Launched: | 9 November 1970 |
| Acquired: | 30 August 1971 |
| Commissioned: | 20 November 1971 |
| Decommissioned: | 4 August 1995 |
| In service: | Transferred to Military Sealift Command 4 August 1995 |
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| Status: | Stricken 8 November 2013 in NDRF |
US Navy Ship Wood from the USS Forrestal (CV-59)
5" long wood blanks
27/64" blanks are for Sierra Clones
3/8" blanks are for Bolt Action Pens
These two blanks are label cast images of USS Forrestal with bands of wood from the ship on the ends of the blank.
12.5mm & 10.5mm blanks are for JR series pen kits
JR Set blanks are label cast images of USS Forrestal with bands of wood from the ship on the ends of the blanks for the Cap and Post blanks. The Jr Post blank also has coper wire from the ship embedded in the blank.
All blanks will come with one COA per blank or blank set. COAs are 4" x 6" card stock with gold foil embossed COA seal.
All blanks are cut as they are ordered.
USS Forrestal (CV-59) (later CVA-59, then AVT-59), was a supercarrier named after the first Secretary of Defense James Forrestal. Commissioned in 1955, she was the first completed supercarrier, and was the lead ship of her class. Unlike the successor Nimitz class, Forrestal and her class were conventionally powered. The other carriers of her class were USS Saratoga, USS Ranger and USS Independence. She surpassed the World War II Japanese carrier Shinano as the largest carrier yet built, and was the first designed to support jet aircraft.
The ship was affectionately called "The FID", because her namesake was the first Secretary of Defense, FID standing for "First In Defense". This is also the slogan on the ship's insignia and patch. She was also informally known in the fleet as the "USS Zippo" and "Forest Fire" or "Firestal" because of a number of highly publicized fires on board, most notably a 1967 fire in which 134 sailors died and 161 more were injured.
Forrestal served for nearly four decades in the Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Pacific. She was decommissioned in 1993, and made available as a museum. Attempts to save her were unsuccessful, and in February 2014 she was towed to Brownsville, Texas, to be scrapped. Scrapping was completed in December 2015.
| Name: | USS Forrestal |
| Namesake: | James Forrestal, first United States Secretary of Defense |
| Ordered: | 12 July 1951 |
| Builder: | Newport News Shipbuilding |
| Cost: | US$217 million |
| Laid down: | 14 July 1952 |
| Launched: | 11 December 1954 |
| Acquired: | 29 September 1955 |
| Commissioned: | 1 October 1955 |
| Decommissioned: | 11 September 1993 |
| Reclassified: | CVA to CV-59 on 30 June 1975 |
| Struck: | 11 September 1993 |
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| Class and type: | Forrestal-class aircraft carrier |
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| Complement: | 552 officers, 4,988 enlisted |
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| Aircraft carried: | approx. 85 aircraft (F-14, F-4, A-4, A-7, A-6, E-2, S-3B, EA-6B, C-2, SH-3, A-3B, KC-130 (test flight)) |
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These single blank tubes are a custom label cast image of the USS Fulton. The ends of the blank sections are a short piece of wood salvaged from the Fulton.
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US Navy Ship Wood
Embedded object Blanks
27/64" blanks are for Sierra Clones
All blanks will come with one COA per blank. COAs are 4" x 6" card stock with silver foil embossed COA seal.
All blanks are cut as they are ordered.
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USS Hornet (CV/CVA/CVS-12) is an Essex-class aircraft carrier built for the United States Navy (USN) during World War II. Completed in late 1943, the ship was assigned to the Fast Carrier Task Force (variously designated as Task Force 38 or 58) in the Pacific Ocean, the navy's primary offensive force during the Pacific War. In early 1944, she participated in attacks on Japanese installations in New Guinea, Palau and Truk among others. Hornet then took part in the Mariana and Palau Islands campaign and most of the subsidiary operations, most notably the Battle of the Philippine Sea in June that was nicknamed the "Great Marianas Turkey Shoot" for the disproportionate losses inflicted upon the Japanese. The ship then participated in the Philippines Campaign in late 1944, and the Volcano and Ryukyu Islands campaign in the first half of 1945. She was badly damaged by a typhoon in June and had to return to the United States for repairs.
After the war she took part in Operation Magic Carpet, returning troops to the U.S. and was then placed in reserve in 1946. Hornet was reactivated during the Korean War of 1950-1953, but spent the rest of the war being modernized to allow her to operate jet-propelled aircraft. The ship was modernized again in the late 1950s for service as an anti-submarine carrier. She played a minor role in the Vietnam War during the 1960s and in the Apollo program, recovering the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 astronauts as they returned from the Moon.
Hornet was decommissioned in 1970. She was eventually designated as both a National Historic Landmark and a California Historical Landmark, and she opened to the public as the USS Hornet Museum in Alameda, California, in 1998.
| Name: | Hornet |
| Namesake: | Hornet |
| Ordered: | 20 May 1940 |
| Awarded: | 9 September 1940 |
| Builder: | Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, Virginia |
| Laid down: | 3 August 1942 |
| Launched: | 30 August 1943 |
| Commissioned: | 29 November 1943 |
| Decommissioned: | 15 January 1947 |
| Renamed: | From Kearsarge, October 1942 |
| Identification: | Hull number: CV-12 |
| Recommissioned: | 11 September 1953 |
| Decommissioned: | 26 June 1970 |
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| Struck: | 25 July 1989 |
| Status: | Museum ship at the USS Hornet Museum in Alameda, California |
US Navy Ship Wood
Embedded object Blanks
27/64" blanks are for Sierra Clones
12.5mm & 10.5mm blanks are for JR series
All blanks will come with one COA per blank. COAs are 4" x 6" card stock with silver foil embossed COA seal.
All blanks are cut as they are ordered.
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USS Intrepid (CV/CVA/CVS-11), also known as The Fighting "I", is one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers built during World War II for the United States Navy. She is the fourth US Navy ship to bear the name. Commissioned in August 1943, Intrepid participated in several campaigns in the Pacific Theater of Operations, most notably the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Decommissioned shortly after the end of the war, she was modernized and recommissioned in the early 1950s as an attack carrier (CVA), and then eventually became an antisubmarine carrier (CVS). In her second career, she served mainly in the Atlantic, but also participated in the Vietnam War. Her notable achievements include being the recovery ship for a Mercury and a Gemini space mission. Because of her prominent role in battle, she was nicknamed "the Fighting I", while her frequent bad luck and time spent in dry dock for repairs—she was torpedoed once and hit by four separate Japanese kamikaze aircraft—earned her the nicknames "Decrepit" and "the Dry I". Decommissioned in 1974, in 1982 Intrepid became the foundation of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City.
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| Name: | Intrepid |
| Builder: | Newport News Shipbuilding |
| Laid down: | 1 December 1941 |
| Launched: | 26 April 1943 |
| Commissioned: | 16 August 1943 |
| Decommissioned: | 15 March 1974 |
| Struck: | 23 February 1982 |
| Nickname(s): | "Fighting I", "Dry I" |
| Status: | Museum ship at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City. |
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| Class and type: | Essex-class aircraft carrier |
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| Beam: | 93 ft (28.3 m) (waterline) |
| Draft: | 34 ft 2 in (10.41 m) (full load) |
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| Propulsion: | 4 × shafts; 4 × geared steam turbines |
| Speed: | 33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph) |
| Range: | 14,100 nmi (26,100 km; 16,200 mi) at 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
| Complement: | 2,600 officers and enlisted men |
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| Aircraft carried: | 91-103 aircraft |
US Navy Ship Wood
Blanks are 3/4" x 3/4"
Wooden Wave Blanks are pre-tubed blanks with a label cast of the ship's seal and wood from the ship. These blanks are designed to work with Sierra Clone or Bolt Action pen kits. Sierra Clone tubes are 2-1/4" x 27/64" and Bolt Action Tubes are 1-31/32”.
All blanks are cut as they are ordered.
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USS Iowa (BB-61) is a retired battleship, the lead ship of its class, and the fourth in the United States Navy to be named after the state of Iowa. Owing to the cancellation of the Montana-class battleships, Iowa is the last lead ship of any class of United States battleships and was the only ship of its class to have served in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II.
During World War II, it carried President Franklin D. Roosevelt across the Atlantic to Mers El Kébir, Algeria, en route to a meeting of vital importance in 1943 in Tehran with Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Britain and Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union. When transferred to the Pacific Fleet in 1944, Iowa shelled beachheads at Kwajalein and Eniwetok in advance of Allied amphibious landings and screened aircraft carriers operating in the Marshall Islands. It also served as the Third Fleet flagship, flying Admiral William F. Halsey's flag at the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay. During the Korean War, Iowa was involved in raids on the North Korean coast, after which it was decommissioned into the United States Navy reserve fleets, better known as the "mothball fleet." It was reactivated in 1984 as part of the 600-ship Navy plan and operated in both the Atlantic and Pacific Fleets to counter the recently expanded Soviet Navy. In April 1989, an explosion of undetermined origin wrecked its No. 2 gun turret, killing 47 sailors.
Iowa was decommissioned for the last time in October 1990 after 19 total years of active service, and was initially stricken from the Naval Vessel Register (NVR) in 1995, before being reinstated from 1999 to 2006 to comply with federal laws that required retention and maintenance of two Iowa-class battleships. In 2011 Iowa was donated to the Los Angeles-based non-profit Pacific Battleship Center and was permanently moved to Berth 87 at the Port of Los Angeles in 2012, where it was opened to the public as the USS Iowa Museum.
| Namesake: | State of Iowa |
| Ordered: | 1 July 1939 |
| Builder: | New York Naval Yard |
| Laid down: | 27 June 1940 |
| Launched: | 27 August 1942 |
| Sponsored by: | Ilo Wallace |
| Commissioned: | 22 February 1943 |
| Decommissioned: | 24 March 1949 |
| Recommissioned: | 25 August 1951 |
| Decommissioned: | 24 February 1958 |
| Recommissioned: | 28 April 1984 |
| Decommissioned: | 26 October 1990 |
| Struck: | 17 March 2006 |
| Homeport: | Norfolk, Virginia (after 1980s refit) |
| Identification: | Hull symbol: BB-61 |
| Motto: | "Our Liberties We Prize, Our Rights We Will Maintain" |
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11 battle stars |
| Fate: | Museum ship |
| Status: | On display at the Pacific Battleship Center at the Port of Los Angeles |
US Navy Ship Wood from the USS Lake Champlain (CV-39)
Solid wood Blanks are 3/4" x 3/4"
5" x 3/4" Long blanks
2.5" x 3/4" Short blanks
Extra COAs are $2 each
All blanks will come with one COA per blank. COAs are 4" x 6" card stock with foil embossed COA seal.
All blanks are cut as they are ordered.
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