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A good friend asked I make her a slim pen for her daughter for Vaentines day..the bottom is osage orange which didn't turn out red enough to me..so I hit it with red analyne dye..

Thanks for looking.!


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Nice pen, I like the heart!
If you want a good red wood, try blood wood. It is a beautiful dark red turns and finishes like a dream and smells great!
There is also red heart which runs from dark pink to light red!
 

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Nice touch John, I'm sure it exactly what he was thinking of [:)]

Why would you think ossage orange would turn out RED, isn't it yellow? Nice dye job.

Anthony
 

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Originally posted by elody21
<br />Nice pen, I like the heart!
If you want a good red wood, try blood wood. It is a beautiful dark red turns and finishes like a dream and smells great!
There is also red heart which runs from dark pink to light red!

Alice is right about the bloodwood. It makes a beautiful deep red pen. You have to be careful with it though, because it is often found with a somewhat open grain pattern. Be sure and remove the sanding dust thouroughly when sanding. It takes more that just wiping it off. I use compressed air. If you don't remove it all, you can end up with light-colored (even white, depending on the sandpaper you are using) specks embeded in the grain and it will show when the final finish is applied.
 

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I should have had my coffee before I wrote that - it wasn't OsageOrange..it was padauk...sorry [:(]



Originally posted by penworks
<br />Nice touch John, I'm sure it exactly what he was thinking of [:)]

Why would you think ossage orange would turn out RED, isn't it yellow? Nice dye job.

Anthony
 

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Gary, actually Osage Orange has the yellow color in the sapwood only, the heartwood is a deep orange color.

If you want something really neat looking get a good size branch from an Osage Orange tree, chuck it up and start turning. Make sure you leave some of the yellow on and get down into the orange a ways. Almost makes it look like you died one or the other.
 

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Originally posted by JRowan
<br />Gary, actually Osage Orange has the yellow color in the sapwood only, the heartwood is a deep orange color.

If you want something really neat looking get a good size branch from an Osage Orange tree, chuck it up and start turning. Make sure you leave some of the yellow on and get down into the orange a ways. Almost makes it look like you died one or the other.

I grew up in Oklahoma and spent the better part of my teenager years cutting down Bois d' Arc trees along the fence lines and splitting it into fence posts. I joined the army at 18 to get off that dam* farm. I never saw any deep orange heartwood. I saw a lot of white phloem, a whole lot of yellow sapwood, and some brown heartwood. The only deep orange I've seen was on ebay where they doctored the photos on a photo editor. But then I haven't seen every piece that nature ever made...although, at 18 I sure thought I had.
 
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