Birch root burl
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AKPenTurner
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Pretty nice!
Birch (preferably burl) is my favorite wood to work with. A chunk of that burl covered with eyes is, IMHO, one of the most beautiful woods there is...
Birch (preferably burl) is my favorite wood to work with. A chunk of that burl covered with eyes is, IMHO, one of the most beautiful woods there is...
CREID
Member
Birch root burl, birch root burl, I need to remember that.
Nice looking pen.
Curt
Nice looking pen.
Curt
patmurris
Member
Isn't it amazing what we can find in our backyards! Beautiful wood and pen!
The fit looks oversized at the cap's finial? - maybe it's the picture...
The fit looks oversized at the cap's finial? - maybe it's the picture...
PaulDoug
Member
Very pretty. The beauty of wood working and turning, you look more closely at wood others would just burn or through out.
Rick P
Member
Patmurris: the pic is really bad, the cap has a barely noticeable flare but the fit at the final is tight........one of my better pens but worst photos in some time. I do appreciate the observation though, keep them coming.
I specialize in "Alaskan" materials and the "lost wood" pens have been good sellers, seems there are a lot of folks who like the idea that there pen didn't kill a tree.
Thanks everyone!
I specialize in "Alaskan" materials and the "lost wood" pens have been good sellers, seems there are a lot of folks who like the idea that there pen didn't kill a tree.
Thanks everyone!
Rick P
Member
Paul your spot on on that! Even more so now that I am casting, stuck a couple of burl caps that I wouldn't have able to use otherwise in PR resin last night. Really looking forward to turning them.
kludge77
Member
{Clapping}
Love it!
Love it!
G1Pens
Member
Very nice.
bitshird
Member
It looks great, I wish the Birch I had would look like that.
Rick P
Member
Bitshird
Ya got to go under ground to find stuff like this. I honestly cut up about 6 stumps before finding this burl. Just keep looking.
Ya got to go under ground to find stuff like this. I honestly cut up about 6 stumps before finding this burl. Just keep looking.
BSea
Member
I really like that wood with that kit. And finding it in your backyard is a big bonus.
Rick P
Member
I have a BIG "back yard"!
Virtually all the wood I work with was "lost wood" from or near our home. Some came from roots unearthed during construction, some were wind fallen, others washed down stream during spring floods. There are a couple of trees too far up the mountain I'm waiting for my son to get big enough to haul out. One is a spalted birch about 2 feet in diameter the other is a very heavily burled birch! The splated one is laying across the trap line trail, it'll come out first, dang thing gets harder to climb over every year! I'll have to take a pic of the burled tree it is unbelievable how gnarled this thing is!
Virtually all the wood I work with was "lost wood" from or near our home. Some came from roots unearthed during construction, some were wind fallen, others washed down stream during spring floods. There are a couple of trees too far up the mountain I'm waiting for my son to get big enough to haul out. One is a spalted birch about 2 feet in diameter the other is a very heavily burled birch! The splated one is laying across the trap line trail, it'll come out first, dang thing gets harder to climb over every year! I'll have to take a pic of the burled tree it is unbelievable how gnarled this thing is!
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