I splurged and bought what amounts to a lifetime supply of black locust burl (for me anyway). This is the first pen I've made from it, I'm glad I won't be running out anytime soon! I'm adding this one to my personal collection.
Black Locust Burl Stratus
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MRDucks2
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mark james
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Beautiful pen! Black Locust Burl is one of my favorites; looks like you have some excellent stuff.
Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for sharing.
Woodchipper
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Beautiful grain and color of the wood! Not sure but I recall my father and uncle using locust for fence posts in central Ohio on the farm. Are they the same thing?
Did you buy a fence post or two? :wink:
Did you buy a fence post or two? :wink:
Yeah, 1 fence post = 1 pen + lots of shavings :tongue:
I suspect it is probably the same species. Black locust is native to the US, but has been exported to many different areas of the world. Although it isn't really grown commercially here, it is elsewhere. This particular wood came from Europe.
Brotherdale
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I really like the coloring in that. My first time seeing it, I'm impressed.
Herb G
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Great looking pen, my friend.
Gregory Hardy
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And you haven't lived until you try to split that stuff for fence posts with a maul and a wedge. (Allegany County farmers here in Western New York State used the same stuff.) I'd much rather be on the business end of my lathe than the business end of a maul with locust!
The burl was really solid, turned nice without stabilization, but I can imagine that splitting logs would be a bear. I've never split wood for fence posts, but did plenty of firewood in my younger days. I would split with a maul, even though we had a hydraulic splitter, because the maul was faster. As they say - youth is wasted on the young.
