Chamise Rootball WW

[gketell]

TiGold Jr Gentleman's pen dressed in a home-grown worthless-wood Chamise rootball from Livermore, CA cast in red/gold Alumilite with a custom finial, all finished with CA.

Photo taken with a slight change to my normal setup thanks to JayDevin and his "wonder mirror". Using the mirror for the base shows off the pen better and allows the "background" to be much more soft-focus and therefore less obtrusive. IMHO, of course. Now I just need a small acrylic stand to get the pen up off the mirror 1/4" or so...

GK

 

[nava1uni]

Absolutely exquisite Greg. You do really beautiful work. I like the mirror for taking the photograph.

 

[ldb2000]

That is Beautiful , Top notch stuff....great photo too [8D]

 

[nava1uni]

Absolutely exquisite Greg. You do really beautiful work. I like the mirror for taking the photograph.

 

[desertyellow]

That added finial detail just tops it off right.

 

[markgum]

way cool Greg.

 

[TAFFJ]

Greg They look superb! I must try the mirror method to improve my photograph.

 

[workinforwood]

It's a beautiful pen! I have to ask, see I know what a chamise cloth is..so there is also a chamise tree?

 

[JayDevin]

The Pen is a Stunner in Person!!!

Those who attended the May Northern Ca bubbasville all when home with Chamise Burl. PM me if interested

 

[Ligget]

Beautiful![]

 

[gketell]

Jeff,

You bet there is. Here is a link for lots of info: http://www.biosbcc.net/b100plant/htm/chamise.htm.

Chamise is a shrub from the Chapparal family. It has a special affinity for heat and fire. Its bark and sap burn really really well but it doesn't kill the plant and it grows back really fast after a fire so it kinda takes over the area. It doesn't hurt that it puts out a bit of poison to slow other plant growth too.

And when you cut into the root ball you get things like this:

This is the actual piece I made this pen and two other blanks from.

GK

 

[Jarheaded]

That is a nice root ball, how big do they get?

 

[Rick_G]

That made a beautiful pen. I like the mirror idea as well will have to give that a try.

 

[workinforwood]

I'm just happy to be learning something new, thanks!

 

[gketell]

The biggest one that Jay brought over that I saw was about 10" around our so.

 

[bitshird]

That is a very pretty pen, [}] so the whole thing is done with smoke and mirrors

 

[VisExp]

Greg, that's a beautiful blank and you did it proud with that pen

 

[papaturner]

AWESOME!

 

[Kaspar]

Gorgeous pen, and a sweet piccie too.

 

[thefunkyP]

Great shape to your pen. I like the very minimalist finial, I almost missed it. Awesome looking wood.