A Pair of Spalted Curly Mangos

[igran7]

I made a couple of Spalted Curly Mango Statesman fountain pens today. One closed-end & one regular. Wood from Arizona Silhouette finish CA/BLO. Comments welcomed, good bad or otherwise.

 

[karlkuehn]

Wow, really beautiful! That timber is awesome! Nice job on the closed end, too!

 

[jhs494]

WOW!
Beautiful work Joe. Those are two awesome looking pens.
The grain looks great and your fit and finish is top notch.

Thank you very much for sharing them with us.

 

[rherrell]

Great job! I have a Spalted Mango pen in my photo album but the wood looks NOTHING like yours. Must be some great diversity in the species. Either that or one of us has something else.[?]

 

[awolfe]

Those are beautiful pens.

 

[VisExp]

That curly mango is very special! You did a great job with the pens. I like the shape of the closed end.

 

[leehljp]

SUPER Job! Beautiful grain and beautiful finish!

 

[alamocdc]

Yep, beautiful describes them.

 

[rjwolfe3]

WOW that is all I can say just WOW.

 

[wood-of-1kind]

Methinks that even the FP "snobs" would be envious of owning your two beauties. Great finish and excellent timber.

 

[constamj]

Very nice. I really like that wood. It has a ton of character.

 

[Dario]

Wonderful pens made out of a wonderful pieces of wood. Love it!

 

[papaturner]

A+`s for the blanks and the craftsmanship.....SALUTE!

Perry

 

[Dalecamino]

Good job ! You really popped that grain ! Good choice of hardware ! [8D]

 

[Jim in Oakville]

Awesome looking pens...


Every time I make a curly mango it sells, real fast, these are wonderful!

 

[chigdon]

I do love that wood. This stuff almost doesn't look real. Very nice.

 

[plomanto]

Fantastic wood ! ! ! ! great job on the pens

 

[Rick_G]

Great looking wood and pens. I've never seen that wood before and I can see getting some.

 

[Tanner]

Oh yeah those look great! Almost looks like a lock of hair in there. Absolutely beautiful!

 

[splinter99]

thats the nicest mango I have ever seen, beautiful

 

[ahoiberg]

i agree with harold, definitely the best mango i've ever seen. great job.

 

[Johnathan]

Lots of character in the wood, nice job.

 

[Kalai]

Very nice job and nice wood too, I know Bill at AS stabalizes his Mango and some of them he adds color too, I supply Bill at AS with Mango and other Hawaiian woods and I still have plenty of curly Mango but mine are not stabalized, aloha.

Chris
Kalai