MesquiteMan
Retired Head Moderator
You CAN make a pen out of just about anything! Here is a Sago Palm slimline I recently made and here is what a Sago Palm looks like:
My wife had a Sago Palm that died so I cut it into a chunk. It started out as a MUCH larger blank but once it had dried out it was just enough to get a slimline blank out of! It was not woody at all and was nothing like any of the other palms. It was more like a potato when I first cut it! It did not rot like a potato would, though. I did have to use a lot of CA to stabilize it enough to turn it.
Anyway, it is not the most beautiful pen I have made but interesting never the less.
My wife had a Sago Palm that died so I cut it into a chunk. It started out as a MUCH larger blank but once it had dried out it was just enough to get a slimline blank out of! It was not woody at all and was nothing like any of the other palms. It was more like a potato when I first cut it! It did not rot like a potato would, though. I did have to use a lot of CA to stabilize it enough to turn it.
Anyway, it is not the most beautiful pen I have made but interesting never the less.
]
