What kind of wood?

[timdaleiden]

Just posted a new picture, and since Jeff added the Album Link thing next to my post, I don't have to add a link. Nice work Jeff.

If you guess what kind of wood I used to make this pen, I hear Jeff and Scott will reward you with a brand new Corvette.

(BTW, Scott and Jeff, you may need to cough up a new car for this)

 

[chgrjim]

Mornin' Tim, nice work! Looks like it could be Red Palm (?)

JIM

 

[Kurt Aebi]

Looks great, Tim.

Let me go out on a limb here. It's pretty, brown wood with great stripes in the grain! LOL

Really don't know, but it looks very good!

 

[txbob]

Hi Tim,
The wood is Red Palm cut at an angle. Compare it to BB's picture at http://www.arizonasilhouette.com/Pen_Blank_Images_2.htm

Either red or white will be ok on the Corvette.

Bob S. (txbob)

 

[timdaleiden]

Originally posted by txbob
<br />Hi Tim,
The wood is Red Palm cut at an angle. Compare it to BB's picture at http://www.arizonasilhouette.com/Pen_Blank_Images_2.htm

Either red or white will be ok on the Corvette.

Bob S. (txbob)

Nope, It's not Red Palm cut at an angle. No Car for you today.

 

[kennosborne]

Wow that is some pretty stuff. Is it tiger striped padauk? Some sort of dyed maple? Whatever it is ... I want some [] The grain pattern is beautiful!!

 

[timdaleiden]

Originally posted by kennosborne
<br />Wow that is some pretty stuff. Is it tiger striped padauk? Some sort of dyed maple? Whatever it is ... I want some [] The grain pattern is beautiful!!

Nice try. I may just send somebody a blank if they can guess it. Since I buy the wood by the board foot, it wouldn't cost me much more than the postage. Try as many times as you like.[]

 

[Daniel]

Figured African Bubinga???
Actually I have no idea but that's as good a guess as any.
nice looking wood though. and I like the effect you used with the grain.

 

[timdaleiden]

Originally posted by Daniel
<br />Figured African Bubinga???
Actually I have no idea but that's as good a guess as any.
nice looking wood though. and I like the effect you used with the grain.

Not Bubinga either. Thanks for the compliment. I like the fact that I can just twist the barrel so the grain lines up, and it has a totally different look to it. No Corvette or free blank for you. []

 

[kennosborne]

This is my last guess [] Curly Jarrah?

 

[timdaleiden]

Originally posted by kennosborne
<br />This is my last guess [] Curly Jarrah?

I feel so sorry for all the people that are trying to figure
this out. I will give a hint. This wood comes from a tree that grows somewhere in the World.

Come on, there may be a free blank in it for you. []

 

[timdaleiden]

It's cross cut Lacewood.

 

[Scott]

I was just going to guess that!

;-)

I keep going back to that picture, and I still think it looks like red palm. Thanks for telling - I don't think we would have guessed. And you saved me the cost of a Corvette, too!

Scott.

 

[timdaleiden]

Originally posted by Scott
<br />I was just going to guess that!

;-)

I keep going back to that picture, and I still think it looks like red palm. Thanks for telling - I don't think we would have guessed. And you saved me the cost of a Corvette, too!

Scott.

When I bought the board, and looked at the end of it, I just knew what I needed to do. I have made one pen with the grain, and then the cross cut one I showed. It is some neat wood. It is soft, so I hardened it with some thin CA.

Oh ya', the Corvette...well, I had to offer something to people for guessing...and I figured since you are such a nice guy, you would gladly supply one. []

Maybe we should have some fun contests here, and offer a free blank or something. I cut many of my own blanks and I could offer up a few now and then. Just a thought.

 

[Daniel]

Tim,
That was fun, challenging and I imagine had several people looking at wood all over the net. at worst they may have found something new or learned to recognize a few woods. this has been one of the more responded to threads around here also. I think you have a hit. nice touch with a wood that is considered already fancy.