Pretty Birdseyes

[William Young]

I offered a local woodworker a free pen in exchange for some of his scraps. Along with half a dozen different kinds of wood he gave me, there was a slab of 20 year old birdseye maple like I have never seen. It was 2" x 5 " x about 18" long. I got a lot of pen blanks out of it and have used more than half of them already. Everybody that sees this wood wants a pen made from it.
I wish now that I had reserved some of it for bottle stoppers before cutting it all into pen blanks.
W.Y.

 

[Guest]

Beautiful Bill,Don't suppose you want to trade for some Good Old Southern Yellow Pine?
The term "old" is objective.

 

[William Young]

eaglesc;
Nope... the birdseye maple is not up for trade. I have a ton of white aspen that I would like to trade for another bunch of maple just like that though ... Hee .. Hee ..
I don't see that happening real quick. It looks like this . No grain to be seen anywhere. Just white , white and more white [] Not very exciting.
W.Y.

 

[Guest]

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[DCBluesman]

White aspen looks an awful lot like American holly. BUT, if you ever need to make a wedding pen, your "In Like Flynn"!