robutacion
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Hi peoples,
A few days ago I had a visitor for QLD that had scored some PNG Rosewood wood and Burl so, we agreed on a small swap with some of my Olive Root/Burl and other stuff.
There wasn't much but enough for me to cut and select half a dozen burl blanks for myself, and cut the rest up into pen blanks for my most regular wood buyers.
The wood has left me thin strips that were far too thin for a normal pen blank size so, I decided to rip them all at 5mm thickness x 21mm high and do some casting with them.
I just had enough wood for making 3 molds of 7 blanks each but only enough resin to pour on 2 of them so, I got them in the pressure pot and let them set overnight.
I never had anything to do with PNG Rosewood but I can tell you that, the wood is oily and an absolute pain to get the PR(Polyester) resin to stick to (similar top the Olive wood) so, I had lots of thin CA soaking to do after I got them trimmed and cleaned up.
They are strong now, as I made a sample from each of the lots to try out, samples that are still big enough to make any type pen from, if necessary.
Very pretty wood and burl but I wouldn't like to have to do many Resifills from, Mannie(Monty) would get rich out of the thin CA I would need (and I buy already a fair amount of it...!)
Still, would I like to have more of this burl or have it growing locally...??? you betcha I would...!:wink::biggrin:
PS: The last pic is from a blank that I made the sample from last week, if you can tell me, excatly what it is (wood species), I will send you a 500gr package with them, free of any charge...!:wink::biggrin:
Cheers
George
A few days ago I had a visitor for QLD that had scored some PNG Rosewood wood and Burl so, we agreed on a small swap with some of my Olive Root/Burl and other stuff.
There wasn't much but enough for me to cut and select half a dozen burl blanks for myself, and cut the rest up into pen blanks for my most regular wood buyers.
The wood has left me thin strips that were far too thin for a normal pen blank size so, I decided to rip them all at 5mm thickness x 21mm high and do some casting with them.
I just had enough wood for making 3 molds of 7 blanks each but only enough resin to pour on 2 of them so, I got them in the pressure pot and let them set overnight.
I never had anything to do with PNG Rosewood but I can tell you that, the wood is oily and an absolute pain to get the PR(Polyester) resin to stick to (similar top the Olive wood) so, I had lots of thin CA soaking to do after I got them trimmed and cleaned up.
They are strong now, as I made a sample from each of the lots to try out, samples that are still big enough to make any type pen from, if necessary.
Very pretty wood and burl but I wouldn't like to have to do many Resifills from, Mannie(Monty) would get rich out of the thin CA I would need (and I buy already a fair amount of it...!)
Still, would I like to have more of this burl or have it growing locally...??? you betcha I would...!:wink::biggrin:
PS: The last pic is from a blank that I made the sample from last week, if you can tell me, excatly what it is (wood species), I will send you a 500gr package with them, free of any charge...!:wink::biggrin:
Cheers
George
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