White Wood

[TexasSteel]

white wood??? Can ya'll help ....... Whats the whitest wood around? I've had a request for white and blue for company colors. They dont want any acrlyics. Any and all help is appreciated!

 

[wdcav1952]

Holly is what you want.

 

[Aderhammer]

what about ivory?

 

[Rudy Vey]

HoHoHoHolly!!

 

[Dario]

Holly but note that not all are snow white.

 

[LostintheWoods]

Nice holly, as everyone else has said. Try Woodturningz.com. They have some of the best I've seen, and reasonable.

 

[Rmartin]

Holly is the whitest, but it will pick up color when sanding if you're doing a segment piece. I really like stablized curly clear maple which I used with stablized red and blue curly maple to make a Fourth of July pen. I belive there's a pic of it in my gallery.

 

[JayDevin]

I am on the holly Bandwagon

 

[TellicoTurning]

Holly is probably first choice, but dog wood is also fairly white..

 

[Ligget]

Holly vote from me too!

 

[ldb2000]

Holly is the whitest but I like Curly Maple which can be quite white but has a lot of interesting grain paterns

 

[Daniel]

Holly.

 

[JWW]

I saw on one of the BOW dealers pages an olive wood that looked very white in the pictures, seems like it was called Jerusalem Olive Wood?

 

[louisbry]

Holly is white with little or no grain patterns so I vote for holly.

 

[hrigg]

Birch is also white. I have some, but haven't made a pen from it yet.

 

[workinforwood]

I vote holly on being the whitest, but Box elder is a very close second, assuming you don't buy a piece with red stripes in it. I have some that you can barely tell the difference. The Holly is just a bit brighter white.

 

[Rifleman1776]

Holly is your best, and probably only choice. But, as said, it isn't all really pure white. I have had success bleaching it. I make a 25% solution of plain household bleach and water and let the wood set in it for a few days. Nothing scientific about concentration or period of time. Vary to suit desired results. Do this before final turning as the water raises the grain.
However, for the whitest, beautifully white, wood, you should look for French, mountain grown, boxwood. Pure as ivory. About as expensive too and, these days, a lot more rare.