jzerger
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I usually try to turn pens from most any wood I can find. I picked up some osage orange out of a ditch in Kansas (home place) and made a couple of pens from it. Two of the three pens developed large cracks literally months after the pen was made (and given to family). One was finished with just a friction polish (Shellawax) and one had a CA finish.
I'm assuming the two that cracked came from a branch I cut from the tree and the one that didn't came from just a piece that had already fallen and so possibly was dried appropriately enough. Is this probably the issue? Any ideas/suggestions would be helpful.
I'm assuming the two that cracked came from a branch I cut from the tree and the one that didn't came from just a piece that had already fallen and so possibly was dried appropriately enough. Is this probably the issue? Any ideas/suggestions would be helpful.