StephenM
Member
Here are some pictures of a Lignum Vitae pen I just turned. The picture in the workshop shows the original wood as well as some sawdust from drilling it out.
As you can see the pen is brown and shows no green anymore. Will it green out with exposure to sun (a la cherry darkening) or is what you see what you get?
I have a customer who's going to China for his school to meet with their educational counterparts. He wanted to bring some pens (with gold hardware as green and gold are "lucky" in China) but this obviously isn't going to work as is.
If this is how it will stay, does anyone have any recommendations for a green wood that will stay green - don't want to have to resort to stains or dyes. If we can't get green, we'll get some wood from the campus and make it out of that but he'd really like the green.
As you can see the pen is brown and shows no green anymore. Will it green out with exposure to sun (a la cherry darkening) or is what you see what you get?
I have a customer who's going to China for his school to meet with their educational counterparts. He wanted to bring some pens (with gold hardware as green and gold are "lucky" in China) but this obviously isn't going to work as is.
If this is how it will stay, does anyone have any recommendations for a green wood that will stay green - don't want to have to resort to stains or dyes. If we can't get green, we'll get some wood from the campus and make it out of that but he'd really like the green.