Amber malus

[Alejanders]

Spalted malus, BLO vacuum impregnation.

 

[hehndc]

Alexander, nice pen and finish. Would you mind explaining the BLO vaccum finish you did? I use BLO on nearly all my wood pens and like what it does to the woods appearance.

Thanks,

Steve

 

[Alejanders]

I have told about it in the topic Green wood. Vacuum impregnation instead of drying http://www.penturners.org/forum/showthread.php?t=82460


It was just a malus, that 3 years was under snow and rain.
After vacuum impregnation wood got so beautyful texture.

Cmall light pieces on the left - wood before impregnation.

By the way, there is vacuum impregnation (with same BLO) on other wood:

Platanus. It becomes worse (less contrast).

Middle piece on this pen and thumbdrive - platanus without impregnation:

Karelian/Masur birch. It becomes worse too - wood lost curly shine.

 

[Alejanders]

Hm... 256 views and only one comment.
I know, that it is usual pen at all, and hundreds of penturners made slimlines much better...."

But I thought that material is will be interesting for many of IAP members...

 

[vallealbert]

What is Platanus???...it sounds to me like the Spanish word to Banana (Plátano)... Thanks for sharing...

 

[Alejanders]

Platanus. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platanus
Tree native to Nothern Hemisphere.

Have very interestin texture, like licewood, but may be "more random" texture if you cut along grain lines.

There is texture from 8 scales.

Unfortunately, on small round pen texture looks not so interesing.


My scales - from Sochi - city of Olympic 2014.

 

[azamiryou]

Nice pen. And the Platanus looks really neat, too.

Is the appearance from vacuum BLO impregnation different from using BLO as a finish?

 

[Alejanders]

Yes, vacuum impregnation does great change (for BLO or pure linseed oil). Wood becomes much darker.

Look at bubbles - air leaves wood :

For example, there is a result of impregnation with pure linseed oil (from drugstore).

oak (left - before, right - after):

Malus: