BRUSH TRIMINGS

[PaulDoug]

A year or so ago I trimmed our Stag-horn bush(?) . It is called something with stag in it. Anyway I thought the wood was pretty neat so I sliced some, painted the ends and threw it in a paper bag. Got to looking at it the other day and thought I would give it a try. Not bad wood. I'm sure it is a sumac relative. Haven't turned many pens in a long time but not too bad.

Streamline pen kit, rosewood accents, finished with BLO/CA

 

[maxman400]

Great Looking Pen. Nice find.

 

[ldb2000]

That's some pretty nice wood Paul , and you did a good job with it . Nice Pen ! that should be in the challenge :biggrin:

 

[wdcav1952]

Yep, Paul, that is staghorn sumac. Nice work!

 

[PaulDoug]

That's some pretty nice wood Paul , and you did a good job with it . Nice Pen ! that should be in the challenge :biggrin:

Well, it didn't follow the rules, I didn't do all the cutting on the lathe. Besides, I laid off pen turning for quite a while and built Cigar Box Guitars and I'm pretty rusty at it right now. Now that I have that out of my system I'm trying to do some other things I've had waiting it the wings, like finish my little sail boat, do some finish and remodeling in the house and build a street organ. And, I want a new real good lathe so I can do some other types of turning.

Thanks for the comments, I want to try one cut cross or diagonal to the grain.

 

[ToddMR]

I like it a lot. Good use of trimmings that is for sure. Nicely done.

 

[seamus7227]

wow, never heard of that bush, but i like the way it resembles BOW a little, nice job!

 

[bitshird]

Nice pen Paul, I sure like the wood.

 

[workinforwood]

Great looking pen Paul. That's a pretty good size piece you have there too. A majority of the time the darn stuff is only an inch or two wide and full of ant holes.

 

[Scratch]

The wood reminds me of a pen I made for my Mom out of Camphor.
The figure in the wood looks just like it.

 

[boxerman]

Very nice pen.