Interesting peice of walnut

[Dan Masshardt]

I've been helping a friends sell a large quantity of black walnut lumber that was grown, cut and 18 years barn dried right down the road from me.

I've been discovering some interesting boards from the crotch area and some from where the heartwood and sapwood meet in interesting ways.

Here's one of them. Interesting color change and grain pattern. It even has a little black line swirling through it.

I've only been turning pens for a couple months so don't beat up on me too much!

 

[keithlong]

Beautiful wood grain. Good job on turning it.

 

[thewishman]

Looks good, Dan. Nice piece of wood and your fit looks spot on.

 

[mikespenturningz]

Hey nice piece of timber you have there. Look for more of that and hold onto it. You did a very nice job on that pen. Fit and finish look good. Keep up the good work.

 

[Dan Masshardt]

Thanks guys. Some of the boards with the best grain etc for pens are a bit twisted and too crazy to be ideal for furniture making but cool for pens.

Here is a cigar from another, more basic piece of that same walnut but still decent

I'm not sure I care too much for the gun metal / walnut combo but I have someone who keeps asking me to make more of the same pen! (Btw, the grain on this one lines up better when it's twisted)

 

[BSea]

No matter how many wooden pens I make, I'm almost always surprised what the pen comes out like. And yours are no exceptions. That's the part of this hoby that never gets old for me.