JD Combs Sr
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Several months ago a friend of mine cut down a dying plum tree in his yard and gave me some of the largest sections of the trunk.:biggrin: I made this pen just to see how the wood worked and I'll be darn if it didn't turn out plum nice. The wood works/turns nicely, almost like some of the nicer exotics.:wink:
I never thought about plum being so colorful although I have a feeling that it has something to do with what ever was wrong with the tree. It had a lot of decay in the center pith area and the wood gets darker the closer to the center you get. To look at the better parts of the wood it almost looks like it its oil soaked but it doesn't feel oily.
Here are three views of the pen:
I never thought about plum being so colorful although I have a feeling that it has something to do with what ever was wrong with the tree. It had a lot of decay in the center pith area and the wood gets darker the closer to the center you get. To look at the better parts of the wood it almost looks like it its oil soaked but it doesn't feel oily.
Here are three views of the pen: