wenge

I to recently bleached some Wenge. but I went a different direction with it. After bleaching an allowing it to dry out overnight I dyed it a couple of times, allowed it to dry again. The sanded it back till I got the look I was happy with. Finished with Pens Plus. The body is Diamond Knurl...

These are a couple of barons I finished recently. The first is beached Wenge, just 15min. in the bleach. The second is also Wenge I beached then dyed it with some alcohol dye.

Baron in Bleached Wenge

Baron in Bleached Wenge

Baron in Bleached Wenge

Baron in Bleached Wenge

Baron in Bleached Wenge

Baron in Bleached Wenge

Hello everybody... I am so invested in my IG account that I haven't shown my pens here for a long time. Here is one made of Cherry and Wenge wood with lovely miniature hand carvings. Any thoughts?

Triton rollerball kit in wenge, finished in CA glue

Triton rollerball kit in wenge, finished in CA glue

Wenge bottle stopper with mini stainless teardrop base. Wenge bottle opener to match. Sanded to 600, buffed with tripoli and waxed with carnauba and beeswax. I made these at the request of a customer. She chose the shape and wanted them made out of one piece of dark wood. She's giving them to...

Ok, does anyone have any advice for turning Wenge? I love the wood and so do my customers, but the small but plentiful tear-out is terrible. I am sharpening my chisels to 150, and don't have this issue on many other woods. I turn on high speed and take very little off at a time, but this...

On another forum I saw a blurb about soaking wenge, but there were no details. Yesterday I had a guitar maker tell me that after turning wenge, if I would soak it in chlorox for about 30 minutes, some of the grain would bleach creating a really cool look. Should wenge also be soaked before...