Antique Pine w/Paduk CB

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This is Antique Pine with a Padul center band.

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Originally posted by dougle40
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Now how do you know it is an antique piece of wood?

When I bought it I was told that it came from a 100 + year old beam from a demolished house .

I got some mesquite I'll sell you. It's from a table that was inside The Alamo. [:D]

(Just kidding!)
 

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If it was from blankity-blanks.com , there's an article on the remodeling that was done that resulted in these beams being salvaged. I think there's even a link on that site.
 

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Really nice pen Doug!! OK---so it's harvested over a hundred years ago so it's "antique". I wonder if a tree were over a 100 years old----nah---guess, it can't be an antique til after it's harvested a long time, huh? Anyway, I think it's cool to have some of the woods used with a history behind them (like Gary's Alamo wood--- :)
 

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Does a CA-BLO finish keep it from getting dinged and dented? I have a little peice of pine with birdseye figure that I am tempted to turn in to a pen but I have been leary to do so.
 

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Does a CA-BLO finish keep it from getting dinged and dented?
I don't know how it would work as a finish but the piece that I did prior to this one was fairly soft and I gave it 2 coats of CA before I finished it then just finished with Turners Polish and a coat of wax . This piece seemed a lot harder so I didn't have to use the CA on it at all .
 
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