Awesome Wavy Ambrosia Spalted Maple

[Harpazo]

Here's some great looking wood I acquired and wondering what would be best to use it for. Maybe pens would be too small to best show the figure. Any ideas?

 

[Mike Daugherty]

That would be awesome in pens, bottle stoppers, etc.

Mike

 

[BSea]

That's actually ambrosia maple. You can tell by the worm holes. The worms cause the colors in the wood. One of my favorite pens I ever made was a curly ambrosia maple pen.

 

[Harpazo]

That's actually ambrosia maple. You can tell by the worm holes. The worms cause the colors in the wood. One of my favorite pens I ever made was a curly ambrosia maple pen.

I stand corrected. I grabbed an older photo so I may still have some with the spalting as well.

 

[BSea]

Some of those larger pieces might be big enough for knife scales, and as Mike mentioned, bottle stoppers would look awesome. But I wouldn't hesitate for a minute to make some pens out of that.

 

[Harpazo]

Better Photo

Hopefully this is a better photo. Still no spalting though :redface:

 

[Harpazo]

A slimline pen from this wood

Here's a photo of a slimline using this Ambrosia maple. It, in fact, did have a bit of spalting going on. The beetle hole was filled with CA but it crystalized and isn't transparent as I would have wanted.

I wonder how it might look with some colored dyes. Yellow might look ok and still retain the other natural blue staining in the undyed wood.

 

[Marc]

You could make some long icicle spindles for later Christmas decorations.