Dyed Sweetgum Blade Button Click

[Sly Dog]

A friend of mine asked me to make a pen for his daughter from a old branch off of his sweet gum tree. They are beautiful trees, especially in the fall. Anyway, I've seen casters use the spiked ball sweet gum pods to make pen blanks but I've never seen a pen made from the wood. I guess now I can see why. Liquidambar styraciflua must be latin for "the rice cake of wood" - very bland. So I tried to spruce (pun intended) it up with some burn lines and trans tint dye (honey amber and aqua). GluBoost finish.
Better, I think, so I thought I'd share. The kit is the Blade Button Click in gunmetal. Stay well! Russ

 

[Jim15]

Looks great to me.

 

[Sly Dog]

Looks great to me.

Thank you Jim.

 

[mick]

Nice!

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[Lucky2]

Very nice indeed

Len

 

[SteveJ]

Well done - and a nice improvement of a plainish blank.

 

[KenB259]

Looks great. It has the look of a segmented pen without actually being segmented. It's a wonderful look.


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[Sly Dog]

Looks great. It has the look of a segmented pen without actually being segmented. It's a wonderful look.


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Thanks Ken. I prefer segmenting, but dyes offer a lot additional color options to play around with. It's all fun!

 

[Gary Beasley]

If you can get it to spalt it can be spectacular.

 

[Sly Dog]

If you can get it to spalt it can be spectacular.

Haven't seen that but very true - you got me to look it up. Thx!

 

[Texas Taco]

I've got some more sweet gums I need to get rid of, may have to save a little of it for a pen.

 

[egnald]

Nice pen - I really like the knot in the middle (the wood kind). - Dave