Mesquite / Seirra

[maxman400]

This was a tree this morning, the Mesquite was given to me with the understanding that in order to get the burls I had to take the whole thing ( I had to think about that for a minute OK!!!).. So this morning I took it all down and took it home, This is the first pen out of it. It has 4 thin coats of CA/BLO and 2 Thick coats of CA/BLO and and has been plastix polished. :biggrin:
Any comments Welcome, Thanks for looking.

 

[Tony Pridmore]

Same day? Standing tree to finished pen? Wow!

How did you dry it? I've never turned, or even seen mesquite in person. It must be very, very stable.

-Tony

 

[maxman400]

Well, It has been dead for quite some time and here in the desert it is very dry. Mesquite is an iron wood and is IMHO a very stable wood. The dark spot is worm Poo which needed to be stabilized with some thin CA but that's it. So all I had to do was cut and turn.

 

[Fred]

And to understand that you actually had to "think" about the restriction to take it all ...

Excellent decision and the oen shows your efforts quite well. Did you get the rootball or is there some still left there for the rst of us? The tree reminds me of the "Whompus" tree in Harry Potter or whatever that tree was named that beat the hades out of you if you got too close.

 

[phillywood]

Max, very nice mesquite burl, and beautiful and unusual looking pen. I tried to cut the one I found and guess what I had trouble slicing it because in the middle it was still wet.
BTW, I thought Mesquite would only grow in warm and humid climate like south Texas.

 

[maxman400]

And to understand that you actually had to "think" about the restriction to take it all ...

Excellent decision and the oen shows your efforts quite well. Did you get the rootball or is there some still left there for the rst of us? The tree reminds me of the "Whompus" tree in Harry Potter or whatever that tree was named that beat the hades out of you if you got too close.

It did bite me a few times, and it was a little rough on the saw, I had the wife stop HF and get the chain saw sharpener that just happen to be on sale this week. :biggrin: She understands things like that. :wink:

 

[maxman400]

Max, very nice mesquite burl, and beautiful and unusual looking pen. I tried to cut the one I found and guess what I had trouble slicing it because in the middle it was still wet.
BTW, I thought Mesquite would only grow in warm and humid climate like south Texas.

Well it is definitely is warm here and there is plenty of water around. Pahrump is native American for water-rock, we sit on a huge underground aquifer. So the Mesquite grows like weeds out here. :biggrin::biggrin:

 

[desertrat]

Sorry I missed out on all the fun LOL Nice haul my friend.

desertrat

 

[Dalecamino]

Looks great Max. Congratulations on the haul.

 

[striperskin]

amazing that a beautiful pen like that could come from such an ugly lookin tree!!!

 

[jbthbt]

Love how you refer to the "worm poo". Incredible pen.

 

[maxman400]

amazing that a beautiful pen like that could come from such an ugly lookin tree!!!

I took this Pen back to the man that gave me the tree and he said the same thing, then he couldn't believe that I was giving him the pen. He liked it so much he offered me another tree.... :biggrin::biggrin::biggrin::biggrin: To be picked up at a later date.

 

[wizard]

Love the pen...keep a picture of the tree the pen came from if you give any as gifts.. I really like the one pic with the "worm poo". What is "worm poo" by the way? Maybe better off not knowing Doc

 

[maxman400]

Love the pen...keep a picture of the tree the pen came from if you give any as gifts.. I really like the one pic with the "worm poo". What is "worm poo" by the way? Maybe better off not knowing Doc

It would be the brown wood-like substance :wink: that is left behind the worm as it eats it's way through the wood. :biggrin: