Mystery wood cigar pen

[arkie]

I got a very few pieces of this wood in some boxes of curly walnut from John Gerst a while back. This is the first I have used, on a black chrome cigar pen. Can anyone ID it for certain?

 

[SDB777]

More photo's would help some....

After handling maybe ten thousand spalted pecan blanks last year alone, it's close.


Scott (seeing some pink-ish stuff there) B

 

[arkie]

Not pecan. Too hard and far too tight a grain. I thought perhaps honduran rosewood sapwood, but it's harder than most rosewood I've turned. The color may be spalting.

 

[Justturnin]

Not pecan. Too hard and far too tight a grain.

I wouldnt count pecan out. Down here we call it Pecan-crete. Turning dry blanks can sure dull your tools fast.