Mystery wood slimline

[bsshog40]

So I got a couple responses in trying to identify this wood. Both agreed with walnut. It has a really weird grain to it. Anyway, here's what it looks like turned.

 

[Dale Allen]

I'd say walnut too but it must be a crotch or burl.

 

[bsshog40]

It's not a stabilized wood. But it's a real hard wood.

 

[bsshog40]

I'd say walnut too but it must be a crotch or burl.

I added another pic that might help.

 

[1080Wayne]

Did it smell like walnut when you turned it ?

 

[bsshog40]

Did it smell like walnut when you turned it ?

My smelling senses are not very good anymore. I don't have any other walnut so I really couldn't tell you what it smells like.

 

[bsshog40]

Btw, I guess I forgot to add that I just turned this today. I'm not able to edit again!

 

[Dale Allen]

I've worked a lot of walnut and never noticed it smelled at all. Maybe I'm nose blind!

 

[Roly]

I had a bit of rootstock with twisted grain like that. It was really hard but turned out beautiful

 

[Larryreitz]

Whatever wood it is, the pen looks really good!!! I also like the pen stand, simple but nice.

 

[Don Rabchenuk]

It's not a mystery anymore it's a beautiful pen.

 

[wolf creek knives]

A number of years ago I was asked to make a humidor for a friend and he wanted something very unique but out of Walnut. A friend of mine milled wood from different species so I asked what he had and he showed me a piece of beautiful Walnut that came right at the graft site. It looked very much like this pen. Lots of curl, swirl and irregular pattern to it. Nice job on the pen Bobby.

 

[bsshog40]

Whatever wood it is, the pen looks really good!!! I also like the pen stand, simple but nice.

Thanks Larry. Yea I needed something to put my pen on trying to picture them a little better. Had a couple small pieces of oak laying around and I doweled a couple 7mm pen tubes together. Lol

 

[bsshog40]

It's not a mystery anymore it's a beautiful pen.

Thanks Don!

 

[bsshog40]

A number of years ago I was asked to make a humidor for a friend and he wanted something very unique but out of Walnut. A friend of mine milled wood from different species so I asked what he had and he showed me a piece of beautiful Walnut that came right at the graft site. It looked very much like this pen. Lots of curl, swirl and irregular pattern to it. Nice job on the pen Bobby.

Thanks Tom! I like the swirl pattern also. I still have a couple more pieces of this stuff that were cut for knife scales.