Mystery Wood?
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phillywood
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Lauren that's another one of your creations it's breath taking man. I am not there yet to tell the wood yet ,but the pen and the blank look beautiful. I hope I can have you help me to help the others withe info for the chart.
wb7whi
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The parts that arn't blue appear to be brown so, it is brown wood.
sorry...couldn't resist
sorry...couldn't resist
1080Wayne
Member
Wood with measles, but your picture captions tell me it`s sagebrush .
Have any for sale ?
Have any for sale ?
robutacion
Member
You certainly have found a very good PR colour coordination and way to utilize all those bits of wood, that would be near impossible to use, otherwise. I have been admiring your recent marathon on making these type of pens and certainly that metallic blue, as I call it, does go well with all the woods you selected so far. A very good job on the finishes also...!:wink:
I have a question tough, on the first pic on this pen, there is a black line that runs with the grain which you aligned very neatly when you assembled the pen, my question is, is that black/dark brown line, a natural spalting line or a cracked filled...??? Old wood cracks while the tree is alive tend to repair themselves with a layer of dark sap, this appear to be the case as stress cracks or fresh cracks will not have this dark colouration. Could you please tell as what you believe/think/know that is...???
PS: Whatever it is, looks great...!:biggrin:
Cheers
George
I have a question tough, on the first pic on this pen, there is a black line that runs with the grain which you aligned very neatly when you assembled the pen, my question is, is that black/dark brown line, a natural spalting line or a cracked filled...??? Old wood cracks while the tree is alive tend to repair themselves with a layer of dark sap, this appear to be the case as stress cracks or fresh cracks will not have this dark colouration. Could you please tell as what you believe/think/know that is...???
PS: Whatever it is, looks great...!:biggrin:
Cheers
George
Laurenr
Member
Ha ha, I thought the captions were hidden. It is Sagebrush, ..just plain old sagebrush. I haven't seen any pens turned from sage, so I thought it would be fun to see if any of you wood wonks could identify it. And I was feeling pretty smug about hiding the captions.
It is a surprisingly easy turn, a little brittle, but predictably a typical high mountain desert type of wood; tough as nails, just like the people that settled this area.
It is a surprisingly easy turn, a little brittle, but predictably a typical high mountain desert type of wood; tough as nails, just like the people that settled this area.
PaulDoug
Member
I've tried our local sage brush several times and had no success. If it is real dry I have to put CA on it to hold it together. The CA makes it an ugly color. It is also hard to get a piece big enough to get decent wood. Now you've made me have to try again. That is a beautiful pen.