Jonkou
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Dyed maple burl, like it better than plastic camo blanks.
Been dying bowls for years and just recently started doing pens. Use Fiebings alcohol based leather dyes, tried other brands but this is my preferred. For solid colors sand the blank to 1200 grit then mount on a mandrel with non stick bushings. Wear nitrile gloves, lathe on lowest rpm, wipe on the dye with a paper towel and let it dry. When dry to touch fold a paper towel and burnish with light pressure at abt 1000 rpm until no more dye is transferred to the paper. Apply additional coats using the same method to darken the color or sand back with 1200 grit to lighten.Greetings from Nebraska! I think your pens are great, especially the dyed wood. I have a lot of figured maple with birds eyes and chatoyance that I think would look good with some color but I haven't done any experimenting to come up with a method yet. Would you share what you used and how you did it? Thanks, Dave (egnald)