emsmith
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To those of you who responded to my post on pheasantwood here is the finished product. I decided to go with a gold cigar kit and turn the pen fairly large to experience as much of the grain as possible.
I'm not real happy with the way this one turned out and am posting the pictures so others see what the wood looks like turned.
Couple of notes, this wood is hard - I went threw three skews turning this, finally resorted to a scrapper for shaping. I never really got shavings from this, it was one step up of from sawdust. I did not find that it sanded well either. It kept clogging the sand paper and generated a lot of heat even with a light touch. When I tried wet sanding, the wood turned almost black, which then necessitated more sanding to remove the black layer. My impression is that at least this blank was more difficult to shape than desert ironwood.
The blank was sanded to MM12000 then buffed. The finish is Hut Crystal Coat.
On the positive side, the wood does turn from gold to silver as you rotate it through the light, but only in the flat sawn areas.
Over all it was an interesting wood to try.
I'm not real happy with the way this one turned out and am posting the pictures so others see what the wood looks like turned.
Couple of notes, this wood is hard - I went threw three skews turning this, finally resorted to a scrapper for shaping. I never really got shavings from this, it was one step up of from sawdust. I did not find that it sanded well either. It kept clogging the sand paper and generated a lot of heat even with a light touch. When I tried wet sanding, the wood turned almost black, which then necessitated more sanding to remove the black layer. My impression is that at least this blank was more difficult to shape than desert ironwood.
The blank was sanded to MM12000 then buffed. The finish is Hut Crystal Coat.
On the positive side, the wood does turn from gold to silver as you rotate it through the light, but only in the flat sawn areas.
Over all it was an interesting wood to try.