Quonset cherry on a Wall St Elegant

[Gary Beasley]

My wife and I were enjoying some time on the patio out front and noticed a dead branch on the Quonset cherry tree next to us. I checked it out, then grabbed it and snapped the 4-5 inch thick branch off. Dale was quick to notice the spalting on the broken end so we had to take the broken wood down to the shop dungeon and turn it into pen blanks. This one was very near a crotch as well as ant activity. I loaded the brittle end with thin CA and filled some voids with thick. Drilling was dicey from the twisted nature of the blank, it had a cupped side with a little bark left, that just barely got turned away.
Almost done and layering up the CA I find some low spots I have to fill with thick CA and wait for it to cure, skewing it back down to smooth. I let Dale do the micromesh polishing as I was off playing with some ambrosia maple making a bottle stopper. Then I had fun cutting the CA loose from the bushing so I can assemble the pen.

 

[bobjackson]

Great looking pen. Good job.

 

[crabcreekind]

awesome pen

 

[boxerman]

Very awesome pen.

 

[hdtran]

Beautiful character to the wood; you found a great pen hiding inside the wood!

 

[Rick_G]

Great looking chunk of wood, it turned into a good looking pen. Nice work

 

[OLDMAN5050]

I love the blank...........

 

[hilltopper46]

Those are the best - when you find the wood yourself. And then when it turns out this nicely it's just icing on the cake.

 

[Gary Beasley]

I can't call it FOG wood, cause I found it still attached to the tree. Maybe SOT for snapped off tree?