Saved from the bin

[CjG78]

so I received this beautiful piece of redwood lace, prepared a dayacom statesman, turned the cap first. Wow. Amazing grain. Really pretty stuff. So I started on the pen, BOOM! Blow out. Grrrr.
I sat and sulked for a long while, then gathered my thoughts and didn't want to throw the cap out, was just too nice (plus it wasn't cheap)

So I used the remaining offcut of it, cut a piece of an old m&m's bucket as a spacer, used up a nice offcut piece of curly cottonwood and voila!
Good save? 25 coats of CA to give it a nice gloss

 

[Bryguy]

Nice recovery!

 

[magpens]

Are you sure it wasn't 26 coats of CA !! . LOL !!

That's a real "looker" .... love that redwood lace !!

 

[howsitwork]

Really nice save . The contrasting figure works soo well.

 

[CjG78]

Are you sure it wasn't 26 coats of CA !! . LOL !!

That's a real "looker" .... love that redwood lace !!

Possibly!! Hahaha thank you mate

 

[mark james]

A very nice end result; yes, it would have been a shame to lose the Burl.

 

[Dalecamino]

Good save!

 

[tomtedesco]

Well done. Were the M&M's eaten while waiting between coats?

 

[bsshog40]

Nice save! Looks great!

 

[CjG78]

Unfortunately they were all white, too old. I think they were over 10 years old, back of the cupboard!!!