Tec Pen Unknown Wood

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This is a Tec Pen in bronze, from Crooked Mill. I originally thought the blank was a lignum vitae cutoff, but it's not. The grain is too coarse, the shavings look wrong, and the sanding residue wasn't green. Whatever it is, it looks good with the pen. The finish is Pens Plus. Like the PSI Tec Pens, it came with both plain and stylus end caps.
 

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Any chance it is teak wood? I've had some teak turn out similar to this. Hard to tell in the pictures.
 

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Any chance it is teak wood? I've had some teak turn out similar to this. Hard to tell in the pictures.
It could be, I suppose, but I don't remember ever turning teak nor even having any. It actually looks more like mahogany to me, and I do have some mahogany.
 

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Teak (or at least the little bit that I've turned) also has a very distinctive odor when turning - maybe incense with a bit of vanilla? If you actually have mahogany, though, that sounds like a more likely guess.
 

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Teak (or at least the little bit that I've turned) also has a very distinctive odor when turning - maybe incense with a bit of vanilla? If you actually have mahogany, though, that sounds like a more likely guess.
There was definitely no sweet odor when drilling or turning it.
 
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