Thread: Couple of Jr Gent RB

Fred, superb, really look the part, Amos

Very nice Fred. Good attention to detail, and the excellent photography really shows them to good effect.

Very nice indeed Fred!!!

I have a large lump of lychee here. Our Club in Bris was invited to cut the thing down after
the owner had removed a couple of limbs. Bugger od a stuff in one way in that you could
literally watch it crack as it was cut. It turned a deep red on exposure to air but I see by
your pen that it is not so dark.

Very nice pens Fred and great photography First lychee timber i have seen. Its colour is a little like American Cherry.

Wow!


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Nice work Fred, thats a timber I have not seen before. Looks like there are two different colours there, are they both from the same piece of timber?

Originally Posted by tdrumnut

Nice work Fred, thats a timber I have not seen before. Looks like there are two different colours there, are they both from the same piece of timber?

Yes they are Trevor. This was a first for me too.

Originally Posted by artme

Very nice indeed Fred!!!

I have a large lump of lychee here. Our Club in Bris was invited to cut the thing down after
the owner had removed a couple of limbs. Bugger od a stuff in one way in that you could
literally watch it crack as it was cut. It turned a deep red on exposure to air but I see by
your pen that it is not so dark.

It does split faster than a lazy person at a working bee...pens look fantastic Fred !

I had some larger chunks that I didn't slab up straight away and they almost all split to different degrees. Dust is a bit nasty as well.

Cheers

Russell.

Originally Posted by epineh

It does split faster than a lazy person at a working bee...pens look fantastic Fred !

I had some larger chunks that I didn't slab up straight away and they almost all split to different degrees. Dust is a bit nasty as well.

Cheers

Russell.

I had one blank split when drilling, just thought it was me being ham fisted, maybe not.

It was difficult to finish (CA) as well, one of the pens I had to sand back to bare wood 3 times as the CA kept lifting, I thought perhaps there was still a bit of residual moisture in the wood.

Russell, now you have said that I better cut the 2 spalted larger bits you sent me!

Might pay to, next time I find some Lychee I will try to slab it up as much as possible while it is green.

Russell.