Thread: Jnr. Majestic zig-zag

Bugger ! have you got any plain old wood that us mere mortals can aspire to lol! my first impression was it looked "snake" like hehe! most of us worry about stuffing a kit, you have to worry about stuffing a blank Another of your "collector" editions ,beautiful pen as usual that you display . Cheers ~ John

Very Nice
I like it

Can we have a pen turning section for Amos and then another for the rest of us... deja vu... great pens (again) Amos

Stop it Amos!

Seriously though, that is a great looking pen.

WOW .... what more can one say

MIK

Hey Amos,

Very nice work, I can't help with the timber ID but it looks pretty special.

HazzaB

Nice work as always Amos.

That's an interesting bit of segmenting work.

Here's the answer re the wood--
That's Maple/Mahogany/Staghorn Sumac. Probably you are not too familiar with the sumac. There is Staghorn Sumac, and Poison Sumac. The poison one if you touch it it gives you a bad rash, worse than poison ivy. The Staghorn Sumac has a berry cluster on it, although it doesn't look like berries, it looks more like a furry flower in the shape of a Russian dome roof. Basically, you see the bush and it has these on it, it's safe, otherwise stay away. The bush averages only a 2" diameter trunk, although you can hunt around and find them 4-10 " which are rare and the record was something like a 34" trunk, but the bottom line is it is more of a shrub than a tree and grows in cluster groups. I see it a lot along the sides of the highways. The wood color is amazing. It is not commercially harvested, that wouldn't be economical at all. I just find my own and cut it. It only grows in the North too. The growing area is large, but it only grows in a certain Zone, so if I go south into the next state, they don't have it, but if I go east or west they do, and they do to the North but only for a few hundred miles. I use it a lot in my intarsias.
That is from Jeff. Amos

Another nice one, Amos. I still like the dragon though. You can keep that poison sumac. Serious nasty stuff there. Bush hogged through some about ten years ago and wound up at the doctor's office.

I do not think I will tell you how good your pens are any more I will just give you the thumbs up

I think I'm going to burn my lathe....what's the use?

BlankBrain, just look at my earliest threads, and you will see that I only improved a bit at a time and with a lot of input from the people on this site, in fact it took me ages to get CA finish right, only when DJ posted a full tutorial on it ,did I finally get the finish right. Amos

Stunning.