Thread: Red Iron Bark Majestic

[QUOTE=Woodenink;1297099 Fred described what Red Iron Bark tree looks like, I "accidentally" bumped into a tree on my walks, and some bark fell off-! so I rescued it from its terrible ordeal of being bumped [/QUOTE]
nice work amos that red iron bark bark looks great

can you please help out all the other red iron barks out by posting a pic of them in the wild so us turners may do our bit for the environment and save the planet

OOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHH NICE PEN awesome job me's like

It passes!!

I need to get hold of some Mugga Ironbark bark.

When I read your description Amos I thought why use gold why not ebony or coffee grounds to hide the holes. But when I looked at your picture in full size I got to say I like the gold makes it look like a rock with a gold vein running through it.

Well done and keep bumping into those trees

That is very impressive, beautiful work. I know where there there are some red ironbark trees (street trees in town) but turning the bark of one into a pen would certainly be a challenge for me.

Well done Amos, you have done a beautiful job on that one.

I have a piece of bark from Fed in the finishing and should be able to post soon

Troy, look out for gum tree that has BLACK bark, it looks ugly and useless, the bark is in vertical ridges right right around the tree, I had seen these trees and used to think "what is wrong with the tree' "is it dying?" !!! but seeing is deceiving ! there was this beauty hidden inside all that time. Amos ps will try to get a photo soon. Amos

Looks great Amos!
I like your Form, Fit and Finish.
Well done.

Les

Thanks Les, that means a lot to me, Amos

Ok, it has taken a little time, but here is the tree and its bark, Amos

Beautiful pen, Amos. I like the gold accents. The tree looks a little like our locust trees. They are so hard your chainsaw will throw sparks trying to cut them up!

Hello Al, great to see you again, hope all will with the farm, Amos