Thread: Tassie Black Heart Sassafras

Hi Peter, If you have any blackhearted Sassafras blanks left, try turning a couple cross grain works a treat.
Cheers Bob

Originally Posted by Penpal

Cut up a block of this only using the black grain sections, random pieces.

Regards Peter.

Nice work

Spring, the time for Sassafras!! great going again Peter, Amos

Love that timber, Nice pair of pens Peter. Are they cross cut or is it just my tired old eyes.

Rippa

Black heart is one of my favourites, finishes nice and easy and always looks a treat

great combo, the black clip sets it off well

MIK

This is one pen 90 degree cross cut, two views to show the other side of the one.
Most all of my pens are cross cut, I do have lots left all cross cut.

Any timber cut with the grain is easy to turn but sometimes boring to look at so for years now the variations have given me new challenges, not for the faint hearted.

Still mowing through the blanks already to turn, I had two hundred. Having rearranged the deck chairs on the Titanic so many times and refurbishing the workshop some times in the midst of do I keep this and that or disperse the lot. Back of my mind is wifes friendly when your gone I will make a marquetry floor with your pen blanks.

At the Wood Guild I refuse to enter competitions as even though a Life Member I have given a real lot of time there I joined to share and enjoy. I have lasting memories as a Photographer of Eistedfords, Ballet dancing mothers, patron of a cat club, pics of thousands of competitive sports like weddings etc that tell me life is about the journey not being no 1, Alderman on a City Council at one time on the executive of 24 organisations at one time together that tell me it is the willing few every time.

When I post I share, try to encourage others, have given away more pen blanks than I have kept over the years to help fill as I see it a need. My funds are modest.

Have fun if you have the need for commercially making good luck and good fortune, sometimes it is better to be honest like the guy who came to me with a list one day of what pen blanks he demanded as he had sold the 50 I had given him naming in order of value I noticed just what he expected from me was a cash cow something to use as he made lots of money from the timbers (hard won) and expensive to me given freely to him.

Like the Savation Army people here for the needy not the greedy.

These thoughts are prompted as I contemplate my stash and advanced years so many times timbers I remembered well names are fading and things like that.

Take care do as I do sniff the flowers if the pics are soft or blurry see what you can in them build the makers esteem accept the way they are made the kit used. I learned a valuable lesson called as an expert witness in a huge court case (never again) when the final judgement was handed down and some pimply faced coward of a Barrister (answer yes or no), the judgement was pics are accepted on a subjective basis just like pens, heavens we all have predudices as a life member of The Aust Institute of Prof Photographers I have been there.

Please enjoy your pens and membership of the forum as I do I have made so many real friends along the way.

Regards Peter.

Originally Posted by Penpal

This is one pen 90 degree cross cut, two views to show the other side of the one.
Most all of my pens are cross cut, I do have lots left all cross cut.

Any timber cut with the grain is easy to turn but sometimes boring to look at so for years now the variations have given me new challenges, not for the faint hearted.

Still mowing through the blanks already to turn, I had two hundred. Having rearranged the deck chairs on the Titanic so many times and refurbishing the workshop some times in the midst of do I keep this and that or disperse the lot. Back of my mind is wifes friendly when your gone I will make a marquetry floor with your pen blanks.

At the Wood Guild I refuse to enter competitions as even though a Life Member I have given a real lot of time there I joined to share and enjoy. I have lasting memories as a Photographer of Eistedfords, Ballet dancing mothers, patron of a cat club, pics of thousands of competitive sports like weddings etc that tell me life is about the journey not being no 1, Alderman on a City Council at one time on the executive of 24 organisations at one time together that tell me it is the willing few every time.

When I post I share, try to encourage others, have given away more pen blanks than I have kept over the years to help fill as I see it a need. My funds are modest.

Have fun if you have the need for commercially making good luck and good fortune, sometimes it is better to be honest like the guy who came to me with a list one day of what pen blanks he demanded as he had sold the 50 I had given him naming in order of value I noticed just what he expected from me was a cash cow something to use as he made lots of money from the timbers (hard won) and expensive to me given freely to him.

Like the Savation Army people here for the needy not the greedy.

These thoughts are prompted as I contemplate my stash and advanced years so many times timbers I remembered well names are fading and things like that.

Take care do as I do sniff the flowers if the pics are soft or blurry see what you can in them build the makers esteem accept the way they are made the kit used. I learned a valuable lesson called as an expert witness in a huge court case (never again) when the final judgement was handed down and some pimply faced coward of a Barrister (answer yes or no), the judgement was pics are accepted on a subjective basis just like pens, heavens we all have predudices as a life member of The Aust Institute of Prof Photographers I have been there.

Please enjoy your pens and membership of the forum as I do I have made so many real friends along the way.

Regards Peter.

Wow you have been busy I share a lot of the values you mentioned here and I feel that a lot of turners are the same this is a big part to why I started turning. Yes we will come across the few that are willing to take advantage of anyones generosity but I hope the good out number the bad

Oh that is a nice pen you have made