I've spent the last couple nights working on some thank you gifts for people I work with. The folks these are going to have been a huge help to me in my first year with the company.
I've spent the last couple nights working on some thank you gifts for people I work with. The folks these are going to have been a huge help to me in my first year with the company.
Here's last night's project. It's Olivewood on a Black Chrome Cigar Pen kit.
Tonight I start work on some thank you gifts for folks I work with. I'm approaching the one year mark in the new job, and there are a few people who have been a huge help along the way. I've already finished a bottle stopper for one of them, and will be making pens for four others. I'll have pics later this week of them.
Here's last night's project. It's Olivewood on a Black Chrome Cigar Pen kit.
Tonight I start work on some thank you gifts for folks I work with. I'm approaching the one year mark in the new job, and there are a few people who have been a huge help along the way. I've already finished a bottle stopper for one of them, and will be making pens for four others. I'll have pics later this week of them.
So I decided to turn a pen using one of the spalted maple blanks I posted a couple blogs ago. I am extremely disappointed in these blanks. They were advertised as being stabilized using a pressure injected acrylic. Stabilization is used primarily to strengthen softer woods, like spalted woods which are actually a diseased wood. The black lines and are caused by a fungusm and this makes the wood extremely soft and difficult to turn without tearing big chunks out of it.
So I decided to turn a pen using one of the spalted maple blanks I posted a couple blogs ago. I am extremely disappointed in these blanks. They were advertised as being stabilized using a pressure injected acrylic. Stabilization is used primarily to strengthen softer woods, like spalted woods which are actually a diseased wood. The black lines and are caused by a fungusm and this makes the wood extremely soft and difficult to turn without tearing big chunks out of it.
