grain

Hand cut in the forest from dead branch cross grain in Israel lately for me.:goesred::goesred::goesred:

A pair of Gold plated FP/RB Gent pens in French Oak wood with a bespoke Spalted beech wood box. This French Oak is lighter in colour than the English Oak I turned. Less figuring as well, grain doesn't show up quite as well. Spalted Beechwood speaks for its self I think.:whistling:

Full set of Mistrals in bog oak. This is the oldest bog oak I've used so far and it even had white streaks in the grain caused by minerals the oak absorbed over the years. The grain is very deep and has brought a lot of character to these pens. Made them for my brother in law and I hope he...

Another desk clock out of Field Maple. The clock housing is endgrain turned so that the long grain crosses the face. Can't seem to focus the camera properly. Cheers Frederick

Ok so here is my latest pen, again a gift for family and I think it's maple but not sure so I have supplied a image of the wood I used. Pen was turned in short/end grain just to see if I could ( why not ) making my own rules. The pen is from Beaufort ink first of many I think, good quality kit...

Every now and then I find in my stash of blanks outstanding grain .This Olive Wood embodies the best of everything. Peter.

Two bowls done this afternoon the first a spalted bowl believed to be beech and the second Ash burnt on the outside and wire brushed the grain filled with "Hot Pink" wax and then a coat of woodwax over the top

Evening all Every so often lately, and typically on the really dark woods, I get to the final stage of finishing and notice white marks within the grain of the pen. This is totally ruining the finish, and although I can cut them back and retry, it never quite sorts the problem. My finishing...

Hi all, Four nice wet blanks that I cut today. Going to wet turn them this afternoon, put them in a bag with shavings and leave for a while. Hopefully they will turn out ok as, I think, the grain looks great. I think they're Oak, but not too sure. I though Corona was a drink ...... Cheers...

A slimline.....again, dressed in what was labelled hornbeam. What a nice surprise to see the black grain.

Trying to stay in practice. A nice grain pattern from a seldom seen timber - Mescal Bean.

Classed as rare now,the grain in this is tortured and tight as. Peter.

The fate of many hundreds of blanks the names have faded. Loved the grain. Peter.

Loving how this Ares has come out. Wenge turned to shape and sanded, then used a wire brush to open the grain. Sprayed with white paint and then sanded again before adding melamine finish.

Straight out of the workshop, punky in places but have managed to harden them up with a good dose of sander sealer(see last photo). Made from Walnut it has so much going on in the grain even some light feathering Finished with sander sealer and then buffed on a three wheel system

Hi everyone, I have some Olive wood which I thought has attractive figure and grain. This wood seemed very light and therefore not very dense, I stabilised it yesterday and was amazed at the amount of air that was in this wood. The process did change the colour slightly. I made this out of it...

A massive 3" x (nearly) 1" bowl

Hi there, Ive been having a few issues with torn grain and wondering if it's potentially down to tool choice. The first pen I made I used only a roughing gouge and the results were very good. I have mde a few more pens since and started with a skew then moved on to a spindle gouge, and on...

Two slimline pens made from treated pine taken from a crop end of garden decking finished in melamine. This Pen is long grain. This Pen is xcut grain.

A segmented xcut oak slimline. I glued 6 crop ends of oak in short grain together to make the blank.