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Inspired by PhilH, I cut a piece off the Christmas Tree, boiled it for an hour which gave me ear ache, dried it for a few hours and then turned it. It was bone dry and there was none of that horrible sticky sap.
The first one (with the yellow sumac band) was a bit thin at the ends and a bit flakey so I put a bit of Padauk on the second and kept it a bit thicker. The photo looks like there is a bleed around the centre band on the second one but its not prominent on the pen.

[QUOTE="paulm, post: 40797, member: 283"] Inspired by PhilH, I cut a piece off the Christmas Tree, boiled it for an hour which gave me ear ache, dried it for a few hours and then turned it. It was bone dry and there was none of that horrible sticky sap. The first one (with the yellow sumac band) was a bit thin at the ends and a bit flakey so I put a bit of Padauk on the second and kept it a bit thicker. The photo looks like there is a bleed around the centre band on the second one but its not prominent on the pen. [/QUOTE]

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