Penpal
Grand Master
Arranged to meet a mate who lives a few hours away coming to our area selling timber etc newly into pens had not taken a pic so dropped the pen on the ground (early spring).
The pen is made from Brown Mallee Burl. Sometimes he brings the off cut slices of Burl with him to the Annual Working With Wood Show due again next month these are the ones I make my precious pen rests from I choose the slices with burl feature and flat polish them to a mirror finish. My experience everybody turns the rests over almost straight away just because they can?. The idea of waste never enters the equation I am merely allowing the extension of the burl feature. IMHO a turned bowl leaves huge amounts of beautiful figure on the floor. Picture the Burl gatherer who sells pen blanks how many off cut slices there are in 50.000 burl pen blanks cut from the burl ( guess you cant but I can now the perspective changes.
In Tasmania for a century Huon Pine Burl offcuts were given away as firewood to pensioners at the mill villages, Huon grows but mm,s a year.
We have members on the Aussie forum who use offcuts of their firewood piles in Western Australia of Lacewood, Mallee etc for their pens that are out of this world.
Now I am not green nor inclined to excess every one to their own definition of value has to be respected.
Kind regards Peter.
The pen is made from Brown Mallee Burl. Sometimes he brings the off cut slices of Burl with him to the Annual Working With Wood Show due again next month these are the ones I make my precious pen rests from I choose the slices with burl feature and flat polish them to a mirror finish. My experience everybody turns the rests over almost straight away just because they can?. The idea of waste never enters the equation I am merely allowing the extension of the burl feature. IMHO a turned bowl leaves huge amounts of beautiful figure on the floor. Picture the Burl gatherer who sells pen blanks how many off cut slices there are in 50.000 burl pen blanks cut from the burl ( guess you cant but I can now the perspective changes.
In Tasmania for a century Huon Pine Burl offcuts were given away as firewood to pensioners at the mill villages, Huon grows but mm,s a year.
We have members on the Aussie forum who use offcuts of their firewood piles in Western Australia of Lacewood, Mallee etc for their pens that are out of this world.
Now I am not green nor inclined to excess every one to their own definition of value has to be respected.
Kind regards Peter.
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