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Stained rippled Tuart

Neil

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Tuart, a member of the eucalyptus family and, without the ripple, would only be impressive as firewood. However, saw a brick sized piece at woodturning club and bought it for a quid! Here it is on a JR Gent in Gun Metal, sanded to 320 and then stained and lightly sanded when dry with a quick attack of 400 grit in both directions to get rid of the raised fibres, sealed with a bit of EEE and then given three coats of CA and the micromesh treatment.

Quite like it.

 
paulm

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Thats very nice Neil. Keep practising and you'll get good at this pen making malarkey :funny:
 
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Neil, The last time Tuart was shown I remarked the timber could be unremarkable but here you have an outstanding pen from beautifully figured timber getting a brick size block for peanuts was a master stroke as well, unless it was grown in the UK as many Aussie timbers are these days the normal area of Western Australia makes it even more precious. Membership of wood groups can yield some extraordinary bargains as you have proved. The finish and pictures make the pen outstanding.

Peter.:thumbs::noway1::camera::waver::claps:
 
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New timber to me Neil, but looks very nice on a pen for sure ... :thumbs:
 
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Neil, just reread this post feel better about the lovely colour in the Tuart then it follows surely why I have never seen that great colour that came after staining the word I missed the first time. Well seen by you to do this.

Peter.:thumbs:
 
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