cottonwood

G'day! A good chunk of today was spent on this pen. Stabilised and dyed curly cottonwood done by a friend over here in the Aussie land. I worked out how to sleeve the timber, I used ebonite as it cuts beautiful threads. Ebonite section and Jowo #6 f nib. 20 coats of medium CA to get a nice depth...

Here is a Guardian dressed in Bocote. This a Guardian Jr. dressed in Cottonwood crotchwood. Some of you might recall I posed a Cigar from the same wood a while back. Both pieces had some bug holes in them. On the cigar I filled the holes with sanding dust and CA. The dust turned a...

Here is a pen I made from Cottonwood crotchwood. It had some bug holes that I didn't get filled to my satisfaction. I was going to scrap it, but my neighbor came over to my shop and said he liked it. So I finished it and gave it to him. I tried to fill the holes with sanding dust and thick...