W.Y.
Member
Working on a few more stoppers for inventory.
102 year old Catalpa tree bottle stoppers finished with 4 coats of lacquer .
102 year old Catalpa tree bottle stoppers finished with 4 coats of lacquer .
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rjwolfe3
Member
Beautiful!
markgum
Member
excellant.
Jim15
Member
Outstanding stoppers.
louisbry
Member
Beautiful, that Catalpa works up very nice.
W.Y.
Member
Thanks for the nice compliments.
I am in the final curing stages of some of that wood and will be putting a quantity of stopper blanks in my buy/sell board within the coming week. There are already some catalpa pen blanks in there. .
That wood is very soft . One person suggested it looks like ash . It is darker in color than ash but the grain pattern is similar. But ash is a much harder wood. Catalpa is very light in weight . It is so soft that when I tap the threads to put it on a stopper mandrel I run a little thin CA into the hole and hit it with accelerator to harden the threaded surface . Even then, I bring up the tailstock for the majority of turning. I just sell enough blanks to cover my expenses of going to get the wood and chainsaw and bandsaw maintenance etc. Never get enough to cover my time :wink:
I am in the final curing stages of some of that wood and will be putting a quantity of stopper blanks in my buy/sell board within the coming week. There are already some catalpa pen blanks in there. .
That wood is very soft . One person suggested it looks like ash . It is darker in color than ash but the grain pattern is similar. But ash is a much harder wood. Catalpa is very light in weight . It is so soft that when I tap the threads to put it on a stopper mandrel I run a little thin CA into the hole and hit it with accelerator to harden the threaded surface . Even then, I bring up the tailstock for the majority of turning. I just sell enough blanks to cover my expenses of going to get the wood and chainsaw and bandsaw maintenance etc. Never get enough to cover my time :wink: