Marblewood takes the stinkin' cake!

[redfishsc]

No joke I have never in my life smelled a wood that was this raunchy.
This stuff smells so much like horse manure it is NOT funny. Since I grew up on a small farm, I know more about horse manure than I'm about to tell all y'all about. Let's just say that horse manure + water + tomato plants = more tomatoes than you'd ever imagine.


I'm making new grips for an offshore fishing rod, and I decided to use lignumvitae for the butt grip and marblewood for the upper (partly b/c I did not have enough of either on hand to do both ends, party for "artistic" purposes).

Here's the pics so far, with reel/seat set inline as a visual aid.

The finger grips on the marblewood are custom shaped for my grubby fingers.

 

[rdunn12]

She's gonna be a beauty when you are finished.Maybe they should have named marblewood,stinkwood instead.Never turned marblewood,and now I don't think I want to.Be sure to post a pic when done,I would like to see it.

 

[redfishsc]

You betcha!

Don't let the smell totally deter you from it, but I would advise wearing an organic respirator (lowes, $20-30), this isn't the only wood that you will want to turn one day that has a POWERFUL smell--- namely desert ironwood, Australian cypress, cocobolo.

 

[Tom McMillan]

Good job on the grips!!

Funny, I've never noticed an odor to Marblewood? Guess my sense of smell isn't too great, but you'd think I'd notice something.

 

[redfishsc]

Oh you'd notice this. The Sphinx would smell this one! Maybe I got some tainted wood somehow?

 

[rdunn12]

Maybe it was kiln dried in a horse barn.Hehe.I have turned DI and Cocobolo and did'nt note any really bad odors.Of course before I turned the DI,I had turned some acrylic so my sense of smell may have been killed for a little while.

 

[redfishsc]

Well, DI and Coco don't really "stink" per se, but they do have a very strong "twang" to them, as does Lignum--- although I really like the smell of lignum.

 

[TellicoTurning]

I must be stuffed up or jaded or just plain can't smell.. I use Marble wood in my peppermills and don't remember any distinctive smell.. the woods that smell most to me and not necesarily a bad smell are olive, euclyptus and african blackwood... the black wood smells like a wet cow barn to me.

 

[redfishsc]

Perhaps I have some different variety of "marblewood". I dunno. I've run across otherwise "normal" oak that stunk to high heaven.

I wonder what what's going on with this one? We'll see if I wake up tonight foaming at the mouth[B)]

 

[RonSchmitt]

Originally posted by redfishsc

this isn't the only wood that you will want to turn one day that has a POWERFUL smell--- namely desert ironwood, Australian cypress, cocobolo.

First, nice work, and allow me to add Ipe to the list of stinky woods. It's the first time I HAD to wear my respirator. When I was drilling it, I stopped halfway through to check my dp, thought I burned out a bearing.[xx(][xx(]

 

[rdunn12]

Figured Asian Satinwood also really stinks to me.Although some say it smells Earthy.I think what they mean by Earthy is rotten dirt smell.

 

[thetalbott4]

A lot of the DI I've turned smells EXACTLY like pig @#$%. Anyone care to add any other animals to the list?

 

[sbell111]

We somehow ended up with a single blank of marblewood a year or so ago. The pen it 'turned' into was beautiful and sold quickly, but Cathy won't let me buy any more because of how horrible it smelled. The closest thing I can compare it to is an over-full port-a-potty in August.

 

[babyblues]

I turned a couple of zebrawood pens that smelled alot like poop.

 

[redfishsc]

Yes. The old adage says that zebrawood smells like zebra crap.

 

[Russianwolf]

Ambrosia Maple smells like dirty gym socks to me.

 

[desertyellow]

Thanks for the heads up on the smell

 

[Rojo22]

Zebra wood is definitely a wood that smells like something out of the south end of a north bound Zebra!