jrich7970
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So, after watching Mark Dryer's vid on dying and bleaching, and dying that maple blank (and where IAP members introduced me to the property of chatoyancy), I decided to play a little more.
I have a lot of walnut laying around (for non-pen purposes). I have done a few pens, and I think it's kind of boring (although my daughter seems to like it). So, I turned it smooth, and bleached it. It came out, as I expected, totally white. Even more boring. So, I dyed it. Came out like this: (not the best picture).
You can see the grain still, which is nice. I still find it a little boring.
Going the bleach route (and also from Mark's vid again), I decided to try out some wenge. Check out these. Very interesting. I let this sit in the bleach for about two hours.
I decided to go the full route and finish it with CA and Meguire's. As an aside, that "chunk"...do you guys try to fill that in if you use Wenge, or leave it as an interesting artifact of the wood? And if you do, how do you fix it, just put a whole lot of CA there?
Regardless, this opens up a whole area to "play". I might try something like taping, or putting something on a blank to keep it from bleaching in spots (if that would work), or with dying. Who knows.
I have a lot of walnut laying around (for non-pen purposes). I have done a few pens, and I think it's kind of boring (although my daughter seems to like it). So, I turned it smooth, and bleached it. It came out, as I expected, totally white. Even more boring. So, I dyed it. Came out like this: (not the best picture).
You can see the grain still, which is nice. I still find it a little boring.
Going the bleach route (and also from Mark's vid again), I decided to try out some wenge. Check out these. Very interesting. I let this sit in the bleach for about two hours.
I decided to go the full route and finish it with CA and Meguire's. As an aside, that "chunk"...do you guys try to fill that in if you use Wenge, or leave it as an interesting artifact of the wood? And if you do, how do you fix it, just put a whole lot of CA there?
Regardless, this opens up a whole area to "play". I might try something like taping, or putting something on a blank to keep it from bleaching in spots (if that would work), or with dying. Who knows.
