Spalted Maple Broadwell

[Halfcaff]

I turned this Broadwell Art Deco Gold T/N and Chrome pen today. I used a spalted maple blank that I have had for a while and finally decided to turn. I stabilized it before I turned it. It had quite an interesting spalt pattern. Each line was a double line which gave it a nice effect. Let me know what you think and what I could do better on the photos. Thanks

 

[knifecut]

Very nice. Well done.

 

[Whaler]

Very well done.

 

[Mark]

The blank in very interesting. Very nice.

 

[kennspens]

how did you stabilize it?

 

[David Keller]

It's a beautiful bit of wood. I'm not sure I like that kit(just a personal thing), but you've done a wonderful job with it.

 

[Halfcaff]

The blank was very light and not very strong at all. It was cut crossgrain so it wanted to come apart on the spalt lines. But because it was crossgrain I was able to just soak it with extra thin CA. It went all the way through the blank without any trouble. So it ended up turning like a big block of CA.

Yeah the kit is not my fav, but I wanted to try something new.

 

[boxerman]

Very nice pen.