Wood gloatings The new batch of HHL

[Rarest wood]

This arrived today an old Huanghuali chair which was taken apart /fell a part and now I get to see just how many blanks I get from it. Its rare to get and so nice to turn I turned a small piece too small for a blank and with a groove down the side just coz i gotta. There is some very pleasing figure in this batch ......I have promised half to another gent who should remain nameless.:biggrin: now to squeeze out some blanks from it

 

[altaciii]

dave,
i may be interested in a blank, but the pics you posted don't have a lot of clarity. Let me know when you have some ready.
thanks, alex

 

[Lulanrt]

Is it not worth putting back together?
Travis

 

[Skye]

Did the hammer help it fall apart? LOL

 

[jimofsanston]

I saw the hammer too and was to afriad to ask if that hammer was the culprit in the thing falling apart!:biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:

 

[Rarest wood]

yes the hammer helped and also the C4 and chainsaw hey that rymes!
I will post better photos in the appropriate place when the other secret owner of the other half gets theirs. No doubt they will post some nice emperors made in this stuff in due course. I noticed when cutting it into blanks that this is slightly more fragrant than my last batch, but just as nice figure. did you get a pen kit for yours skye?

 

[Skye]

Nope, not yet. I've got to make an order someday soon... I'm getting the itch!

I've been burning my evenings trying to fix the wife's car and get some computer work done.

 

[maxwell_smart007]

I'm curious as to how your process works, Dave. Do you try to fix the furniture, and if it doesn't work, you turn it into pen blanks? Or do you just search out broken chairs from that period strictly to make pens?

I'm just curious - I figured that a fixed chair would be worth more than piecing it out as pen blanks, even at 100 per blank. Isn't the furniture worth thousands?

Andrew

 

[Rarest wood]

yes I restore furniture particulaly chinese classical furniture in Huanghuali, Tzutan Jichimu nanmu and hongmu etc, I am also do woodturning as a trade mostly furniture parts for the makes in this area I have always had lathes but recently got into dong pens again after about 20 years. I had a stock of chinese rare timbers and though hey I would like a pen in these timbers so I tried a few and found that folk realy liked them as to fixing a piece of furniture made in these timbers it really depends on the piece if its older and more extant yes its worth doing but the trick is to get the timber a saying amognst furniture restorers is " if youve got the timber you can do the work" the trouble with this type of furniture is that you dont often get the timber large enough so I have over the years accumulated an amount of pen size pieces that will not be any good to fix a whole table top or complete furniture part so what do you do with them I hear you ask make pens. I always seem to accumulate a lot of smaller pieces what ever I make BTW I discovered crushed velvet back in the time when woodturning had a renaisance her in the uk I sold the idea to craft supplies UK for an undisclosed sum, so in my way I like to think I was there at the beggining of the pen turning thing.

 

[maxwell_smart007]

You discovered crushed velvet and sold it to CSUSA? That's a story that needs some expanding!

How'd you discover it? Was it something you created, or did you find it being used for something else and have the idea to make it pen blanks?

 

[Rarest wood]

no not csusa but craft supplies uk i was working in london on a german blokes house he wanted all sorts of exotica like aluminium floors and pepermint green kitchen worktop with red sprayed hammerite doors he said he had found some blue material called crushed velvet for the kitchen worktop spalshbacks o i said who makes that it was a firm called du vergia run the splash backs were in blue crushed velvet big lolloping sheets of the stuff he said that a pen company was using it in their pens i belive it was parker anyway I took some offcuts away and turned a pen remember the kits were rubbish back then at the woodworking show i saw peter from craft supplies and showed him the stuff he said WOW! and took the idea on and probably made a mint. you heard it here first.:biggrin:

 

[sparhawk]

yes I restore furniture particulaly chinese classical furniture in Huanghuali, Tzutan Jichimu nanmu and hongmu etc, I am also do woodturning as a trade mostly furniture parts for the makes in this area I have always had lathes but recently got into dong pens again after about 20 years. Whats a dong pen?:biggrin:

 

[el_d]

Was wondering If I was the only one questioning a "Dong Pen" but Dont know if I want the answer.

 

[DCBluesman]

Have you guys never heard of "The Big Bamboo"?

 

[Rarest wood]

oo I see that should be doing pens the effect of one single constanant is great:biggrin: