mahogany/ebony/spalted maple hollow form

I posted this to the segmented section of AAW earlier but I wanted to wait to post it elsewhere until I had a better photo. Thanks to Paul Millo, official photographer of the Gulf Coast Woodturners Association, I have this nice image.

The feature ring of this HF was five spalted maple pen blanks until I decided they would look better not as pens. So, I cut them to make ten pieces and set them in an ebony border. The main wood is mahogany.

8 inches by 8 inches.

comments welcome.

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Beautiful Pete! Nice combination of woods and great form.

I really like that. What a great use of otherwise unused pen blanks! Really gorgeous.

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Originally Posted by Greg Ketell

I really like that. What a great use of otherwise unused pen blanks! Really gorgeous.

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The more I look at this, the more I like it! The contrast between the light and dark, between the squares of the body and the rectangles of the pen blanks, the high-gloss of the collar and the low-gloss of the mahogany, yet all pulled together into a single flowing shape. Simply stellar!

That is a beauty and I like the wood combo's.