Yesterday I was doing a bit of a clean up in the shop and came across a piece of spalted maple that I had thrown in the scrap bin, before throwing it out I decided to cut into it and this is what I found. Spalted curly maple and very sound not the least bit punky, so I cut up the rest of the scrap into some pen blanks 21 in all but these are the best of the lot as for the spalting.
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Then today I turned this pen from one of the blanks. and applied a C.A. finish.
Next month the wife and I will be going to China for business and I think that I'll turn half a dozen of these as presentation gifts.
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John