3 M's Pens

[William Young]

"M"s as in the first letter of each wood that I turned this afternoon. .
I dug into my wood stash and found a few kinds I was out of stock of in my backup stock of pens . I am trying to catch up a little for next Sat mornings sale .

From top to bottom are

Mesquite from Arizona
Myrtle from Oregon
Mulga from Australia

W.Y.

[JohnB]

G'day Bill,
Great trio mate.

[sawdustus]

Beautiful as usual. Your wood stash is amazingly varied. I have never even heard of mulga but I bet John B did.

george

[Toolman56]

Wow, them are nice, now i have to go to libary and study wood too, i never heard of them woods, so back to study for me ,as i want to learn all the wood's anyway,Everett.

[JohnB]

Once again well done Bill,

That lump of Mulga, never looked like that last time I saw it ROFLMAO.

George, Mulga is hard as the hobs of hell mate. When wooden flooring was the go, a lot of stumps were made from Mulga, as even the white ants blunt their teeth on it.

[William Young]

yesserieeeee. that mulga came right from John B's own workshop (shed) in the land down under.
It's nice trying different kinds of wood from around the world.
That mulga is the hardest wood I have ever drilled and turned. . Something like drilling concrete .
And it is full of surprises. A piece that looks good on the outside of a pen blank can have cracks on the inside when getting it almost to the finished shape . It took four pen blanks to make that one pen . I tried filling the cracks but it didn't look good so I chucked them out and started over.
It was worth it though . The picture does not do it justice at all because there are some nice red steaks in the wood in that one.

W.Y.