New Pen out of Black Palm Wood

[Billy Tallant]

Decided to try a piece of black palm wood. Haven't used this wood before. Pen is a Black Titanium Carbara. It felt like the wood would be pitted when finished but sanding it worked all of the pits out.

[tim mathis]

hi bill,
it looks great.
tim

[Dave Bureau]

Nice pen Bill

Did you have to stabilize the black palm? I have a small chunk 2x2x18 but it seems like it would fall apart when turning?

[Terry Quiram]

Billy you did a nice job. I always wet sanded Palm with CA to fill the pores.

[Ken Glass]

Billy,
Knowing how tough Black Palm is to work with, that came out very nice. I made a few Wine Stoppers at Christmas with Black Palm and 1 out of 3 chipped so badly they were not usable, even with small cuts and sharp tools. Well done!

[Steve Schlumpf]

Billy, you did a great job with a very difficult wood! You sure don't see many of these pens! Very nice work!

[Bernie Weishapl]

Billy that is a good looking pen out of some hard wood to turn.

[robert hainstock]

Did you expierence any tearout? I found the lighter wood to be soft like balsa, and the black to hard like porcupigoane quills. A sure road to tearout which happened to me first time I tried the stuff. I had to use the 80 grit turning tool to finish the pen.:eek::mad::)
Bob

[Randy Hoch]

Did you expierence any tearout? I found the lighter wood to be soft like balsa, and the black to hard like porcupigoane quills. A sure road to tearout which happened to me first time I tried the stuff. I had to use the 80 grit turning tool to finish the pen.:eek::mad::)
Bob

Robert,
What the heck's a Porcupigoane??:D

Randy

[Jim Kountz]

Thats some very interesting wood, fine job with it!!

[Keith Christopher]

Nice pen Bill

Did you have to stabilize the black palm? I have a small chunk 2x2x18 but it seems like it would fall apart when turning?

Nice pen! Palm is SO hard to turn, sometimes comes off in big long splinters.

[Billy Tallant]

Thanks to all for the kind comments...

No stabilization done to wood. I just used light delicate cuts. Thought I would need to fill pores with CA but haven't really got that finish mastered so I decided to stay safe & not try it. No tear outs but wood felt like one wrong cut would peel away a layer. Sanded it down through 600 grit, then buffed it with paperbag. Put about 3 heavy layers of HUT friction polish & really put the heat to it. So far I have been selling most of the pens that I make, but I may just have to keep this one as my personal pen.

[Dewey Torres]

Billy,
I hope your sales continue. This is the kind of pen folks find highly desirable. Probably a good decision to not try an experimental finish with it.