Trevor Walsh
12-31-2010, 12:47 PM
While at Rockler with my girlfriend, dropping off that surplus x-mas money that's been laying around, she asked me if I'd turn a pen for her. I was there picking up a Sorby Mirco spindle set (on sale), some ebony blanks (on sale), mahogany (on sale) that I had money to burn... I got the pen mandrel, several slimline kits, bushings, blanks, and glue. I picked up a black chrome slimline pencil kit with a stabilized spalted sycamore blank for me.
Not that I have a problem spending money on a hobby, but I'd like to cut my own blanks out of domestic hardwoods (not the difficult part), but I also really enjoy the fancy qualities that spalted woods have. I also don't want to buy/make large spalted pieces and wind up with dozens of a single type of blank.
Any tips for spalting/stabilizing pieces that are only 2-3 blank's worth?
Not that I have a problem spending money on a hobby, but I'd like to cut my own blanks out of domestic hardwoods (not the difficult part), but I also really enjoy the fancy qualities that spalted woods have. I also don't want to buy/make large spalted pieces and wind up with dozens of a single type of blank.
Any tips for spalting/stabilizing pieces that are only 2-3 blank's worth?