letter opener

[Jim Meier]

This is from some wood I got on ebay, the seller called it spalted swamp maple, I thought it was pretty cool for the $$ :)

Turned this up late last night, I used CA to seal some of the spalt lines (and still have CA on my fingers, I read the tutorial on that this morning...).
Finish is 400 grit sand with friction polish.

What do you think?

[Grant Davis]

Very nice Jim

[Bernie Weishapl]

Great looking opener and wood.

[Ben Gastfriend]

Nice wood. And a useful project.

[Jon Lanier]

You are right, really cool piece of wood.

[Steve Schlumpf]

Jim - Nice work on the letter opener! Great piece of wood - love the spalting and curl! Thanks for sharing!

[Jim Meier]

thanks, I'm just starting with the lathe and have found many small projects around the house call for something simple off the lathe. Now, if I could only get the skew to work well...

I get some of my wood from green waste piles and some of it from ebay, this one was in a pack of 10 pen blanks like it, I paid $15 after shipping :)

[Tom Sherman]

Jim that's a nice opener, the wood is cool with the spalt and curl.

[robert hainstock]

very good work. As for the CA on the fingers, it is an occupational hazard. It takes anwhere from two to eight hours to get it all off. Or you can soak, (disolve) it in acetone. :)

[Bruce Shiverdecker]

Lookin' GOOD to me.

Bruce