Wood experts??

[flexi]

Hi all i was asked for a pair of pens in spalted timber.....
A quick phone call to Dave at Stiles and Bates and i had 4 stabalised spalted tiger oak blanks....thats what the labels said and i am not faulting S&B ( you can't really, excellent service always)
But opinions please i think one looks more like curly mango....View attachment 31344
Ps sorry for the picture

 

[Vic Perrin]

Never seen Curly Mango so I can't help

 

[GeordieB]

top 1 looks like oak Mark its hard to tell with the bottom 1 as the splatings quite heavy both cracking looking pens tho mate

 

[Pierre]

Don't know about the wood but what is that fountain pen mechanism?

PG

PS you know what they say about experts....... X is and unknown quantity and spurt is a drip under pressure

 

[Penpal]

A debate that would go on forever is the variation in a single species from a single tree. The variations in people from the same couple. Cloning is infinitely difficult and completely unneccessary IMHO in pens.

These pens are great, fit for purpose, interesting and impressive. There is more orange in one pen more beaut swirling character in the other . with regards to genealogy??????????????????

Peter.

 

[flexi]

Hi Pierre....its the Alpha from Taylors Mirfield

 

[wm460]

Great looking pair of pens Mark.

 

[bluntchisel]

Very nice pens, indeed!

Bob.

 

[Winemaker]

Very nice pens beautiful wood

 

[mikeh]

Nice looking pens beautiful wood

 

[Neil Lawton]

If you have a lot of varying / spalted blanks, a good look at the end grain is usually the way forward. Unfortunately once you've turned the pen it may be a little bit difficult.

Oak is very distinctive on the end grain regardless of spalting / colour.

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Very nice pens regardless of wood, Mark.