Stick 18 is round.
This’ll be a 52 inch stick. Black cherry and black cherry red rot. The blue is maple.
Stick 1 glued; do you see a woman on a boat?
The darker wood is spalted and stabilized beech. The blue parts are spalted and dyed and stabilized maple.
Stick 18 glued
Blue parts are maple, the rest is black cherry. Heavy spalting, red rot. It’s going to be a stunner. This’ll end up being a 52 inch stick.
150 Grit vs 1500 on plain spalted beech
Here’s a quick example of how the coarseness of the sandpaper shows up on the surface of the wood. It’s also an example of how dazzling ordinary spalted wood can be.
making purple, orange and black
making purple, orange and black Both parts combined run time is nine and a half minutes. The videos show vacuum chambers containing spalted cue wood and dyed resin, along with examples of how bold the wood turned out. A few skeeter bites too. Part 1 Part 2
a gloriously moody and fierce looking stick
a gloriously moody and fierce looking stick. This stick’s made of four pieces of beech that were very degraded before stabilizing. They were like nerf, or foam. You could break a ship made of it in two with your elbows. Now it’s mostly plastic, except it retains the grain and coloring of the wood. It’s […]
