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Birds eye Maple chisel handles - Ron Brese - 01-30-2023

Birds eye maple seems to have fallen out of favor in the last couple years. I haven't seen it used much in furniture as of late. I obtained this material from a supplier in the northern midwest. I stabilized it with resin and made the blanks into chisel handles. I thought it was interesting how the eyes sort of visually smeared around the handles as they were turned.

Ron

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RE: Birds eye Maple chisel handles - Tapper - 01-30-2023

Beautiful work, as usual! Did you use any stain or did the resin darken them a little?

Doug


RE: Birds eye Maple chisel handles - stav - 01-30-2023

It would make me sad hitting them with a mallet.  They look amazing.


RE: Birds eye Maple chisel handles - FrankAtl - 01-30-2023

Beautiful as always Ron!


RE: Birds eye Maple chisel handles - Ron Brese - 01-30-2023

(01-30-2023, 01:05 PM)Tapper Wrote: Beautiful work, as usual! Did you use any stain or did the resin darken them a little?

Doug

Just a bit of dye

Ron


RE: Birds eye Maple chisel handles - Pedder - 01-31-2023

perfect! Beautiful!


RE: Birds eye Maple chisel handles - paul2004 - 01-31-2023

Those came out great!


RE: Birds eye Maple chisel handles - brianwelch - 02-02-2023

(01-30-2023, 01:06 PM)stav Wrote: It would make me sad hitting them with a mallet.  They look amazing.

What Stav said, for sure...
Gorgeous!


RE: Birds eye Maple chisel handles - RonB1957 - 02-02-2023

(01-30-2023, 11:14 AM)Ron Brese Wrote: Birds eye maple seems to have fallen out of favor in the last couple years. I haven't seen it used much in furniture as of late. I obtained this material from a supplier in the northern midwest. I stabilized it with resin and made the blanks into chisel handles. I thought it was interesting how the eyes sort of visually smeared around the handles as they were turned.

Ron
Yep. Looks pretty good to me, as always. I have only turned a few birds eye handles for my little dovetail tools. Came out looking pretty much the same. Nice thing about the resin is it helps prevent tear out.
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RE: Birds eye Maple chisel handles - Ron Brese - 02-03-2023

You're right Ron the extra density really helps keep the eyes in tact.

Ron