Olive wood

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Rob

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Rob
I don't know if Bethlehem Olive wood is anything like Russian olive, but I've turned a few pens from russian olive. I just used BLO and the grain popped out beautifully.
 

cliff56

cliff
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have made some pens , works and finishes well, usualy only avalable in small sizes, many folks also like the signifiance of where it comes from and the history of the tree.
 

PChristy

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Phillip
Can't afford it, have any scraps? :rolf:

Mike I know what you mean about affording it - with what this 2x2x6 inch piece cost I would hat to see what a bowl blank would cost- I might even try to catch the saw dust and use it some how :rolf:

many folks also like the signifiance of where it comes from and the history of the tree.

Yes, I got a certificate with the piece I got stating where it came from - but I plane on making three pieces out of it - so I can't give a certificate with all three pieces - unless I scan a copy but I don't know if I can do that



Ed great looking pens:icon_thum you say that you used the CA finish with BLO as a lubricant - did you apply the BLO first or mix with the CA:icon_scra
 

Mark Stewart

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Phillip,

I made bottle stoppers last year out of some. The smell it give off while turning makes me hungray. But then so does every thing else:rotflm:

Thanks Mark
 

ednl

ed
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Philip - to answer your question... "did you apply the BLO first or mix with the CA"

yes - both - to pop the grain in olive wood I first applied a light coat of BLO... thereafter, two coats of BLO and CA... a light sanding with 600 grit and then three more coats of BLO/CA... then wet sand up to 12000 or whatever "feels" good to the touch... on the curly maple pen I started with a BLO/CA mixture and what little grain there was popped out just fine...
 

CaptnA

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Phillip I really enjoy turning olive wood. It smells wonderful. It can be good looking wood or amazingly figured.

I have finished with ca, ca/blo, myland's, and nothing. For no finish I sanded through 400 then mm. The natural oils in the wood left it glossy enough for me and I could still smell the wood.
Every one has opinions about glossy and the "plastic feel" of ca. I use it and other times I don't.

I have one pen that I put a little evoo (extra virgin olive oil) on as a finish. Probably ought not to have. It was a dust magnet and got a patina (not one you'd want) from handling. I ran it back through light sanding and mm to clean the oil off it and since then I'm happy with it as it is. I kinda like some natural wood pens - cocobolo is another I like to smell and any finish would block the fragrance - but those are my pens and not ones for anyone else so I don't worry about how they'll hold up over time and wear. trade offs to more enjoy the wood I guess.

BTW you can find other olive wood a lot cheaper than BOW. I couldn't tell you the difference in them other then one doesn't get the certificate of authenticity from Bethlehem.
 

PChristy

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Phillip
Philip -

if you haven't watched this video, it will show you how to apply a CA/BLO finish... I do it the same way... works wonderfully... good luck...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orcg...D19798903&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=4


Thanks Ed - That video is very helpful - That would do ok on bottle stoppers that do not have alot of design to them - with the fast back and forth motion = I have a few already turned out of ZW and I will see what I can do with them:thumbs_up
 

PChristy

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Phillip
BTW you can find other olive wood a lot cheaper than BOW. I couldn't tell you the difference in them other then one doesn't get the certificate of authenticity from Bethlehem.

Yea, I have already figured out that I want be buying alot of the BOW - I will see what $ I can get out of the stoppers that I turn out of this piece before I consider buying anymore :swoon:
 
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