Birds eye Maple chisel handles

[Ron Brese]

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

[Tapper]

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

Doug

[Ron Brese]

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

Doug

Just a bit of dye

Ron

[stav]

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

[brianwelch]

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

What Stav said, for sure...
Gorgeous!

[FrankAtl]

Beautiful as always Ron!

[Pedder]

perfect! Beautiful!

[paul2004]

Those came out great!

[RonB1957]

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.

[Ron Brese]

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

Ron