Last November, I received some Louisiana cypress from @RyX . I got out a stick of it today and started playing. These handles are what came out of my time on the lathe. In the pictures, the handles are unfinished and the knots are just dry fitted for looks. This wood has some beautiful grain patterns. I have a couple of 28mm synthetic knots coming from Maggard Razors. I will be opening up a couple of these holes to take the big knots. The two-band badgers may end up in one or two of these. They are yet to be numbered, but they will be 178-181. They will get their numbers when they are about done.
They are still raw? Curious to see how they take stain! Did you plan the profiles, or freehand and let the grain talk? It seems to give nice lines in your hands. It is a good substance for handles for this quote from Wikipedia; "The odorless wood of bald cypress, closely resembling that of Cupressus spp., has long been valued for its water resistance, thus is called 'wood eternal'. Still-usable prehistoric wood is often found in swamps as far north as New Jersey, and occasionally as far as Connecticut"
Cypress is great wood. Hope you find a finish that makes the grain pop. Sent from my XT1254 using Tapatalk
Those look awesome out of curiosity how does one go about getting one of these? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Jim doesn't sell them, but you can adopt a brush! Check his Website here to see the previous brushes he's produced.
I own #130. This is it being crafted. Jim's #131 is also cypress, and available now! Here's a photo of me when I harvested the low hanging branch from a tree in my fathers citrus orchard.
