Acryliwood Turning Blanks and Pen BlanksAcryliWood resin stabilized North American woods. Available in Natural and Dyed.About Acryliwood Turning Blanks and Pen Blanks AcryliWood™ is resin stabilized wood made from burl and spalted woods. We stock primarily North American species. AcryliWood stabilized wood is made with our proprietary stabilization process. The resin stabilizes the wood, adds contrast to the the grain, and improves turning properties of burls and spalted woods. Woods shipped will not be identical to the picture, but similar in appearance. Please specify the species and color or lot number when ordering. Questions? Please call or email us at wood2@rrpwhite.com. Need more info? Please see our Turning Tips Page. Please Note:
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Northern Lights™ Variegated Evergreen:
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![]() Box Elder BurlBox Elder is a light colored, softer wooded member of the maple family. It is known for its ability to dye well and accept resin stabilization. It is a good turning wood with few inclusions. The lots here are all prime cut burl that are full of swirls, rays and eyes. The polished surface has great depth that doesn’t show that well in the pictures. Note: We are having difficulty obtaining larger sizes of box elder burl. We have knife scales in some colors and a limited supply of game call stock. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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Acryliwood Box Elder Burl:
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![]() Western Big Leaf Maple BurlThis burl is full of lots of small eyes. It has a relatively high resin absorption rate, and makes a somewhat stronger blank than some of the other species.
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Acryliwood Western Big Leaf Maple Burl:
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![]() Curly MapleCurly Maple is a new product! Our Curly Maple is produced from select northern, soft maple sapwood. Some colors are also available in two-tone, which is produced from heartwood.
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Acryliwood Curly Maple:Pen Blanks:All Colors Available.Knife Blanks:No Two-Tone Colors Available.
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![]() Black Ash Burl and FiguredThese are currently available only in jumbo pen blanks. Black Ash Burl can be very intense with many eyes. The figured blanks are cut from the edges of the same burls and may contain eyes as well as figure and curl.
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Acryliwood Black Ash Burl and Figured:
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![]() Buckeye Burl and Redwood BurlThis is all very nice well figured buckeye burl. Like all buckeye, there are many small bark inclusions The colored areas are really more of a bluish black when finished. Buckeye ranges a light blonde color to a blue, black color. If you prefer a certain color look, please email us. We will accommodate as long as stock will allow. Good redwood burl is getting increasingly difficult to obtain. We have a good supply we obtained several years ago.
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Acryliwood Buckeye Burl and Redwood Burl:
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![]() Cherry Burl and FiguredOur Northern Cherry (prunus pennsylvanica or prunus serotina) burls are quite dense with a large number of “eyes”. The figured Cherry is from the same species of tree. They sometimes display an abnormal grain pattern that produces this figuring. I call it burl “wannabe” 🙂
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![]() Spalted White Ash, Maple and OakThe spalted maple blanks come from Northern Red Maple and Sugar Maple. Most of this wood comes from figured crotches and stumps found in logged areas. We have a limited quantity of our spalted oak. They have good resin content and polish to a high shine. Most have more figuring than the blanks shown. Spalted white ash can difficult to distinguish from spalted maple except for more visible grain lines.
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Acryliwood Spalted White Ash, Maple and Oak:
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Spalted BirchThis wood has high resin absorption, making its final density greater than water. These blanks all came from a unusual dead yellow birch. The tree was about 2 feet in diameter when it died. It developed numerous small burls along the length of the trunk when it was young. These became imbedded deep in the trunk as the tree grew. The tree was “on the way out” for many years, allowing the wood to develop a mottled appearance. I’ve dyed a few of these, but natural is my personal favorite. Birch has a high resin absorption rate and makes a hard blank.
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![]() Spalted Ironwood and Desert IronwoodOur Desert Ironwood comes from private property in the Sonora desert. These are currently the only blanks we sell that aren’t stabilized. They are too dense for the resin to penetrate. These are beautiful shades of copper brown with broad bands, with exceptional depth after polishing. Solid, no voids, very hard and heavy. Our Spalted Ironwood blanks are from Northern Ironwood (ostrya virginiana). Green unspalted Northern ironwood is quite boring, with a mostly white, extremely dense wood. Northern Ironwood develops beautiful whorls of brown streaking when spalted. It reminds me of a chocolate swirl cake. Due to the density, stabilizing can be tricky. Heavily spalted areas take resin easily, while unspalted areas take virtually none. We have found that occasionally there may be hidden soft spalted spots where the resin couldn’t find a pathway inside. The easiest way to handle this is to treat the area with CA glue, or contact us for a replacement blank. It makes a hard blank and generally turns well. Due to its hardness chipping can be a problem.
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Acryliwood Spalted Ironwood and Desert Ironwood:
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![]() Wormy MapleThese blanks come from dead standing Maple. There are a large number of small worm holes. Some of the holes will completely fill with resin, others will not. We use a double dye process to highlight the holes in black. If you don’t want any open worm holes we suggest you wet sand with black CA or equivalent process.
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Acryliwood Wormy Maple:
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![]() Mill BurlThis isn’t real burl, but a unique man-made material made from a specially processed type of chipboard. It has a high polymer resin content and a slight pearlescent appearance when polished. It may contain some very small voids that fill well by wetting with CA glue and sanding.
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![]() Western Big Leaf Maple FiguredThis figured Big Leaf Maple is cut from the same trees that produce the burl. Like the burl, this figured wood is relatively easy to dye and stabilize. The figured wood is more abundant than the burl, hence the lower price. This wood is a good choice if you like the turning and finishing properties of stabilized wood, but at a more economical price.
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Acryliwood Western Big Leaf Maple Figured:
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Claro Walnut Burl, Claro Walnut Figured and English WalnutMost of our Walnut burl is Claro Walnut obtained from old groves on the west coast.
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Acryliwood Claro Walnut Burl, Claro Walnut Figured and English Walnut:
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![]() Corn CobsCorn cob standard pen blanks from River Ridge Products.
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Acryliwood Corn Cobs:
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General Information About Acryliwood:Dye Process:Many people believe that dye only penetrates the outer layer of the wood. That is true for a dipping process. We use a multiple cycle pressure process that forces the dye through the volume of the wood.Dye absorption is affected primarily by the wood density and cell structure, and less by distance from the surface. Some of the most striking effects are obtained on spalted woods with significant variations in wood density. The dye is most readily absorbed by the softer areas, adding color contrast to the wood.Quality:We do our best to inspect everything we sell. Wood is a natural material and may occasionally have a significant defect that isn’t visible before turning to size. If you receive a blank that you find is not usable, please let us know so that we can send you a replacement. We don’t want you to go away unhappy!The heat required in the stabilization process will sometimes cause the blank to cure with a slight permanent bow. A small warp is normally not significant because the blank is normally cut in half before drilling and turning for pen making. If you intend to use stabilized pen blanks for an application where any warp will be problem, please let us know when you order.![]() • |