This fills me with so much joy.
DID YOU TAKE MAH EMEWOLDS EGGMAN?!?!?
*looks at sanic*
BWOAGSHIT NEVERMIND, JUST WANNA GO HOME NOW!
(wooden earrings)
I don't know, those don't look entirely hygienic. The porous wood absorbs so much moisture and germs, they might not be as safe as ones made of biocidal metal.
Walnut is a super duper stable wood, it's one of the only ones I have access too which I would ever consider for a piercing, and it's been slathered in a beeswax+mineral oil coating we variously call honey butter, wood butter, wood balm, and so forth, additionally the pores on the pieces used for the pins are at the ends of the wood, not along the section touching the inside of the piercing.
I am kinda sorta extremely familiar with several wood species in particular, and generally have an extremely rich understanding of wood overall.
You would be right to be concerned if this was like, untreated pine, or birch, or even one of the pretty fruit woods (pear, apple, peach, etc) as they are not nearly as stable and friendly to work with as walnut... but then, nothing really is.
It's ... challenging to work.. but you could also try Osage Orange. Even with a clear urethane finish, it glows bright neon yellow and dark tan. Lovely wood. It's commonly known as hedge apple. It may or may not be wild in your area. (it is in my area.)
Depending on how much it would cost to ship, I could try scavenging roadsides for windfalls of suitable quality. You clearly already have a full wood shop for dressing it.
I would love to play with your wood, but I need to build a kiln before that sort of thing, I have no handy location to get wood dried down to the proper moisture level in a decent amount of time yet.
Right now this is the kinda shit that gets me all horny to play with:
https://www.thelumbershack.com/3-Black-Walnut-Kiln-Dried-Lumber-Boards-Taxidermy-Base-Wood-Slabs-15665-15667-47774.htmlPlaying with some really interestingly aged bits of pine for some handles lately, they're coming in with this really rich orangey tan color instead of the usual sandy beige and that makes the growth rings show up with a nice caramel gold sort of activity in the light.
Smells fantastic when you start rasping and filing and sanding it, got a nice sorta crisp almost tangy kinda pine sap scent instead of bullshit air freshener nonsense, though I wish they made these fucking shinto saw rasps in a half-round form:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG9c3o56x2AThough now I'm kinda pondering how well I could assemble the various coping/scroll saw blades I have sitting around since I upgraded to these pegas skip tooth beauties.
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