Thread: Pink Conkaberry

Like the depth of colour, are you able to get blanks of it? Amos

Hi Pete, never heard of 'pink' Conkerberry before. I have some conkerberry and it is very orange.

Maybe this is one I haven't heard of?

Let's see some pens.

Thanks for the correct spelling.Sold as pink Conkerberry I guess because it is a pink colour before you hit it with french polish or sanding sealer or tripple E or whatever,always labeled when I have bought it.Look in Australian Timbers Guide and that to me is the untouched colour pink as,cream as.Bit like the butcher selling meat under grolux fluros depends on.Settle for Carissa Lanceolata Common Name Conkerberry,
Colour Heartwood bright orange,sapwood creamy to yellow.
Amos I have never seen blanks for sale and I know why as you can find in cutting logs so many voids,bark,splits,faults etc,bit like olive,ebony,pink ivory,when you can buy them they are never cheap but but worth it.Read the other day to drill pink ivory wood seal after with CA before gluing the brass in to compensate for damage done in the drilling process.
Cisco Kid since you asked I will take some pics later,its raining now good time to do it,hope this explanation covers Amos,Matrix,Cisco kid.
What happened Skew mentioned to Simomatra he was enquiring about a pen in Conkerberry and I happened to have a log,a cut piece etc.
Do not know yet how to create parenthesis may not bother,computers great,comprehension to come.

As promised two pics of pen with sapwood and one without from the log above of Conkerberry.This tree grows about 10feet in Nth Queensland arid areas.

Ya know, I like the look of that sliced up log just enough... that I want one!

Don't know that I'd ever slice it up for pen blanks, but it'd sure look purty sitting next to my largish samples of Pink Ivory & Amboyna. (Both useless for anything else due to flaw placement but looking purty is enough for me. )

Heres some hopefully better photos of my pink concerberry pen

They show the contrast of the sapwood better.

That sure is a pretty log. I really like how the pens came out. Very nice.


Rick

Send me a pm with your details name address E mail address and I will send that block 2by3by3inches to you,if you were to sand it and polish it is as cut by the bandsaw. Regards Peter