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Premium Wood Selection for Pens
Premium Wood for Pens
Hand Selected - Colourful & Figured
Australian Woods only listed below, by common names
General / indicative features, briefly described, f/b = fiddleback
This offering is for my better (premium) woods. These are mostly Australian native species. However, I can offer pretty exotics from the Americas & Africa if so desired for same price. (Have some very beautiful ones from Texas / Mexico).
These feature Colour & Figure. Some have contrasting sapwood, some as burl & few are stabilised but all selected for Quality pens. Sizes 18-20+ mm x 125 -140 mm. Some bigger or longer. Few may benefit from filing or stabilisation with resins.
10 blanks will be selected from the following 40+ woods.
Bangalay - ancient, grey-black, dated at 2000 yrs old
Black Palm - almost black, in rods, some stabilised
Brown Palm - brown, in rods
Box burls - various paler to dark red-browns, some with resin bark pockets
Bowyakka - very dark brown-black, ringed
Bonewood - bone white, featureless,
Beefwood (2) - deep red, with oak-like rays
Black Ironbox, - black-grey & streaks, cream sapwood, herringbone pattern
Boonry - deep red-black, hard as glass
Budgeroo - figured, in tan tones
Coolibah burl, pinks & reds, pale sapwood, cloud-like patterns
Cockspur Vine, deep yellow heartwood (like Osage)
Crow Apple, dark pink purple-red, wavy & f/b
Conker berry portions- bright orange, some cream sapwood & grey green streaks (limited amt available, in short half logs or sections for pens & small items @ $15 each)
Canary Muskheart, yellowish with small dark heart
Denhamia Boxwood - ivory white, very fine textured
Deep Yellowwood - yellow heartwood, pinks & dark streaks toward sapwood
Emu Apple (pale creamy, pink some f/b & wavy
Ebonies (2) some white, some with streaks of black, some spotted, in pink (intermediate) wood
Gidgees (3)-most dark brown, some streaked, some dark purple, also f/b
Goldwood - golden yellow with very fine rays
Gutta Percha - Blind-Your-Eye, in streaked dark browns
Greenheart (Wilga), tones of green, streaked
Huon ‘Pine’ - creamy yellow, birdseye & f/b & sago
Ivorywood - ivory white, fine featureless
Ivory Hakea - creamy-white, with rays
Jarrah - very dark red, f/b
Mackay Cedar, red-cream stripes, stabilised
Mangrove - grey, interesting figure, some herring-bone
Myrtles (inland & Tas & spalted, some with corduroy like figure),
Myall (western) wild figure & some with fiddleback
Mulgas, in tones of brown, some almost black, most figured
Mallee & Eucalypt burls - various, swirling red-browns or in pastel tones
Native Poplar - very fine, pale cream-yellow
Orangebark / Orange Boxwood - pale to dark orange-brown with very fine rays
Paperbark Wandoo - pastel tones & streaked in browns, f/b
Purplewood wattle - our brightest purple, fine, rare
Red Cedar (F/B) deep red, soft, figured
Inland Rosewood (3) dark red, some very streaked,
Red Lancewood (f/b) red-purple heartwood. Some f/b
Satin Box - cream with f/b
Sheoak, lacey - deep orange-brown, lace & some with birdseye figure
Sheoak, Flame/ Hairy Oak - bold brown oak-like ray figure
Tea Tree - tones of pink, grey blue & brown
Tulipwood- spalted, cream & small brown heart, black streaks in some
Tulip wood (as above) - heartwood, tones of brown, ‘like tortoise shell’
Yarran (fiddleback) dark brown acacia, some f/b
To start, I will have 6 lots - each with 20 blanks (+ any extras)
Most packs will be different ie mixed. (I prefer no pre-selections in this offer but I may be swayed.)
20 blanks for $5 ea per pack. Total $115 delivered (Australia)
Or, if you want some conkerberry (examples as shown below) that’s an extra $15/ piece ie a total $130 delivered.
PM me for payment details. Some have already expressed their interest,
Pictures (to follow) will show examples, but in poor light in workshop. Colours & figure are more dramatic.
The Divestment (of my wood pile) Continues :)
edit: for minor spelling & typos