Churchill FP with recycled wood

[edavisj316]

This is my first fountain pen and it was sold before I finished it. The wood is Heart Pine recovered from an old barn on the property where my dad grew up. It almost seems to change color as you turn the pen from the light hitting the grain [really cool]. After finishing it, I hate to give it up. But I have enough wood to make quite a few more. My dad is going to get one. I am hoping to get some wood out of the barn from my mother's side of the family. I understand it is getting in bad shape and a lot of the wood is rotten. I guess I will have to learn how to stabilize wood!

Thanks for look and your comments are welcome.

 

[1080Wayne]

Very nice

 

[boxerman]

Very nice pen.

 

[philipff]

barn wood

Great looking pen, Ed and lots more where that came from. That's a gloat for you! phil

 

[OLDMAN5050]

Now that is SHARP...........

 

[Rick_G]

Looks good Ed. Nice to have a pen made out of wood with history as well.

 

[leslie hines]

very nice pen like the wood

 

[keithlong]

I have some 200 year old yellow heart pine from a building on my wife's great granddaddy's farm in south Alabama. Love the wood grain and the finish looks good too.

 

[edavisj316]

Thanks for the comments. I didn't say in the original post, but I cut the blank on a diagonal. I think it shows off the grain very well. I gave the pen to to the customer yesterday. She loved it and put dibs on a UGA Sierra for her husband's birthday!

 

[mrcook4570]

Great looking pen! I love woods with a history.

 

[bitshird]

Ed the grain looks fine, it looks good on the Churchill, wood with a story is always nicer.