feeling caligraphy

[george]

Hy everbody !

I was feeling kind of caligraphy few days ago, and made some caligraphy pen holders from different sorts of wood.

I was also very lucky to get to wood that is old around 2.5 milion years. It was found in one of Slovenian mines, and it similar to ebony look. It is very fragile, but also very dense. It took me quite some time to get the good CA finish, but unfortunatly I only had Americana kit on stock. I would rather made some larger pen. And also one caligraphy pen holder out of it.

Thanks for opinions - still need a lot of work on taking good pictures.

 

[wood-of-1kind]

Wonderful shapes and designs George. Guess that your "old" wood is Slovenian Mine Oak as opposed to the "Irish" IBO variety.

 

[george]

Thank you for kind words

Actually this wood was when large area of pine, sekvoja and cypress forests was lowered around 2.5 milion years ago. About 100 years ago big coal mine was build in that area, and miners have found this pieces of wood. The main problem was, that after brought out of the coal mine on air, it fell apart in few hours. But few years later they have discovered a way to dry it and now it can be shaped (cut, drilled, turned..) I just hope I get few more pieces. A wood of that history should be a good seller.

 

[GoodTurns]

very nice set of pens. I agree that the mine wood should be a good seller! Looks great and has a history.

 

[papaturner]

Those are awesome shapes.....Makes me want to give the caligraphy thing a go. Very good story about the old wood ......I love that sort of thing.

 

[toolcrazy]

Very cool batch.

 

[rherrell]

Excellent work George.

 

[desertyellow]

Beautiful work.

 

[PR_Princess]

I read about something similar to George's wood over a year ago. For those who may be interested here are some links.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/07/070731-fossilized-trees.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6942733.stm
http://bbjonline.hu/index.php?col=1000&id=32450


George, congratulations on your fine work and your find. Thank you for posting and showing it to us.

 

[td]

George,

Really nice shaping. Beautiful work. I love the history attached to them as well. They should be great sellers! Congratulations and thanks for sharing.

 

[george]

Thank you all for kind words. True inspiration.

Thanks for the links too. The coal mine from where we got the wood is about 100 km from the Slovenian-Hungarian border, so this entire area must have been under the same water. The wood lays on aproximate depth of 200-400 meters under the surface.

And this are the guys that gets it out.