Hi,
New plating options for me on this on, and a great piece of BOW. Didn't look anything special until it was round! Wish I'd have put it on a Fountain Kit now!!
Certainly, a beautiful piece of Olive wood...!
Funny that, the day you posted this thread, I did sliced a couple of Olive root slabs, from the large pile I cut a few weeks back and that, I had put a side for further processing ASAP. That day I did only slice the slabs into small boards to make the pen blanks from.
Those boards are still untouched as I decide to let them dry for a few weeks (pretty hot at the moment, here...!) before I rip them into pen blanks and knife scales.
Some of the slabs and therefore the boards that are coming out of them, have a combination of rood and tree butt woods, as they are quite distinct in colour/grain and density. The very area were the 2 woods meet is what your pen blank used, seemed to come from.
The bottom part of it, looks like the wide/open grain, with to top in a more tight and straight lines, grain...!
With the gathering of these large Olive tree roots, I have given myself lots of wood to work and play with and also a lot of very exceptional pieces, that vary from Burl to wood that is identical to the blanks in your pen. I have not had shortage of Olive wood for some years now, and plenty of magnificent blanks *Gems* and hight grade pieces however, these roots are complementing magnificently what I had, but now I have "again" some nice root wood to play with.
Unfortunately, all a bit green yet but soon they will be OK to be worked with...!
Great job you did, and thank you for showing us such a beautiful pen...!
Cheers
George
