Olive from a disused Orchard.

[PenPal]

Travelled 400 km to be presented with an abandoned Olive Grove, the trees were 60 yrs plus and had been butchered in pruning many years ago, full of splits and ants and this was in the height of the drought (remember?). Lugged the real heavy stuff home and trust me there is no map stapled to the stems saying look in here the colour is hard to locate, difficult to cut for blanks and heavy to work. Sounds like my cuppa well it is.

It has been short cut for years now still not dry so I dried some cut pieces in my roof space.

All good not so clean fun , love the challenge, satisfied with the results. As I say continually if you can buy pen blanks reasonably face to face its the way to go or trust so many of the folks on the IAP as I have.

Regards Peter.

 

[jcoelho]

It's a beautiful pen, the grain in the wood is remarkable.

 

[corian king]

Extremley nice.I Really like the wood and the finish looks great!
Keep up the nice work and let me know if you decide to pass some of that beautiful along to others.
Thanks!
JIM

 

[Grizz]

Those are sweet with a great finish!

 

[CSue]

Absolutely stunning/

 

[boxerman]

Beautiful pen.

 

[CharlesH]

That's awesome. Gorgeous wood and I really appreciate pens with a story behind the making.

Charles

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[crabcreekind]

i looks like it was worth the hassle

 

[garrettdave]

Very nice and a nice wood find!

Dave

 

[ctubbs]

Beautiful timber. Your fit and finish is wonderful but that wood is, well, ...... oh well I need a better language. I do not have the words. WOW!! What a wonderful find.
Charles

 

[Curly]

Nice work.
You Aussies grow great olive trees.

Pete

 

[wiset1]

Looks like the effort was worth it Peter. That's some amazing looking grain there and that's a fantastic looking finish as well.

 

[Rangertrek]

Spectacular grain! Love that olive wood.

 

[wizard]

That pen is beautiful! The grain is indescribably gorgeous! Awesome Finish.
Thank you for sharing. Regards, Doc

 

[bitshird]

That's a beautiful pen, outstanding grain on the Olive, looks to have been well worth the effort to cut.

 

[seamus7227]

Yeah without a doubt it looks gorgeous! thanks for sharing your story

 

[Katsin]

Beautiful pen and you probably can skip gym membership for a while as handling lumber usually gives you plenty of exercise!