Strawberry Baron

[davebrac]

The attached photo is off a Baron dressed in Strawberry Wood (Arbutus unedo) the colouring is very subtle

David

 

[hewunch]

Nice, very feminine

 

[wdcav1952]

And here I thought you had cornered the market on strawberry futures! :wink:

Nice work, I've never heard of this wood.

Edit: Thank you for introducing this wood. I read several Google entries about it and enjoyed the reading. Big thumbs up on this!

 

[toolcrazy]

Very nice pen. Good work.

 

[talbot]

Lovely pen and wood Dave, as you say, subtle.
regards, Bill

 

[BigShed]

Very nice pen, thank you for showing that

We have loved the Strawberry Tree ever since planting one in the garden of our first house.

We have since planted one in the gardens of all our subsequent houses, indeed our current garden has one, it is now about 9 years old.

I had never seen the wood though.

 

[davebrac]

Thanks guys this pen has now been sold so it didn't even make the display case

The original idea was to make bud vase's from the branches of the strawberry wood but they were difficult to dry without them splitting, I rescued this piece from the fire basket

I am now carefully turning the rest of the strawberry into pen blanks.

 

[Ligget]

Beautiful pen Dave!

 

[dntrost]

Very nice Dave glad you rescued that piece. Would have been a shame to burn something that nice!

 

[desertyellow]

Strawberry wood, that is different.
I have never heard of it either.
Thanks for expanding my knowledge base.