Australian Pine Cone.... you won't believe it!

[Darley]

At my suprise 3 weeks ago when my daugther went on Scout camp in Victoria, my wife and I decide to give her a suprise visit, when we arrive at the camp I have been stun to see one of my well know Pine tree the ' BUNYA PINE " this pine tree provide pine cone size of 10 kgs or 22 pounds the nuts are edible and very nice I can tell you that ( eat them every year when I was in Queensland ), so I pick all the pine cones and nuts I can find from the ground and 1 things I couldn't believe is that none of the Scout leaders did know you can eat them :frown:

So here I will show you what it's look like.

With the pine core I made a Havana FP nib from heritage pen, but have to be careful as the core was drinking CA as mad :biggrin: ( you can see the texture of the core in the photos ) Thanks for looking.

Any one got a bigger Pine cone??:biggrin:

 

[arjudy]

Very cool.

 

[OKLAHOMAN]

Serge, The Little Havana is one of my favorites and you've done it proud.

 

[johncrane]

Serge!
your little Havana looks great,also l have never tried to eat the nut's whats it taste like,:biggrin:

 

[toolcrazy]

Very cool, nice work.

 

[bitshird]

That's down right pretty, I used to gather the nuts from Pinion pine trees in New Mexico, very tasty treat, the pine cones were no where near that size though,

 

[PenTurnerfromMaine]

I love a pen with a good story

 

[cdbakkum]

bitshird, Ken, where did you live in New Mexico? I lived in Albuquerque and Farmington. Carl

 

[reddwil]

great looking pen. I like it

 

[workinforwood]

Looks pretty good Darley. I guess if you get lost in the outback, you can eat your pen.

 

[Josh Gertz]

Hah, I am going to have to call up some of my co-workers in the Aussie office and have them send me a package.

I love the look of that pen

 

[Darley]

Looks pretty good Darley. I guess if you get lost in the outback, you can eat your pen.

LOL, though you would ask me to drink the ink