Pens Around the World

[yorkie]

This is for a display for my company, which is having an employee art month.

I thought I would make a series of three pens featuring woods from every continent, ending in woods from my home state of North Carolina.

Photo 1-Africa: top left-African Blackwood, top right-Pink Ivory, bottom-Afromosia

Photo 2-Asia: top left-Amboyna burl, top right-Jerusalem Olive wood, bottom-Russian Olive wood

Photo 3-Australia: top left-Brown Mallee burl combined with pink and cream acrylic, top right-Eucalyptus burl, bottom-Coolibah burl

Photo 4-Europe: top left-English Yew from Queen's Sandringham estate, top right-Italian Olive wood, bottom-Connemara burl from west coast of Ireland that has been stabilized and green.

Photo 5-North America: top left-Redwood burl, top right-Red Box Elder, Middle-Desert Ironwood, Bottom-Arizona Diamondback Rattlesnake skin

Photo 6-North Carolina: Top left-Eastern Red Cedar (from the woods at the back of my house, top right-Dogwood, middle-quilted Black Locust, bottom-made from a piece of the Teak decking from the USS North Carolina WWII battleship, cross-cut to show the grain.

Photo 7-South America: Top left-cross cut piece of Cocobola, top right-Brazilian Bloodwood, bottom-Suriname Snakewood.

Sorry the photos aren't very good.

 

[Katsin]

The Connemara burl pen is my favorite!

 

[ctubbs]

Great idea and execution. 23 wonderful pens from around the world. Your exhibition should be a hit.
Charles

 

[Russianwolf]

great pens as usual.

Russian-Olive wood..... need the hyphen as its NOT a actually Olive wood. the fruit looks similar to an olive, thus the name.

 

[michael j flett]

they all look great if there was a prize im sure you would get first.

 

[crabcreekind]

wow i like the theme

 

[boxerman]

Very nice group of pens.

 

[yorkie]

Thanks a lot, guys.