hard maple

The city began removing a dying maple that was also rubbing a street light wire across the street from me this week. By yesterday they were getting closer to the trunk of the tree and by the afternoon the color started to show. I stepped over a mentioned I may want to talk them out of a piece...

Sorry I thought I'd have posted many more pens then this, now my second pen. Now correct me if someone knows better, but this material came from a blank I cut from a beautiful piece of Tiger Strip (curly Maple) Maple. So I call it Swirled Tiger Strip but if it has another name please let me...