Nice Pen! A friend of mine made a canoe out of that and ancient cypress (similar deal with cypress on the coast of SC). He gave me some scraps :biggrin:
Beautiful Pen! Ancient kauri is gorgeous. A builder on the guitar amp building forum I belong to made an amp head box out if it. Truely one of the most beautiful pieces of wood I've ever seen.
I commissioned Rick Taylor, famous Kauri turning artist in New Zealand to turn me a nice bowl. It came out just beautiful. It just glows when in the light. Chatoyancy!!