I'm dead in line with JT bright colors or wood the just screams I'm special, and will sell better, I used to do some common woods like Ipe and Granadillo even some Purpleheart and Caribbean Rosewood, but even though they aren't over the top grains they are still reasonably exotic, and most exotic hardwoods out sell plain pines and cedar even though cedar is beautiful and fragrant. Plain Walnut VS. Claro burl Walnut?? uh how about Huon Pine vs Douglas fir, If a wood is reasonably uncommon and has a nice color and SOME defined grain, it should make a pen that if nothing else could be donated to the pens for servicemen, -- Hand made, kind of special, shows someone back home cares and it would go to someone special, a Service man or woman a Soldier or Sailor, even a Marine or Air force member.