Grapia Cigar

[jtate]

I've just made a new friend who runs a company that makes mops and brooms and adult diapers. I don't understand the adult diaper thing expect that they sell a lot of brooms and mops to nursing homes.

Anyway she gave me some mop/broom handles that they couldn't use because they weren't perfectly straight. So I made her a pen to thank her for the gift. She gave me handles made from several differnt types of wood - I don't know why I started with this one.

She tells me this is a South American wood called grapia. (it might be called cumaru of jatoba but she was pretty sure it was grapia.

This is my lacuer dipped over CA finish.

Coments/Critique welcome

 

[jtate]

Has anyone else worked with grapia? Anything I should know about?

 

[gerryr]

Nicely done thank you gift.

 

[txbatons]

I've never heard of grapia, but it looks similar to bois d'arc. Here's a pic of a bois d'arc cigar similar to yours.

 

[jtate]

Where does bois d'arc grow? My friend said this wood grew in the Amazon.

 

[kkwall]

Hi Julia,

Nice Pen.

Did a search on Google and came up with this site.

http://www.pampasbows.com/maderas2.html#GRAPIA

Apparently it is Argentinian.