Historical Blanks

[bonsaibill]

I need 3 blanks of something different or special. Anyone know of any wood available from some s8gnificant source?

 

[mikedealer]

i never had any luck finding anything.. somebody asked me years ago for something similiar, and were huge yankees fan, and wanted wood maybe from like old stadium or something.. never came across a source.. Ive seen Reclaimed charred whiskey barrel blanks (use them alot for pipe tampers)

for last year or so, ive wanted to make a pen with a meteorite peice in it.. figured would turn down to a rod using sandpaper or diamond plate/lapping fluid and drill it out as like a spacer or something.. never got around to it since ive been lazy. but some meteorites are beautiful and billions of years old so always thought it was cool.

other idea was to use a peice of amber with a bug(s) in it, like in jurassic park.. again. lazy.. ebay sells baltic amber.. cherry amber really nice too but rarer and often faked by chinese with acrylic.

using petrified wood at one point crossed my mind.
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always wanted to use Bismuth also, maybe in a acrylic blank, beautiful organic design and patterns.. colors widely vary too which make them really nice.

So going back to your original question.. no, i dont know any lol.. but figured would give ya maybe a few alternate ideas.

 

[MrWright]

I have some blanks that are from Wine Barrels in Lodi, CA Home of the Flame Tokay
Grapes. They are 3/4" x 3" approx. Pay for the shipping.

 

[keithbyrd]

I have some maple from the floor of the crisler center at U of M. Home of Chris Weber and the Fab Five if you are/were into college basketball.

 

[oneleggimp]

Are you selling some of the Crisler Center blanks?

 

[builtbybill]

you can get wood from the USS Constitution from their website.

USS Constitution Wood | USS Constitution Museum

 

[Edgar]

There's a fellow on Woodbarter.com who sells blanks made from the stocks of old Civil War era muskets. They go great on the Civil War pen.

 

[NittanyLion]

eBay has plenty of options. I've seen ship wood, baseball stadium seating, famous boardwalks, etc.....

 

[keithbyrd]

Are you selling some of the Crisler Center blanks?

I can -pm me

 

[Woodnick43]

Historic civil war wood

I have some civil war wood from Fredricksburg VA. It is about 2" thick color grey to black and is Oak. I have used it for Civil War pens.

 

[bonsaibill]

I have searched for everything I can think of on ebay without much success.

 

[jimm1]

I have blanks that I cut from Jack Daniel Whisky barrels.

 

[magpens]

Check with Goodturns (IAP member name). He posted this a couple of months ago:

http://www.penturners.org/forum/f165/hms-victory-blanks-available-131196/

Wood from the HMS Victory, Admiral Lord Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar, defeat of Napoleon's navy, 1812.

 

[keithbyrd]

The question is What is significant? You say you want wood from "some significant source?" What are you considering signifcant?

 

[bonsaibill]

I have seen in the past presidential witness trees and once made pens from a fig tree that stood on the property line between Edison and Ford's summer homes. Anything interesting that has s good story.

 

[keithbyrd]

there are a couple of good suggestions above - I also have some wood that is n the Henry Ford Home Library floor. Here is one I made from it.
http://www.penturners.org/forum/attachments/f13/130698d1426467077-henry-ford-brazil-fp128-0315-5.jpg

 

[dartman]

While not what you are looking for,I have gotten wood from historic buildings from my home town and also from buildings here where I live now.It is a nice feeling when you make a pen and give the recipient the back story.