yorkie
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This is for a display for my company, which is having an employee art month.
I thought I would make a series of three pens featuring woods from every continent, ending in woods from my home state of North Carolina.
Photo 1-Africa: top left-African Blackwood, top right-Pink Ivory, bottom-Afromosia
Photo 2-Asia: top left-Amboyna burl, top right-Jerusalem Olive wood, bottom-Russian Olive wood
Photo 3-Australia: top left-Brown Mallee burl combined with pink and cream acrylic, top right-Eucalyptus burl, bottom-Coolibah burl
Photo 4-Europe: top left-English Yew from Queen's Sandringham estate, top right-Italian Olive wood, bottom-Connemara burl from west coast of Ireland that has been stabilized and green.
Photo 5-North America: top left-Redwood burl, top right-Red Box Elder, Middle-Desert Ironwood, Bottom-Arizona Diamondback Rattlesnake skin
Photo 6-North Carolina: Top left-Eastern Red Cedar (from the woods at the back of my house, top right-Dogwood, middle-quilted Black Locust, bottom-made from a piece of the Teak decking from the USS North Carolina WWII battleship, cross-cut to show the grain.
Photo 7-South America: Top left-cross cut piece of Cocobola, top right-Brazilian Bloodwood, bottom-Suriname Snakewood.
Sorry the photos aren't very good.
I thought I would make a series of three pens featuring woods from every continent, ending in woods from my home state of North Carolina.
Photo 1-Africa: top left-African Blackwood, top right-Pink Ivory, bottom-Afromosia
Photo 2-Asia: top left-Amboyna burl, top right-Jerusalem Olive wood, bottom-Russian Olive wood
Photo 3-Australia: top left-Brown Mallee burl combined with pink and cream acrylic, top right-Eucalyptus burl, bottom-Coolibah burl
Photo 4-Europe: top left-English Yew from Queen's Sandringham estate, top right-Italian Olive wood, bottom-Connemara burl from west coast of Ireland that has been stabilized and green.
Photo 5-North America: top left-Redwood burl, top right-Red Box Elder, Middle-Desert Ironwood, Bottom-Arizona Diamondback Rattlesnake skin
Photo 6-North Carolina: Top left-Eastern Red Cedar (from the woods at the back of my house, top right-Dogwood, middle-quilted Black Locust, bottom-made from a piece of the Teak decking from the USS North Carolina WWII battleship, cross-cut to show the grain.
Photo 7-South America: Top left-cross cut piece of Cocobola, top right-Brazilian Bloodwood, bottom-Suriname Snakewood.
Sorry the photos aren't very good.