The wood is over 150 yrs old

[PenCasso]

Pawhuska OK, is in the map due to the Pioneer Women. If you don't know who she is your wife will. Anyways, a friend of mine has been working in that town having to remodel some of the old buildings there. I asked him to bring me some discarded wood, anything to make a pen. Well this is what he brought and this is what I made. I have no clue what kind of wood this is, and nothing was altered on the wood.

 

[hewunch]

Heart Pine. Beautiful

 

[Kenny Durrant]

Gorgeous Pen. I was thinking pine as well. I have some pieces from sinker logs that an insurance company used in an office building they built a few years ago. Looks like the same wood.

 

[egnald]

I think it is pine as well, but old growth pine vs something more modern. Modern day pine has fewer rings per inch than old growth pine. Just compare the end grain picture of yours to the 1918 pine here. - Dave (PS Very attractive Pen by the way).

Picture is a screen capture from Linda Childers, Feb 14, 2020
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[PenCasso]

Thank you!

 

[PenCasso]

Heart Pine. Beautiful

That explains why its gummy.

 

[hewunch]

That explains why its gummy.

Yup! Some more than others

 

[GaryMGg]

It's clearly Old Growth Heart Pine and the blank is crosscut. This is why the blank makes a beautiful pen. Cut the other way, it's interesting but not nearly as beautiful.
I sent some Old Growth Heart Pine blanks to a fellow which are from the 1870s.
I have a bunch of it.

 

[PenCasso]

It's clearly Old Growth Heart Pine and the blank is crosscut. This is why the blank makes a beautiful pen. Cut the other way, it's interesting but not nearly as beautiful.
I sent some Old Growth Heart Pine blanks to a fellow which are from the 1870s.
I have a bunch of it.

I can make several blanks also. Just a little more challenging to turn for sure.

 

[MRDucks2]

Keep in mind, on historic wood, that it is actually older than you think. Let's say your board came out of a 150 year old building and you have a pieco that you can count 100 growth rings on. That make the board 150 years old from a building around 1873 but the tree was a sapling from 1773 and was able to watch America be born, the nation grow, the area become populated, the effects of the civil war, etc. Makes for an even more interesting story than the building it came from.

 

[derekdd]

Very cool find.

I hope you're able to get lots and lots of pens out of that piece both for the beauty and history.

There's a reclaimed lumber yard in OKC if you're interested in other similar pieces. Not sure about their prices but I know they're in biz.

 

[GaryMGg]

Keep in mind, on historic wood, that it is actually older than you think. Let's say your board came out of a 150 year old building and you have a pieco that you can count 100 growth rings on. That make the board 150 years old from a building around 1873 but the tree was a sapling from 1773 and was able to watch America be born, the nation grow, the area become populated, the effects of the civil war, etc. Makes for an even more interesting story than the building it came from.

So true.

The Old Growth Heart Pine I was given came from a homestead near mine which was being taken down board by board.
The current owner told me, "My grandfather built this house from trees milled on site when he came back from the war about 1870."

Some of these pines probably existed when Florida was being 'discovered'.

My property has giant Live Oaks, one having a 200 foot canopy!

 

[MRDucks2]

"My property has giant Live Oaks, one having a 200 foot canopy!"

My wife would love to see that one. She loves Live Oak trees.