bush

Made this one today my first attempt at one of Phil’s Cyclone fountain pens and dressed it in one of the worlds rarest woods from the Smoke bush love the kit

Turned today a retro dressed in Cork Oak wood also a Statesman pen dressed in Smoke bush wood photo of the bush as well

of the bush thing i dug out of me mums garden,,

With the Eyre Highway closed in both directions earlier today due to a bush fire, here was the next quickest way to get between WA and SA by sealed road.

This timber excites above many for its variations from Reds to Oranges,Sapwood etc to achieve across the grain is rare because white ants in the Nth of Australia eat out the centre. It is a 4 metre high Bush covered in thorns. Snakes live in the colonies of these thick bushes.Harvesting means be...

Have a day off today (London for the rest of the week :sob: ) So down the workshop and decided to have a good tidy up. Just managed to knock over my small drawer cabinet that houses all of the pen making drill bitts and bushes I now have a every bush kit mixed up and a pile of drill bitts on...

Over time I have accumulated heaps of kits other than Slimlines, mostly favouring the Slims. My Ideal bush for turning and I make and modify them by stepping the shoulder next to the blank I then have a reference to the finished sizing, clearance to finish turn the blank and not the bush, also...

One of my favourites special timber grows tough as this blank from a 150 yr bush., Peter.

Our daughter is going home in a week or so with a swag of pens this one an extremely rare Aussie Purple Heart a member of the Wattle family rare as hens teeth called in the bush Waddy Wood amongst other names. I never changes colour is hard as and very protected where its found. Peter.

The answer is ïn the bush. To be specific the Aussie bush. Those neat and perfect little sticks start life on the other side of the world (in my case) where aussies with big chainsaws and machinery search through logging coupes for that left over piece of wooden treasure. This is just the start...