Extremely old olive wood

[Penpal]

Hand cut in the forest from dead branch cross grain in Israel lately for me.

 

[Terry Q]

I make a lot of cross cut blanks to sell. None have been as awesome as this. That is one beautiful pen!!

 

[flexi]

I have to agree with Terry, that's one beautiful pen!!
I turned some very old Olive a while back, mine was extremely dry and bullet hard, it fought all the way!

 

[pittswood]

An absolutely fantastic grained piece of olive. They don't come very often. A very nice pen Peter, well dome mate.
Kelvin

 

[martin.pearson]

That looks great, I use mostly Scottish hardwoods for anything that I make but had to start buying a little bit of Olive wood when one of my granddaughters was born & was named Olive lol
I make my own blanks from offcuts from other projects & always try to either cross-cut or diagonally cut.

 

[ValleyBoy]

Awesome pen Peter!

 

[alpha1]

Superb a lovely pen.

 

[LouCee]

Great looking pen, very nice work!

 

[Bill Mooney]

Like Terry I make a lot of xcut pens & this is a stunner Peter.