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Cotinus (Smoke bush) pen

Anthraquinone

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I am slowly building a collection of woods of the world in the form of Euro pens (they are relatively cheap, easy to make and show a reasonable amount of wood). I recently got a blank of Cotinus coggygria = Smoke tree or Smoke bush a garden favourite. The wood is very yellow with dark brown markings.

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The image above has the pen halves have been twisted to try to show both sides in one picture.

AQ
 
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You have a lifetimes work to catalogue all the woods John. Its a very nice pen you've made there, I haven't heard of the wood but it looks similar to Sumac or the Rain Tree.
 
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Very nice love the wood I started doing the same as you some years ago and have over 600 pens all in different wood good luck and enjoy
 
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paulm said:
You have a lifetimes work to catalogue all the woods John. Its a very nice pen you've made there, I haven't heard of the wood but it looks similar to Sumac or the Rain Tree.
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Perhaps I will not quite get them all done. Part of the problem is finding them.

You are right they are similar. Cotinus and Sumac are in closely related genera. I thought I would show the cotinus as it is a plant that is grown in many gardens in the UK and grows to a size suitable for pens.

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Good luck in your quest John .. There are plenty of species to go for, maybe select a choice of your top ten once done select another ten .. :bwink:

A good looking pen BTW, with an excellent finish on it .. :thumbs:
 
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One area up north over here showed up two hundred different trees so many fellas have made knee high small boots, eggs, balls, to display I like the use of pens for this purpose all the best in your quest.

Peter.:fingers:
 
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Penpal said:
One area up north over here showed up two hundred different trees so many fellas have made knee high small boots, eggs, balls, to display I like the use of pens for this purpose all the best in your quest.

Peter.:fingers:
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Can you recommend any suppliers of pen blanks who have a large stock of Australian woods. I know of Timberbits but they do not stock many different ones.

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