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Black Walnut and 24ct Gold Plated Ballpoint Twist Pen

BLACK WALNUT - Juglans nigra

It would be hard to overstate Black Walnut’s popularity among woodworkers. Its cooperative working characteristics, coupled with its rich brown colouration puts the wood in a class by itself among temperate-zone hardwoods. To cap it off, the wood also has good dimensional stability, shock resistance, and strength properties. Heartwood can range from a lighter pale brown to a dark chocolate brown with darker brown streaks. Colour can sometimes have a grey, purple, or reddish cast. Sapwood is pale yellow-gray to nearly white. Figured grain patterns such as curl, crotch, and burl are also seen.

This pen was turned on the 3rd of June 2015 in Stone Staffs, the weather was mainly flippin' gorgeous and I spent the whole day outside catching up on my pen turning. Again not wanting to waste any time I left the pen assembling to the following day. Not that it was bad weather, on the contrary it was fantastic again but we were on our way towards the five towns of Stoke on Trent and whilst Deb was in charge of steering the boat I was inside finishing the pen off and setting up the photo studio.