#328

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Sycamore and Chrome Ballpoint Twist Pen

Sycamore - Acer pseudoplatanu

Sycamore is a creamy white colour with a silky lustre, and is easy to work. With an oil finish, Sycamore can turn a light tan colour.  Sycamore isn't that great for outdoor use. It is easily perishable and is best kept for internal decorative work. 

We'd now been through the tunnel at Harecastle, stopped for a few days at Church Lawton, Stopped for an overnight break at Rode Heath and were close to Middlewich where we were going to be trading at the Folk And Boat Festival. With a couple of washing loads to do and a good few pens to turn we decided to moor up in the middle of nowhere at Bridge 164 a few miles (and half a dozen locks) south of Middlewich to do some catching up. Pen #328 was made on Tuesday 16th June 2015.

The weather was lovely, Dudley tired himself out running through the long grass at the side of the little used towpath the washing dried quickly in the sunny breeze and chips of oak, elm, Bubinga, Sycamore, shavings from NB Birchils and Dane, and colourful acrylics floated around the back deck of the boat. Just what we needed and our first night away from civilisation for a good while. Even the rattle of combines in the next field and lorries along the A553 from Sandbach couldn't dull our moods.