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Purple Heart and 24ct Gold Plated Ballpoint Twist Pen
PURPLE HEART - Peltogyne
When freshly cut the heartwood of Purpleheart is a dull grayish/purplish brown. Upon exposure the wood becomes a deeper eggplant purple. With further age and exposure to UV light, the wood becomes a dark brown with a hint of purple. This colour-shift can be slowed and minimized by not leaving the pen in direct sunlight for too long.
Sometimes called Amaranth, this colourful Latin American hardwood is tremendously popular for furniture and other designs that call for a unique splash of colour. In addition to its colouration, Purpleheart has excellent strength properties, and can be used in applications where strength is important—a wood for both form and function.
The journey from Norbury Junction through to the locks above Audlem is a beautiful stretch of the canal system and Autumn is a great time of year to cruise it. Once past the moored boats resident at Norbury the canal passes through Grub Street Cutting with two remarkable tall bridges, one with an arch on top of an arch with an old telegraph pole in the middle and a double decker bridge with a road across the cutting and under the road the bridge carries a stream from one side to the other!
An hour or so further and the engineering feat of the Great Shebdon Embankment takes you over the smoking chimney of the farmhouse below and on towards a large ex-chocolate factory still with it's covered canalside wharf. Sadly now only producing dried milk powder the factory used to chocolate goods to and from Bourneville on the south-eastern side of Birmingham.
The narrow and very steep cutting at Woodseves leads to the picturesque flight of five locks at Tyrley and soon onto the market town of Market Drayton where we stopped for a couple of nights to restock the cupboards and catch up on a few jobs before continuing down through another five locks at Adderley and a slightly more taxing fifteen locks through Audlem village and down to one of our favourite moorings overlooking farmland and a young meandering River Weaver.
Pen #393 was turned on 31st October at the bottom of the Audlem Flight and finished and coated about two weeks later once it had done some sun bathing and changed colour a little.
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