Padouk and 24ct Gold Plated Ballpoint Twist Pen
PADOUK - Pterocarpus soyauxii
Padouk is vivid red with a distinctive contrasting band of white sapwood. Padouk may show interlocking grain in places and has a fine, even texture. Like all woods the colours do develop, the more vivid the colour the greater likelihood that the colour will change, not necessarily fade. Padouk can develop into quite a dark brown colour.
Christmas had been a very busy time for us. With the trip up from the Shropshire Union canal the long way and the weather turning a little more wintery I slowed down my pen turning and gave some time over to the growing list of Christmas presents that needed turning. Whilst Deb was busy crocheting and knitting I was on the chilly back deck making vases, lidded pots, pot pourri containers and pendant necklaces in all different shapes, sizes and colours, Enjoyable, but with the last flurry of the Christmas pen orders and a busier than expected floating market (the weather was foul) my pen stock was depleting fast. I had promised myself that we would be starting the new year with a stock of around fifty pens, we had six.
Leaving the marina at Hawne Basin on new year's eve we moored up at the Black Country Living Museum and headed into Tipton to meet up with some friends for a bit of a doo. We had just about recovered from our excesses and on a very gusty January the 2nd we headed the ten miles and three locks into central Birmingham where we will hide away from the worst of the weather in the BCN’s basins and loops.
We were feeling a little guilty a week later as we had been enjoying catching up with more friends in the restaurants and bars in the city centre so I started to make a rough plan for the next pens to be made. First a day or two of cutting, drilling and gluing brass tubes into various pieces of wood and colourful acrylics.
Second pen off the lathe on Sunday January 10th in Cambrian Wharf under the balcony of The Flapper Pub and in the shadows of Birmingham’s - more often than not closed - library was number #434
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