Ash, Spirit Stained with Blue Over Black, With Chrome
Creamy white to a light tan in colour, European Ash is a tough, straight-grained and flexible timber with a coarse but even texture. It works well with both hand and machine tools, and stains, saws and finishes well. It can have olive coloured streaks running through the boards. With an oil finish, it can turn golden brown.
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.
Another fortnight of the delights of all that Birmingham has to offer went by rather quickly and after a short day cruise we moored up within sight of the Sealife Centre and the Barclaycard Arena on this very modern part of the Birmingham Canal Navigations.
Another fortnight of the delights of all that Birmingham has to offer went by rather quickly and after a short day cruise we moored up within sight of the Sealife Centre and the Barclaycard Arena on this very modern part of the Birmingham Canal Navigations.
Pen #442 was turned on January 26th outside the entrance ramp to the Barclaycard Arena in central Birmingham.
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