Cross cut Elm/Rainbow Spirit Stained and Chrome Ballpoint Twist Pen
EUROPEAN ELM - Ulmus procera
European Elm has a light to medium brown colour, sometimes with a hint of red heartwood with irregular, wavy cross grain which results in attractive figuring. With an oil finish, it can turn a beautiful golden brown colour The grain is quite coarse. Elm can turn brown/light grey.
Ordinarily we would have spaced out a journey like Norbury to Fazeley (our next market in ten days time) to seven or eight short days travelling. Even though the weather at Norbury Junction wasn’t very nice to say the least we did sell quite a lot of pens and I’d need to get some serious hours on the lathe to replace the stock. The decision was made to get some long days in and try and condense the eight days journey into five to give me some work time. We arrived at Fradley Junction and moored above Shadehouse Lock by Thursday afternoon and three days longish cruising including a stop off for shopping in Stafford and visiting boat trading friends who had managed to get a spot at Penkridge market.
Luckily the weather was firmly on our side and we had a marvellous few days cruising and the weather for our four day stop off was just about perfect and pauses in long days pen making were punctuated with sitting out under the dappled shade of the trees watching other boats on their journeys.
Pen #509 was turned at Shadehouse Lock just above Fradley Junction on May 6th 2016
Pen #509 was turned at Shadehouse Lock just above Fradley Junction on May 6th 2016
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