The Pen Makers Boat: #550 Now Sold

Purple Heart and Chrome Plated Ballpoint Twist Pen

PURPLE HEART - Peltogyne

When freshly cut the heartwood of Purple heart 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, Purple heart has excellent strength properties, and can be used in applications where strength is important—a wood for both form and function.

Purple Heart is considered to have energies within the wood are strongly biased towards female. Most woods have much more even male and female aspects. Purple heart is a considered quite a spiritual wood. It enhances energy dealing with creativity and knowledge. One of the best woods when dealing with spiritual healing and health issues, purple heart would be especially useful in eradicating the negative energies that create strife in the home.

Pen #550 was turned on 28th May at Burton-On-Trent Floating Market

After our challenging weekend trading on the skinny pontoons at Mercia Marina….

….It wasn’t until the first trading day that many of us appreciated that the very narrow (and shorter than advertised) finger pontoons were going to be a tight squeeze for sharing with another boat. They were only about two foot wide and had no barrier at the far end which at 40 feet long was about two thirds the way along the average boat. We shared our pontoon with a day trip boat which was fine until it started leaving every hour for fifty minutes to convey its passengers around the local canals leaving our customers standing back to look at the pen displays and teetering on the edge of the pontoon!...

Next port of call was back along the Trent and Mersey canal in a westerly direction Back to Burton-on-Trent, this time for a floating market rather than just a stop off on the way to one. We had stayed an extra night at Willington to use up some of the electrical hook-up units that we had left after the weekend and headed off fairly early Tuesday morning for the short half a day run back to our grassy towpath mooring at Burton-on-Trent.

We were made to feel very welcome by the canal side residents for the second year in a row and we had the added bonus of a few days warm and sunny weather too.