Zebrano and Gun Metal Premium Twist Pen
ZEBRANO - Microberlinia brazzavillensis
Also called Zebrawood, Zebrano is a pale brown colour broken up by parallel darker streaks which create the zebra pattern that gives this timber its name. Zebrano has a coarse texture, and the interlocking grain is generally straight. With an oil finish, Zebrano can turn a dark brown colour.
Pen #600 was turned on 14th July at the Barclaycard Arena, Birmingham
We left Chester headed for Birmingham the day after Chester floating market and a lovely evening in the pub with fellow trading colleagues. Luckily we had a dry run up through the locks for I think the first time. As we rounded the corner to the second lock a boat coming our direction let us know there was another boat waiting to share the lock with us around the next corner, lo and behold it turned out to be our friends Scooby and Rita, a very pleasant surprise and we shared the rest of the lock flight with them.
We had quite a long way to go over the next few days and the plan was to clear the Shropshire Union Canal as soon as possible. We would normally spend at least a couple of weeks through the pleasant Shropshire countryside but three days later we had cleared Junction and were half a mile away from the bottom lock of the Wolverhampton 21 flight.
We just made it to the bottom lock early the next morning as a sleepy looking holiday boat crew came onto their back deck to ready themselves for the flight. Unfortunately the Wolverhampton flight of 21 locks are narrow so we weren't able to share, we did manage it in a great time though and we’d cleared the top lock well before 10:30. A short while later we were moored for the night in Tipton and treated ourselves to a Sunday night curry at one of the best value Indian restaurants that we've been to. Next stop was Birmingham City Centre where we would spend a few days before heading out through Bournville and tackling the Lapworth and nasty Hatton flights to get to Saltisford Arm in Warwick which was going to be a stop-over for a week while we went down to Poole to visit our daughter.
You can follow my pen making here on this blog and our travels on another blog here
Pen #600 was turned on 14th July at the Barclaycard Arena, Birmingham
We left Chester headed for Birmingham the day after Chester floating market and a lovely evening in the pub with fellow trading colleagues. Luckily we had a dry run up through the locks for I think the first time. As we rounded the corner to the second lock a boat coming our direction let us know there was another boat waiting to share the lock with us around the next corner, lo and behold it turned out to be our friends Scooby and Rita, a very pleasant surprise and we shared the rest of the lock flight with them.
We had quite a long way to go over the next few days and the plan was to clear the Shropshire Union Canal as soon as possible. We would normally spend at least a couple of weeks through the pleasant Shropshire countryside but three days later we had cleared Junction and were half a mile away from the bottom lock of the Wolverhampton 21 flight.
We just made it to the bottom lock early the next morning as a sleepy looking holiday boat crew came onto their back deck to ready themselves for the flight. Unfortunately the Wolverhampton flight of 21 locks are narrow so we weren't able to share, we did manage it in a great time though and we’d cleared the top lock well before 10:30. A short while later we were moored for the night in Tipton and treated ourselves to a Sunday night curry at one of the best value Indian restaurants that we've been to. Next stop was Birmingham City Centre where we would spend a few days before heading out through Bournville and tackling the Lapworth and nasty Hatton flights to get to Saltisford Arm in Warwick which was going to be a stop-over for a week while we went down to Poole to visit our daughter.
You can follow my pen making here on this blog and our travels on another blog here
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