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Padouk and Chrome 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.

Turned on September 12th 2014 from a very nice piece of vivid Padouk with more noticeable dark grain patterns than #143 which is the same pen in gold. I used a few extra coats of boiled linseed oil and cyanoacrylate to finish this pen to retain the warmth of colour and touch of the natural wood and to also try and retain the colour for as long as possible. This pen was made whilst we were moored just past Sutton Stop at Hawkesbury Junction at the very start of the Oxford Canal, it's a historic boating location with the Greyhound being one of the best pubs on the system especially if the log fires are roaring.

1. Padouk and Chrome Ballpoint Pen
2. The lock is only about 10" deep, it was designed as a border between the Oxford and Coventry canals rather than to change height
3. Old pumphouse in the far background