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American Black Walnut and Gun Metal ballpoint Twist pen
BLACK WALNUT - Juglans nigra
It would be hard to overstate Black Walnut’s popularity among woodworkers. Its cooperative working characteristics, coupled with its rich brown coloration puts the wood in a class by itself among temperate-zone hardwoods. To cap it off, the wood also has good dimensional stability, shock resistance, and strength properties. Heartwood can range from a lighter pale brown to a dark chocolate brown with darker brown streaks. Color can sometimes have a grey, purple, or reddish cast. Sapwood is pale yellow-gray to nearly white. Figured grain patterns such as curl, crotch, and burl are also seen.
Pen #390 was turned on Sunday 25th October 2015 just along from Norbury Junction on the Shropshire Union Canal. After a slow cruise back along the canal from Pelsall we arrived at the top of the Wolverhampton flight of 21 locks ready for the decent and the junction north to the Shropshire Union Canal.
The Shroppie is a favourite of many boaters as it enjoys a particularly rural transit up through Shropshire and Cheshire. It is, however a bit straight for my liking. Rather than following the contours of the land it is made much straighter using cuttings and embankments. Still it is a great engineering feat and it does speed up travelling times a little. It also has an underwater obstacle for most of it's length, the Shroppie Shelf, which makes mooring in rural locations tricky too.
Whilst the weather was definitely much chillier the wind slowed down and I was able to turn some of the pens that I had prepared on the journey from Birmingham. Norbury has a great annual festival that we hope to try and book into for 2016.
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