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[Russianwolf]

Irish Bog Oak on a Chrome Baron Rollerball. The guy that is buying it also bought a Turkish Walnut Baron for his brother.

[jking]

Very nice. Is that the natural color of the wood?

[Russianwolf]

yep, I have some that's even blacker than this.

[crokett]

Beautiful work. Is that finished smooth and I am just seeing the grain? From the pics the wood looks wrinkled.

[Anna]

Mike, that's beautiful. Where do you get your wood? You seem to have pretty exotic stuff to work with.

[Russianwolf]

Beautiful work. Is that finished smooth and I am just seeing the grain? From the pics the wood looks wrinkled.

It's pretty smooth, not perfectly, but mostly what you see is just the graining as you said. This tyoe of Bog Oak comes from the sapwood and has a lot more of the brown grain in it than the heartwood.

[Russianwolf]

Mike, that's beautiful. Where do you get your wood? You seem to have pretty exotic stuff to work with.

I've gotten all my Bog Oak from ebay, in fact I missed an auction today by a couple seconds. I have two small blanks and One large piece (I could get about 6 nice blanks if I cut it up) left.

For the other stuff, I buy and trade blanks with people over on IAP. For Pen Blanks it's easy to find nice pieces, but they can be expensive. The Bog Oak above I paid $6.50 for the one blank, so about $156 per board foot. Some blanks go for $10 and I've seen some of the cast blanks go for $25+ per blank.

[John Hunter]

Very nice.

[Brian in Dawson Creek]

Beautiful … I don’t think photography does it justice but I’d have to have a closer look. Would you mind sending it to me for further evaluation?

Very nice

Brian

[footprintsinconc]

look real nice!

[lrogers]

You sure come up with some interesting woods Mike. Never heard of Bog Oak, Irish or otherwise. Oh, nice job as usual.

[Russianwolf]

You sure come up with some interesting woods Mike. Never heard of Bog Oak, Irish or otherwise. Oh, nice job as usual.

People of Irish heritage love the stuff (myself included), and others get a big kick out of the fact that the wood is about 5000 years old.

You may have heard of it, but not realize it. It's simly an Oak tree that fell over in the peat bogs in Ireland. The Tannin from the peat dyes the Oak a black color and the lack of oxygen preserves the wood. They excavate the trees while cutting the peat out for commercial purposes. Now the trees are used mostly by artists for sculpting and other woodworkers.

[Russianwolf]

Beautiful … I don’t think photography does it justice but I’d have to have a closer look. Would you mind sending it to me for further evaluation?

Very nice

Brian

Shucks Brian, can't help ya as I no longer have the pen. I do have a bit more cash in my wallet though.

[Whaler]

Mike, That's beautiful. A very classy combination of wood and hardware.

[mater]

It looks great. Very nice work.