Bohemia Mistral FP

[silver]

Found a few blanks that our [MENTION=74]wm460[/MENTION] Mark sent me a few years ago so decided to give this Bohemia wood blank a turn.

Melamine finish.

Stunning OZ wood to turn and the grain is superb.. Thanks Mark..

 

[Cumbrian Craig]

Superb looking pen. And again the finish is top notch,

Regards

Craig

 

[angelo49]

Beautifully done Eamonn !!
That wood is almost identical to the Wenge board I have.

 

[Penpal]

Eamonn top pens coming out of the woodwork and yours is highly competitive. Love it mate.

Peter.

 

[Les ELm]

Lots of character in that piece of timber.
Nicely done.

Les

 

[Terry Q]

Well done Eamonn. Love the grain pattern.

 

[Bammer]

Lovely bit of wood, can't find anything about it. Looks a lot like pheasant wood.

Oh yeah, not a bad job turning it either ...

 

[Neil Lawton]

Factsheet - Bauhinia cunninghamii

Nice pen

 

[flexi]

Very nice piece of timber.....well turned as always.....result very nice pen......well done

 

[silver]

Beautifully done Eamonn !!
That wood is almost identical to the Wenge board I have.

I agree when I turned it the grain does remind me of whenge. But it's not as hard and quite nice to turn.

 

[Phil Dart]

Ooh la la. I cannot get enough of the figuring in that wood Eamonn. A stunning piece, and I bet in the hand it's even nicer

 

[fortress]

A very stylish and lovely looking pen Eamonn, great work.

 

[wm460]

Beautiful Pen Eamonn.

Unfortunately some silly bitch up stairs decide to get 2/3 of the trees at work cut down, the tree where I got this wood from was one of the victims.
It was gone before I knew it.

 

[sammy]

Thats is a beautiful pen Eamonn, great timber and finish.
George

 

[silver]

[MENTION=74]wm460[/MENTION]

Mark, I know that “Bohemia” was written on the blank but can’t seem to find out much about them.

Even looked at your workplace to see if I could find anything out.

Could only see nice pictures with nice looking trees along the driveway

 

[wm460]

[MENTION=74]wm460[/MENTION]

Mark, I know that “Bohemia” was written on the blank but can’t seem to find out much about them.

Even looked at your workplace to see if I could find anything out.

Could only see nice pictures with nice looking trees along the driveway

They used to be popular here in gardens etc, a lot were planted on the streets, between white ants and no one caring about them, (watering) I havent seen one for a few years now.
Bohemia was what they were sold as at the nursery.

Bauhinia x blakeana - Wikipedia

Bauhinia blakeana, Hong Kong Orchid Tree - TopTropicals.com

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