Geordie's Berberis

[Walter]

At Neil's fundraising event Geordie (from the WWI forum) gave me a branch of berberis. It is a fine yellow colour and very nicely figured. I managed to get several pen blanks from it and this Baron roller ball pen is the first to be made from it. Finished with acrylic lacquer:

C&C welcome

Edit: Forgot to mention, I adjusted the position of the lights to minimise reflections and show off the figure of the wood. The finish is actually a high gloss.

 

[Vic Perrin]

Grand pen Walter and the picture quality is excellent

Vic

 

[Buckeye]

It certainly is beautiful wood and it's a great looking pen apart from the finger prints

Peter

 

[bellringer]

Very nice never had successes with acrylics laquar


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[stevenw1963]

It certainly is beautiful wood and it's a great looking pen apart from the finger prints

Peter

I thought it was sawdust or light reflection - anyways, nice pen that Walter, certainly a nice bit o wood

 

[Walter]

It certainly is beautiful wood and it's a great looking pen apart from the finger prints

Peter

I thought it was sawdust or light reflection - anyways, nice pen that Walter, certainly a nice bit o wood

It is indeed sawdust on the writing tip, but there is also a fingerprint on the barrel tip. Careless of me not to give it a wipe.

Thanks for your comments.

 

[Neil Lawton]

It is indeed sawdust on the writing tip, but there is also a fingerprint on the barrel tip. Careless of me not to give it a wipe.

Thanks for your comments.

Okay, who are you and what have you done with Walter!

The real Walter should now have enough CA build up to not leave fingerprints

Sawdust is not allowed in Walter's workshop, let alone find its way on to a pen nib!
Imposter!



Nice pen by the way!

 

[Terry]

A lovely piece of figured wood with a beautiful finish !!!!

 

[Doug]

A lovely piece of figured wood with a beautiful finish !!!!

Gotta agree with Terry, Beaut Walter & not a white fleck in sight

 

[paulm]

Thats a lovely piece of wood indeed. I have some Berberis which is plain yellow and some Sumach which looks like yours. I'll have to get some more to get the grain.

 

[cookie21]

Really nice pen Pen Walter Love It

 

[yorkshireman]

That is an outstanding blank Walter, and well turned

 

[rayf6604]

Very nice Walter but am I the only one who doesn't know what or where berberis comes from?

 

[Neil Lawton]

Very nice Walter but am I the only one who doesn't know what or where berberis comes from?

It's a garden shrub Ray.
Berberis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[rayf6604]

It's a garden shrub Ray.
Berberis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Well what do you know, I think there was one of these in the front garden when I was a kid. And here's me thinking it might be something exotic lol.

 

[Grump]

Ooh I do like that init?

 

[Woody]

Nice one Walter I have a bit of that knocking around somewhere

 

[Baldy]

That's a stunning pen love the wood patterns..

 

[bassethound]

Handsome pen indeed,love it!

 

[Dalboy]

Very nice pen indeed Walter. Certainly an unusual colour blank