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Godfield Burr
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Thats a cracking result, I got some of this at last years meet up from His Grace Woody. Took me best part of another 6 months before I plucked up enough courage to actually try use it 
Curious as to why you didn't fill it with brass powder or something, or did you particularly want the unadulterated wood ?
Curious as to why you didn't fill it with brass powder or something, or did you particularly want the unadulterated wood ?
wm460
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I live in the middle of a gold field, (Aust last gold rush.) Bugger we don't get that timber here.
Very nicely made pen Paul.
Very nicely made pen Paul.
I live in the middle of a gold field, (Aust last gold rush.) Bugger we don't get that timber here.
Very nicely made pen Paul.
Trust me you don't want this timber there.
I think it came from and should have stayed with the HMS Bounty and her mutinous crew in the Pacific, sank with all hands lost on the Great Barrier Reef near Cape York.
Thats a cracking result, I got some of this at last years meet up from His Grace Woody. Took me best part of another 6 months before I plucked up enough courage to actually try use it
Curious as to why you didn't fill it with brass powder or something, or did you particularly want the unadulterated wood ?
I wanted jut to see the wood Phil. If I'd have used brass powder, there were that many holes you would need a crane to pick it up
I live in the middle of a gold field, (Aust last gold rush.) Bugger we don't get that timber here.
Very nicely made pen Paul.
Send some of your gold and I'll send some of the wood
wm460
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Tried metal detecting twice, first time the bloody thing kept beeping we kept digging ended up with a bloody deep hole and a raging thirst. :nonono:
Second time found mobs a steel, bullets beer cans.
Mugs Game.
Only Tennant Ck nugget I got I bought it of a gouger and put it in a pen.
Second time found mobs a steel, bullets beer cans.
Mugs Game.
Only Tennant Ck nugget I got I bought it of a gouger and put it in a pen.
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You have done an excellent job on that bit of wood Paul and I enjoyed watching the way you tackled the turning and sanding !!!!
Penpal
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Neil you touched on a pet peave of mine Eucalyptus Burl and Goldfields Burl classifications are an enema. Any holey crappy piece of timber though is up to us take it or leave it some extraordinary Aussie Burl is always like this me I see it and run for the hills when its full of holes I believe the recovery of this pen to be great.
Kind regards and full marks for courage buying or using suspect timber anywhere. Peter.