Spanish olive wood

[Penpal]

Must be my last of these the stick before cutting was cross cut and outrageous grain and about 1 inch square the colours varied from light to dark each cut across yielded a different pen.

At the finish it held a lot of the grain.

Kind regards Peter.

 

[Terry]

Peter that pen is an absolute stunner and thanks for showing your photography setup !!!!!

 

[Woody]

Wow what a pen Peter it sure is bloody handsome well done my friend

 

[paulm]

extremely nice Peter, I love that wood and yet again, turned so nicely

 

[edlea]

Stunning Peter....like your photographic studio.

 

[Jimjam66]

Holy cow! What a beaut! Your photo booth shows what I have always thought - lots of light needed for good photos.

 

[Doug]

Wonderful grain, what a lovely pen & thank you for showing your photographic set up.


Nothing to do with pens but is your central heating an old system? I ask as its been years since I saw top entry radiator valves & it got me wondering if it was the standard way radiators are piped up in Australia. We used to do it like that in the UK & still do in some commercial situations but it has changed to bottom entry valves in most domestic set ups.

 

[Jimjam66]

Jeepers you have sharp eyes, Doug! I never even saw a radiator valve - had to zoom the picture to find it! :oldman:

 

[Doug]

Jeepers you have sharp eyes, Doug! I never even saw a radiator valve - had to zoom the picture to find it! :oldman:

It's the trained eye David

 

[Penpal]

Wonderful grain, what a lovely pen & thank you for showing your photographic set up.


Nothing to do with pens but is your central heating an old system? I ask as its been years since I saw top entry radiator valves & it got me wondering if it was the standard way radiators are piped up in Australia. We used to do it like that in the UK & still do in some commercial situations but it has changed to bottom entry valves in most domestic set ups.

Twenty something years ago plus I had a mate who came from Holland and he was a genius in four trades one was hydronics. Where we worked there was 1500 employees a huge campus and large numbers of buildings all were heated using various radiator systems fed from a large Boiler room pied out to the buildings in underground tunnels. I worked there as a sparky he was employed as a plumber. I gave him an automatic door (Tiltadoor) complete and he was an expert at Hydronics so he said you get the radiators etc I will instal it in your house. For quite some time the individual plant rooms where we both operated out of at times became a repository for removed radiators literally hundreds that were thrown out in a purge one time, so I collected the size and shape I preferred gave away hundreds and when the time came we fitted my home with an outside on the wall burner boiler gas fed and I had to buy three extra radiators they are bottom entry valves. At this time Natural gas was the go relatively cheap 80 something % efficient as you know silent and clean as. So this is a 9 foot long radiator on one wall. Our heaviest cost now is this heating but it serves us well.

Last year I had installed just below the pitch of our tiled roof where I dry my blanks a really simple fan that directs the hot air in the roof even after heavy frosts to seven ceiling outlets and our house comes up to 18 degrees celcius allowing us to cut back on the use of these radiators. We installed 1.62 kw of Solar cells on a nth facing roof that gives us relief from Electricity bills the cells feed back into the system and we reap a credit, our last A/C was 255.67 Dollars credit in our mild season after paying for Electricity the credit I turned into our Natural Gas and Water A/C since we use ACTEWAGL a combined provider of Gas Water and Electricity. I was getting to 60 yrs old when we fitted the radiators dread the thought of changing this system.

THe photo system was to help Geo when he takes pics. I thought I had bored everyone else having shown it so many times before. Different timbers give different colour shifts my aim is five mins set up ten mins put away and fed into cropped etc in my computer works for me.

Thanks for the kind words.

Kind regards Peter.

 

[PhillH]

Nothing to do with pens but is your central heating an old system?

Have you ever thought that you might need to get out more Doug ?

 

[PhillH]

Fabulous looking piece of wood and I too appreciate the shot of the light box setup, something else I need to look into.