I got a new skew chisel with some birthday money......so I have a go at another pen.
This was some yew which was a scrap left over from making a house name plaque for a friend.
The bit of wood is quite old. It came from a tree that fell in the '87 storms. It was in the grounds of a hospice. In 1990 I was training in forestry and was working with a guy who also had a mobile band saw. His wife sadly passed away and was looked after by a hospice in Berkshire. The tree was in their grounds. He offered to plank it up so it could be sold to cabinet makers to make some money for the hospice. I helped him plank the tree. At the end of the day there were some rough planks that where too scrappy to sell, so I got given them as payment for helping him out.
Over the years I've used them up gradually, but had this bit left over in the shed.
