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Bristlecone Pine Pen Blanks
Very rare wood from Colorado. Available with a certificate, request in comments at checkout.$9.00
8 in the stock
Burma blackwood pen blanks
Sample photo: grains and color vary like the above. interesting color and grain!$3.50
479 in the stock
Craft Blanks
Boxwood 27 to 38
Genuine Boxwood, dried pieces. Note that the grade is shown under each piece. These are fine grained pieces.
Piece 27
Boxwood, dried, size: 1.5 x 1.5 x 4.75 inches
Piece 30
Boxwood, dried, size: 1 7/16 x 1 7/16 x 5.25 inches
piece 33
Boxwood, dried, size: 1 3/8 x 1 3/8 x 4 1/8 inches
Piece 36
Boxwood, dried, size: 1 5/16 x 1 5/16 x 4.5 inches
Piece 37
Boxwood, dried, size: 1.25 x 1.25 x 4 1/8 inches
Piece 38
Boxwood, dried, size: 1 x 1 x 4.5 inches
Brazilian Kingwood
This is Brazilian Kingwood. It is a genuine rosewood and becoming rare in quality pieces like these. Last time imported was about 5 years ago, but that was just a very small amount and before that it was many years prior for the last time allowed out of Brazil. We hope it will be allowed out of Brazil again, but the current situation is that we will likely run out in the near future.
Piece 4
Brazilian Kingwood, dried, size: 1.25 x 1.25 x 9 1/8 inches
Piece 5
Brazilian Kingwood, dried, size: 1.5 x 2.5 x 8 15/16 inches, some rounded corner areas shown in first photo
Piece 10
Brazilian Kingwood, dried, size: 1 1/16 x 1.25 x 5.75 inches
Briar Burl AtoH
Briar Burl is a special wood usually used for making smoking pipes. It also turns out to be a great wood for woodworking too. Very easy to sand even though it is hard and the results are great. This is a very difficult wood to produce, the burls are odd small shapes with holes cracks and stones in the them. This is why you almost never see high quality blanks for sale, just the burls. The labor is prohibitive, but we like to make some for our customers from time to time because they are really interesting. Note: Prices actually went down from the last time we offered these years ago, we just got a better yeild this time!
Piece F
Briar Burl, dried, high figure 1.25 x 1.25 x 4.5 inches
Piece G
Briar Burl, dried, high figure 1 x 1 x 4.75 inches
Bubinga
Some of the unfigured shown unfinished. Note that color darkens a lot when finishing, this is a photo of bare wood. 1 x 1 x 12, kiln-dried$3.50
3 in the stock
Knife Blanks
Boxwood 4 to 16
Genuine dried Boxwood. This type is Buxus Macowannii. A true buxus species and has a very fine grain, as this was taken from South Africa where it apparently grows quite slowly. Great quality material. It is a lot of labor to make these pieces, but we feel it is worth it to offer material that is top quality. When pieces are the general size of a Knife handle blank, we just label them as knife blanks. They can be used for all sorts of purposes though. Grades, see the description for boxwood. TG = Turning Grade, IQ = Musical Instrument Grade, IQ2= Almost musical instrument grade
Piece 5
Boxwood, dried, size: 1.25+ x 1 5/8 x 6 inches
Piece 6
Boxwood, dried, size: 1.25 x 1 11/16 x 3 5/8 inches
Piece 8
Boxwood, dried, size: 1.25 x 1 3/8 x 6+ inches
Piece 10
Boxwood, dried, size: 1.25 x 1 5/16 x 4 inches
Piece 11
Boxwood, dried, size: 1 5/16 x 1 13/16 x 2 7/8 inches
Piece 12
Boxwood, dried, size: 1 5/16 x 1 9/16 x 4.5 inches
Piece 13
Boxwood, dried, size: 1 1/16 x 1.5 x 3.75 inches
Piece 15
Boxwood, dried, size: 13/16 x 1.25 x 12 3/8 inches
Briar Burl i to M
Briar Burl is a special wood usually used for making smoking pipes. It also turns out to be a great wood for woodworking too. Very easy to sand even though it is a hard wood, and the results are great. This is a very difficult wood to produce, the burls are odd small shapes with holes cracks and stones in the them. This is why you almost never see high quality blanks for sale, just the burls. The labor is prohibitive, but we like to make some for our customers from time to time because they are really interesting. Note: Prices actually went down from the last time we offered these years ago, we just got a better yield this time!
Piece L
Briar Burl, dried, 1 1/16 x 1.5 x 3 inches
Piece M
Briar Burl, dried, 1 1/16 x 2 x 2 7/8 inches
Bowl Blanks
Bubinga Figured 1 to 4
Piece 3
1 15/16 x 5 x 5 inches
Piece 4
1 15/16 x 5 x 5 inches