Hububalli is native to the South America and typically grows from 40 to 80 feet tall. Hububalli heartwood will fluoresce medium to bright streaks of green under a blacklight.
This streamlined pen has mystery, flair, and elegance plus a smooth twist mechanism. The very durable low-luster brushed satin plating gives this pen a subtle and elegant look.
Accepts Parker-style ballpoint refills.
Information on Hububalli from the Wood Database.
I don’t really know much about this piece of wood. It was labeled ebony, but I don’t know which kind of ebony, and there are many. It has a deep brown coloring and made a beautiful pen.
Fine components emulate the world’s most expensive writing instruments. Choose this old world style pen when the enduring quality is your standard of performance. Epoxy coating on 24-karat gold plating ensures extreme durability.
Accepts Cross-style ballpoint refills.
The cebil, whose wood is often sold as Patagonian rosewood or as curupay, is native to Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay where it grows from 50 to 80 feet tall with a 2 to 3-foot trunk diameter. Its heartwood is a pale to medium reddish brown with darker brown to black streaks.
This pen’s sleek refined design makes it an exceptionally popular gift that never goes out of style. Epoxy coating on 24-karat gold plating ensures extreme durability.
Accepts Cross-style ballpoint refills.
Information on Patagonian rosewood from the Wood Database.
Goncalo Alves (pronounced gone-kalo all-vez) can be found in Mexico southward to Brazil. This tree grows to 130 feet in height with a 5-foot trunk diameter. Its heartwood is a medium reddish brown. Due to its striking streaks of dark brown to black, it is commonly referred to as zebrawood or tigerwood.
Fine components emulate the world’s most expensive writing instruments. Choose this old world style pen when the enduring quality is your standard of performance. The very durable low-luster brushed satin plating gives this pen a subtle and elegant look.
Accepts Cross-style ballpoint refills.
The olive tree is native to Europe and eastern Africa. Olive trees are typically between 25 and 50 feet in height with a 3 to 5-foot trunk diameter. Its wood is creamy or yellowish-brown with darker brown to black contrasting streaks.
With several subspecies and hundreds of cultivars, olive trees are commercially important wherever they grow. The olive is closely related to ash and lilac and is sometimes confused with Russian olive which is from an entirely different family of trees.
This streamlined pen has mystery, flair, and elegance plus a smooth twist mechanism. Epoxy coating on 24-karat gold plating ensures extreme durability.
Accepts Parker-style ballpoint refills.
Wenge (pronounced WHEN-gii or WHEN-ghay) is native to central Africa. These trees can reach 90 feet in height with a 4-foot trunk diameter. It’s heartwood is a medium brown with nearly black streaks. With an oil finish, the wood can become nearly black and is dark enough to be used as a substitute for ebony.
This streamlined pen has mystery, flair, and elegance plus a smooth twist mechanism.
Accepts Parker-style ballpoint refills.
Purpleheart, sometimes called amaranth, can be found in Central and South America, from Mexico down to southern Brazil. This tree can reach heights of 170 feet with a 5-foot trunk diameter.
Purpleheart starts out with a light lavender color that darkens to a rich purple with exposure to heat.
This streamlined pen with its luminous two-tone plating has mystery, flair, and elegance plus a smooth twist mechanism.
Gunmetal, also known as red brass, is a type of bronze that was once used chiefly for making guns (it has largely been replaced by steel) and is still used for steam and hydraulic castings, valves, gears, statues, and various small objects.
Accepts Parker-style ballpoint refills.
Information on Purpleheart from the Wood Database. Information on gunmetal from Wikipedia.
Box elder is native to North America where it is most commonly found in the central and eastern United States. It can grow as large as 80 feet tall with a 2-foot diameter. It’s heartwood is frequently streaked with red or pink flames, the result of an anti-fungal produced by the tree when it is wounded. Box elder is sometimes called “ash-leaved maple.” It is technically a maple tree although its lumber is softer, weaker, and lighter than almost all other species of maple.
Stabilizing is the process of using a vacuum chamber to replace the air pockets in a soft wood with resin, without or without an added dye. This process creates a stable, hardened wood blank that is safe to turn, is nearly impervious to moisture, and can be polished to a high gloss.
This pen has mystery, flair, and elegance plus a smooth twist mechanism.
Accepts Parker-style ballpoint refills.
Information on box elder from the Wood Database. Information on stabilization from The Wood Turners Catalog.
Hububalli is native to South America and typically grows from 40 to 80 feet tall. Hububalli heartwood will fluoresce medium to bright streaks of green under a blacklight.
This streamlined pen has mystery, flair and elegance and a smooth twist mechanism. Epoxy coating on 24kt gold plating ensures extreme durability.
Accepts Parker-style ballpoint refills.
Information on Hububalli from the Wood Database.
Buckeye is native to the Eastern United States and typically grows to 50 to 75-feet tall with a 1½ to 2-foot trunk diameter. Buckeye is one of the softest and lightest hardwoods native to the United States.
A burl is taken from a rounded outgrowth, like a wart on the tree. It is filled with small knots from dormant buds resulting in the grain growing in a twisted manner. Buckeye burl has eye-catching reddish brown knots swirled with gray.
This pen has mystery, flair, and elegance plus a smooth twist mechanism.
Accepts Parker-style ballpoint refills.
Information on buckeye from the Wood Database.
