{"id":1066,"date":"2009-02-17T14:06:27","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T18:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.woodworkersguide.com\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2016-07-21T09:23:42","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T09:23:42","slug":"olivewood-and-tigerwood-pens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/olivewood-and-tigerwood-pens\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivewood And Tigerwood Pens"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Olivewood was given to me from a friend of mine from the AWA. Apparently the tree came from his father’s property in Ottawa, where at one time there were lots of these trees growing in the neighborhood.<\/p>\n
I was speaking with a couple of other woodturners the other day about Tigerwood which led me to find out a bit more about it. Apparently it comes from Brazil, Bolivia, Peru and Guatemala and that ‘Tigerwood’ is the commercial name for ‘Muiracatiara’. I like to give these pens to my golfing buddies. Tiger Wood, get it?! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Here are a couple of more photos:<\/p>\n
The Olivewood pen:<\/p>\n
The Tigerwood pen:<\/p>\n
The Tigerwood pen has a couple of wire-burned accents near the bottom and both pens use the European Round Top style of pen kit.<\/p>\n
Back to the shop\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Here’s a couple of pens I turned recently. The one on the left is made of Olivewood and the one on the right is made of Tigerwood. The Olivewood was given to me from a friend of mine from the AWA. Apparently the tree came from his father’s property in Ottawa, where at one time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[2021,2078,2121,2470],"yoast_head":"\n