@HistoryPens
Here is a set of pen blanks from Southern Long Leaf Pine that was recovered from a gristmill in Virginia in 1993 or 1994. I bought a number of the floor joists that measured 24 feet by 14" by 3". Shown below are photos of sections of the beams. They were circular sawn, not hand-hewn, so they date from around 1830-1840 when some of the first circular saw mills were built in VA.
The photos show the tight annual growth rings that are indicative of first growth forests where every tree had to compete for sunshine in the dense virgin forest. I counted over 400 growth rings in one of the beams so the tree was a sapling around 1400 give or take a few years. The section of the main support beam, a 14 x 14 monster is also shown. Look at the annual rings. It was alive during the middle ages.
I cut these pen blanks from the section shown leaning against the wall. The surface of the beams retain their original whitewash. A small section of the whitewashed surface will be shipped with the pen blanks.
Price is $30 plus shipping of $7.00 to anywhere in the USA.
Here is a set of pen blanks from Southern Long Leaf Pine that was recovered from a gristmill in Virginia in 1993 or 1994. I bought a number of the floor joists that measured 24 feet by 14" by 3". Shown below are photos of sections of the beams. They were circular sawn, not hand-hewn, so they date from around 1830-1840 when some of the first circular saw mills were built in VA.
The photos show the tight annual growth rings that are indicative of first growth forests where every tree had to compete for sunshine in the dense virgin forest. I counted over 400 growth rings in one of the beams so the tree was a sapling around 1400 give or take a few years. The section of the main support beam, a 14 x 14 monster is also shown. Look at the annual rings. It was alive during the middle ages.
I cut these pen blanks from the section shown leaning against the wall. The surface of the beams retain their original whitewash. A small section of the whitewashed surface will be shipped with the pen blanks.
Price is $30 plus shipping of $7.00 to anywhere in the USA.
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