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Timeless Timber Baron Upgrade Roller Ball Pen
Pen shown is Timeless Timber Birds Eye Maple
Fountain Pen also available. Just ask.
I obtain this Wood from a company that specializes in recovering wood from the vast amount of logs that sank during the logging boom of yesteryear.
Much of this wood comes from Lake Superior. This wood generally has a tight grain pattern unlike most of the woods we see today.
Limited availability, in stock Curly/Birdseye Maple.
Wood storage box NOT included.
TimelessTimber Wood Pens supplied with a Red/Burgundy Cabretta Case. Upgrade Maple Case with Custom Engraving available.
The Jr. Gentlemen's and Baron pens are some of the highest quality pens available today. The Baron features a six faceted lower barrel that reflects light like little mirrors (rollerball only - the fountain pens continue to have the round barrel like the Jr Gentleman). The pen cap features a unique thread design that's silky smooth needing only 1 1/2 turns to take on or off. The Rollerball pen features a ceramic tip Schmidt® or Hauser® cartridge for smooth, effortless writing. Refills readily available.
Recovered from the depths of the Great Lakes Region and other US and Canadian waterways Timeless Timber is virgin old-growth timber 300 - 1200 years old. Grown under a thick canopy of evergreen trees and competing for limited nutrients and sunlight in overgrown forests, virgin hardwood species matured very slowly, accumulating up to 40 to 50 rings per inch. Today's second growth rapidly maturing trees average only 5 to 10 rings per inch. These environmental factors resulted in the development of a finely grained, highly figured hardwood of exceptional quality and beauty.
In the 1800's logging mills dotted the shorelines of lakes and rivers that were adjacent to the majestic forests of North America. Thousands of rugged lumberjacks felled millions of virgin trees that were previously untouched by man. These logs were tied into rafts and floated to the lumber mills for processing. Most of the lumber was used for building the great cities of the Industrial Revolution, except the logs that were lost before reaching their destination. These logs also known as 'sinkers', became waterlogged in transit and in their subsequent holding ponds and settled to the bottom. Forgotten, these sunken timbers have remained at the bottoms of lakes and rivers for over a century, untouched and perfectly preserved in the icy cold waters of the North. It wasn't until the 1990's when Timeless Timber discovered these lost 'sinkers' and devised methods for the recovery and state-of-the-art kiln drying of these irreplaceable woods.
Extensive research into log mark records by Timeless Timber staff bridges the past with the present. Some Timeless Timber logs have marks showing the logging company's name, from that we try to determine the sawmill and the year the log was cut down and in transit. Today, only two million board feet of recovered submerged lumber is available each year, although new domestic and international caches are continually being discovered.
Some of the ever changing species of Timeless Timber are flamed red birch, hard maple, tidewater, red cypress, beech, ash, white pine, red pine, ponderosa pine, red oak, western larch and aspen, with more species being discovered as recovers continues. The allure that Timeless Timber wood provides is beyond compare. Whether you are an architect, fine home builder, furniture maker or rare woods purist Timeless Timber will give your next project exceptional beauty, strength and a captivating story that dates back to the days of Columbus's discovery of America.
