Current stock is listed below. Please feel free to contact me with any requests or questions. Check back soon as "Mammoth" Kauri Pens will be available by special order. The wood is 30,000 - 50,000 years old, and perfectly preserved by being covered by a peat bog in New Zealand following a tsunami that covered an entire forest. All living examples of this tree are now protected and the only way to get this wood is to buy the recovered prehistoric trees. An example pen will soon be posted for you to see this amazing wood in its finished form. Carry the world's oldest pen proudly!!!
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LO1# "Letter Opener" in Lignum Vitae
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$
29.95
Lignum Vitae, or "Tree of Life", is a naturally green wood, the hardest trade wood in the world, termites will not eat it, is prized by sailors since it is water proof and has been used for thousands of years as boat keels, and the oil which it will ooze whenever scraped or cut if not finished with a sealer (self lubrication is why it was used for the first axle bearings as well) is used as a perfume base to this day. The wood even smells like perfume when cut and sanded in the shop! Add the supremely unique shape of this letter opener, an "Excalibur" handle as I call it, and you have a conversation piece to grace your desk and open your mail with style or show that junk mail what you think of it! Wood is finished in clear oil and lacquer with gold accents and blade.