African Collection Wood Pens
Your wood pen can be made from the Dark Continent's hardwoods including Blackwood, Bloodwood, Bubinga, Ebony, Olivewood, Pink Ivory, Pradauk Tiger Grain, Two-Tone Blackwood, Wenga and Zebrawood.
African Woods are some of the most woods in the world.
Lanier Pen's appreciates our natural environment and would never use a wood that is on the endangered speci's list.
Blackwood
Item Number: W07
Wood Name: Blackwood
Origin of Wood: Africa
Botanical Name: Dalbergia Melanoxylon
Description of Wood: This wood ranges from a beautiful dark purple to brown. It is a member of the Rosewood family. It is native to Africa only but a lighter species of this can be found in Australia. It is also known as Mozambique Ebony and Mpingo Wood. It is primarily used for musical instruments like the Oboe and Clarinet.
Bloodwood
Item Number: W08
Wood Name: Bloodwood
Origin of Wood: Africa
Botanical Name: Brosimum Paraense
Description of Wood: An exotic rare wood native to Central West Africa known for it’s rich red hughs. It is tightly grained and used in fine furniture. It is also known as “Satine Wood”
Pommele Bubinga
Item Number: W19
Wood Name: Pommele Bubinga
Origin of Wood: Africa / Cameroon Region
Botanical Name: Guibourtia Tessmannii
Description of Wood: It is a beautiful chatoyant wood that looks 3-D when polished. It is known as African Rosewood, Kevasingo, and Cssingang. The color ranges from light reddish to brown attractively veined with pink to reddish striping. It is a fine tight grained wood often used in cabinetry and furniture
Ebony
Item Number: W31
Wood Name: Ebony
Origin of Wood: Africa / Gabon
Botanical Name: Diospyros Crassiflora
Description of Wood: Ebony is a member of the Diospyros family. As the trees become older and mature the wood becomes very black thus accounting for the name Ebony. It was first thought that this wood came from Africa and Egypt as it was referred to in the Bible. But now authorities say the biblical references were to African Blackwood. Ebony is much darker than this. Gabon Ebony is the benchmark of black wood. It has been treasured through out the ages. It is commonly used for piano keys, organ keys as well as in fine inlay work. It primarily comes from West Africa in and is known as Swamp Ebony.
Olivewood
Item Number: W49
Wood Name: Olivewood
Origin of Wood: South Africa
Botanical Name: Olea Hochstetteri
Description of Wood: The heartwood is light yellowish tan with irregular streaks ranging from brown to black with fine texture and close grain.
Pink Ivory
Item Number: W53
Wood Name: Pink Ivory
Origin of Wood: Africa
Botanical Name: Berchemia Zeyhen
Description of Wood: Pink Ivory wood, a sacred wood of Zulu Chiefs in Southern Africa, has long been treasured as a rare wood. At one time it was rarer than diamonds. It takes hundreds of years for the tree to grow big enough to get a piece big enough to turn a bowl from. It is highly prized because of its beautiful pink to reddish colors.
Praduak Tiger Grain
Item Number: W54
Wood Name: Praduak Tiger Grain
Origin of Wood: Africa
Botanical Name: Pterocarpus Marcocarpus
Description of Wood: Praduak wood is also known as Burmese Rosewood. As it grows, when curling occurs it looks like sand on the river or beach bottom with repeated ripples in the grain. The heartwood is dark brownish black with tooth pick like streaks of color through out.
Two-Tone Blackwood
Item Number: W65
Wood Name: Two Tone Blackwood
Origin of Wood: Africa
Botanical Name: Dalbergia Melanoxylon
Description of Wood: This wood ranges from a beautiful dark purple to brown. It is a member of the Rosewood family. It is native to Africa only but a lighter species of this can be found in Australia. It is also known as Mozambique Ebony and Mpingo Wood. It is primarily used for musical instruments like the Oboe and Clarinet.
Wenga
Item Number: W67
Wood Name: Wenge
Origin of Wood: Africa
Botanical Name: Milletta Laurentii
Description of Wood: This wood is found in Central West Africa. It is substituted for Ebony because of the cost. It is a very dense textured hardwood ranging from brown to deep brownish black
Zebrawood
Item Number: W69
Wood Name: Zebrawood
Origin of Wood: Africa
Botanical Name: Mircoberlinia Brazzauillensis
Description of Wood: A beautiful hardwood with colors ranging from gold to brown to black. It supports a very distinct striping pattern. It is used in fine furniture making.
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