Hurricane Gustav damaged live oak LSU pen

[Roger Bullock]

I like to turn pens from wood that has a history. This pen was turned from a damaged limb off of a Live Oak tree that I rescued from the campus of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge after Hurricane Gustav.

[Steve Mawson]

I see you are from Illinois and the wood from LSU so there has to be more to this story. Like the pen to.

[Steve Schlumpf]

Very nice work on the pen Roger! Great looking finish!

[Roger Bullock]

Steve, I'm a independent catastrophe adjuster and was working the area after the hurricane. And Steve finish is CA followed by EEE and Shellawax cream.

[Billy Tallant]

Roger,

Very nice looking pen. It is always nice to make something that has a history behind it.

[Heather Herman]

Hi Roger,
I work at LSU and would like to purchase one of these pens to give as gifts to our alumni. Would you please contact me at hheathm@lsu.edu? Thanks Heather

[steve mcconnell]

Nice looking pen. I love the history aspects of these type things as well.

Unfortunately, just to be a complete kill-joy here, you do need to be somewhat careful about marketing these as being associated with LSU (or enter any other NCAA university here) I had the same thoughts about some UNC-Chapel Hill wood, and was warned about this exact thing. Especially for Universities with strong brands (LSU, UNC etc), they are rather protective about their brands, and have set up licensing arms (armies?) for this.

Just something ridiculous to check out before you get too far down the road. I am not a lawyer, just passing on the same cautions I got.

I still like the pen though :)