Loren Hutchinson
03-01-2003, 1:03 AM
Anyone here from KC who can make a couple of pens for me? I have a small block of cypress that was pulled out of a swamp near New Orleans a year ago. My son and I were doing the swamp tour thing, and I thought it would make a nice souvenir for each of us to have a pen made from the block.
Seventy years ago a lumber company built a railroad into the swamp to carry out the cypress. There were lots of cutoffs and scrap laying just under the water where the rails intersected and the guide pulled out a piece to show us. I asked if I could have it, and just figured out what to do with it.:)
Seventy years ago a lumber company built a railroad into the swamp to carry out the cypress. There were lots of cutoffs and scrap laying just under the water where the rails intersected and the guide pulled out a piece to show us. I asked if I could have it, and just figured out what to do with it.:)