African Padauk Pen Blanks
$1.50 ea.
What to Know about Flat Rate Shipping
In an effort to make buying lumber easy and convenient, we offer these packs with a fixed quanity of lumber. It's your choice of 10, 20 or 100 board feet, and each pack has a flat rate shipping charge if shipped to any location east of the Mississippi River. The charges only apply to the products called Craft Packs, Project Packs and PRO Packs.
Shipping West of Mississippi River: $0.00
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- HI and AK excluded.
Shipping East of Mississippi River:
- $10 per 10 BF Craft Pack
- $20 per 20 BF Project Pack
- $50 per 100 BF PRO Pack
African Padauk Pen Blanks
Turn your own beautiful pens that will make your family and friends smile. Using these hand-sorted pen blanks from Woodworkers Source means you get only the highest quality blanks that are cut square from premium kiln dried lumber.
Why Choose African Padauk?
This gorgeous and naturally colorful wood will blow your mind. Padauk elicits all the joys of woodworking between its color, and ease of routing, cutting, sanding and finishing. You'll want to use this one in your most decorative projects like keepsake boxes, musical instruments, fine furniture pieces. African padauk also makes an excellent wood for inlay if you just want to use a little bit. Contrasts well with pale woods like maple and ash, but also darker woods like wenge, walnut, and ebony.What Size Is This?
| Thickness | 3/4" (≈ 3/4" approx) |
| Width | 3/4" |
| Length | 6" |
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Ease of Finishing
African Padauk is an exotic wood from Africa
This gorgeous and naturally colorful wood will blow your mind. Padauk elicits all the joys of woodworking between its color, and ease of routing, cutting, sanding and finishing. You'll want to use this one in your most decorative projects like keepsake boxes, musical instruments, fine furniture pieces. African padauk also makes an excellent wood for inlay if you just want to use a little bit. Contrasts well with pale woods like maple and ash, but also darker woods like wenge, walnut, and ebony.
Bright orange red when freshy cut or planed, often with dark stripes; oxidizes to dark chocolate brown or light brown.
A straight, well shaped tree. Reaches 100 feet with a buttressed trunk which may be 48" at breast height.
African Padauk, Mbe, Mbil, Mututi, Ngula, Bosulu
Musical instruments, furniture, flooring, turning, accessories.
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