Price
$149.00
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The Sigaro Pen is unstated grandeur. A single barrel displays a continuous line of wood, and its tapered shape gives this wooden pen an ergonomic design. Your fingers will easily take a natural position on this hefty but lightweight wooden pen.
Rare Black Coastal Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) attains its dramatic color by absorbing minerals as the logs sit in a river for over 150 years. The wood is a silvery brown with an iridescent sheen similar to silk. Detailed grain forms multiple swirling patterns resembling the ripples of pebbles thrown in a pond. The tallest living thing on Earth, coastal redwoods can reach heights of 360 ft and diameters of 20ft, taller than the Statue of Liberty and wider around than a Greyhound bus. Like something out of a tall tale, the oldest verified coastal redwood is over 200 years. They achieve their majestic heights in only one place in the world - in forests along a narrow 450-mile strip of land along the Pacific coast of North America, beginning in southern Oregon and ending in Monterrey, California. However, today's forest is only a remnant of what it was 65 million years ago when it covered most of Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, and Wyoming. At that time it consisted of several other Sequoia species, ginkgo, hickory, bald cypress and sassafras. As climates grew colder and drier, only Sequoia sempervirens survived as a result of its evolutionary adaptations.
Coastal redwoods, which grow in humid valleys near the ocean, are able to use fog as a water source. They also have a 12-inch thick, rust-colored red bark that acts as a heat shield from common forest fires. Furthermore, redwoods have an interesting root system that spreads out rather than growing down. This allows the tree to keep itself erect by providing a wide base of support. Burls, containing hundreds of dormant buds, are found on the tree's trunk and roots and give this wood its prized figuring. Saplings can sprout from the roots of the parent tree, forming exact genetic copies, or clones. Likewise, if a tree is cut of burned, a circle of trees, known as a fairy ring, may sprout from the stump. Consequently, some trees may be the result of a 30,000-year-old line that stems from the same tree, reproducing itself over and over again.
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