Gentleman's Rhodium and Gold detailed closed end Fountain Pen in Yew Burr

Yew (Taxus baccata) Yew is considered the wood of everlasting life and continual rebirth with some trees being recorded as over 1000 years old. The orange-brown wood has an attractive grain and takes a high polish. Yew Burr is extremely hard to find and it is always a pleasure to turn this very fine figuring into a pen that will be treasured for years to come.

This Yew came from a tree taken down outside Crewkerne in Somerset, the tree was deemed as unsafe by the powers that be.