Closed Ended Red Heart Custom Magnetic Graduate Two Piece Pen with Chrome Trim (#1752)

This stylish and stately writing instrument includes a captivating magnetized cap. The cap posts instantly and securely on both ends of the pen, the long barrel provides a solid feel and smooth writing experience. Features a convenient spring clip, an elegant profile with a wider top and narrower bottom. This is a great gift for anyone that you love or for yourself and comes in a White Satin and Red Felt gift box and takes a standard Schmidt roller ball refill.

REDHEART
LATIN: Erythroxylum spp. and Simira spp.
ORGIN: Southern Mexico to southern Brazil and Paraguay

Color/Appearance: Aptly named, in some instances freshly surfaced Redheart can be a very bright, watermelon red—though color can vary in intensity and hue from board to board: anywhere from a light orange/pink, (similar to Pink Ivory), to a darker brownish red. In some cases, it can look quite similar to Bloodwood, though usually with a more visible and figured grain pattern. Redheart’s vibrant color quickly fades to a reddish brown in direct sunlight, though this color change can be slowed (but usually not stopped entirely) by using a finish with UV inhibitors, and keeping the wood away from strong lighting.
Grain/Texture: Grain is usually straight or irregular, with a fine, even texture. Low to medium natural luster.
Workability: Redheart has good working characteristics, and planes, machines, and sands well. Turns, glues, and finishes well, though a brown color shift is to be expected.
Redheart can have a distinct, rubber-like smell when being worked depending on species.
The mottled white pockets and bleaching effect seen in spalted wood is due to white rot fungi. Primarily found on hardwoods, these fungi 'bleach' by consuming lignin, which is the slightly pigmented area of a wood cell wall. Some white rotting can also be caused by an effect similar to pigmentation, in which the white hyphae of a fungus, such as Trametes versicolor, is so concentrated in an area that a visual effect is created.

Dark dotting, winding lines and thin streaks of red, brown and black are known as zone lines. This type of spalting does not occur due to any specific type of fungus, but is instead an interaction zone in which different fungi have erected barriers to protect their resources. They can also be caused by a single fungus delineating itself. The lines are often clumps of hard, dark mycelium, referred to as pseudosclerotial plate formation.