Sorry MsD' and pottzy,cherry's nice... in a chocolate bar... Keeping in line with chocolate, black palm is my favourite and I make at least one of all my new pen styles out of it... that way potential buyers only need to concentrate on the pen rather than the blank... There was a time when I tried to buy the entire stock in Yankeeland, when I was setting up my pen empire... that's why they're so expensive now. Unfortunately the yokels in downtown Churchill are just learning to climb palm trees and a long way from mastering writing with them.
BTW:Mokey, I think the name of "blank" was derived from the faces of people that saw their first acrylic pen.
If your first cut is too short... Take the second cut from the longer end... LBD