who knows, anyway with some work, especially on the Campo Viejo Rioja cork stopper, it'll do for some river quills.
The mystique makes it more interesting, and finding a saw whilst your on holiday to cut it to luggage size
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The cork in there now seems just right, simple and effective.NiceRoach wrote:any ideas or inspiration for a proper stopper?
Vole wrote:Agreed. Both components are part of the holiday story, and only a bit of varnish is really needed - even that might be limited to the reed's end-grain and any rubbed areas where its natural enamel has worn off (all part of its sea-journey).
Go as wild as you like with subsequent versions, though; whippings, stains, pyrography, transfers, Turk's Heads, metal bands... but save model no.1 as a souvenir.
Just an opinion, of course; it's yours: - do as thou wilt!
Before I look I suspect you are right, there is too much driftwood cane, to have made it across fr0m Africa, the entire north of the island Alcudia etc has a labyrinth waterways/canals, - I know the part you mention as is mostly a nature reserve, and marshland perfect for Spanish Reed *bamboo lookalike*AshbyCut wrote:Just a thought NiceRoach, Sir ... but if you go to Google Earth ... and look for l'Albufereta, Balearic Islands ... you'll see what I take to be a park comprising a marshy areas with many narrow waterways which runs into a single channel which flows into the bay. Perhaps cropping for control or harvesting could be the source of the reed floating in the bay.
Pure conjecture.
PS ... there's a photograph of the park entitled "Bei Alcùdia, Mallorca" at co-ordinates 30 51 33.9 N 3 05 53.9 E which appears to show Spanish Reed in silhouette.