Pacific Islands Woods
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Ko’u
$63.00 – $273.00
Ko’u
$63.00 – $273.00Ko’u just might be the rarest wood we work with. I stumbled across it by accident when one of my suppliers obtained a blown down tree from Hawaii where this tree grows indigenously. Ko’u was used by the Hawaiian Royalty for plates, bowls, spoons, and other utensils as it does not impart nor take on a flavor from food.
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Red Palm Wood (Coconut Palm)
$42.00 – $167.00
Red Palm Wood (Coconut Palm)
$42.00 – $167.00Red Palm or Coconut Palms grow in the tropics worldwide. Palm wood is notoriously hard to work. Palm grows woody tuberous tissues that transport water and nutrients to the leaves. The darker fibers are brick bat hard and the lighter fibers are very very soft. This make Palm Wood very difficult to machine and it must be stabilized with an acrylic polymer before we can work it. All that extra work does pay off though. Palm wood is the only wood in the world with a striped polka dot pattern. Red Palm in particular, has a finer dot pattern with reddish brown dark fibers and lighter contrasting wood in between.
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Koa
$63.00 – $273.00
Koa
$63.00 – $273.00This Hawaiian wood shimmers like gold. Koa is one of my favorite woods. It’s also the material of choice for the traditional Hawaiian ocean going canoes since Koa is the largest endemic tree in Hawaii. Nowadays sizable trees demand a high price since the easily accessible Koa forests are being cleared for cattle grazing. This wood may become more scarce as time goes on, but for now there is still plenty of Koa around and it is not on the CITES list nor is it expected to be in the near future as Koa trees grow over an inch in diameter a year.
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Ancient Kauri
$63.00 – $273.00
Ancient Kauri
$63.00 – $273.00Kauri is a giant tree and the oldest workable wood on the planet. How old is it? well, we say 50 thousand years, but that isn’t entirely cut and dry. When you’re on the Autobahn, behind the wheel and pegging your speedometer out at 150 mph, how fast are you going? The speedometer says 150, but you know you’re going faster than that. Radio carbon dating stops at 50 thousand years. Only thing we know for sure is that these trees were ancient before they died, some 50 thousand years ago.
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Curly Mango Wood
$27.00 – $103.00
Curly Mango Wood
$27.00 – $103.00Mangoes are a delicious sweet stone fruit that comes in hundreds of varieties and are native to Eastern Asia, but have been transplanted all over the world! It’s a member of the Anacardiaceae family making it a distant cousin of the cashew and pistachio. In the 1600’s the Porteguese spread this delicious fruit around the world. It was worldwide soon after their exploration.
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