Texas Woods
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White Oak
$27.00 – $103.00
White Oak
$27.00 – $103.00This pale toned Oak is native to Texas and covers about a dozen different species of Oak tree. White Oak is a prevalent hard wood in North America and is used for just about everything including cabinetry, furniture, interior trim, flooring, and veneer.
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Texas Ebony
$42.00 – $167.00
Texas Ebony
$42.00 – $167.00This native scrub tree grows in the southern tip of Texas and produces one of my favorite woods in the world. Texas Ebony takes on a wonderful polish and has a chatoyancy that rivals and surpasses many of the exotic woods. It is extremely dense and very hard with a twisted gnarly grain that ranges in color from steel blue, to grey, to deep golden brown. Its sap wood is a pale contrast that, when present adds to the character of the dice.
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Red Oak
$27.00 – $103.00
Red Oak
$27.00 – $103.00This light colored warm brown Oak is native Texas and covers about a dozen different species of Oak tree. Is is a prevalent hard wood in North America and is used for just about everything including cabinetry, furniture, interior trim, flooring, and veneer.
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Persimmon (American Ebony)
$27.00 – $103.00
Persimmon (American Ebony)
$27.00 – $103.00Persimmon, or American Ebony, is a native Texas tree that produces a somewhat tasty orange colored tomato shaped fruit. (Freeze the fruit first, then thaw and eat center portion with spoon. Otherwise its bitter and nasty.) Persimmon lumber typically includes very wide sapwood, with a small core of dark heartwood. When freshly cut, sapwood is creamy white and darkens to a yellow or grayish brown. The heartwood ranges from brown to black, though orange streaks are sometimes present. Persimmon wood is extremely hard.
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Honey Mesquite
$27.00 – $103.00
Honey Mesquite
$27.00 – $103.00Honey Mesquite is the trade name for Texas Mesquite. In Texas, we are familiar with this wood, as we often use it to barbeque with. It produces a nice smoky flavor in the meat and there isn’t much like it. But you don’t care about that, you ain’t ordering these dice to cook with!
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Hickory (Swamp)
$27.00 – $103.00
Hickory (Swamp)
$27.00 – $103.00Hickory was an indispensable wood to the settlers. Its tough hard wood was and still is used extensively for tool handles and wheel spokes. President Andrew Jackson was even called “Old Hickory” because of his tough and aggressive personality. The Hickory tree actually covers 19 species of tree. The particular Hickory we use Texas Swamp Hickory. It grows in the swampy creek bottoms of my native East Texas and is a close relative of the Pecan. It’s often used as a smoking wood since it burns long and imparts a wonderful flavor to meat. The wood is a medium tan color with insect marks interspersed throughout. These markings giving Swamp Hickory a wonderful character.
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Bois d’Arc
$27.00 – $103.00
Bois d’Arc
$27.00 – $103.00Bois d’Arc is a super-hard wood that is resistant to rot, which is why it’s used commonly used as a fence post. It’s also used by bowyers to make recurve and long bows due to its insane strength and resistance to warping. Bois d’Arc is famous for its seemingly magical ability to instantly dull a freshly honed edge on any tool, the reason for many of those four-letter words of my youth. This hardness comes from the high silica content in the soil where this tree grows in East Texas, which is extremely abrasive to tools. It’s also the reason behind the unique shimmer found in Bois d’Arc.
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Ash
$27.00 – $103.00
Ash
$27.00 – $103.00Every set of Artisan Dice is hand-crafted in Texas. As such, we work with the native Texas Ash, which is a drought-tolerant cousin of the more common Mountain Ash.
Texas Ash is a relative of White Ash, F. Americana. It grows on limestone bluffs, and can be found from Dallas in north central Texas to areas west and south. Its water requirements are low, although it can tolerate moderate amounts of moisture as long as the area has good drainage. Its leaves turn glowing red, gold, orange and purple colors in the fall. It is distinguished from White Ash by its leaflets, which are more rounded, and by having five to seven leaflets instead of the seven to nine-
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