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Ziricote
$42.00 – $167.00
Ziricote
$42.00 – $167.00Ziricote is famous for it’s “landscape” grain pattern, which swirls and billows much like an ancient Chinese landscape painting. It is a very hard, dense wood that is prone to tear out during the dice making process which makes it a giant pain to work with, but the results speak for themselves. The dark swirling grain patterns make Ziricote dice some of the most beautiful dice we produce. And the rare sapwood contrast really sets off the dark swirls in the dice. Ziricote has a dense glassy tap tone making these dice quite musical when rolled much like the finer Rosewoods. This also makes Ziricote quite sought after for high end musical instruments. Ziricote makes for some of the best wooden dice in the world.
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Lignum Vitae (Argentine)
$42.00 – $167.00
Lignum Vitae (Argentine)
$42.00 – $167.00Much like Osage Orange and Bois d’ Arc are virtually the same, just from different parts of the world, so too are Guaiacum and Argentine Lignum Vitae. Lignum Vitae, or the Tree of Life, is an Iron Wood, that has a myriad of uses. From being one of the best self lubricating bearings for wet environments to medicinal tea, this wood is a highly valued resource. It’s also the heaviest wood in the world. It was used as the main prop shaft bearing on the USS Nautilus, the world’s first nuclear powered submarine, as well as most of the Liberty Ships during WWII.
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Blue Mahoe
$42.00 – $167.00
Blue Mahoe
$42.00 – $167.00The only Blue Mahoe tree with truly blue wood comes from Jamaica, and is their National Tree. We import our Blue Mahoe from a single plantation in Caribbean that grows a whole forest of sustainable exotic woods. These folks don’t run a tree farm: they sustainably harvest natural trees by select cutting and replanting them in their “ecologically cultivated jungle” that contains many different types of plant and animal life.
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Pink Ivory
$63.00 – $273.00
Pink Ivory
$63.00 – $273.00Pink Ivory was a sacred wood to the Zulu chiefs of South Africa. It was said that if anyone other than a Zulu chief was found to possess the wood, they would be executed. At one time, it was said to be rarer than diamonds. The wood grows in various parts of South Africa, and takes hundreds of years to reach a size suitable to make a blank. It turns out however, that it is not quite as rare as we have been led to believe, and nowadays this extremely slow-growing and exceedingly hard wood is harvested with proper permits from the South African government to ensure a sustainable harvest for decades to come. Even so it is still one of the rarest commercially available woods in the world.
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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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Bocote Wood
$27.00 – $103.00
Bocote Wood
$27.00 – $103.00Bocote is a hard, dense, and fairly oily tropical wood that is that comes from parts of central and South America highly prized for its dramatic, wild striping. Bocote is generally used for its aesthetic attributes, rather than its mechanical ones. It has a few common uses, the most interesting being butt stocks for rifles; It also smells fainty of pickles when being worked. These dark brown or black streaks, which sometimes form in concentric circles, give Bocote its defining look and lend finished products a truly distinctive appearance.
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Padauk Wood
$27.00 – $103.00
Padauk Wood
$27.00 – $103.00Padauk Wood develops more vibrant colors as it is worked. The shavings are BRIGHT orange. Quite impressive really. The dark striations appear once the dice are clear coated and the color changes to a metallic red.
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Zebra Wood
$27.00 – $103.00
Zebra Wood
$27.00 – $103.00The stark contrast of light heartwood and dark sapwood layers within Zebra Wood will give your dice a laminated appearance. The big question is this? Is Zebra Wood black with white stripes or white with black stripes?
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Purple Heart
$27.00 – $103.00
Purple Heart
$27.00 – $103.00On top of all that, Purple Heart has a very vibrant purple color. It is more vibrant than the dyed woods available, proving that nobody does it better than mother nature. This vibrant purple is attained through oxidation, basically it’s wood rust. When purple heart is fresh cut it is a purplish brown. After several days to a couple of weeks exposure to oxygen in the air the wood takes on its familiar purple hue. Once the oxidation is complete we then clear coat the dice.
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Honduran Rosewood
$42.00 – $167.00
Honduran Rosewood
$42.00 – $167.00Honduran Rosewood has a dense structure and a distinctive glassy sound when rolled on the gaming table. The heartwood color can range from a deep brownish-purple to a light-brown. Most common is a brownish-mauve color as pictured here. When finished the tones become brighter and more vibrant.
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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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Pau Ferro (Bolivian Rosewood)
$42.00 – $167.00
Pau Ferro (Bolivian Rosewood)
$42.00 – $167.00Sometimes called Bolivian Rosewood, Pau Ferro makes an excellent choice for a set of dice because of its density and natural polish. Pau Ferro is virtually indistinguishable from the true botanical rosewoods, with striking color variations ranging from dark chocolate to golden brown and black bands with hints of violet.
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