Sinker
logs like the ones above, are pulled from the bottom
of lakes and rivers. Sometimes, scuba divers are needed to achieve the
extraction. Most of these logs are hundreds of years old (In one
of the pictures above, you can see that the tree was cut with an hatchet).
Due to a series of factors (The logs were too big and heavy to be pulled
out of the rivers or the logs were caught by currents and were sucked to
the bottom) these logs were trapped by the muddy buttons of these
water beds and this created like a time capsule where the wood was preserved
in fantastic humidity conditions that made the wood season in a slow natural
way during many centuries. Some of the logs are selected for musical instruments
construction. The sound that these woods produce is unique and the grain
has a beautiful coloration that changes according to the type of mud present
in the water bed. |
Gabon
ebony is the standard for black in lumber.
It has been found in Egyptian tombs and is used on the fingerboard of violins.
A very dense wood with specific gravity of 1.2, it is usually only available
in widths less than 6” and lengths less than 48”. This is partly do to
where the trees grow in central west Africa. There are few roads and most
of the billets have to be hand carried out of the jungle.
*Very dense
tight grained wood
*Very expensive
and rare. This set, along with 3 others, was ordered over 16 months ago
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