"Black Bottom" Ultra Figured Honduran Rosewood Burl Knife Blanks
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"Black Bottom" Ultra Figured HRB Knife Blanks
(Only four pieces left.) This rare "black bottom" burl, of otherworldly color and grain, is off-the-chart on quality. (So awesomely beautiful, you won't want to sell it to your clients at any price!) 1"x 1.5" x 6.0" Genuine old-growth Honduran Rosewood/Dalbergia stevensonii. Ultra-eye-burl figuring, top shelf. Dense, and very stable. Polishes to a high luster. Variety of colors. Highly figured. #1015-006-069)
NOTE: This wood is RAW and UNFINISHED. It has a light coating of spray acrylic on one face to best display grain and figuring. Average Dried Weight: 64 lbs/ft3 (1,025 kg/m3) Specific Gravity (Basic, 12% MC): .82., 1.03 Janka Hardness: 2,200 lbf (9,790 N) WHAT IS BURL: Burl is a rare anomaly that occurs when hundreds of thousands of tiny buds on a tree fail to form branches, instead producing a large knobby outgrowth of exotic, uniquely patterned wood grain. ABOUT: Rosewood burl patterns are dramatic and magical, some looking like the mysterious surface of an uninhabited planet. The dark richly-grained figured heartwood may stand alone, or include contrasting light-colored sapwood, creating the phenomenon of bi-color burl. Figuring patterns may include bear scratch, bird's eye, blister, curl, dimple, fiddle back, flame, ghost, quilting, or spalting. The occurrence of burl happens in perhaps only one-in-five-hundred rosewood trees, making it extremely rare. ENVIRONMENTAL: Our raw rosewood burl is recovered from of old-growth rosewood, reclaimed from the Belizean rainforest, a legacy left behind by loggers a century ago. Our enterprise is environmentally friendly and involves no deforestation. ************************* *C.I.T.E.S. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species |
