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Glowing warm and golden: Golden Amboina
11.12.2024
Sometimes, as a timber merchant, you are simply lucky: in the farthest corner of an old timber store, you can find real treasures that have been lying dormant under a thick layer of dust for many years.
Such a discovery is often like a journey back in time, because you uncover treasures that were nothing so special some fifty years ago, but are now a real rarity that is rarely offered for sale and even more beautiful.
That's what happened to us with this find in France: a few very large, very thick and very dusty slabs of an initially unknown burl wood were found there, and careful attempts at planing revealed a beautiful grain, but what kind of wood it was initially remained in the dark. However, once the smaller boards had been cut in half in width to fit over the jointers width of 45 cms, the joy was great; a beautiful warm golden-yellow wood color emerged, and the grain had a strong three-dimensional effect, looking unreal for a flat surface. With a little white spirit sprayed on, you can get an idea of the deep structure and color that a finished product made from this wood will one day have. A scientific determination of the wood then revealed that it belongs to the Pterocarpus family, to which the red Amboina burl wood also belongs, but in this case it is a wood known as golden Amboyna or Moudui burl, it comes from South East Asia, Thailand and Laos are its natural growth areas. We don't need to emphasize how happy this find and its beauty make us, and we are also delighted to be able to offer this unique feature to our customers all over the world!
Such a discovery is often like a journey back in time, because you uncover treasures that were nothing so special some fifty years ago, but are now a real rarity that is rarely offered for sale and even more beautiful.
That's what happened to us with this find in France: a few very large, very thick and very dusty slabs of an initially unknown burl wood were found there, and careful attempts at planing revealed a beautiful grain, but what kind of wood it was initially remained in the dark. However, once the smaller boards had been cut in half in width to fit over the jointers width of 45 cms, the joy was great; a beautiful warm golden-yellow wood color emerged, and the grain had a strong three-dimensional effect, looking unreal for a flat surface. With a little white spirit sprayed on, you can get an idea of the deep structure and color that a finished product made from this wood will one day have. A scientific determination of the wood then revealed that it belongs to the Pterocarpus family, to which the red Amboina burl wood also belongs, but in this case it is a wood known as golden Amboyna or Moudui burl, it comes from South East Asia, Thailand and Laos are its natural growth areas. We don't need to emphasize how happy this find and its beauty make us, and we are also delighted to be able to offer this unique feature to our customers all over the world!