Ancient Redgum

Hello friends, 

after three years of this blog being dead I decided to start posting again. Poor quality photos on Instagram was one reason, and also I would like to share here bit more than on IG. 

Extra photos of the pieces I made and probably more tea related and nature photos as well. 

Hope you will like this, that you find time to look here and enjoy beauty of the wood and other on bigger screen. I am not sure how often I will post here, but I was thinking weekly or maybe more often. 

Best wishes, Ondrej  

Here you can take a look at ancient Redgum teascoop accompanied with Blackwood needle and ancient Bog Oak needle rest. Set went to my dear customer in Singapore. This Redgum wood comes from ancient tree that was about 1,000 years old when felled some 8,000 years ago. It is truly spectacular wood which I feel very lucky to work with. It's quite hard and dense mineralised wood, fragile but stiff. Definitely not easy to carve but certainly worth the efforts. It’s bit like carving a stone, very slow and careful work! Has very satisfying heavy weight as most of the Australian hardwood timbers. This wood is normally red color but over the thousand of years turned black being buried underground (wet environment without oxygen) similar to well know Bog Oak. When you work with this wood it has very pleasant sweet coal and incense scent. I am happy I was able to preserve some of the live edge as its texture is amazing. What a treasure this is, feel and look of this wood is truly magical! It would be the most special wood in my collection.