Wood species used for the wood carving « Souvenirs »
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Wood specie : Common alder
French : Aulne glutineux
English : Common alder
German : Schwarzerle
Italian : Ontano nero
Spanish : Alano negro
Dutch : Zwarte els
Origin : Europe
Latin : Alnus glutinosa
Family : Bétulacées
Country : France
Trunks of wood : 10 20 m
Diameter : 0.2 0.4 m
Density : 0.5 0.6
Life : - de 100 ans.
Also called "aune" or "verne" or "vergne", it would give its name to the Auvergne (aune, vergne), a French province. As it is also the shoes tree...
It can be found on edges of rivers in company of willow wood. And its wood of blood color, when cutting, become brighter when drying, it has the characteristic of being "imputrescible" when it is submerged : a part of Venice poles would be in alder ...
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Wood specie : African ebony
French : Ebène
English : African ebony
German : Ebenbaum
Italian : Ebano
Spanish : Ebano
Dutch : Ebbelboom
Origin : Afrique tropicale
Latin : Diospyros crassiflora
Family : Ebénacées
Country : Gabon, Congo
Trunks of wood : 4 10 m
Diameter : 0.2 0.5 m
Density : 1 1.2
Life : + de 200 ans.
In Greece, his name was already "ebonos".... he gave his name to the artists or craftsmen who used it to make some beautiful furniture.... Thank you Sir Boulle.
It's a dense and heavy wood, chosen uniformly black for lutherie's pieces, it sparkles in the light due to the presence of crystals of acid Oxalic and once polished, has an incomparable silky touch....
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Wood specie : Pistachio tree
French : Pistachier
English : Pistachio tree
German : Pistazie
Italian : Pistacchio
Spanish : Pistachero
Dutch : Pistacheboom
Origin : Moyen Orient
Latin : Pistacia terebinthus
Family : Anacardiacées
Country : France
Trunks of wood : 1 2 m
Diameter : 0.2 0.3 m
Density : 0.5 0.6
Life : + de 100 ans.
Mainly presents in the southern Mediterranean, the pistachio-oak, lets flow from its bark, a resin : the turpentine. Its growth is very slow and its fragrant wood has beautiful green veins that I used for a multicolour ball, the largest of three in Astrolabe.
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