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Uluru :
...L�, o� le soleil est si ardent
qu'il faut s'enterrer pour un peu
de fraicheur...
Wood specie : Apricot tree
French : Abricotier
English : Apricot tree
German : Aprikosenbaum
Italian : Albicocco
Spanish : Albaricoquero
Dutch : Abrikozenboom
Origin : Montagnes de l'Asie Centrale
Latin : Prunus armeniaca
Family : Rosacées-Amygdalacées
Country : France
Trunks of wood : 2 4 m
Diameter : 0.2 0.5 m
Density : 0.6 0.8
Life : + de 30 ans.
He followed the caravans road, like the sun from east to west ... Its culture in Armenia left him his Latin name. Its wood offers a wonderful range of colors, from yellow with orange touch to reach the red, and sometimes even some very light green. This is my "rainbow" wood.
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Wood specie : African mahogany
French : Acajou d'Afrique
English : African mahogany
German : Afrikanisches mahagoni
Italian : Acajou
Spanish : Acajou
Dutch : Mahonieboom
Origin : Afrique tropicale
Latin : Khaya ivorensis
Family : Méliacées
Country : Ghana, Cote d'ivoire
Trunks of wood : 15 25 m
Diameter : 0.6 1.2 m
Density : 0.4 0.6
Life : + de 300 ans.
Used since the end of the 19 century, in thin thickness, because the American mahogany got scarce. Its name in Portuguese "caju" means the tree who produce cashew nuts, so the cashewtree, would have been taken the word in tupi language "acajù" and by mistake in French. Its wood, with fine grain, pink when you cut it becomes violet after a while, to finish in a very dark red. Moreover, it presents a very nice satin look polishing.
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Wood specie : Box tree
French : Buis
English : Box tree
German : Buchsbaum
Italian : Bosso
Spanish : Boj
Dutch : Busboom
Origin : Europe du sud, Asie Mineure
Latin : Buxus sempervirens
Family : Buxacées
Country : France
Trunks of wood : 1 4 m
Diameter : 0.1 0.3 m
Density : 0.7 0.8
Life : + de 500 ans.
It's acclimatized to the whole of Europe, from Portugal to England ... because of it slow growth, its wood is fine and tight. It was used since ancient times for many utility objects, games, musical instruments, tools and during 15 th century for engraving and printing. Grace natural branches creates people like the Little Prince. Its finish is delicate because it must be perfect, otherwise the slightest scratch is visible... but then, it's marvellous.
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Wood specie : Holly tree
French : Houx
English : Holly tree
German : Stechpalme
Italian : Agrifoglio
Spanish : Acebo
Dutch : Hulst
Origin : Europe
Latin : Ilex aquifolium
Family : Aquifoliacées
Country : France
Trunks of wood : 2 8 m
Diameter : 0.2 0.7 m
Density : 0.7 0.9
Life : + de 200 ans.
Its Latin name "aquifolium" comes from its sharped leaves (acus, folium). Since antiquity,it is the species of the winter solstice, with its foliage and its persistent red berries that mature in late December.
Hollywood, it's also the name for a very small ranch on an hill at the west of Los Angeles in 1886...
Wood dense, once polished looks almost like ivory ...As the little mermaid, figurehead of Jonas , souviens-toi comme la mer est belle...
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Wood specie : Yew
French : If
English : Yew
German : Eibe
Italian : Tasso
Spanish : Tejo
Dutch : Taxusboom
Origin : Europe méridionale, Caucase
Latin : Taxus baccata
Family : Taxacées
Country : France
Trunks of wood : 1 15 m
Diameter : 0 0.8 m
Density : 0.6 0.8
Life : de 200...à 1000 ans.
Its Latin name clearly announces things, Taxus means toxic because, except its red berries which are eaten by birds, everything else is. Because of its slow growth, it has a very tight timber, with beautiful orange color, although it must be careful in very fine sanding because its dust can be irritating. Planted when a monastic community was create in Viegeois (Corrèze)
, this Yew has proudly displays more than 1400 years to a diameter of 9 m...
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Wood specie : African padauk
French : Padouk
English : African padauk
German : Afrikanisches padouk
Italian : Paduk
Spanish : Madera coral
Dutch : Padoek
Origin : Afrique tropicale
Latin : Pterocarpus soyauxii
Family : Fabacées
Country : Cameroun
Trunks of wood : 10 20 m
Diameter : 0.5 1 m
Density : 0.6 0.85
Life : + de 200 ans.
Native from Equatorial Africa, bright orange wood turning brown slowly under the light. And just look at the colour buffer coating at the end of the first pass, to make of the coloring power. The bark, which makes it a red powder, is often still used for that.
Despite its darker longitudinal streaks, its points clearer, the work is easy, the polishing even very easy, a real pleasure...
With a cut in quarter, we get a beautiful veining, with effects of depth, which give its name of "wood coral"
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Wood specie : Pear tree
French : Poirier
English : Pear tree
German : Birnbaum
Italian : Pero
Spanish : Peral
Dutch : Perelboom
Origin : Europe
Latin : Pirus communis
Family : Rosacées-Malacées
Country : France
Trunks of wood : 2 5 m
Diameter : 0.3 1.1 m
Density : 0.7 0.8
Life : de 100...200 ans.
Its cultivation in Europe is very old, with a stunning adaptation to any terrain, which gave us a multitude of varieties. And its wood with pink grain, is a marvel to work, both in furniture than in fine cutting...
See this Don Quixote See this Don Quixote, made in a pear tree of over one meter in diameter that I cut twenty years ago...
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