« Walks at the end of the world 2 »
..... a wood carving
Wood species used for the wood carving « Walks at the end of the world 2 »
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Walks at the end of the world 2 :
...And when the sun is gone, wait a little longer
at the foot of the black stone, standing there for years,
to finally see once again the famous green light...
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 : Wild cherry tree
French : Merisier
English : Wild cherry tree
German : Wildkirsche baum
Italian : Ciliegio selvatico
Spanish : Salvaje cerezo
Dutch : Zoete kers
Origin : Europe
Latin : Prunus avium
Family : Rosacées-Amygdalacées
Country : France
Trunks of wood : 4 12 m
Diameter : 0.3 0.7 m
Density : 0.6 0.7
Life : de 100...à 250 ans.
This is the wild cherry tree... it owes its name to taste its fruits: cherry and bitter that became "merise". Present since the Tertiary on our continent, the birds that eat its fruit, spread its seeds everywhere. When it grows in the forest, it is the race to light in the middle of other species, with only a terminal crown and a trunk, almost straight, without branches, which then makes the happiness of cabinetmakers. His heavy wood, ranging from light orange to brown, is a marvel under the chisel and especially under the hand ...
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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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Wood specie : Lime
French : Tilleul
English : Lime
German : Linde
Italian : Tiglio
Spanish : Tilo
Dutch : Lindeboom
Origin : Europe
Latin : Tilia vulgaris
Family : Tiliacées
Country : France
Trunks of wood : 2 5 m
Diameter : 0.3 1 m
Density : 0.4 0.5
Life : de 100...à 600 ans.
This is the ideal specie for sculpture, like for "the lightness of flight", with its fine grain that allows forms very thin. But we soon learn to assayed the gesture because it is a soft wood, so fragile...And It's the tree that blooms in front of the window of the workshop,that my bees like so much...
A beautiful linden stands in front of the old Priory of Conques
, in Sainte-Cécile (Belgium) since over 600 years.
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