For You Lot Exceptional Gild From Ireland

H5N1 few weeks agone I received a duet of blanks of bog oak from Republic of Ireland amongst a asking for a chisel hammer in addition to a dovetail mark knife. Here's a batch of hammer handles, it looks similar a dark sheep!

Bog oak comes from oak trees that brutal into peat bogs some five 1000000 years ago. The jail cellphone construction of the forest collapsed but was preserved yesteryear the peat bog which turned the forest from night brownish through to jet dark inwards colour. For slice of furniture I similar pieces that exhibit the transition from the brownish through to dark but for modest items similar this the jet dark looks stunning. The forest needs to endure retrieved from the bog, no hateful task, in addition to thence quarter sawn to give it the best adventure of drying out without disintegrating. The drying needs to endure done slow in addition to an enormous total of H2O is extracted from the collapsed cells which leaves an extremely dense in addition to difficult timber when dry, it's almost similar rock in addition to is real similar inwards experience to African blackwood. There are a lot of cracks in addition to shakes also equally areas of rot, thence equally you lot tin imagine build clean defect gratuitous boards are simply nearly the most expensive timber you lot tin buy.
Republic of Ireland is a skillful root also equally the fenland's of East Anglia.

I used a boxwood wedge to contrast the black. This hammer has existent weight in addition to feels dandy inwards the hand, I promise I've done this rare forest justice.

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