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Re: Monday

Frederick Nelson

I believe it was discovered on some islands showing some recent seismic activity in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. The islands were named by a Dutch explorer after some islands in his home country.

The name of this mysterious wood might sound like it involved female bovines if you were German, but a hollow moulding if you were French. There is a second syllable involved in the name, as well. I've no idea how the Maori pronounce the name.

It is an interesting wood that looks like it might be interesting to turn, but the samples I've seen didn't look all that exciting. Maybe I wasn't looking at the right pieces of wood.

Fred

who is back at his strange hours again

So good on ya!

Gary Smyth

Apparently the luck of the draw. Some of the pics I've seen are very nice. Some are nondescript.

You get the star, I'll let someone name the wood.

Re: So good on ya!

Thomas Skaggs, Foothills of Mount Level

I assume you are referring to Kauri wood?

Re: So good on ya too!

Monday answer

Gary Smyth

Frederick gets today's gold star and Tommy gets one too for identifying the wood.

The oldest workable wood/lumber on earth is Ancient Kauri {Agathis australis}. The trees from ancient forests on North Island, New Zealand have been buried under peat moss since the last ice age. They are well preserved and are now being dug up from the tundra. They have been radio carbon dated to approximately 30,000 - 50,000 years old. (50,000 years is the ultimate limit of radio carbon dating so it is quite possible that these trees could be older.)

It is estimated that the trees were growing approximately 12 - 20 centuries before they were buried by the ice. Some of the trees have a circumference of approximately 40 foot and heights of almost 200 foot. The Ancient Kauri trees are native to New Zealand and are not found anywhere else in the world. The wood/lumber from these trees can be purchased from, Ancientwood, LTD. Each piece of Ancient Kauri wood/lumber purchased, comes with a Certificate Of Authenticity -- should that mean anything to you..

Info source, J.W. Morlan. No affiliation with Ancient Wood Ltd. � info only.

Re: Monday answer

Frederick Nelson

That board would make a nice dining room or board room table, assuming you had a room big enough to house it. For that matter, it'd make a nice bowling alley.

So how do you pronounce it? To my germanic eyes, it looks like COW-ree, but it looks like it could be KOH-ree (frenchified), or CAW-ree (leaving you to the crows) as well.

Fred

Under slightly hazy skies in Eastern Missouri

Re: Monday answer

Gary Smyth

cow-ree Type in "Kauri" and pronounciation on Google and a voice will let you listen