Over 30,000 year old Ancient Kauri Blocks from New Zealand

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These are blocks of Ancient Kauri from New Zealand. They look more like ingots of gold than they do blocks of wood. The logs found in the area that this wood comes from are estimated to have died between 30,000 and 50,000 years ago. In New Zealand they call this wood Swamp Kauri because it was dug up where it has been submerged for thousands of years in wet swampy areas. The grain is subtle with small flecks and a the wood has a nice golden luster.
I have added some natural, not chemically stabilized blocks to our webstore for $25 each.
Just click on the photo to go where they are located in our web store.
 
Wow, Mark. That's some amazing wood. To be honest, I'd never heard of Ancient Kauri until your post. But there is quite a lot of information about it on the interwebs. You compared this batch to maple - and I've seen some other sites that characterized their samples as closer to cherry. Kauri is technically a conifer - a softwood, right?

And I'd also be interested in knowing if you are going to try stabilizing a batch.

Cheers!
TedP
 
I will probably get some stabilized.
The supplier is seeing if they can provide root and whitebait pieces to me for more dramatic handle material.
White bait is a type of figure that looks like a school of fish.

They emailed carbon dating results that show the logs they imported to be from 47,100 to 53,460 years old.
 
I have used this wood in natural state and it was very oily and buffed up to a shine.
I will try try a slice.
 
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