[Woodcarver] I got 50,000 year old wood for Christmas (Kauri).

[maricha]

joe
CONGRATULATIONS on your wonderful old wood.
hope your project is just as memorable as the endurance of the wood.  a few 
years ago, i was also given a similar timber in old age as yours, from the 
sydney harbour, i treasure this piece, which is dark and quite interesting. 
but have not been able to come up with something that will make it justice. 
the donor was a great friend and wonderful woodturner, and father of one of 
my students.

it would be of much interest to all of us to know more your process of what 
the future holds for your piece.
in my case, i have talked with others who had small pieces from it, and said 
it took ages, sharp tools, and there was a great amount of crit and dirt 
accumulated over the years, and found carving the old relic was so tedious 
and required lots of sharpening.

the hardwork does not concern me much, but what concerns me more is that 
such a gift needs lots of planning and evaluation and thanking .

your thoughts would be much appreciated.

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU AND YOURS
cheers
maricha
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Dillett" <jdillett at thecarvingshop.com>
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Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2005 2:09 AM
Subject: Re: [Woodcarver] I got 50,000 year old wood for Christmas (Kauri).



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>>    But now a question....  I read the explaination and then went to the 

>> web site to look.  If this log is that big and its so hard to take out 

>> how in the world can they "fix the area to its orginal contours with no 

>> effect on  environmental consequences"?  Wouldn't just removing it change 

>> the environment?  And would that matter really?  Just a thought.

>> Merrilee

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> Hi Marrilee,

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> I think they must mean just replace the top surface as close as they can 

> to the way they found it.

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