However, there are unusual colours: rose, gray, brown, black and yellow, black and green with silver gray veins, from a blue-black to a brownish black, but as a rule dark.
To acquire a black timber, the maturation averages is at 3, to 5, years, but it can start as early as 1, years. Soft pale-yellow colors speak of a fuming age of years. Semi-dry bog-wood can be a golden or copper color. The characteristic black quality of Bog Oak is a result of a chemical reaction occurring between the tannins in the Oak and soluble irons present in the mineral subsoil. The large amounts of iron give the look and feel of steel when polished. Second, the stream current should be high, favourable for the process of mineralization, saturation of water with mineral salts.
Third, the river alluvial soil should have special composition. Alluvial soil is a certain sediment of the river flow and silts from weathering and erosion of more ancient rocks and their ingress to river valleys.
The last condition of bog oak to appear is a time factor as a hundred years washing is not sufficient. Since the probability of all these factors coexisting is slim, bog oak is a truly rare and unique material. Moreover, we know that bog oak has high energy and gives vital force. Since the ancient times oak has been considered a magical source of energy.
Our ancestors thought that bog oak gave man better protection from negative external energy and helped recover strength. Oak gives its power to man easily by a simple touch and its energy helps balance the whole body. It became a tradition to present gifts made of "black wood" on solemn occasions which lasted right up to the revolutionary period. Finishing the apartments with bog oak evidenced not only the well-being of a man but his status in the society since ownership of this exclusive material showed one deserved to possess it.
According to Russian Legend, it has miraculous healing powers. The days of posting a newsletter around the neighborhood are over. Bog oak is a catchall name for partially fossilized wood. Although most of this wood, as its name implies, originates from oak trees, partially fossilized yew or pine wood is also considered bog oak. The origins of this ancient timber are a mysterious, wonderful thing. Thousands of years ago, swamps, fens and bogs were often surrounded by huge, primeval forests full of massive oak trees.
Due to storms, floods or other natural events, these trees would sometimes fall into these adjacent wetlands. Oak trees are rich in chemical compounds called tannins or tannic acid. Tannins are yellowish to brownish in color, astringent, and acidic in nature.
Tannins are renowned for their powers of preservation. In effect, tannins have the ability to mummify organic matter when present in high concentrations.
Wetlands containing large numbers of dead oak trees naturally become saturated with tannins over time. This is the reason the mummified remains of ancient European bog bodies like Tollund Man are discovered thousands of years later in excellent condition.
In fact, tannins were originally used by ingenious ancient people to tan animal hides. Words like tannins, tanning and oak tree tanna in Old High German have shared etymological origins, underscoring their close association over the centuries. Any tree that fell into a bog and sank quickly had a tendency to be preserved in the tannin-rich waters. However, some types of wood were preserved better than others. Oak is already an incredibly tough and rot resistant wood.
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Inline Feedbacks. Ed Davidson. Robert S. It might be harder to find a place to put a 43' table in the first place! For metric system folks: lbs is roughly Metric system conversion should not be difficult, however, I recently learned it has been made convoluted.
Attempting to find out the per gram price of something bought in a kilogram bundle, I simply divided the kilo price by This is where it got confusing. I was told there are only grams in a kilo. Me: huh?? It's literally the definition of the word kilogram, grams. Apparently, this is the standard on purchasing of items sold in kilograms.
That sounds like nonsense. Standard where? What items? In countries that just use the metric system, there would be no conversion to pounds and ounces most people would have to look up how to do it. Hello logic, meet brick wall. Enjoy the conversation. Lots of in between the lines intentionally left for the reader. No, I'm not in a country that normally uses kilo for weight. There are not many things sold by the kilo in non-metric using countries, but some items are regardless.
Trust me, I've already had this argument until I was blue in the face. It doesn't change the fact that this still occurs. Dylan 8 months ago root parent prev next [—]. Who told you this? I can't find anything talking about grams. The people selling things in kilo bundles do not appreciate names being used. Silly questions like this are also not condoned. Dylan 8 months ago root parent next [—]. If it's only a few weird drug people you met then it's not "the standard".
Is this in the US? Sorry but I got curious: Where is a kilo treated as g? One of the image captions states 18 people carried a single slab, so there's no way 24 would carry the full table, even without doing the maths.
But I feel fairly confident that there are UK-localized versions of each. That does not follow. However, since the four tabletop planks are not joined into a single piece, it is clear that 12 people on a side is not a reasonable approach.
If the tabletop is removed from the support structure, then 12 people make multiple trips with each plank, at 65 lbs per person, per plank. To get 66 people around that table, they would need to be about 3 feet apart, which is just barely adequate working space.
Fortunately we don't move things like this using people. Not even in the UK! That table is stunning, fascinating article. I wonder what the supply of these logs is like and whether we will see "Real Fake Bog Log Bedframe" coming out of the black market shops of Asia any time soon.
Old growth wood is physically different from what you'll find at a regular lumberyard, so I would like to think no, but I'm sure it will be turned into marketing speak eventually. Probably already exists on Amazon. Doing it as an apprenticeship teaches you humility. If I remember something similar is done with "logging" the Great Lakes for sunken old-growth wood. This is all so fascinating. The idea of using wood thousands of years old.
The craft of the people doing it. The realization that there are colonies of trees still standing, yes still standing, that are hundreds of years old. There are trees still standing in parts of the world that there are several thousand years old.
Some of the oldest trees in California's redwood groves took root before the Roman Empire. Cool recycling story. Lou Stiver has been making mandolins for decades. Some time ago, a neighbor was renovating their kitchen. Lou knew that the original cabinets were made from maple harvested from the property. He asked the neighbor for the old cabinets, and made what he believes are some of his finest mandolins. Anyone with any knowledge know if bog wood like this oak has been used as a tone wood?
Really interesting read I didn't expect to see this morning. I've used bog oak for a bunch of things, it behaves about the same as white oak to me - so I doubt it would be great for tone wood uses.
Thanks for the behaviour note—it sent me on a hunt! Of course, before I'd asked I hadn't searched up whether or not it's been used in instruments. Seems like the consensus is mixed. It might be a sleeper tone wood for a specifically-tuned instrument? Either way, the results can be quite pretty One of the criticisms leveed against it was in line with your dismissal of white oak—because of it's structure there's more damping than a rosewood but it's otherwise bright just with a fast decay.
So I suppose that lends itself well to specific playing styles. Not a standout aside from maybe looks and rarity , but not useless either. VBprogrammer 8 months ago parent prev next [—].
My friend has a very nice spalted swamp ash custom guitar. I forget the name of the builder but it's pretty rare to go along with it. As for tone wood, its very existence is mired in controversy.
This is probably not the time or place to get into it! Can someone explain how all the planks of the bog oak fit together so perfectly? The article says go to their instagram for details but I'm not really getting a whole lot when I click on individual photos.
I haven't seen their page, but I've seen this kind of thing before. After lining up approximately where things should fit, one piece is cut in a smooth curve just back far enough to remove the live edge. The other piece is cut to match that.
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