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Yesterday, Pan Wanjun introduced a big sweaty hand player @ Lao Zhao Lao Zhao, skillfully using gloves, can plate the wooden skewers out of the glass bottom sweaty hand vs wooden skewers, a month out of the glass bottom!. The article mentions a niche type of wooden skewer - healed sore wood.
It is one of the four most famous trees in the world
Some players asked, what is Healing Wood?
Heal sore wood, at first glance at the name, it doesn't look like a domestic product. We Chinese names are rarely so complicated, and we can neither see the origin nor the color. For example, red sandalwood has a color, and sea yellow has a place of origin. And what about the healing wood?
The production area of healia wood is distributed near the equator and between 30 °C north latitude, concentrated in Central America and the West Indies, and is one of the world's four most precious woods [sandalwood red sandalwood in Asia, pink ivory wood in Africa, and healwood and serpentine wood in the Americas].
The characteristics of the healing wood are:
Playmate @雨後Toronto said that he has been in contact with the healing wood for so long, and he loves and hates it. Love comes from the incomparable hardness and density of it, as well as its ecstatic aroma. Hate because it is too scarce in number to be found. Every time I tried to find wood, I tried my best.
Healer wood is the heaviest wood in the world, with high air-dry density, high oil content, high oiliness and high strength value, which belongs to the super hardwood. A lot of wood is afraid of water, but even in seawater, the hardness of the healed wood will not be reduced, and the rot resistance and insect resistance are the highest in the world, and termites and sea insects can be ignored.
In foreign countries, the healer tree is the tree of life and heals wounds. The resinous inclusions in the healed wood can be dissolved in solvents, with good medicinal properties, and are reddish-brown or dark brown after dissolving, sometimes with a slight green, aromatic flavor, and its components can treat cough, anti-inflammatory, anesthesia, and even make a fixative......
In short, as one of the world's four famous trees, the healing sore wood has unique characteristics. In the entertainment circle, it is not easy to crack and resistant to play because of its high oiliness and high density. In addition, the healing wood has a sandalwood fragrance, the sapwood is brownish-yellow, and the heartwood is dark yellow-brown, dark brown, green-black-brown, which is deeply loved by many players.
Domestic green sandalwood is not a healing wood
In the current era of "everything can be plated", such a playful wood has not become a popular model? The reason is that there are too few people. On the one hand, the production of the origin of the healed wood is already small, and on the other hand, the number of rare varieties that are prohibited from being cut down is also small.
The growth of the healer tree is extremely slow, and the diameter can only grow 20 cm in 100 years. When the industrial demand could not be satisfied, people resorted to Argentine vera wood as an alternative, and its wood properties were close to that of healed wood.
However, it is this kind of substitution that makes people who don't know about healing sores unable to tell the difference between the two. Therefore, in the cultural and entertainment circle, many domestic trees that are not real healing sores are mostly vela wood, and even the more common iron wood, etc., which are fake and real.
Some people also say, isn't healed wood just green sandalwood?
▲ Both strings are sore-healing wood, and the color is different
According to foreign wood records, the real green sandalwood is actually a genus of healed wood.
However, sandalwood is a broad range, and the wood with sandalwood fragrance and green color is sandalwood, and there is no such species as sandalwood in botanical science. The common green sandalwood in our market is not expensive, because there are dozens of kinds of wood with green color and sandalwood fragrance, and according to the sample identification, the domestic green sandalwood is generally from Argentina Vera wood.
▲ Argentine vera wood, domestic "green sandalwood"
How do you tell the difference between vera wood and healwood?
Healed wood, the hardest wood in the world, has a sandalwood scent, but the smell is deeper and longer than that of Vila wood. The smell of vera wood is divergent and frivolous.
▲ Yu Xiang
Healer wood catheters are rich in resin, so they can vary in color, from olive green to dark brown.
But it is difficult to distinguish the color from the smell, and the best way is to look at the cross-section.
Under 10x magnification, the brown eyes of the vera wood are larger, arranged in groups and very regular, while the texture of the healed wood is delicate and compact, and the brown eyes are so thin that they are almost indistinguishable and irregular, making it the most delicate and oily wood in the world.
A friend once asked: Is my carving a vera wood or a healing wood?
Experienced players judge from the details of cross-sectional observation that this is not a healed wood, because the distribution of dumpling holes in the cross-section is dense into powder, which is not delicate enough.
Sores wood can be carved and plated
Heal sores wood has great playability, which can be carved into handles, carved pieces, or made into wood products, and can also be used as bead plates. Literary players get good corners of small materials, usually car beads coiled strings.
Because of the high oiliness and high density, it is not difficult to coil up the sores wood, and the same as the general wooden skewers, the combination of the plate is placed, and the humidity is too great to put on the glove plate, and it can be sealed and stored without a plate. In short, the more ruddy the color, the better it looks.
The price of the healed wood bracelet is not expensive, and many players start with the ball and polish it themselves.
Usually there is a difference between dark and light colors, the interweaving of light pigments is obvious, the dark pigments are basically solid colors, the age of the ball is large and effective, the big ones are decades or hundreds of years, and the cutting is deep and shallow, depending on personal preference.
However, in order to increase the aesthetics, some businesses will carry out artificial dyeing processing, etc., and players need to watch more and learn more in order to take less medicine.
▲ Caribbean-style healing wood carvings
▲ The carving ornaments of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest
▲ Ping An buckle
▲ Mosaic base
▲ Handles
▲ Bedding, because the import time of healed wood is less than 100 years, there are not many old objects.
▲ Sores wood products
▲ small accessories and small carvings
▲ Lion head card
This wooden skewer with high oiliness and high hardness is really leathery!Visually it is a wooden skewer suitable for lazy people to play~~ Try it?