An ancient treasure is ready to move into it’s second life is now for sale.
This prized board is very large piece of an Ancient Kauri tree and has been carbon dated to be more than 50,000 years old. It is also the largest board available in the whole world today.
Currently considered to be a “jewel in the rough”, it weighs in at approximately 3,000 pounds, is 40 feet long, is fully seven feet wide, and a hefty five inches thick. It is now stable and ready to become a world-class finished piece,
What’s the back-story on Ancient Kauri wood?
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Our board is part of a huge Ancient Kauri tree that has been carefully extracted from the earth. This tree was alive and growing as our planet was forming and continents were still moving into place. While not pre-dating human life, it is certainly pre-historic.
For more than 2,000 years our tree was strong and alive. It has been pushed by ancient winds and has felt the rains, fires, storms, and the heat of a sun from a world we can only speculate about.
Thousands of prehistoric animals, birds, bugs and other plants lived and died in this tree. No one knows what strange creatures stopped by to enjoy the shade of this huge tree.
Eventually, the tree fell over into water, which over eons turned into peat that kept these tress from rotting.
What’s the story behind this particular board?
In 2010 our tree was discovered and carefully excavated from the soil of northern New Zealand. Upon extraction, the remaining soil was fully remediated and the land looked as it was before the excavation.
At 15 feet in diameter our tree was a very exciting find. It is believed to have been over 200 feet tall. Using heavy equipment and specially designed saws, six of the biggest pieces of wood in the world were cut from this tree. Hundreds of treasured projects have been spawned from this single tree.
Five of these huge boards have been crafted into magnificent tables around the world:
• Boards One and Two are in a very busy book store in South Korea.
