These are small chips of 500 year old live oak that was reclaimed from holding ponds in the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, MA. The Navy Yard is where Old Ironsides is docked, and they of course did lots of other shipbuilding work in the late 1700s and early 1800s. The huge logs these came from were stored in ponds until needed...but were never needed. So they sat under water for 200 years and were then sold to a company in the Boston area a little while ago.
I wound up with some of the wood, did my project, and stuck these small chips in a coffee can with the idea that I'd make some small carvings and buttons out of them (talk about cool - imagine cannonballs bouncing off the buttons of your reenactment uniform!). But we all know how that story ends. I'm clearly not going to do anything with them and was going to throw them out. Maybe you have better ideas or motivation?
The wood is extremely dense and hard, not to mention the sawdust smelling like it was under water for 200 years. But I believe the stories about cannonballs - the stuff kills blades, and I actually bent a perfectly good chisel on it at one point!
I do not need anything specific arranged in trade up front -- if you want them, I'd be happy to ship to a good home. If you have anything you want to ship back, that's fine. If not, that's fine as well.
I wound up with some of the wood, did my project, and stuck these small chips in a coffee can with the idea that I'd make some small carvings and buttons out of them (talk about cool - imagine cannonballs bouncing off the buttons of your reenactment uniform!). But we all know how that story ends. I'm clearly not going to do anything with them and was going to throw them out. Maybe you have better ideas or motivation?
The wood is extremely dense and hard, not to mention the sawdust smelling like it was under water for 200 years. But I believe the stories about cannonballs - the stuff kills blades, and I actually bent a perfectly good chisel on it at one point!
I do not need anything specific arranged in trade up front -- if you want them, I'd be happy to ship to a good home. If you have anything you want to ship back, that's fine. If not, that's fine as well.
