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Rosewood Armchairs
Oct 24, 2012
Woodworker: Tony Kenway
New South Wales rosewood is a rainforest tree that can live for over 1,000 years. Kenway bought the wood for these chairs in slab form. They had been cut from a log that was felled in the 1930s and left on the forest floor for half a century. The log had been through a forest fire, and the edges of the slabs Kenway bought were charred. The wood, he reports, was wonderful to work: very stable and with extremely fine grain, rich color and a delightful scent.
Photo: David Young
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