What's in your bowl today

[OneStrangeOne]

Union Square in a Ser Jacopo apple

 

[OneStrangeOne]

Bayou Morning in a Scott Klein tomato

 

[OneStrangeOne]

GH&CO Grasmere in a Peterson billiard

 

[Alwayslit]

Margate in a Dunhill

 

[Alwayslit]

PS LNF in a IMP

 

[Alwayslit]

WCC Glass slipper in a IMP

 

[Jakethesnake]

Getting cold out again fellas. I’ll light one up soon

 

[ak2000]

Not necessarily.
Morta (bog oak) gets its color from the presence of iron in the water supply.
The iron reacts with the tannins in the oak's wood fibers (e.g. artificially antiqueing a cedar fence with an iron sulfate wash) turning them brownish/black.
Age both hardens and leaches out the wood's natural chemicals. This makes it less attractive to bacteria and fungal attack (aka: rot)
Without carbon dating the approximate age is unknown. I've got 6k year old brown morta turning blanks.
For woodworkers, brown morta is more difficult to locate compared to dark gray.
I find the brown more appealing.

That is very informative Brad, thanks. I was under the impression that the darker the morta, the older it is. I think I read this somewhere...

 

[Alwayslit]

WCCSO in a Cooke

 

[Alwayslit]

That is very informative Brad, thanks. I was under the impression that the darker the morta, the older it is. I think I read this somewhere...

 

[OneStrangeOne]

Bayou Morning in an Il Duca Apple

 

[Drexell]

Potlatch in Radice

 

[Drexell]

Match Victorian in N.Monier

 

[OneStrangeOne]

Union Square in a Ryan Alden four square panel

 

[OneStrangeOne]

Dark Birdseye in an Armentrout Apple

 

[Alwayslit]

Good morning gentlemen. Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Enjoying some stonehaven in Rubio.

 

[OneStrangeOne]

2012 Hamborger Veermaster in a Ryan Alden apple

 

[OneStrangeOne]

Bayou Morning in a Radice billiard

 

[Drexell]

Haunted Bookshop in Radice

 

[OneStrangeOne]

Bayou Morning in a Ser Jacopo apple