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The gender of carving materials

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Posted 13 September 2009 - 10:52 PM

Boxwood.. female
Ebony.. male
Ivory mammoth.. female
Hippo.. male
Stag.. definitely male
Horn.. hmmm just annoying
Amber.. hmmm childish

opinions.. more?

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Posted 14 September 2009 - 12:09 AM

pink ivorywood... male

tortoise shell... female

tagua nut... androgynous?



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Posted 14 September 2009 - 01:44 AM

Fossil walrus.. Young male.. handsome on the outside.. all messed up on the inside
Umimatsu.. Young female.. beautiful on the outside.. a bloody nightmare in every other way
Bone.. like granma and grandad.. solid and still scrub up nice.. but full of holes.

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Posted 15 September 2009 - 04:33 AM

kuromido... the black widow; she will kill you, but how can you resist?

shibuichi... a tough, hapa b****

silver... soft, pliant, ethereal

copper... the old man, the everyman... rolls with the punches, but can be a harda**


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Posted 15 September 2009 - 12:19 PM

Lets not forget.. Boars tusk.. female.. so elegant and silky smooth.

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Posted 15 September 2009 - 09:47 PM

iron= mature fellow getting better with age :lol:
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Posted 15 September 2009 - 11:50 PM

ooo. good one, Jim!

How about:

rosewood - female due to it's perfume smell
tulipwood - " "
burls of all kinds - male (it's the shape)
african blackwood - both, since it is two woods in one
holly - female (it's the name)

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Posted 16 September 2009 - 12:44 AM

Hornbill.. female.. like Angelina Jolie, most blokes would love to but alas not even in your dreams. :lol:

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Posted 16 September 2009 - 03:00 AM

I'd like to suggest that burls are female, due to their shape on the tree, like a pregnancy.

Pink Ivory- again I differ in my opinion having a sense that it is female or precocious, rosy cheeked child
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Posted 16 September 2009 - 07:50 AM

Hornbill oooooh... my secret lust. Damn you Clive.

pink ivorywood... just believing the legend of Zulu kings.



shakudo?


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Posted 16 September 2009 - 12:34 PM

Legend? We like legends ...
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Posted 18 September 2009 - 12:03 AM

I have been working in white oak for the last three months, and was wondering today what it's gender would be.

I find it to be incredibly beautiful, and polishes up very well, but needs a lot of work to get it that way. It is often very unwilling to give in to my demands, becoming quite stubborn and unyeilding at times, but then minutes later, very easy going. Sort of fickle.

I'll leave it to your own interpretation to assign a gender.

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Posted 18 September 2009 - 01:15 AM

View PostPhil White, on Sep 17 2009, 09:03 PM, said:

I have been working in white oak for the last three months, and was wondering today what it's gender would be.

I find it to be incredibly beautiful, and polishes up very well, but needs a lot of work to get it that way. It is often very unwilling to give in to my demands, becoming quite stubborn and unyeilding at times, but then minutes later, very easy going. Sort of fickle.

I'll leave it to your own interpretation to assign a gender.

Phil


Perhaps like balsam -- hermaphrodite ?

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Posted 19 September 2009 - 03:12 AM

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Posted 24 September 2009 - 10:28 PM

ancient ,ancestral ,the bones of heart ,the pure manifestation of the row power of mother heart and always mystical

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Posted 24 September 2009 - 10:37 PM

sorry, is jade that I refer
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