28/10/2025
SOLD!!!!
The reveal! 🎃
Here’s one for all you WATL throwers out there!
Well! Spooky season is upon us! And what better way to regicide the fact than with a spooky season inspired yeet stick?! 😁
And for all you rare wood lovers it honestly doesn’t get MUCH rarer than this! History lesson at the end 😉
About it!
- Wenge core with Maple stripe
- Orange and Black Maple laminates
- African Blackwood live edge scales
- Custom ‘Crescent Moon’ inlay
- Pumpkin Orange resin
- 17.5”
£215 (299 USD) plus shipping (this one is exempt from the Halloween sale given the cost of materials 😅)
Right! Lecture time! 🤓
African Blackwood (Dalbergia melanoxylon), or grenadilla, is one of the rarest and most valuable hardwoods in the world. Native to dry savannas of sub-Saharan Africa, especially Tanzania and Mozambique, it grows very slowly and only in specific arid conditions. Its dense, dark wood is prized for musical instruments and fine carvings, driving high demand and overharvesting. Habitat loss and poor regeneration rates due largely to ecological specialisation, has led to significant population decline. Now listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List and regulated under CITES, African Blackwood’s rarity highlights the urgent need for sustainable management and conservation.
And yet I’ve managed to secure enough of it to make not one but TWO axes with it, so stay tuned 😉
Y’all had better appreciate these wood lessons (giggity) coz they take forever to write 😅
