new modiified wood

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new modiified wood

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I just saw this: it may be familiar already. A swiss company uses some sort of treatment process to make northern hemspher hardwoods harder than ebony:


http://www.swisswoodsolutions.ch/en/sonowood
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Tom Aebi makes flutes out of this material. You can see some examples on his website (see the photos with a red background).
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