Nice pipe. That's Morta?
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Looks like "young" Morta
Bayou Morning in a Castello four square panel
Bayou Morning in a Radice Hawkbill
Yes, sir, and thank you.
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.
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Bayou Morning in an Il Ceppo Brandy
