The answer on finishing Ancient Wood's 50,000 year old Kauri is "very carefully." Recovered from prehistoric peat bogs in New Zealand, this wood prices at $40 a board foot for flat sawn grain, $60 ...

The Republican photo by John Suchocki Polly Ryan-Lane, of Smith College’s botanic garden, holds a piece of 50,000-year-old Kauri wood from the Kauri bogs in New Zealand. Polly Ryan-Lane, of Smith ...

Roughly 50,000 years ago, a series of horrible storms wracked northern New Zealand, burying stands of ancient Kauri trees in peat and mud—where they waited, for many, many millennia, to be ...

Minter & Richter offers a number of wood-inlayed rings, including a titanium wedding band with 50,000-year-old aAncient Kauri wood with Malachite stone and black concrete inlays.