help finding acacia/****tum wood from Holy Land

[txbatons]

I have a customer who's requesting acacia/****tum from the Holy Land with a cert of auth. I have some BOW and "regular" acacia from Texas, but can't seem to locate his request.

Does anyone have any ideas?

 

[its_virgil]

I think I read that KOA is an acacia...but that doesn;t help. Email Gashan, the supplier of the BOW, and see if he can help.
do a good turn daily!
Don

Originally posted by txbatons
<br />I have a customer who's requesting acacia/****tum from the Holy Land with a cert of auth. I have some BOW and "regular" acacia from Texas, but can't seem to locate his request.

Does anyone have any ideas?

 

[txbatons]

Thanks Don. I'll email him and see what he can do. This customer also asked for a case made from the same wood. Haven't done a case yet so I may have to outsource that to someone here on IAP who's done wooden pen cases and see about getting it modified.

 

[R2]

Don, just for your information Koa is an acacia and from wht I hear it is very simila to our Blackwood ( Acacia Melanoxolyn ) here in the land of Oz.
Sorry I can't help with the other.[]

 

[vick]

Not sure this helps but
****tum is the plural for ****tah
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/parthenon/3664/acacia.html

****tah is Hebrew for Acacia so it is not known what type of Acacia they are reffering to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/****tah-tree

So really any pen you made him out of Acacia would be made from ****tum.

****tim wood is also mentioned in the bible, but I dont know of a source for it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acacia_seyal

 

[Rudy Vey]

Check this out:

http://www.inspiredwoods.com/bible_woods.php

Not sure if they sell pen blanks, but ask.

 

[Ron Mc]

OK everyone.
It's early so don't laugh at me to much.
What is it with all the "*" in the name of the wood?

 

[Monty]

Originally posted by Ron Mc
<br />OK everyone.
It's early so don't laugh at me to much.
What is it with all the "*" in the name of the wood?

It's the "s" word for cr@p.

edit: And if anyone locates a source for this wood, please let me know. I've been looking for some for the past 2 years.

 

[txbatons]

HA! Ron...the IAP software automatically spots the letters S.. .....H... ...I... ... T in the name of the wood and replaces the letters with ****.

Don...who is Gashan? I assumed it was an IAP member, but can't find it. I googled and couldn't find that name either. Is he with the HolyLand Import company? If so, I did email them.