Very old Matai burl. The tree was cut down about 90 years ago to plant pine trees!! If considered no good for building timber the trees were bulldozed into piles and burned. 60 years later the logs were salvaged and mostly cut up for firewood but some of the burls survived and were too hard to split for firewood, so were sold to turners. This is why this has burned patches! They are very hard but have beautiful grain. I have had the burl for more than 25 years! I'm guessing the tree would have been way older than 1000 years old before it was cut down. Size: 220mm x 140mm
