Post #471177 by timidtiki on Thu, Jul 23, 2009 9:35 AM

AND HERE YOU HAVE IT!!!

A genuine original official BenZart Memorial Totoweka Wood Gouge . . .
. . . made from genuine New Zealand totoweka (blood of the weka bird)
pounamu in the form of a Maori (style) jade wood gouge -

First the totoweka wood gouge:

Next, a backlit photo of a small mere showing the weka "blood" inclusions which are characteristic
of totoweka pounamu. (I wasn't able to show these in the gouge with my photographic skills
but they are even more pronounced and "blood-like" than they are in this photo.

[ Edited by: timidtiki 2009-07-23 09:37 ]