Bethlehem OLIVE WOOD Knife Scales Blanks
3 Measures:
3.50" (8.9 cm) X 1.50" (3.80 cm) X 0.50" (1.25 cm)
4" (10.1 cm) X 1.50" (3.80 cm) X 0.50" (1.25 cm)
5" (12.7 cm) X 1.50" (3.80 cm) X 0.50" (1.25 cm)
PRODUCED FROM THE HEART WOOD OF THE OLIVE BRANCH
DRIED FOR AT LEAST 3-5 YEARS
Create some beautiful knives from Olive Wood from the Historic and Holy Lands around Bethlehem.
This woods turns with ease and is quite beautiful with unusual dark stripes riddled through a sea of yellow.
Each blank is air dried and inspected for color, grain, and to be free of defects and cracks.
Olive wood trees from the ancient city of Bethlehem, Israel (also known as Roman trees) have been bearing fruit since the time of the Romans. Many religious, historical, and artistic articles are made from this beautiful ancient wood. We have a good supply of olive wood pen and wide blanks from a Bethlehem company that specializes in harvesting this wood.
Note: No tree was damaged or destroyed in the process of harvesting this wood.
We also provide several stores and many eBay sellers in the US and UK.
*Our products are 100% Authentic and produces from the heart wood of the olive branches in Jerusalem& Bethlehem (with full of grains and grade A+++).
The olive tree
The olive tree is native to the Holy Land where it has been cultivated since ancient times. According to historians, the first olive groves took root in the Holy Land and along the coast of the eastern Mediterranean around 4,000 B.C.
The olive tree is a slow growing tree and can live for many hundreds of years. Reaching the age of 200 the trunk disappears, shoots develop at the base of the trunk and eventually grow into a new tree, hence the olive tree is known as the “immortal tree”.
The people of the Holy Land protect the tree refusing to ever cut them down. In the middle of October (harvest season) , the people of the Holy Land pick their oli
