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Northern New-Zealand swamps preserved Ancient Kauri wood over the millennia.
Buried just below the surface of the ground and preserved in the water of peat swamps, the Ancient Kauri wood has neither petrified nor turned to coal. This underground resting place, sealed from the air, became a perfectly balanced cocoon that preserved the giant trees.The picture shows extracting a huge 45000 year old Swamp Kauri from the swamp; go here to learn everything about Ancient Kauri www.ancientkauri.co.nz and www.ancientwood.com
Ancient Kauri back and sides
Special selected wood was used for the guitar; quartersawn lightweight for the top, higher density slabsawn for the back, and quartersawn sides
And how does it sound?
Well, basically it sounds the way it looks. Full, rich tone with plenty of sustain, this is a smooth operating guitar, now singing with 012 D'Addario flatwound strings. Low action, round tone from the Gibson humbucker that's about 8 years old (it wasn't possible to find a 50.000 year old humbucker.........)Kauri-Blues (Ampeg SJ).mp3 Kauri-(Ampeg SJ)Time.mp3 Kauri-Love(Evans).mp3 Wonderful Kauri World(Evans).mp3 (all recorded by Axel Hagen on Ampeg Super Jet and Evans RE-200)
The bridge of the Ice Age Jazz is handmade in mammoth ivory, found in the permafrost in Siberia, and aged 10.000+ years old
For more info on mammoth ivory click here
Axel Hagen playing Ice Age Jazz
The Ice Age Jazz has a Gibson Classic '57 humbucker45,000 year old Ancient Kauri pre-dates the migration of Neanderthal man into North America, the hunt for mammoths and cave paintings in Europe. The Kauri forest was already buried some 25,000 years before the on-set of the last Ice Age giving scientists an important insight into Earths climatic past.
To play a guitar with a history like that is like time travelling, it builds a connection to a time long gone by and you feel ancient sun rays and rain that feeds the giant Kauri trees, the majestic living mammoth; the miracle of life.
To learn more about the Ice Age from the Glacier Museum in Luzern, click here.
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