What is it about cocus?
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Re: What is it about cocus?
So is real cocuswood lighter in colour then the other one? Do they smell the same?
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Re: What is it about cocus?
The real Cocuswood can get dark, but not black. That is the give away, the scent is different. The madagascar ebony smells like mildewed dirty clothes when you turn it. The fresh stuff, and the antique wood both smell as bad... This wood was used on a lot of German flutes.Othannen wrote:So is real cocuswood lighter in colour then the other one? Do they smell the same?
Your old HY Potter flute is Cocuswood.
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Re: What is it about cocus?
Jon, regarding that "lovely Fentum" of yours pictured above: can you tell me what the stamp says? What address? Thanks!
Looks like you have a few different Fentums, no?
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Looks like you have a few different Fentums, no?
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Re: What is it about cocus?
Sorry for the delay, didn't see the post...Thalatta wrote:Jon, regarding that "lovely Fentum" of yours pictured above: can you tell me what the stamp says? What address? Thanks!
Looks like you have a few different Fentums, no?
Shane
Fentum
36 Queens Row
Walworth
London
Correction: The Fentum is Cocuswood, I had to replace the socket, the newly turned wood revealed nice bright cocuswood... The flute must have been acid stained to darken it so much!
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Re: What is it about cocus?
Just spotted this thread. Hm...have to say that I completely disagree about this "cocus and real cocus" idea . I've restored and made flutes in cocus for more than 30 years, and apart from the fact that some flutes thought to be cocus ( auction catalogues are notoriously inaccurate in this regard) are in fact various rosewoods,and the other way round, all the rest of the cocus easily falls into the natural variation which you'll find in any wood, both in grain pattern, colour, and smell. ( which is immense!)
Re Kokra wood, I think we need a lot more than one dictionary ref to make such a sweeping statement as"the antique flutes from Britian, were mostly made from a wood that came from India, Kokra wood not the Cocuswood from the West Indies."
Surely if this were the case it would be easy to establish shipping and import records for this timber in 19th century London?
I think you need to back this up with some evidence.
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Re Kokra wood, I think we need a lot more than one dictionary ref to make such a sweeping statement as"the antique flutes from Britian, were mostly made from a wood that came from India, Kokra wood not the Cocuswood from the West Indies."
Surely if this were the case it would be easy to establish shipping and import records for this timber in 19th century London?
I think you need to back this up with some evidence.
All the Best
Hammy