Types of wood for hair combs
Maple - sweet joy
If I saw a bunch of combs out of maple wood, then the sweet scent of maple syrup pervades the entire workshop.
The wood is hard, fine-pored and warm to the touch.
The maple gives me sweet lightness and cheerfulness. If something triggers, then he can support you not to let it worry you, but to look, perceive and shift the clouds so that it becomes bright and clear again.
Serviceberry - love
Serviceberry trees (Sorbus torminalis) are also called "the beautiful Else".
The wood is fine-pored, hard, pleasantly smooth to work with and smells like a newly born baby when working with it.
The service tree is said to give security and love. Just lean your back against a "beautiful Else", let yourself be protected by the canopy of leaves and feel this unconditional love.
Hornbeam - the persistent
None of our woods ground us when smelling like the hornbeam. When sawing and grinding, it smells like fresh forest soil.
The wood is heavy, fine-pored and stays cool in the hand for a long time.
Until the beginning of the 21st century, our hydropower cog wheel was made of hornbeam wood, as it is ideal for this heavy load.
Cherry - the cheerful beauty
As numerous as the different types of cherries are, the grain of the wood can be just as varied. Sometimes lighter, sometimes darker, sometimes more green and then more red. Always hard and fine-pored, ideal for the wooden comb and always beautiful.
The smell when sawing is fruity and gives pure joie de vivre.
Special woods
they are rare - they are particularly fine-pored - they come to me
Apple tree - awareness
Applewood is special. Apple trees like to have twisted growth, don't get too old and don't necessarily grow in a straight line like checkerberry or maple. It is as if the apple tree reacts particularly attentively to external influences.
And then someone comes up to me and gives me an apple tree trunk that is ideal for our Groetsch combs - a feast.
The wood feels cool and wet - even when it's dry and has very fine pores. Wooden combs made of apple wood are created, like the tree, with special awareness.
Service tree - protection of the fine inside
Service tree (Sorbus domestica) wood is the hardest and most fine-pored wood in Europe.
Hardly any other wood is so ingenious for a wooden comb, no other wood can be worked so smoothly and at the same time is so elastic.
Service tree trees can live up to 500 years. Its characteristic rough bark, in contrast to the very fine-pored wood, reveals the power of protecting the fine in it and the fine inside you.
Olive - peace
Not only because it was the olive branch that the dove brought to Noah's ark makes up the character of peace.
Hardly any wood is so multifaceted, so different and so harmonious.
Harmonious coexistence of differences, isn't that peace?
Live and let live.
Plum - living BEING
Plum trees are often small in size and the wood tends to crack when stored for 8-12 years.
That is why there are smaller combs made of plum wood rather than large and long ones.
Plum wood gives me passion, joy, happiness and life in the here and now.
Ginkgo
The gingko biloba tree is also called the maidenhair tree. It is the only survivor of the Ginkgoaceae family, which was around 160
Millions of years ago, it was native to many parts of the world (including Europe). And he survived the atomic bomb that fell on Hiroshima in WW2
was dropped. 4 trees survived at the epicenter and miraculously thrived again the following spring.
In East Asia, the ginkgo is a sacred tree that embodies the primal force of life (well before World War II).
The ginkgo wood that I use in the workshop today comes from Weimar. It was Goethe who had many ginkgo trees planted there. It's an almost magical scent that spreads throughout the workshop when I'm working with ginkgo wood, and for whatever reason, the various work steps quickly become meditative.
Ginkgo wood has very fine pores and long fibers and is well suited for a comb. Since the wood is rather soft, I have had the best experience with our wide teeth.
Amaranth
Amaranth trees grow in South America, reaching over 40m
tall and more than a meter in diameter when fully grown.
What is particularly special is that the wood turns purple when UV light shines on the processed wood.
The wood is a gift from my grandfather and has been with us locally for almost 50 years.
The word Amarantos comes from the Greek and means
translates as "always blooming". Simply brilliant in this context.
Amaranth wood I attribute to a large extent to that
element fire too. It is the motivator, the activator, purposeful development of perception for outside and inside.
Intuition, self-realization and charisma.
oak trees
Oak trees are robust and enduring in our forests and along roadsides. They provide support, stability and
Trust in the rhythms of nature.
With its durability and strength, the oak belongs to the element earth.
Everything that you want to integrate and manifest into your life, you support with the element earth.
The gift of the oak is the power from the roots with the lightness of the wind. This creates willpower and perseverance.
Connection to our roots and especially connection
to ourselves.
walnut
Start anew from the middle. That what
walking is allowed to let go and tread the path anew.
The conscious power of the walnut accompanies us on the path of the masters / the
to be master of ourselves.
The walnut wood has a lot of the element water and supports you fluently
to accompany the new beginning.
The decision has been made and now the change can take place with the flow, regardless of external influences.
Inner guidance.
pine
The stone pine is called "Queen of the Alps", perched high up on the tree line and is closest to the sun and the sky.
The word relationship to the pineal gland is so clear
visible, how the connection can be felt.
My experience is that energetic hair combing with a Swiss pine comb activates and opens the third eye and the
Pineal gland supported by clear, light-filled life energy.
Due to its proximity to the sky and the sun, the lightness of the wood and the delicate, soothing scent, stone pine reflects the element of air.
It conveys powerful competence with the point of view:
Strength comes from stillness.
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