Jambiya in Yemen

[Roland_M]

Originally Posted by harrywagner

100 year old wood should be dark and look almost petrified.

Not necessarily, it depends on environment conditions and how good the wood was treated in its active time. A little bit of wax from time to time, thats all.
Especially hardwood aging is extremely slow.

In Germany we have quite wet weather conditions but we also have half-timbered houses, which are hundreds of years old.
The house in the picture is from 1617.


Roland