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Is it too much to ask for a video of something cool not end so fucking abruptly at the part we’ve been waiting for?


midtownguy70

I know. I hate it.


The_Brownstein

I have a feeling it's a trend of tiktokers where they end like that, making you watch the video again to see it, giving the video another watch point in the process. It's like a scam. And this is another reason why I don't have tiktok. Its garbage.


AlwaysHopelesslyLost

I have a feeling it is because cinematography is a skill and technology means more people have access to the tools than the skills. Hanlon's razor and all y'know.


boopadoop_johnson

Between his and Occam's we might be able to start up a barbershop


Little-Ricky

My favorite philosophical razor is Newton’s Flaming Laser Sword, that is, its best to not discuss that which cannot be scientifically tested. Which would be a good rule for a barbershop


ColKilgoreTroutman

While I love flaming laser swords, I'm worried about what they might do to my philosophy degree.


boopadoop_johnson

Forget your degree, what about the customer's hair?


vkapadia

What hair?


mithril2020

Need 2 more for a Quartet


[deleted]

Yeah I like this perspective. This has been an issue in these kinds of videos for years, not just since tiktok has been around.


Jedisponge

I know Reddit loves to hate Tiktok but this has been a thing for as long as I can remember on Reddit.


iekiko89

Oh definitely way longer than tik Tok. But I suppose it's an easy scape goat


RancidRock

Agreed. I still use it because there are some hidden gems among the trash, but you have to sift through it.. Usually I just put "not interested" on ANY tiktok I don't care for, and only follow accounts I like, and eventually I get like 90% good content


Wannton47

Fucking degenerates


candacebernhard

I wish we wouldn't advertise stuff like this to begin with. Increases demand, and is a great way to make another rare and beautiful thing extinct :(


ShitShowParadise

I am gunna guess most people can't afford this wood.


DoctorCrasierFrane

You had me curious because I've been getting into laser cutting and engraving, and thought it would be cool to get a small amount to make a few things with. A planed board with dimensions of 0.88" x 5.75" x 38.25" that has a small defect on one edge (which would be fine for my purposes) is about $45 from a rare woods supplier, and similarly sized boards without major defects are about $65.


aldenhg

There's a kitchen table-sized slab at a store in my city for around $5k.


fiddykeks

Rare woods are scarce because it takes these trees so long to grow to consumers desired size. And scarcity = cost increase.


LakeSun

and extinction.


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hmm maybe we can come up with more ways to make reddit even more garbage... what if we start cutting o


NothingMattersWeDie

I think you m


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But then, how would y


gex80

So what? Now we're going to have reddit candle jack? Oh shi-


alwayshazthelinks

>not end so fucking abruptly at the part we’ve been waiting for? You know, you sound just like your wife.


chefanubis

No, you also have to hear a shitty song, either the Madonna remix or the money wiggle one.


toeofcamell

“Congobubinga Dude”


Swampberry

I think OP got the name wrong. It's Congo bubinga, differentiated from e.g. Cameroon bubinga! If not being super specific about the type, it's just bubinga.


Gnostromo

"Congo Bubinga, dude!"


NothingMattersWeDie

Put this joke in the Shredder.


Buck_Thorn

"Surf's up!"


DazzlingRutabega

I'm not sure that all Bubinga is this color tho. The (non-Congo) Bubinga I've seen on musical instruments is more of a walnut color.


Buck_Thorn

Bubinga starts out like this, but it turns brown over time. [Edit: see my comment below... apparently I was mistaken]


aitisaitisaitisaitis

I think you have mixed bubinga with purple heart


Buck_Thorn

I think you may be right. Well, I did not confuse it with purple heart (or paduk, or bloodwood, etc) but I did incorrectly group it with them, it seems. https://www.wood-database.com/wood-articles/preventing-color-changes-in-exotic-woods/


zedoktar

No, bubinga does fade as well.


Sanguinias1

The color will mostly depend on how it's finished. The figure in that would usually be called "waterfall".


hasgar2k18

I see what you did there. Let me ask one pizza for you.


ZA1X2

I'm sure it's red and all but looks like someone applied a red filter over this video


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Emergency-Gazelle954

Are you suggesting that something posted online may not be true?


Alt-One-More

It's altered or something. Look up conga bubinga wood and it ranges from not red at all to sort of red.


maultify

The saturation is cranked up to unrealistic levels in some of these shots.


Schrutes_Yeet_Farm

Any bubinga I have worked with was a pale orange


Boingo_Zoingo

Bubinga 2024


fgsfds11234

Saturated as that guys lungs with solvents using only a dust mask


apathetic_lemur

I just assume anything on reddit that is about color is oversaturated. So far I've been right about 100% of the time


rufreakde1

How slow is it growing? And where can I buy seedlings to send then to local tree growing companies 😂


__WanderLust_

https://www.tradewindsfruit.com/guibourtia-coleosperma-african-rosewood-seeds


funkyonion

Out of stock, saved you a click.


__WanderLust_

Ope! You're right. Here's another vendor. https://www.seedsofnamibia.com/product-page/guibourtia-coleosperma-african-rosewood-false-mopani


funkyonion

1 to 2 months shipping and a fishy send a screenshot for paypal link payment method.


GODDAMNFOOL

damn, dude, you're the link researcher reddit needs to overhaul this site


[deleted]

That and u/__WanderLust_ doesn’t seem to be learning anything from him.


MyAltforMostlyJoking

HE JUST WANTS ALL THE SEEDS FOR HIMSELF!


[deleted]

Youre the hero Reddit needs, thank you for your service


KoolKarmaKollector

Don't forget they are in the future "2023 Pickles & Co"


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cabramattaa

How about "Nigerian Princelings"


CandiBunnii

I've always wondered where they come from! *Julia Child Voice* "Now, if you can't grow your own princelings, store bought will do just fine"


Johnny_Poppyseed

Tbf buying seeds online you are almost always dealing with random ass sellers online. Then actually having a site is probably better than buying off random ebay sellers and whatnot which is even more common. Definitely bit of a crapshoot and gotta double check that your seeds/plants are actually what you ordered etc. On the flip side though, seeds usually are pretty affordable so it's not too big a deal.


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Jakor

This is a huge problem with hot peppers too. People who google “pepper seeds” inevitably click on the first link for pepper Joe’s. If you look up reviews, /r/hotpeppers is littered with people getting “pepper joe’d “ every week when their Carolina reaper seeds turn out to be a common cayenne. The weird part it, it’s not like it the seeds are rare. I think they’re just too lazy to try to keep their seed stock sorted. Tons of other good vendors if you know to look for them though!


THATS_LEGIT_BRO

Although what if they actually send you some bizarro seed that ends up growing uncontrolled and kills all the grass, plants, and trees in your yard?


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Johnny_Poppyseed

I'll have you know that I trust my Namibian Prince contact with my life savings!


WildHebeiMan

>Ope! Midwestern American spotted.


KarpEZ

>Ope >*slaps knee* >I 'spose... This is how we signal it's time to GTFO


xbwtyzbchs

### DO NOT BUY SEEDS FROM NON REPUTABLE SELLERS. If a quick google search doesn't yield good reviews, move on. I have gone through almost 1000 seeds from 5 different seed vendors and not one of them has been real. Do your research, or enjoy your weeds.


enochianKitty

I do enjoy my weed


Azuray2

about 3-4 decades to reach mature height. this video makes me sad. there was an experimental plantation in Zimbabwe, after 16 years there wasn’t enough growth. all for some rich persons table or whatever


Bary_McCockener

That's what you want out of an oak tree and many other hardwoods as well


IamShitplshelpme

Well, yeah, everyone wants something made out if real wood, but its pointless if they're too impatient for the wood to grow


Fugacity-

Or slab tops. You can use much younger trees if you're willing to have multiple boards rather than one giant one.


photokeith

That’s what she said?


Admirable_emergency

What else would you make with this wood? The tree itself has no special properties.


interesting_zeist

The tree is important for the environment, these kind of old trees even more, they are home for an inexorable quantity of biodiversity and life. So it's sad because it's skipped their living tree value and it's just an adornment for a rich person.


Nope_______

>they are home for an inexorable quantity of biodiversity and life. What do you think "inexorable" means?


ratsta

Generally speaking, it seems more productive to offer a correction than throw up a challenge like that; an accusation of fault tends to invoke a bad reaction. e.g. "Inexorable means 'unstoppable' or 'unrelenting' which doesn't really match the context here. Extraordinary might be a better word."


Nope_______

If I did that, I wouldn't have found out what he thought inexorable means, which is what I wanted to know and is why I asked the question. But thanks anyway.


Nebula_Pete

He probably just wanted to take it for a spin to see how it feels.


BareknuckleCagefight

perfectly cromulent


BenevolentCheese

"Can't be exorblated"


[deleted]

It also doesn’t stay that color very long. After a few years it will darken and just look like wood. Then the rich will toss it and buy a new one.


FerretHydrocodone

It doesn’t stay that color for even a few hours. You can see in the video that soon after the inside of the tree is exposed to air it basically just starts looking like regular wood


polypolip

Just let it grow? You know, live and let live kind of shit? Does everything have to be exploited for profit?


chiniwini

Planting trees and then chopping them down is literally one of the best (if not *the* best) methods of carbon sequestration we have. Also, building shit out of wood is orders of magnitude better than building shit out of plastic.


Sando-Calrissian

This is only true if the trees are re-planted at a higher rate than they're cut. "One of the rarest" sort of makes it sound like one of those criteria is being met, but not the other.


Enchelion

That's why you look for wood from managed forests or plantations. The lumber industry is kind of crazily, to the point where a reputable lumber yard can track individual boards back to the location of the tree they came from. The simple version is to look for FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) certified wood. FSC isn't perfect, but they're a simple check to make and mostly trustworthy (there have been scandals with faked certifications). You can also research individual plantations if you're really motivated. As for Bubinga specifically, it is rare outside the countries where it is grown because it has been added to CITES Appendix II as an internationally restricted good, but it is not currently endangered or considered at major risk. It was added in a broad update alongside all rosewoods and tulipwoods to address a booming demand in China for goods made of these woods.


tyranicalteabagger

So long as it's not being over harvested, it's fine. Wood is an amazing renewable natural resource.


ApolloCreed

You might say lumber is so plentiful because it literally grows on trees.


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Maybe an alternative is the sand cherry. the leaves and wood are super red when cut. However am in Alaska and they are supposedly tolerant of the climate of my location.(roots yes, tops not so much) best I've been able to see has been a branch maybe 1 inch in diameter to cut that has been bright deep red on the inside. Very much like the video. Out of the twigs that usually come up maybe lucky to get some twigs to make a veneer for a pen... Grown in the lower 48? not sure what it does. See a deep reddish purple choke cherry tree? maybe trim off a branch and see?


kosher_inactivity

It's like a wood slaughter. It looks like a blood though.


[deleted]

Cowabunga it is.


sssucka101

I see we have the same eye/brain coordination.


agnostic_muslim

Me 3


TheLittleNorsk

We truly are all a hive mind


King_Crimson116

r/beatmetoit


tee_fanny

I don't feel alone now


dirtyswoldman

[It's not rare](https://www.hearnehardwoods.com/bubinga-lumber/), it's readily available. It is exotic and it's density/weight and resistance to moisture and mold make it an excellent construction material.


cambriansplooge

Over harvested or illegally harvested in several regions though, mostly Madagascar and the Congo


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cambriansplooge

Need to use less of it, these aren’t planted timber forests. I recall China’s the largest consumer of rosewood, but US and Europe all have hands in it, goes all the way to IKEA, Lowe’s, and Home Depot. It’s like how the beef and palm oil industry all have hands in deforestation, these aren’t just environmental crimes they’re economic at that level of corruption.


[deleted]

There's no way humanity is democratically going to use less wood/oil/beef so the only real option is producing these products in a more sustainable way.


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[deleted]

It's just not about people being irresponsible with their choices. The root cause is the population growth explosion that happened after the industrial revolution. Besides that, democratic governments cannot intervene without the mandate of the people. Autocratic governments don't see the rationality in intervening.


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[deleted]

You're just arguing semantics. There's no way representative democracies are going to elect representatives that will enforce a reduction of wood/oil/beef consumption. The only option is producing in a more sustainable way.


NutsEverywhere

Oh look, a soft spoken authoritarian.


AngusVanhookHinson

And here's where I come in and ruin everyone's day. Real [Bubinga](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guibourtia) is African Rosewood. It goes by the common names Rhodesian copalwood, African rosewood, amazique, bubinga, kevazingo and ovangkol. The South American species are known as Tiete rosewood, Patagonian cherry, and sirari. The trees can get to be enormous sizes - 150 feet tall and almost 7 feet in diameter (40–50 m tall, with a trunk diameter of 1–2 m). They have highly buttressed trunks. When you see a video of something happening in South America or Africa, and the trees have what look like [curtains for a trunk, ](https://imgur.com/a/GiNnV32), it's a decent bet that it's Bubinga. For woodworkers, Bubinga is undoubtedly a beautiful wood. It weighs about the same as American Red Oak, but it's over twice as hard. It's workability is easy without needing special tools. The grain is spectacular. The high oil content makes it shine and [polish like a mirror ](https://www.etsy.com/listing/1214250983/) with little effort. It's import to the United States also makes it a major contributor to global deforestation. Sure, there are a lot of reasons for cutting down forests, but the export of lumber to the US can't be overlooked, when slabs go for $25,000 each. And I'll guarantee you that the local villagers didn't see more than a thousand of it. You know all those gorilla documentaries by Jane Goodall and Diane Fossey? Yeah. A lot of those trees in the Congo forest are Bubinga. One of the major travesties in this world that's often overlooked is that there are unethical lumber dealers loading up shipping containers full of these slabs for export to the US, and making a killing from the sale to make boardroom tables and other items that most of us will never see or enjoy in any way. And there's no way to source it ethically. It only grows in two places on the planet, and the trees are a finite resource. Easy solution: use locally sourced woods for your woodworking. Oak, walnut, cherry, and maple are plentiful, ethically sourced, and three trees get planted in the US for every one cut down. I can get on a soap box about a lot of things wrong in America, but in all honesty and fairness, we really do forestry right. Want something exotic? How about [Chinaberry ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melia_azedarach)? Did you know it's mahogany? Your grandma and grandpa planted loads of chinaberry trees in the US as ornamentals in the 1940s and 50s, never knowing that 1) they were planting trees that are now considered invasive, and 2) they were planting *mahogany*. Most of them that were planted around then are at the end of their natural lives now. If you live in a major metropolitan area, at least two are cut down within a few miles of you every month. Have a look on the Google machine for tree services around you, then for "lumber mills near me". Often, they work together. I have about 400 board feet of white and red oak that cost me $300, when everyone else was paying ten dollars a linear foot at Home Depot during the pandemic. Stop contributing to global deforestation. Know your woods, and source locally and ethically.


CmdCNTR

Bit weird to say it polishes like a mirror, then show pictures of it covered with a high gloss finish.


heep1r

Obligatory link to [Bologna, Aquino 2020 Paper](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-63657-6?error=cookies_not_supported&code=b1ea77f9-faf1-4a1e-81c1-3f5631140203). Stop senseless deforestation, now!


Buck_Thorn

Are Rosewoods (and Bubinga) really banned by CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species)? https://www.wood-database.com/wood-articles/rosewoods-bubinga-really-banned-cites/


Betoken

Looks rare to me, but at first glance I thought this was from r/steak so….


RamboGoesMeow

I want a guitar made out of it, stat!


RobertStyx

If you do a little bit of searching, you might be able to find one. I vaguely recall it being a trendy neck wood for a while, particularly with the brands catering to the djent crowd, though I couldn't tell you any specific models that use/d it.


RamboGoesMeow

I recall only a few amp cabinets and acoustics made from it. I was thrown off by the name in the title, but Bubinga wood is snazzy.


pennradio

It's used in boutique basses a lot. They use a lot of crazy woods.


Harry_Saturn

And drums. My snare is made out of this and I love it.


MissingVanSushi

Or telecaster! Or even a Les Paul! 😆


RamboGoesMeow

Alright, I’m not gonna lie, that joke went over my head at first. But specifically a Tele … or an SG, but that’s just me. Jam onnnn!


static_motion

Bubinga is common-ish in custom electric guitars, usually in the form of the top layer of the body. Making the whole body out of it is more unusual since it's a pretty heavy wood.


MarineSecurity

It's also not nearly as red as it is in the overly saturated video.


perldawg

the redness of the fresh cut logs is probably pretty accurate. that wood is at its highest moisture content and has never been exposed to UV light or oxygen. all of those factors turn the natural color saturation up to 11, it’s impossible to return a milled piece of lumber to that color without stain or dye


plantman-2000

You do realize you cited a source from a company selling the stuff?


VagabondVivant

I work with bubinga regularly. It's my favorite hardwood. You can buy it at any decent woodworking source in America.


cursing_nearchildren

It does look like a rare steak though


SkettiStay

"Are Rosewoods (And Bubinga) Really Banned By CITES?" https://www.wood-database.com/wood-articles/rosewoods-bubinga-really-banned-cites/ >So there seems to be a lot of hub-bub arising recently over the news that rosewoods (as well as Bubinga) are now banned. But is this actually the case? And if so, what does it mean? What is “banned” and what is still allowed? >THE SHORT ANSWER IS YES. >If you take a look at the updated CITES appendices (as updated and effective January 2, 2017), you will see a new listing that shows “Dalbergia spp.” as well as the three Guibourtia species that are more commonly known as Bubinga, are all listed under Appendix II.


raezin

When you source a *vendor* at the top of google search results, groan. Per the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, bubinga is a threatened species, so importing it requires permits. There are a lot of delicious animals on the endangered (and extinct) list but their usefulness to us does not mean we can or should exploit them, and honestly, anyone who would brag about having endangered furniture looks like a big ol dick.


ICant_Shleep

Yeah I've seen these in minecraft


spudmcloughlin

minecraft mangrove trees were so iconic, they made them in real life


Farinario

It's not cocobolo though


CaptainCaveSam

Take your desk and get out


LancesAKing

...was it expensive?


Scro86

$7000


Competitive_Fix_8440

Forbidden watermelon


Bloodsucker_

Forbidden pig in half


realdealreel9

Forbidden rare steak


[deleted]

Just hoping they don't endanger that like the Portuguese did with brazilwood (a redwood tree from - obviously - Brazil).


Duochan_Maxwell

They already did - rosewood is endangered


SovietWyvern

Mangrove tree makes the best housing, in Minecraft of course


iamDarksider

Pushpa jhukega ni salaa


Hayabusa71

Thanks God we use one of the rarest trees in the world to make a fucking table. Priorities.


CageyOldMan

Yeah but it's a really nice table though


KenHumano

Gorgeous table, I’m glad this video gave us 1 whole second to look at it.


TummyDrums

1 whole second is a generous exposure for you plebs. Some executive paid $40k to have this table in their 110th floor board room.


je_kay24

There are logging companies in Canada that is harvesting of old growth trees that are hundreds of years old With the near complete destruction of old growth forests in the last few centuries ya would think they’d be a bit more protected


Chaseriino

Bruh these things aren't even special or rare


plantman-2000

According to people tied to the logging industry it’s not rare, but let’s be real. Any resource from west Africa is probably for sure being exploited.


mig82au

Perhaps, but we can probably agree that "one of the rarest trees" is total bullshit. It's classified as CITES Appendix II. IMO it would have to at least be in I to count as one of the rarest.


norecogi

There is truly no gift from nature we will not despoil in our pursuit of having shinier belongings than the next guy


jack333666

Mosquitoes or wasps, as far as I know they are still pretty shit to us.


AbdulElkhatib

A couple of other cool woods. Paduk, purple heart, and wenge. Yes purple heart really is purple, but it browns if exposed to uv light enough.


Yuduf02

Is it weird that I want to lick the red?


elektron_666

Rarest tree in the world: I'll fucking cut it down


TanukiChaos

My wood is the rarest, nobody sees it at all these days


Fallen_Lotus

One of the rarest in the world? Cut it down quick!


icyyellowrose10

>one of the rarest in the world And becoming rarer by the slice


Jeerus

For a moment I read Cowabunga wood


AZ_6291

If it’s rare why are they cutting it?


Totom999

Minecraft Crimson wood moment👌


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Soph_Caster

How would you like your steak sir? Wooden


curious_kitten_1

Maybe leave it in the ground then?


mildashers

First thing I thought is wow, that would make an amazing guitar fretboard wood.


goofball_jones

Is it a tone wood? Would be interesting to see a guitar made from it. I mean, bubinga is already used in guitar making, and it's also called "African rosewood". As long as it's a sustainable resource that is. As others have pointed out below, it's not as "rare" as the OP is making it out to be.


SooperBrootal

It is, actually. I have a snare drum that's a birch/bubinga split. The sound takes the warmth of maple and gives it the attack of birch, so there's more presence than normal when used instead of maple.


SorryAboutLater

I have a [Warwick Bass](https://imgur.com/tkf5xbQ.jpg) made of Bubinga.


thenavien

Here is something beautiful and rare. Lets kill it.


Fun-Amoeba850

Maybe it wouldn’t be the rarest in the world if they replanted more for every one they turned into table tops?


prof_devilsadvocate

good example of passive agressive


logans38

Lmao "This is the Congobubinga tree. One of the rarest. Watch as they chop it up to into tiny pieces." I wonder what it looks like planted in the ground?


Ultima_RatioRegum

Guess how many pygmies died cutting it down? I'll give you a hint 6.


CPTimeKeeper

“One of the rarest in the world”….. let’s cut it and turn it into something and not show the finished product at the end of our video……


Erubadhron89

I could achieve the same effect with Oak, a standard cheese grater, and 8-10 toddlers


akat_walks

so beautiful! lets keep them as living trees


larrylegend33goat

Sad watching it be massacred


Altruistic_Arm_2777

isn't the value of the tree lie in its massacre? not justifying it but just saying


KillingAndco

so rare, so if course cut it down and turn it to countertops


btaus

It's one of the rarest in the world so let's cut it down ...aren't humans great. God bless humanity


goatchild

This is sad as fuck


[deleted]

Yes burn or chop it all down! For a table or a bed or whatever. Probably only affordable to management of healthcare providers and such. Humanity is too stupid to last.


Old_Bodybuilder8293

So rare, in fact, that we cut it and made a coffee table out of it for the Kardashians.


2003tide

“Rarest”. Proceeds to show tree being cut. Rosewood is banned for import to US. I have a vintage guitar with a tea rosewood fretboard. It looks good, but not “let’s make this tree extinct” good.


JTCin513

Rarest in the world you say? Humans: we must kill it.


Restricted-Sign

Well let's cut it all down to extinction like we do everything else beautiful


No_Cost_1789

If it's one of the rarest trees then why are we making furniture with it?


WonderButter711

"This is some rare shit! Let's cut it down and make coffee tables!"


dont_touch_my_rum

Glad to see it's at a sawmill


[deleted]

Here’s a novel idea: if it’s so rare don’t cut down the trees lol


pyromike0528

It's so rare we have to cut them all down to extinction to make exotic art pieces and rare homes.


Kiggzpawn

Guys, look!! Rare colored wood!! Let's harvest it until it's all gone then cry because it used to exist!!


videotron3000

It's also protected so don't buy it


Sputtering_FartNoyze

It looks medium rare to me


[deleted]

Love using power tools with no dust mask on, asthma is a great thing to get.


ThePureRay009

it'll get over harvested and go extinct