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I did notice I chipped a tooth after this, it might have happened when I was trying to eat the ivory nut for this video or could have been the nut from the one tree in Vanuatu lol. Great editing and a great video
@@gabbycarter965 why do you think I put it in quotation marks. I know there are no health benefits, but good luck telling those pervy old Chinese men that.
There are resins that are cheap to make and are indistinguishable from ivory. It's not like there was ever a lack of alternatives to real ivory, it's just a status symbol because it's expensive.
Tagua nuts were once used as ballast material to balance sailing ships for Transatlantic voyages. When a ship docked in Germany an artist took some home to see what he could make with them and discovered the inner part was similar to ivory and began using them. Sailors later used them for miniature scrimshaw artwork on journeys.
This is awesome! I’ve seen piles of ivory that have been confiscated and burned, seen orphaned elephants who had herd members poached for their tusks. So sad when we have alternatives that are just as nice AND sustainable. Thanks for the info, I’ll be looking for some palm ivory bracelets!
Such a fascinating video. I'd never even conceived that there'd be such a thing as vegetable ivory. I learn so much from watching your videos. (Also, Steve attacking the fruit in Fiji - the man's a hero!)
Very informative. We should get back to nature as often as we can. Plastic buttons should be eliminated and have this replace them. But, I am curious to know how long they would last through a washer machine wash and dried in the dryer. Wonder what the longevity is.This video was fun to watch! Learned something new today. Anywho, hey from NC, it's 10:18 pm Wednesday😎
Persimmon wood is called white ebony. It's as hard and dense as African ebony but it's an ivory color instead of black. I'm surprised it wasn't mentioned in the video.
Persimmon and african ebony are actually the same genus. An American species the texas persimmon Diospyros texana actually has black heartwood like ebony in large trees.
Hachi? Fuyu? Which varietal has the hard wood? Other than for clarinets, IDK of any great use for the dense, dark wood of the ebony tree. Rather have a supply of hop hornbeam, personally... [Edit] Thanks for the info tho'! Useful to someone, I'm sure, and I enjoy learning something new. 👍
@@tiki_trashStop being pedantic. Fruit contains seeds. Fruit does not contain wood. This channel has very often talked about seeds but has rarely talked about wood. Your info about persimmon wood is interesting but you should not be surprised that it wasn't mentioned on this channel.
I collect skulls and particularly skull beads. I have a couple of large skulls made of taqua nut and a whole dried nut that I really need to dig out of it's hiding place.
I mean, only when the animals are hunted and killed for it. Mammoth ivory, Ivory from already dead animals, and reusing old ivory is perfectly morally acceptable imo.
@@Volt64bolt Yeah, but when there's a market for mammoth ivory, there will be poachers killing real elephants. Greed and desperation rule this world, IMO.
I own a little carving of a dolphin made from a tagua nut that I bought in Peru almost exactly 11 years ago. It's definitely a neat little keeper and certainly seems like "ivory" for a total amateur like me.
Thank you for the info!! Between these plants and patravali leaves, it seems like we could hypothetically cut down on plastic and styrofoam use quite a bit!
I like these videos about fruits that aren't necessarily edible but useful in other ways. I think it will be interesting to do more videos about botanicals like tea tree oil and jojoba that have fruits that are used in other ways.
there's a jojoba nut video on the channel somewhere but it's just a quick thing. I think making a larger episode on how is used to make oil and the history around it would be fun
That's so cool. If I've learned anything from your channel its how versatile fruit it. We should be incorporating more useful fruit into our daily lives. So much untapped potential.
I think I've recently seen some guitar picks being made from Tagua Nut. They have a lot of attack since they don't flex, so probably more suited to rock/metal staccato picking than acoustic strumming.
I love Steve! Best guest in all of these videos! About the dome fruit. I used to eat a fruit in my childhood that had a similar looks to dome fruit. Well, the fruit i ate is named syrian mesquite. Maybe something to add to your list. Syrian mesquite is eaten when its dry, at least thats what i remember eating. Tastes like corn snack in a way, its dense like those big pretzel only dry and taste sweet and bitter, kinda like caramelized onions and eggplant. The fruit looks like the eggplants maybe thats why i associate it with eggplant, even believed it was a tiny dried eggplant for the longest time.
Nice, ive just realised that you didnt try FRESH JUNIPER BERRIES, you know juniper berries as a spice for sure but fresh?! Yeah its located in mountains I think in North America and it is kind of rare in a way so maybe you should find another interesting berry called "dewberry", in the same genus as raspberries and blackberries. It also looks like a tiny blackberry but with a hint of blue-ish gray
Juniper berries are found all over the east coast. People plant the bushes for decoration, but the berries are edible. They taste like gin. If you go to the Korean War memorial in DC, there’s juniper bushes EVERYWHERE and they seem to always have berries.
Back when I did woodworking I bought a few tagua nuts, rock-hard and rather a pain to work with. I could never seem to get a nice useful piece without a gap or crack in the wrong place. I used to wonder whether fresh ones might be trimmed and pressed (under a lot of pressure!) together, then carefully dried to make a solid block of more-useful material that would hold together. I never found out.
A truly interesting video, you come up with some of the most interesting subjects. I'm an old guy and been on 5 continents but you always seem to go above and beyond.
Very interesting video on topic I don't know well. You channel is like a breath of fresh air of old youtube, just someone being very passionate and interesting, wanting to share his knowledge. Whenever me or my parents find a fruit abroad on holidays I just look through you channel and translate the video to them, and each time there was one! Thank you very much for all you have done so far :)
Without this video I may have never known vegetable ivory existed. Thank you for sharing this information, I am really intrigued and enthused to know that it exists!
I have tagua earrings. It's a lovely material. It is light, it's tough, it can be dyed, it seem to have mostly uniform structure. I wish there was more tagua items made and sold.
Golly, I wish I had your talent for carving nuts into tiny vases! That first one was REALLY cool, it looked completely bonkers as far as like...consistency. How on earth does a tree make that and expect it to turn into another tree. The hell. I hope Steven recovered from his madness, diving into that yucky one like that!!!
One of the reasons why vegetable ivory and such was replaced first by celluloid and later by fossil oil based plastics was that carving is so much more labor intensive than molding. This should be much less of a problem now that we have all sorts of programmable carving tools though. The question are, how easy is it to harvest and process those seeds and how big a crop can we get?
It would be a blast if you would reach out to Tim Yoder of Woodturners Workshop and provide him with a few of these. The resulting videos would be hilarious.
I understand that Hyphanae isn't very popular for a couple of reasons. One, it's really hard to get the "ivory" out (I've done this, you have to get through the "gingerbread" then saw through the wooden shell, then scrape the reddish outer parts of the kernel off until you get to the white "ivory" 2. it's actually hollow in the middle of the Ivory, so you can't make anything really thick out of it (okay for buttons, but not much else) and 3. Compared to the other two, it has a greater tendency to shrivel and warp as time goes by.)
That was some nice videogame crafting animation lol also I wonder what the people below on the street thought you were doing on the balcony, biting into something and spitting while filming yourself, hahaha!
Never understood the demand for ivory. We have literally hundreds of other materials you can make buttons and carvings and piano keys out of, ivory is thoroughly unnecessary. BUT, these are really nutty materials. Quite cool.
I noticed that some ring fingers have rings on them....Did I miss a notification or are they just fashion rings? If I missed so something, best wishes ❤🎉!
Huh, well I reckon these kinds of vegetable ivory would be neat if you could actually pick them up in a crafts store. Some woodworking tools and a bit of inspiration and you could probably make some neat stuff.
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Cool!
Coconut meat when you first try to eat it as a kid
I think I was more impressed that you found an actual archival movie clip from back in the day showing those buttons being made. Fantastic research.
I was so happy to find that, its from 1922
@@WeirdExplorercrazy to think they had machinery like that even back then
101 years ago... that's wild!
Pilot episode of How it’s Made
Yes kudos indeed very impressive, and quite impressive gnawing Steven hahaha
That carving you did was totally seamless and not suspicious at all. Lovely piece.
Do you know if they're for sale?
😂❤
I did notice I chipped a tooth after this, it might have happened when I was trying to eat the ivory nut for this video or could have been the nut from the one tree in Vanuatu lol. Great editing and a great video
Oh my lord, the "carving" of the nut had me in stitches, your dry subtle humour is hilarious.
I love this! I hope it catches on so that animals aren't killed for ivory ❤
Unfortunetly, most ivory is poached for "medicinal purposes" on the chinese market now a days
@@hlessiavedon There are no medicinal purposes. The same with rhinos horns. I wish some people wouldn't be so ignorant.
@@gabbycarter965 why do you think I put it in quotation marks. I know there are no health benefits, but good luck telling those pervy old Chinese men that.
Sadly they are ignorant..
There are resins that are cheap to make and are indistinguishable from ivory. It's not like there was ever a lack of alternatives to real ivory, it's just a status symbol because it's expensive.
Plant ivory is sold to woodworkers. It’s often used as accent or inlay pieces. For example I’ve seen key escutcheon inserts made of Tagus nut “bone.”
I could see it being used as binding and the dot inlays for guitars, also, the nuts.
Tagua nuts were once used as ballast material to balance sailing ships for Transatlantic voyages. When a ship docked in Germany an artist took some home to see what he could make with them and discovered the inner part was similar to ivory and began using them.
Sailors later used them for miniature scrimshaw artwork on journeys.
First I was like "what a weird guy", but the more of your content I watch the more I get into it. It's fascinating and inspiring. Thank you!
That carving work was so smooth I didn't even notice how much you achieved until you were done.
This is awesome! I’ve seen piles of ivory that have been confiscated and burned, seen orphaned elephants who had herd members poached for their tusks. So sad when we have alternatives that are just as nice AND sustainable. Thanks for the info, I’ll be looking for some palm ivory bracelets!
Sad, pathetic, void of empathy or compassion-
Such a fascinating video. I'd never even conceived that there'd be such a thing as vegetable ivory. I learn so much from watching your videos.
(Also, Steve attacking the fruit in Fiji - the man's a hero!)
He did it so we wouldn't have to!😂
LOL - this is very true! LOL@@Losttoanyreason
LOL LOL LOL :-D@@Losttoanyreason
Very informative. We should get back to nature as often as we can. Plastic buttons should be eliminated and have this replace them. But, I am curious to know how long they would last through a washer machine wash and dried in the dryer. Wonder what the longevity is.This video was fun to watch! Learned something new today. Anywho, hey from NC, it's 10:18 pm Wednesday😎
I think they would fair better than plastic. I'm going to put my buttons on a shirt and see how they hold up!
I have a fairly decent collection of tegua carvings. I've been collecting for about 10 years now. I love them
Persimmon wood is called white ebony. It's as hard and dense as African ebony but it's an ivory color instead of black. I'm surprised it wasn't mentioned in the video.
well, it is not a fruit, which might be why idk. Still- good to know ^^
Persimmon and african ebony are actually the same genus. An American species the texas persimmon Diospyros texana actually has black heartwood like ebony in large trees.
@@nergalblacksun But the examples he showed were not the fruit either but the nut or seed. Persimmon is a fruit tree.
Hachi? Fuyu? Which varietal has the hard wood? Other than for clarinets, IDK of any great use for the dense, dark wood of the ebony tree. Rather have a supply of hop hornbeam, personally... [Edit] Thanks for the info tho'! Useful to someone, I'm sure, and I enjoy learning something new. 👍
@@tiki_trashStop being pedantic. Fruit contains seeds. Fruit does not contain wood. This channel has very often talked about seeds but has rarely talked about wood. Your info about persimmon wood is interesting but you should not be surprised that it wasn't mentioned on this channel.
I collect skulls and particularly skull beads. I have a couple of large skulls made of taqua nut and a whole dried nut that I really need to dig out of it's hiding place.
You’re a consistent UA-cam channel I really appreciate you’re dedication towards this never stop
This is really cool! I hope more people look into this, because ivory harvesting is disgusting and just evil.
I mean, only when the animals are hunted and killed for it. Mammoth ivory, Ivory from already dead animals, and reusing old ivory is perfectly morally acceptable imo.
@@Volt64bolt Yeah, but when there's a market for mammoth ivory, there will be poachers killing real elephants. Greed and desperation rule this world, IMO.
@@eekee6034 exactly. Great assist
@@sei.tsukino yes, wild animals are still poached.
Here in Brazil we usually call the first vegetable ivory you showed us, JARINA.
Interesting!
I had a jarina ring, but I got fat and stop using it
I own a little carving of a dolphin made from a tagua nut that I bought in Peru almost exactly 11 years ago. It's definitely a neat little keeper and certainly seems like "ivory" for a total amateur like me.
Steven seems like a really fun traveling partner. He just jumps right in!
Thank you for the info!! Between these plants and patravali leaves, it seems like we could hypothetically cut down on plastic and styrofoam use quite a bit!
Absolutely and those leaves are so cool.
I like these videos about fruits that aren't necessarily edible but useful in other ways. I think it will be interesting to do more videos about botanicals like tea tree oil and jojoba that have fruits that are used in other ways.
there's a jojoba nut video on the channel somewhere but it's just a quick thing. I think making a larger episode on how is used to make oil and the history around it would be fun
Stephen going beast mode was pretty good!! Super interesting I had no idea veggie ivory is a thing! Happy Travels
That's so cool.
If I've learned anything from your channel its how versatile fruit it. We should be incorporating more useful fruit into our daily lives. So much untapped potential.
I think I've recently seen some guitar picks being made from Tagua Nut. They have a lot of attack since they don't flex, so probably more suited to rock/metal staccato picking than acoustic strumming.
I love Steve! Best guest in all of these videos!
About the dome fruit. I used to eat a fruit in my childhood that had a similar looks to dome fruit. Well, the fruit i ate is named syrian mesquite. Maybe something to add to your list. Syrian mesquite is eaten when its dry, at least thats what i remember eating. Tastes like corn snack in a way, its dense like those big pretzel only dry and taste sweet and bitter, kinda like caramelized onions and eggplant. The fruit looks like the eggplants maybe thats why i associate it with eggplant, even believed it was a tiny dried eggplant for the longest time.
9:38 🤣 Steven always brings decent content to your videos
Nice, ive just realised that you didnt try FRESH JUNIPER BERRIES, you know juniper berries as a spice for sure but fresh?! Yeah its located in mountains I think in North America and it is kind of rare in a way so maybe you should find another interesting berry called "dewberry", in the same genus as raspberries and blackberries. It also looks like a tiny blackberry but with a hint of blue-ish gray
Pacific Dewberry is amazing.
Those are not worth going up a mountain to try lol
Juniper berries are found all over the east coast. People plant the bushes for decoration, but the berries are edible. They taste like gin. If you go to the Korean War memorial in DC, there’s juniper bushes EVERYWHERE and they seem to always have berries.
@@ferretyluv yeah
Metroxylon sp. belongs to the Sago palm family. The fruit is edible but the trunk is where the prized sago is obtained.
this is an excellent video. The quality is on par with a documentary that would be on PBS in the early oughts.
This was the only quick shout out on youtube that wasnt annoying.
Cool. My dad loves these things so I’ve had them around but didn’t look into their fruits much.
Nice! Three Amazing plants in the same video. It’s crazy how hard those are!
Those old videos from the 1920's are amazing
Back when I did woodworking I bought a few tagua nuts, rock-hard and rather a pain to work with. I could never seem to get a nice useful piece without a gap or crack in the wrong place.
I used to wonder whether fresh ones might be trimmed and pressed (under a lot of pressure!) together, then carefully dried to make a solid block of more-useful material that would hold together. I never found out.
The recent focus on comedy is great honestly.
A truly interesting video, you come up with some of the most interesting subjects. I'm an old guy and been on 5 continents but you always seem to go above and beyond.
The South American peach palm has a seed that is sometimes used to make beads and jewelry similar to ivory. The fruit is edible too.
Very interesting video on topic I don't know well. You channel is like a breath of fresh air of old youtube, just someone being very passionate and interesting, wanting to share his knowledge. Whenever me or my parents find a fruit abroad on holidays I just look through you channel and translate the video to them, and each time there was one! Thank you very much for all you have done so far :)
Your videos continue to increase in quality, loving it
lol I enjoyed how you made it seem like you were carving out a container for those buttons yourself. Gave the moment a fun, new dimension to it.
The tagua nut looks like it's perfect for making the mountings for a set of Great Scottish Highland bagpipes and Irish uilleann pipes!!
Yes!! Tagua Nuts are so cool! We came across them when we visited Ecuador back in 2020 and they have such versatility!
Without this video I may have never known vegetable ivory existed. Thank you for sharing this information, I am really intrigued and enthused to know that it exists!
I love the editing and little descriptive clips in this video Jared!
I have tagua earrings. It's a lovely material. It is light, it's tough, it can be dyed, it seem to have mostly uniform structure. I wish there was more tagua items made and sold.
snake fruits & co have the absolute coolest looking skins
Truth
Good job definitely carving that little pot. You should start selling your artwork 😉
that little vase thingy sure is fine looking.
I enjoy your videos so much, they are always a treat. I always learn something new and you present it in such a fun way!
I just looked at Wanderlust Nursery palm ivory figurines and jewelery. So lovely! I'm definitely going to purchase some items for myself and gifts.
I enjoy watching you and Steven so much
Its gotta be great to have a friend to travel with.
Steven is a great travel buddy
Tauga was very popular when I was younger for making art.
I love this video idea. I’ve been watching for a long time and this is fantastic.
Hmmm that trimming looked a little sus... but nobody ever lies on the internet so great job!
Can we take a moment to realise that Jared is actually using manual focus on a camera. This has to be a first for youtube.
I once bought a massager in Ecuador made out of that I believe and wood, super smooth and effective.
Golly, I wish I had your talent for carving nuts into tiny vases! That first one was REALLY cool, it looked completely bonkers as far as like...consistency. How on earth does a tree make that and expect it to turn into another tree. The hell. I hope Steven recovered from his madness, diving into that yucky one like that!!!
I made a carving of a severed human toe out of a tagua nut when I was a kid. I still have it
Ah that's a good idea for a carving
That t-shirt is amazing! I think i will buy one, soon! I really enjoy your videos! Thank you🌺❤️
Glad you like them!
One of the reasons why vegetable ivory and such was replaced first by celluloid and later by fossil oil based plastics was that carving is so much more labor intensive than molding. This should be much less of a problem now that we have all sorts of programmable carving tools though. The question are, how easy is it to harvest and process those seeds and how big a crop can we get?
Wow what a professional!
It would be a blast if you would reach out to Tim Yoder of Woodturners Workshop and provide him with a few of these. The resulting videos would be hilarious.
I understand that Hyphanae isn't very popular for a couple of reasons. One, it's really hard to get the "ivory" out (I've done this, you have to get through the "gingerbread" then saw through the wooden shell, then scrape the reddish outer parts of the kernel off until you get to the white "ivory" 2. it's actually hollow in the middle of the Ivory, so you can't make anything really thick out of it (okay for buttons, but not much else) and 3. Compared to the other two, it has a greater tendency to shrivel and warp as time goes by.)
putting on my vegan sectino of my personal website!
Great stuff as always!
Glad you enjoy it
That was some nice videogame crafting animation lol
also I wonder what the people below on the street thought you were doing on the balcony, biting into something and spitting while filming yourself, hahaha!
Thanks for doing these videos!
Glad you like them!
3:41 Now wait just a gosh darn second here…
Never understood the demand for ivory. We have literally hundreds of other materials you can make buttons and carvings and piano keys out of, ivory is thoroughly unnecessary. BUT, these are really nutty materials. Quite cool.
Its far less common these days at least but I've seen Ivory shops while traveling
The knife bit made me rofl!
well now i am ordering some of these since my wife is a sculptor and loves finding ivory substitutes....
Thanks for sharing!
My man Steven has beaver genes
I got a Tagua pendant from a place called foxloft studios a long time ago. AFAIK they're still around.
COOOL!!!! I need to try these in my art!!!
Steven is a Savage
great film here
You should look into Creeping Snowberries, Gaultheria hispidula
Stephan taking one for science! 😂
Hi, theres tagua here in the amazon part of Ecuador. When in season i enjoy eating the fruit 🙂
Bro his phlegm in the Fiji segments oof. Love ur videos
So cool!
Mainly commenting to appease the almighty algorithm! I hope everyone is doing well and having a great day!
In Canada just hit up Lee Valley Tools for tegua nuts
That's nuts
Genmod those tagua nuts to make them a lot bigger and you can make piano keys out of them.
aww dude i want some tagua nut buttons now 😅
There's at least one company that I know of that has been making avocado seeds into biodegradable plastic-like cutlery.
I noticed that some ring fingers have rings on them....Did I miss a notification or are they just fashion rings? If I missed so something, best wishes ❤🎉!
Yeah! Steven got hitched two years ago and I got hitched last year.
this is so cool omg
You can carve avocado pits.
This is so New..
Nardi ❓ - NANDI PRONOUNCED IÑ 2 SYLLABLES - NAN DI . 👍
Sounds like a nice fruit to eat , and for carving .
How much did those 100 year old veggie buttons cost you, Jared? Thanks for the video, that's actually pretty interesting
it was around $10. they aren't especially valuable even now
Huh, well I reckon these kinds of vegetable ivory would be neat if you could actually pick them up in a crafts store. Some woodworking tools and a bit of inspiration and you could probably make some neat stuff.
He's like a squirrel with a pinecone 😂😂😂
I have a Taqua nut, picked it on one on trips to Central America. Trying figure out a good turtle design to carve it in to.
Metroxylon looks a lot like the cones of the native NZ Agathus Australis or Kauri Tree we have here