Description
Japanese culture created a lot of mind and manual ability puzzles. One of them is Balancing Stones for kids, adults, and our dearest grandparents. You can never get bored of them as it has almost endless possibilities to build and create.
🪓We make them out of hardwoods of Europe:
🌳Alder – orange wood, with brown spots like birch and visible shiny spots like maple. Light and soft, but in its own way unique. The lack of a distinct texture makes it a relatively calm wood despite its many distinctive characteristics.
🌳Ash – Texture similar to oak wood. Large pores, and the texture is clearly felt at the end of the nail. However, the color is significantly different: light brown, sometimes almost white. Hard and heavy wood. Ash stones, like oak stones, will be a great counterweight or base for any construction.
🌳Ayous – exotic African wood. It has small grooves in its structure. Annual growth rings are not visible, due to the year-round uniform growth process of the tree in the equatorial forest climate. It is very light, almost like styrofoam.
🌳Basswood – very soft and light wood with a light brown, sometimes yellowish-brown color. Ideal for carvers. It has a specific smell.
🌳Beech – wood mainly known as a raw material for kitchen utensils. It has regular dark specks. It is hard and quite heavy.
🌳Black Walnut – also called American walnut – not without reason. It is very dark and has a cool tone. It fits perfectly into modern interiors and blends perfectly with, for example, maple. In the USA, this wood is very valuable and popular. Looking for unique items made of exceptional wood, American walnut will always be an ideal choice.
🌳Birch – light wood with a delicate texture. It has subtle brown spots that appear irregularly.
🌳Cherry – wood similar to cherry. It is warm-brown with spots ranging from red to dark browns. It has wide increments clearly visible as changes in the grain. It is very homogeneous, and items made from it look “light.”
🌳Elm – wood texture similar to ash. However, the color is definitely different. Light browns, but not as deep as in oak, mixed with greenish highlights. Sometimes it also has a metallic-coppery sheen.
🌳Khaya – a species native to Central Africa. It is soft and quite light, similar to alder. Its color is light brown with a subtle orange hue. The wood texture is distinct and characteristic of exotic wood.
🌳Maple – Light popular wood in a temperate climate. Almost white, sometimes with yellowish discolorations. On some cross-sections, it has visible cut rays that look like shiny spots. Beautifully complements and blends with almost any wood.
🌳Meranti – a variant of red meranti from the mahogany family originating from South Asia. Its color is actually a mix of orange-red and coppery sheen. This distinctive color combined with exotic texture makes this wood always stand out from others.
🌳Merbau – cinnamon-brown, one might say “dignified” wood. Wonderful deep color, high hardness, and weight give the impression of solid and lasting wood. Very durable and unique in its essence. Sometimes it has slightly yellow spots, which are natural oils and resins precipitating from the wood.
🌳Oak – noble, brown wood, ideal for building luxury furniture. The deep brown color is unique among other species.
🌳Padauk – from the equatorial forests of Africa. It is enough to say that its natural color is intense red, and nothing more needs to be added.
🌳Pine – everyone knows pine. Clearly visible annual growth rings. Light brown (spring wood) and dark brown (autumn wood). Mainly known for various constructions: from roofs, through gazebos and other coverings, to furniture. The warm brown color of pine and sometimes occurring pink discolorations, for the variety of Scots pine (rather rare – not particularly specified).
🌳Red Oak – compared to “ordinary” oak, it has a less deep color. The wood is more pinkish, with significantly wider and clearly visible annual growth rings. However, it does not lack in hardness compared to its cousin.
🌳Sapele – another species from the mahogany family, this time from Africa. It is darker, harder, and heavier than its cousins from Asia. The fibers are almost perfectly straight. Any knot is very rare. The brown takes on darker shades, giving this wood greater uniqueness. The fibers shimmer in a specific way, giving the impression that the flat surface seems to acquire a third dimension.
🌳Spruce – similar to pine, but its color is slightly cooler. It also has less resin and more tiny knots, which give it “something special.”
🌳Walnut – European walnut, or common walnut, is a variety of Italian walnut often found in temperate climates. It is characterized by a unique gray color with greenish accents. Sometimes the gray is light, sometimes very dark, but it still has a fairly warm tone.
🌳Zebrawood – an African species that closely resembles zebra stripes – hence probably its name. Hard and very fibrous. The dark and light stripes are very irregular, making optical illusions sometimes difficult to believe that such a wonder occurred in nature.
✏️Every stone is a unique piece of art. They are 100% 𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗺𝗮𝗱𝗲 products so none of them is the same. What’s more the nature designed the material so you can get a piece of forest in your home.
✏️The wood rocks are good for kids 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝟑 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐥𝐝 to develop their 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝-𝐞𝐲𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. Also good for elder to keep their hand-eye coordination and clever mind on a good level.
✏️Our main target was to create a possibility to fit the difficulty level to your skills or age of your child. You can try to build the towers in free ways: newbie, intermediate and impossible. Also the various shape of our stones ensure many ways to build different piles.
🐝🐝🐝The stones are finished with linseed oil and bees wax. They are 100% environmental friendly and safe for people. To keep them in well condition remember to use some of natural oil (for example olive oil, linseed oil, tung oil) from time to time if you feel they are getting dry.
⚙️The rocks are sanded to has a smooth edge. The surface is not polished too much to provide some friction. The angles sometimes are getting uncomfortable to build so the friction is your friend here. It is not our goal to create stones that might frustrate.
✏️Size of the blocks is various. By buying you get a mix of sizes and species. Feel free to contact with us to fit your expectations. The average size is between 4-9cm (1,5″-3,5″).
📩Feel free to contact us if you:
📦have any question about product and shipping
🎨want to customize your order in:
🖊sizes
🖊types of wood
🖊number of stones
🖊or whatever you might think of
