"Sourcing in the Land of Smiles"

The first time seeing the monkey pod — going to a facility where they process this wood — I couldn’t believe it. The sheer thickness, the size of the trees, the character in the wood, the amazing shapes.  Monkey pod trees (also called Acacia or Suar) are canopy trees. The ones we work with are more than six feet in diameter. We get slabs as long as 15 to 18 feet. Cross-cut slices for tabletops that become the centerpiece of someone’s dining room.  Our latest container from Thailand weighed 27,000 pounds. It took three hours to unload. That’s how much wood comes back from a single sourcing trip.