When you stay in South Vietnam, you naturally have to do business. If you don't do business and don't make money, is it just for vacation? To bring warmth to the people of South Vietnam?
Chen Wenzhe has invested a lot here. Although it is for treasure hunting, it is time to get some due returns.
The mayor's name is Ruan Yin, whose pinyin sounds like SoftBank, which is relatively easy to remember.
His surname is the largest in South Vietnam. It seems that there are more than 40 million people with the surname Nguyen.
After chatting for a few words, Chen Wenzhe brought the topic to redwood again.
In addition to coffee and seafood, it was the mahogany trees that interested him in South Vietnam.
Pulling open the tarpaulin on the car to reveal the wood on it, Chen Wenzhe was really surprised when he saw the thick wood with its skin peeled off and some of the heart of the tree exposed.
He knew that there is very little rosewood wood in South Vietnam now, and the most is some modern planted wood, which is generally about the thickness of an arm, and the price is very expensive.
Unexpectedly, Ruan Yin really spent a lot of effort this time to find such a batch of high-quality wood for him.
These woods look like old materials at first glance, and I don’t know how long they have been there.
Especially the diameter of these woods. Even if the bark is removed, the smallest diameter that can be seen is more than 20 centimeters. This is not simple.
Nowadays, many people in China swear that even in ancient times, this kind of red rosewood did not have a diameter of more than 20 centimeters.
But is this the real thing? Definitely not!
"These are what were left behind from the original. It's definitely impossible to find so much wood now."
Seeing Chen Wenzhe shocked, Ruan Yin was very proud.
Although it cannot be said that wood of this grade cannot be found, it is certainly difficult to find.
"Thank you, thank you. I really didn't expect that I can still see such good materials now."
Chen Wenzhe patted a very curved piece of wood, which is a typical Vietnamese and Cambodian red sandalwood.
It can be seen that in order to preserve the red sandalwood, all the excess that can be removed has been scraped off.
This is very rare. After removing the outer layer of bark, it is clear whether the wood inside is good or not.
Seeing this kind of good wood, even Chen Wenzhe, who has been accustomed to seeing all kinds of treasures recently, can't help but feel happy.
He jumped directly onto the truck and looked carefully at the redwood trees piled on top.
Vietnamese and Cambodian rosewood, especially the rosewood produced in South Vietnam, or simply called rosewood, are relatively curved, and the hollowness is a bit high.
Of course, now that it has been cut open, you can see very clearly whether it is hollow or not.
There is definitely no possibility that these old materials, which have been stored for an unknown period of time, are hollow.
These are specially selected and specially preserved, and their value will be higher.
I looked at the thickest piece of wood at hand. It was thirty centimeters in diameter. It was definitely a big piece of wood.
On such a large piece of wood, any line on it can be seen very clearly.
At this time, the advantages of Vietnam-Cambodia rosewood became apparent.
The reason why this kind of wood is so expensive is because this kind of wood does not have brown eyes. Even if it is Laos Siamese rosewood, the brown eyes are still very obvious!
Vietnam-Cambodia red sandalwood really does not have brown eyes, which cannot be seen with the naked eye and cannot be touched with hands.
The background color of this wood is reddish-brown, purple-brown, or brown.
In practical applications, brown and purple-brown are more common, and reddish-brown is less.
Purple-brown material has the best oiliness, and this kind of wood has obvious black veins, pterostilbene, and gold stars when exposed to sunlight.
People in China seem to like golden things, and as long as they have a bit of golden light, they are expensive.
I reached out and patted the aniseed, which was more than 35 centimeters in diameter. I felt that the density was relatively high.
Although it has not been actually measured, based on experience, most of the densities of this grade of wood are above 1.0.
I picked a thinner one and pushed it hard.
Chen Wenzhe's strength was sufficient. His movement seemed random, but it caused the piece of wood to lightly hit another piece of wood next to it.
When two pieces of material collide, the sound is clear and crisp without any muffled sound, which is enough to show that the density of this kind of wood is high.
Chen Wenzhe doesn't know anything else, but he now knows a lot about wood.
Because he had studied carving, although he did not study wood carving specifically, his master-level carving skills, or even a breakthrough above the master level, still allowed him to learn a lot of wood carving techniques by the way, including the identification of wood.
This kind of wood is suitable for carving and will rarely chip during use.
Good scratching ability, little stubble.
The most important thing is the black veins on the wood, like flowing clouds and flowing water.
Moreover, most of the black veins are like splashing ink on mountains and rivers, or to be more precise, they are quite similar to the marbles from Nanyun.
It is because of various advantages that the price of Vietnamese and Cambodian red sandalwood is relatively high.
It is even said to be much higher than the large-fruited rosewood, and the Burmese white rosewood is not as expensive as the Vietnamese and Cambodian rosewood.
The reason why many domestic manufacturers do so little is that the price of this material is high and market awareness is poor.
Of course, even if you are really knowledgeable and want to find good materials, you usually can't find them because the good materials are all used by the South Vietnamese.
In South Vietnam, Vietnamese-Cambodian red sandalwood is also a very particular material, and everyone knows the best, so it is not only exported, but is also used a lot in the country.
In addition to the processing costs of the wood and the loss, the price will at least increase several times.
Finally, the merchants ship the goods, and you can buy scraps for about 100 yuan, which is already the lowest cost.
Now Chen Wenzhe is wholesale, and he gets the goods first-hand, so the price is naturally cheaper, but it's not much cheaper.
The cheapest of these woods is over a hundred yuan per kilogram.
After all, this is old wood after peeling, exposing the heartwood.
Such a price naturally cannot be calculated based on ordinary logs.
Therefore, Chen Wenzhe can only calculate the price after initial processing, and also pay some processing fees.
At this time, the price of 100 yuan per catty is definitely not low. You must know that any piece of wood here weighs hundreds of kilograms.
Even if a piece of wood weighs 500 kilograms, based on the price of 100 yuan per kilogram, a small piece of wood will cost 50,000 yuan. This is the real price of old Vietnamese and Cambodian red sandalwood materials!
"The material is good, and I'm not lying. If the wood in this cart is of the above quality, I'll give you one hundred yuan per pound!"
After jumping out of the car, Chen Wenzhe said directly.
"One hundred yuan per catty?" Ruan Yin asked.
"Yes, the price is not low, right?" Chen Wenzhe said with a smile.
Ruan Yin hesitated for a moment, then nodded: "It's not low, just follow this price."
The price is certainly not low. Although even scraps can be sold for 600 in China, that's domestic.
It’s still troublesome to transport this wood to China!
Not to mention other things, during the import and export process, taxes are collected both in South Vietnam and in China.