Wooden Necklace That Sinks

You think it could be agarwood?

 

I think smell would diagnose that

 

It’s fragranced. But I’ve heard of fakes with injected oil and inserted weights.

 

Thank you "Speechless", Trent here from Grandawood, I saw the link from here, these beads are NOT agarwood
It sinks because of the density and the metal string

 

Hi Trent!

Welcome to Antiquers!

 

String is not metal. What other wood with high density sinks?

 

How about Ironwood?

 

Actually, there are plenty of wood that sinks but how many of them have fragrance smell?

 

Is it the beads or the string that have scent? It could have permeated the string.

 

If you enlarged the genuine agarwood beads, you would see something like this

With agarwood beads, they are hardly solid as if you look at the raw material, you will understand.
There is no complete black part of the wood log, so why the beads are solid black?



By solid, I mean the whole black bead, no name and shame here but if you go to eBay, you would often see this "black agarwood" , "kinam wood" , "black eaglewood"

 

@Trent Grandawood
What do you think of this piece? I have not done the float test
yet but I think I sense a fragrance. Not strong, so, could be no resin but just natural wood smell or transfered.

 

Hi kardinalisimo , This is not agarwood. There are many wood fragrance.
Agarwood (Aquilaria) is very soft, classified as non-timber wood, you can carve a figure out of them but to make a box out of it, it is extremely difficult and impractical as it will break during the process.
If you use your fingernail to press again the wood, would you feel it is penetrable easily ? does it leave a visible mark?
Agarwood (Aquilaria) is so soft that if you pressed your finger against it, it will leave a permanent mark
Again, this is not agarwood

 

Q

That's informative.

 

Still have not done the float test. Will do today.

 

I'm guessing African Blackwood.

(Oops, I was on the beads)

 

How about Lignum Vitae....that has a fragrance......

 

WELCOME Trent !!! ... Joy.

 

The necklace feels quite heavy even for having large beads. Will test later if it sinks. No stron odor if any at all.
@Trent Grandawood
Wonder if any of those could be agarwood?

 

The central bead and two on the left and the right from it sink, the rest don’t.