Oak Rey Wood Carving - Kandy, Sri Lanka

This video is brought to you in part by the Sri Lanka Tourism Board. Okay, so here's where you light candles Oil lamps and what's the point of doing this? Your blessing blessing and all then you come out and do the final result So can we go inside and do it All right to bring stuff, okay All right. So now we're entering here this is the location where the tusk of the last elephant that carried the casket with the tooth is so Here we have the elephant He's the elephant that carried the casket with the tooth of the Buddha Here we are outside of the the Rajah's tomb Thing and here we have some crazy-ass monkeys is running around me over here. We have elephants The monkey is awesome. Whoo scared So this is a normal day here at the temple in In candy, so when you come this is how it is very packed always packed But today is obviously the festival so it's a little a little more packed Yeah, this is awesome. This is something you have to see when you're in candy I mean if you miss it, you didn't go to candy really This period August 10 days the massive this year's and could see a lot of elephants around the temple garden After a couple of days after two days, it's going to be over so only during this time they have all elephants four days of Ramboli So today's the second day. So it's only two more days Then they're taking all the different banks and doing people who? Okay So many monkeys two little time Yes So they're washing the elephant getting him ready for tonight It's beautiful. It's a big boy right there second least man This is the factory what you do here in this place we make furniture and the craft And it's 90% handmade and handcraft stuff. So first of all, I would like to give brief introduction regarding roots that we have These are the different type of woods varieties that you can able to find in here in our factory There's one point Ebony. Ebony is one of the hardest and heaviest roots. It's pure black color Wow Very nice. That's very smooth. Very strong. Very dense, you know for grand piano piano black keys We have Ebony as well Ebony and Ivory. Ebony is we got two type of bronze Ebony. It's called Royal Ebony It has two colors actually black and the brown hot water warm water. You can just feel it and get an idea It's hot. Oh, it's really hot Then I'm going to mix it this That the Sherwin's dust from the Patanjali tree Patanjali wood See, what do you happen? It's become a reddish color. It's become a darker It's become a red if you added more powder if you keep boiling you can make more darker So the okay the more you boil the more color comes out, that's right. Yeah, okay That's right. Then I'm gonna add some lime lime lemon To change the color. It's basically acid. There's some chemical reaction change the pH value But it's all natural resources See what will happen. It's Wow Amazing. That's awesome. Yes, then the calcium carbonate alkaline chalk water Well, see the difference. This is parent. It's natural and this is the artificial painted mask. So this is natural painted right here This blue one is artificial Very different you get you could see the difference Yes, because the thing is the natural pain when I apply the color color goes into the depth of the color and it's last longer But the chemicals stay on the top on the surface So if damage color come off just so so this is totally hand painted and have carved hand carved and it's 1200 bucks Man, this is amazing Never ending Buddha's over there King of the castle With elephant next to him. So if you come here and you buy anything huge you can have it sent to your house They actually give you the price with the freight With the freight price included obviously you get taxed when you get when you when it comes to the States So be aware of that. You definitely bargain here. Just try to you know, just try to reduce the price and get a good price All right. I just bought a Buddha. It was costing like let's say Like 500 bucks and I got it for like 300. So well, at least I got it, right?