Mahoy

Mahoy is a conifer like wood that is a very beautiful, deep cherry red in color, but is also a very hard wood, making it especially fragile when dried, unlike normal wood. It's a very, very difficult wood to work with and only a handful of woodcrafters have the skills to work with it, and even they have trouble successfully carving even a single piece of it. Due to the difficulty in carving it, due to its fragile nature that causes it to shatter with even a single wrong move or light blow, a carved piece of Mahoy fetches a very high price, and some carved pieces can earn a single woodcrafter as much, if not more money from just one piece than they would typically earn in an entire week of work. Two of the more famous and skilled woodcrafters who are highly prized for their ability to effectively and successfully work with Mahoy wood are Arthur Holland and Dexter Dramond, who can take a single piece of the wood and turn it into an amazing masterpiece. Mahoy wood is also highly known for its resistance to oils, water and much more. In fact, it's so hydrophobic that there is only one known stain on all of Offworld that the wood will accept, and only after soaking it in a bath of the stain for at least three full days.