The wood is definitely different from the previously built Phoenix that's been in hangars since 2014; it's a darker, richer wood. I know you had a mission in mind when it came to the wood in the ship. What was that?
TL;DRJosh Coons chose a darker, richer, more expensive-looking wood for the Phoenix to avoid the common cheap light-brown flooring, based on his research into what makes wood costly.
That wood, I had a word for it. It's called apartment home rental wood. Well, if you Google wood floor, that's the first one, the most common one that's going to come up. And common is not good for a luxury ship. We want something a little different, something that would be expensive to install. And I wanted to get away from that base, light-brown color. I literally just bought flooring for my own home, and that color is the cheapest wood on the planet.
The color for the older one?
Yes. So I've been doing a lot of research actually in real life about wood and the cost of it, the finishes on it, and what adds to value. The more rustic and hand-touched it is, the way more expensive. So actually reclaimed, recycled shiplap wood is really, really expensive. And then you get into the actual wood type, and if it's a rare hardwood, it's super, super expensive.
So you're basically saying that you modeled the wood in the ship after the most expensive wood that you could find.
Yeah. Actually, on the forums I had people sending me links and wood types that were really rare, usually because they're endangered species of tree. And some of them just didn't look good if they were cut. But yeah, I got a lot of suggestions online. As some of our viewers know, I'm on the forums quite a bit. I like to see what everybody's saying.