5 1/2 X 5 1/2. Finished with shellac.
Spalted beech hollow form
- Thread starter Phil.H
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WoW!!!
And that is another example of why I want some spalted beech!
And that is another example of why I want some spalted beech!
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That takes my breath away. Spalted beech has the potential to be so stunning. It’s sad really that is Europeans don’t really use spalted wood as much as you Americans. Truly sad. Thanks for letting me peek though. No thanks for making me jealous.
Home run! Beauty throughout! Great job! Chuck
Got some wild grain in that one, nicely done!
Very nice. Has a definite art deco look! 
Really innovative shape and the bead is perfect. Great job.
great form, and the wood grain is so unique!
That means you should be able to gather a bit of it rather cheaply. You just have to catch it before it goes in the stove. If you have local firewood sales like we do at the big stores, just watch the pile for color. I have found spalted and highly figured woods in the firewood piles for about 2 dollars a stick. Can't cut the tree to find it for that kind of money.
Yeah. That’s fairly easy. I just like larger pieces than the stuff I get. I have about 5 cubic meters of beech firewood but only about a third is spalted. Only about a third of that is usable and if the usable stock only around ~ten pieces actually look good. After all that I don’t really feel like searching through multiple cubic meters to find a piece that good just to find out that it is mostly punky.
It really sounds like I’m lazy now.
In that case you need to train a firewood supplier near you to call when he has a tree that is spalted. Before he splits it into kindling sticks.
That is an amazing idea. Thanks. I should have thought of that before.
No problem. I too, am not into working just for the sheet joy of labor...