I was at the lumber yard getting some logs milled and the boss showed me some cut offs he had of Nanmu/Phoebe, wondering if I wanted them. Normally, Taiwanese Phoebe is pretty boring wood. Looks a bit like an unfigured piece of Mahogany and has about the same density. The pieces he had were highly spalted in one punky area and the rest of the wood had dark streaks of colors running through it that I'd never really seen before in this wood. Since it was free, I hauled a bunch back to my shop. I cleaned up a piece of cut off to show what it looks like when it is spalted and colored like this. Really interesting actually. I left one side unsealed to show the natural color and cleaned up the other side to show how it looks finished.
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