One of my sons from Deerfield Beech brought a couple mahogany logs sections with him to our family vacation in OBX last week. Came from a neighbors yard that got wiped out during a spring storm. They got sealer applied until I could get them. Put the chainsaw to one piece today and was excited to get to it. First time turning wet mahogany and was surprised at how much spalting had taken place. I thought it was unusual for mahogany to spalt because of how oily it is.
Anyway, is this an unusual occurrence for this wood? Like I said, never turn this wood wet before. These pieces are 10" diameter and 3.5"+ deep and they were sort of hard to turn in that even after forming the bowls, it was hard to get the rpm's over 700 without the lathe shanking like crazy. No voids, just the water must not have been distributed evenly.
Anyway, is this an unusual occurrence for this wood? Like I said, never turn this wood wet before. These pieces are 10" diameter and 3.5"+ deep and they were sort of hard to turn in that even after forming the bowls, it was hard to get the rpm's over 700 without the lathe shanking like crazy. No voids, just the water must not have been distributed evenly.