spalted

9" x 3" finished with Tried and True Original.

Friend and mentor gave me a mess of spalted hackberry blanks from his big score last fall. They've been sitting around for awhile so I decided they were the thing to do on a rainy day (or two). The featured one is my favorite but will post the batch below. I'm not very experienced with boxes...

4.5” x 4.5” This was one of those pieces that I nearly gave up on a few times. The dramatic spalting drew me in, but the wood was very punky in several spots (probably too punky tbh). The mouth of this vessel is much larger than my usual because the original rim disintegrated as soon as I...

Small spalted Pecan plate. Finished in BLO and beeswax. 6 1/2" x 1 1/4", July 2024

Here are the four bowls I was able to successfully pull from the tops of a Maple tree downed in a storm years ago. This one, https://www.aawforum.org/community/media/just-a-maple-bowl.24016/, (right top here) was the punkest. The others were much more stable. They defiantly have the wow factor...

The tree this, and several more in line, came from fell in a bad storm three years ago. I used to tap this tree every spring in the sugar season! I cut up the base up into perfectly clean 8/4 lumber. The upper part of this tree sat down by the creek until I rediscovered it this last winter. Most...

Fairly heavily spalted Pecan covered calabash. I’ve made several of these now, and this is my favorite (in the context of form). Not too big, not too small, 5” x 5”. Exterior finished with lacquer, interior unfinished.

2nd of two spalted pecan turnings with ebony accent bands

I attempted to spalt this chunk of pecan but after peaking inside the bag at 3 months and 6 months I detected nothing but large cracks so I gave up. 3 years later cleaning up my storage area I hauled out the pecan and was about to split it up for firewood when low and behold it had spalted! I...

Another just because spoon box..... A pleasant small of spalted Birch so with the exception of a bit of decoration it got a rare natural finish. A little piece of palm nut and some carving yielded a fittingly Cetacean tail shape for a lid pull. 3" x 3" x 5-1/2". Sold immediately Thank you for...

This is the bottom of the bowl. I turned a 3-footed base from Maple to elevate the piece and get the most out of the Elm

Spalted cherry birch, good enough to turn. Gloss Craft Coat finish

Inside of Spalted elm bowl with carved craters accented by pyrography. Gloss enamel finish. 8 1/2" diameter , 2 1/2" tall

The last Pecan blank from a commission of offering plates of 4 years ago. 14.5 inch wide , finish in 100% Tung Oil and Beall buff.

Through the Side window. 7" Diam Apologies for the poor photography. Jamie Donaldson would not be pleased.

7" diam. Top view. Disappearing rotten wood created the window.

5.5in x 7in hollowed vessel from a spalted sycamore

5.5in x 7in hollowed vessel from a spalted sycamore

Heavily spalted. Required a good bit of stabilization. 14.5 x 6" deep

A 6 x 3 inch nibbling bowl from a spalted maple