Osage Orange hollow form

Is this from a limb?

Charlie Knighton said:

Is this from a limb?

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Charlie, I don’t believe so. I’ve had a small log section, about 8” diameter, in my shop for a few years from a tree that a neighbor had cut down before I got there. My memory is that the largest pieces were about 12” and I assumed this was from the upper trunk. Are you asking because of the curious grain pattern?

Yes, curious is an excellent description!

Charlie Knighton said:

Yes, curious is an excellent description!

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I’m trying to cut and paste in a picture of another piece that I made from the same original log section. It does a better job of showing the general curvature of the grain and which way towards the center of the tree, but apparently I can’t add an image to a response in the gallery (or at least I can’t figure out how). In any case, this was a yard tree that grew next to a house, and it probably struggled over the years to grow symmetrically, producing such convoluted grain.