spalting

Hi everyone! I’ve been reading and enjoying posts/discussions on this site for about a month now- very helpful. The compulsion to cut wood into beautiful slabs and lumber with dangerous saws and homemade/specialized devices cam over me just after Christmas. Let’s see where this road goes, eh...

So I had two giant white oak trees taken down on my property, bases 40-48" diameter. Company wanted too much to haul it off, so I decided to mill it. Built a saw and a mill and went to town. One of the trees was rather dead, and had some really amazing spalting in the sap wood. After drying for...