Any spalters here?

[gemniii]

Looking for links on spalting.
Like:
http://www.woodweb.com/knowledge_base/How_To_Spalt_Wood.html

http://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/documnts/techline/producing-spalted-wood.pdf

I've been impressed with a couple of maple logs I left for milling over the summer

Sure adds character with little effort.

Sort of like hanging deer before cutting them up.

 

[PinnaclePete]

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Down south Pecan gives some really nice spalting (bowls in photo). Box elder gets really fine reddish pink streaking throughout.

 

[discounthunter]

ive gotten lucky on some logs heres some sweet gum;

these are oak;

sweet gum and oak

oak but too far gone.

 

[gemniii]

dolmar -
do you have any stats on the time on ground and conditions?

The log I have pictured was only about 6 months down, sitting off the ground on my "cutting table" over the summer. It was very healthy when I felled it.

thanks

 

[billstuewe]

Some pecan---

 

[BobL]

This is my fave spalted thingo.

It's an espresso coffee tamper handle. It's spalted pear wood and comes from a small pear tree I had given to me about 4 years ago.

The thing was pretty pukey and this was about the only useful product I got out of it. I have to admit it feels really nice.

 

[glennschumann]

Here is a like to a DIY spalting article. The author published in Fine Woodworking few years ago, and I think she is known in some web circles as Dr. Spalt. If memory serves, she has a PhD with a dissertation written around spalted wood.

http://www.finewoodworking.com/SkillsAndTechniques/SkillsAndTechniquesArticle.aspx?id=32484

 

[johncinco]

My favorite line when asked what I have been doing lately is "Oh I have been working on spalting a lot of wood lately". Get some funny looks from that one. I say it means I have been too busy or too lazy to get out in the woods and cut up stuff.

I only intentionally induced spalting one time. Left a big maple log out in the woods. Covered it over with several piles and inches of leaves. Got plenty of spalt, but lost some to rot around the edges. Looked fine and natural. The best is always standing dead, I think it stays stronger so you keep the strength of the wood, but still get the lines.

 

[kimosawboy]

I laughed when I saw this thread as I went out this past weekend to get some spaulted maple.
I have been going to the same cutblock for my firewood for three or four years now. The timber in the beehives had been down for probably a year to two years before that.
I started noticing some spaulted wood two years ago, it was mostly on the ground. The stuff in higher up in the piles had very minimal spaulting.
Last year I harvested a fair bit of good spaulted wood, trying to pick thru piles for firewood and set aside maple that had spaulting was not the funnest of things, so a lot got burnt.
Anyways this year its a spault fest. 80% of the wood spaulted.
I took around a half dozen 6' logs in about 20 min.
Going to go back later this year with my big crane truck and fill it to the brim (8000lb), possible two trips.
I spotted some 6' & 8' 30"ish wood that I'm definitely going to slab.
Fun Fun

G Vavra

 

[discounthunter]

i spalt by accident. i had some rounds i sat up behind my pile and left them for a season, split them and found spalt.ive found i have two spots in my yard that apparently have this fungus present. its not 100% but i can usually get one or two good pieces out of about 6-8. i set then up for about 3-4 months then turn them over for another 3-4 months.

 

[billstuewe]

Is this spalting??

This pecan died last year in the drought and I cut it about 3 months ago and sealed the ends but they cracked anyway so when I got ready to mill it yesterday I recut the end and WOW.
Here are some more from another tree--

and another--

 

[DaltonPaull]

Fine Woodworking had a good series on spalting recently http://www.finewoodworking.com/item/11874/spalt-your-own-lumber-introduction

I haven't tried it yet - sticking with the accidental spalt for now.

 

[gemniii]

Fine Woodworking had a good series on spalting recently http://www.finewoodworking.com/item/11874/spalt-your-own-lumber-introduction

I haven't tried it yet - sticking with the accidental spalt for now.

Great link, which led me to Dr. Spalt http://www.finewoodworking.com/profile/Dr_Spalting

Articles on what fungi to use for what colors!

and that has a link to a site where to buy fungi.

Oh - kimosawboy - I always spelled it spalt.

 

[Gypo Logger]

Funkey looking wood, I like spalt too. I have a birdseye , fiddleback, tiger stripe spalted coffee table, but what is this weird wood I harvested today?
John