Spalted Holly

[Dennis Ford]

A simple hollow form from some pretty wood. I almost refused this wood when it was offered to me; "Been down over a year" and it looked terrible. Holly usually turns grey soon after being felled and rarely remains solid for a year around here. The outside of the log had some cracks and the ends had a lot of cracks. I took a fairly large piece and found that it was a treasure after I got it home and cut into it. This is about 9" diameter and is finished with rattle can lacquer. These are phone pictures.
Comments and critiques welcome.

[Mel Fulks]

Glad you gave it a chance ,extraordinary patterns.

[Robert Hayward]

Beautiful piece of wood ! Nice form and workmanship also.

[David Delo]

Spectacular looking piece of timber, beautiful form. Kuddos Dennis.

[daryl moses]

Beautiful!! Very well done!

[Allan Ferguson]

All the above and more.

[Adam Petersen]

Wowzers that is something else. Who needs fractal when you have that?!?

[robert baccus]

Saw this piece yesterday--WOW- just about as pretty as holly gets--also great shape and finish by Dennis.

[John Hart]

Nicely done. Amazing that you almost passed on it. Love the curves

[robert baccus]

PS. Save us some shavings for infecting plain holly---someone gave me some new holly.