Spalting Recognition 101

[Ken Fitzgerald]

Would some of you post some photos please of your unturned blanks with spalting ......so a novice might have a chance to see what it looks like before it goes on the lathe?

Thanks....Ken who wants to start spalting..............

[Rob Bourgeois]

before
http://img118.imageshack.us/img118/30/img07798tc.th.jpg (http://img118.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img07798tc.jpg)


after roughing

http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/3056/img0796edit5yq.th.jpg (http://img134.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img0796edit5yq.jpg)

http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/659/img0798edit1nm.th.jpg (http://img134.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img0798edit1nm.jpg)

http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/1910/img0797edit8vw.th.jpg (http://img80.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img0797edit8vw.jpg)

finish being applied today

All I did was throw the whole 5 foot long log( no anchor seal) in my garage last Novemeber and then I cut it up about a month ago. It was green when I put it in the garge still had leaves on it. It is maple. It was a little punky in some spots hence the CA glue.

Pictures hopefully by saturday of it finished.

[Mark Cothren]

This is pretty extreme... even *I* could see this log was spalted before I cut into it...:D

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v684/markfromark/SpltdPecan101b.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v684/markfromark/SpltdPecan101a.jpg