A friend asked me to cut up a couple of dead grapefruit trees he had in his yard. According to him they had been dead for at least a year and most had already rotted out at the base. He used most of it for firewood but I kept a couple of pieces to see what the wood looked like inside. To my surprise after cutting into one of the logs it was heavily spalted but not severely cracked. I made one small bowl out of one piece and cut a couple of small slabs out of the others. Here are some photos of the finished bowl, one of the slabs and the other uncut log. I might try making my first small box from the slabs.

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