Recently a friend of my wife´s gave me a hunk of wood. He doesn’t know anything about except it was in the way in his workshop. He thought I might try turning it. I’d like to cut it up and turn a few bowls out of it but I can’t decide where to cut it. The one external face has bark on it and is a big hump so I think it must be a Burl. I don’t recognize the bark but it could be maple. There are numerous insect galleries under the bark but the bark doesn’t look like ash. I labeled the external face E and did some photos. One face is flat and has flame figure and I labeled this A, it is 13” at the base. The B face has a void in it and is irregular. The D face has a shallow chainsaw cut in it. I don’t see a pith anywhere. The widest dimension is 13”. I’d appreciate any help I can get identifying the species and deciding how best to cut it to get pieces to turn bowls from.
Thanks