Unknown wood

[Derek]

I have managed to get quite a bit of time in the shed lately which makes a change.

I am not sure where this wood came from but I have a couple of pieces of this and this is the first to be turned. I tried to keep the form simple to show off the wood.

A nice simple finish of sander sealer and beeswax which I brought off of a local beekeeper who mixes it with a hard wax possibly carnauba

Measures 8" X 2 1/2"

C & C welcome

[GBF]

Spalte Ash Maybe

Regards George

[Les Symonds]

I was more inclined to think that it was spalted beech, especially from seeing the inclusion in one of the pictures.
Les

[Mike313]

Lovely shape. Definitely allows the wood to do the talking

[fuzzyturns]

Actually, I think this is spalted birch. Nice shape and finish.

[seventhdevil]

i need to see a close up of the endgrain and face grain before i can help with this one.

[bodrighywood]

Looks like spalted beech to me, those paler marks often seen in it.

Pete

[Derek]

I did not reply last night as I wanted to take some more photos of the wood as I have another 5 pieces of this so it must have been an odd log that I was given.
Anyway, here are some of the unturned pieces.

[fuzzyturns]

I think that settles it: beech it is.

[seventhdevil]

agreed...

[Bryan Milham]

There are many fungi that cause spalting, not all cause the dramatic black lines we tend to generalise as spalting. I seem to note that it also depends upon how wet/dry the wood is when the fungi takes hold.

I've not seen this shape bowl for quite a while now, it is one I like, so thank you for resurrecting it for me.

[Derek]

Thank you Bryan. This is a new shape to me was going to carve three feet but decided that I liked the foot as it is