A few months ago, when I won an auction on ebay to buy a spalt-pile, the vendor also sold me a couple of slabs of timber that were in his shed. Amongst them was a spalted, rippled ash slab, 8ft long, 2ft2in wide and 2in thick. There was an awkward little crack in one end, so I got a fewshallow bowls out of it, but last week I started to cut disks out of the rest of the board and couldn't resist getting at least one big platter.
As is often the case, I had difficulty photographing something this big because it won't fit into my photo-tent, so I've snapped it hanging on a door in the shop.
It's really meant as a wall-hanging, so it has a Sterling Silver hanging wire set into the rim, but it can also be used as a table service platter.
Finished with 2 coats of sealer and a few coats of microcrystaline, buffed after every coat.
C&C always welcome....Les
