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  1. Neil Lawton

    Rotten Beech

    Not Spalted but rotten. This blank came from a tree that had water ingress due to a lost limb. The largest cracks are filled with a black powder and Ca. 4 1/2" x 2" finished in Chestnut finishing oil.
  2. P

    Natural blue wood

    I live at the border of a nice forest (Fontainebleau), where I sometimes see rotten wood on the ground that is, oddly enough, blue. I tried to get some infos, and I learned this is due to a special mushroom that gives this strange colour to the wood. The blue is very resistant: such a wood has...
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