hello folks
as i mentioned in the natural edge ash form thread here are the pics of the log which that wood comes from.
when i first seen the log it was at the bottom of a stack of logs and i just spotted a bit of the unusual texture from underneath the bark, I knew this texture meant there was unusual figure in the wood so i tagged my initials onto the end of the log and bought it. it was about 18 months later when the log was ready to collect
a close up of the unusual texture
the log measured 3' at the tagged end by 6' long and 4' at the far end which is the start of a crotch
you can see where the lightning traveled down the tree
I started by cutting a couple of inches of the end to clean it up and see whats what
the lightning strike had killed part of the tree and spalting had set in
I cut directly into the end of the log through the pith with the full depth of the bar 20", then went either side and cut into that depth giving me two semi circular logs
this was the view after 20" had been removed
and then again after another 20" as we get near the crotch section
I eventually remembered where I had seen the texture before and it was on an old elm tree that i had bought about 10 years ago. I am still researching the unusual grain pattern which wasn't caused by the lightning strike, but I have found an American woodworker who has seen it before in Maple trees and he says its caused my a beetle.
