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Spalted Beech

flexi

flexi

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Sep 12, 2014
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Location
Maidstone
First Name
mark
Hi All,
Where has all the spalted Beech gone?
It used to be in abundance, I was asked for this lowly Sirocco and struggled to find any decent spalting....
 

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ValleyBoy

ValleyBoy

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Jul 9, 2019
Posts
697
Location
Cardiff
First Name
Ash
Very nice Mark. Lovely finish as always.

There’s a gap in the market there. No doubt you’re rolling logs of beech around your garden as we speak! 😊
 
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Adal6

Full Member
Joined
Nov 20, 2023
Posts
319
Location
Houghton le spring
First Name
Alan
Mark lovely pens. I made some Masonic pens a few weeks ago and had to buy around nine blanks of spalted beech to get two with good grain To make the pens. if I make pens with the blanks I have left. no one seems to what them with hardly no grain
 
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Phildarv

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Joined
Mar 12, 2017
Posts
9
Location
Knaresborough
First Name
Phillip
Most of the spalted Beech used to originate from Stiles & Bates and Snainton - both now closed.

They used to get standard Beech and leave it in the grass for a few years to spalt
 
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