Spalted Beech

[flexi]

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....

 

[howsitwork?]

You can make your own Mark but it’s not a particularly short process. Knowing when to stop it spalting is the difficult bit.

 

[ValleyBoy]

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!

 

[Adal6]

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

 

[Bill Mooney]

Nic e pens Mark.

 

[Phildarv]

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