Up in smoke ... almost.

[Jimjam66]

I found some rather lovely looking spalted summat in a customer's firewood store. Asked if she minded me taking a couple of logs, she looked at me like she would have felt much safer if I was on the other side of a set of iron bars but agreed anyway. This is what came out of them:







42 blanks, cut around 7/8" to allow for warping as they dry. I won't use all of them, so will put up a 'free to good homes' post shortly.

BTW, anyone got any idea what they might be?

 

[Terry]

Spalted Beech perhaps ?????? or Sycamore ????

 

[Jimjam66]

I'm pretty sure one of the logs was Sycamore, Terry. Not sure if they all were?

 

[Woody]

I was going to say Sycamore they dont look like beech

 

[Doug]

I'd have said Sycamore, nice save David

 

[Neil]

I'll put a heap on many of them being beech. Can't be sure that they all are but I think that many of them are. Reason, twofold, sycamore doesn't normal splat with such clearly defined lines, it can be more of a blur or much thicker lines. I think that I can also pick out the fleck on some of the blanks that is typical of beech.

But then again, I could be wrong! Frequently am.

 

[Jim]

Beech was my guess after seeing the pictures, feel more confident after seeing Neil also going with Beech ..

 

[Jimjam66]

And me too, having compared them with a piece of beech I made into cupboard doors a while back. Dunno why I confused it with Sycamore? Must be a senior moment ...

 

[Penpal]

Whatever timber have fun with it I find asking if you can swap some of your firewood with the other person relieves the pressure invariably they dont want any in exchange otherwise they get suspicious what they have is pure gold.

Peter.

 

[rowdyyates115]

Brilliant find David, it makes me break out in a tears thinking of some of the beautiful woods that are being burnt around the world......

 

[bellringer]

it make me cry that a saw over 8 tonnes go off to be turned in to fire wood when i got my log