Author Topic: Sycamore (Read 3738 times)

Tom · « **Reply #20 on:** December 01, 2009, 11:12:56 PM »

Yepsir, Sweetgum spalts too.
Does Serendipity spalt?

WDH · « **Reply #21 on:** December 01, 2009, 11:14:47 PM »

Whoa, Whoa, Whoa!!

I just got to have some of that

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SwampDonkey · « **Reply #22 on:** December 02, 2009, 05:01:12 AM »

Quote from: Jeff on December 01, 2009, 06:40:13 PM

Quote from: SwampDonkey on December 01, 2009, 05:28:50 PM
Looks like spalted maple.

So does spalted Maple look like spalted Maple.

Spalted birch.

Modat22 · « **Reply #23 on:** December 02, 2009, 08:39:08 AM »

I'm trying to get 3 wild cherry logs to spalt as an experiment. So far it hasn't done much after 16 months

coldnorth · « **Reply #24 on:** December 02, 2009, 08:49:26 AM »

A few years ago I had someone here who wanted all the Sycamore I could get. 2" thick for carving. Not sure what he was carving, but you might look into it.

Ironwood · « **Reply #25 on:** December 02, 2009, 08:54:33 AM »

Never EVER have I seen cherry spalt. Oak, maple, gum, elm, sycamore, on and on, never cherry. FYI

Nice gum Tom.

Ironwood

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #26 on:** December 02, 2009, 12:07:54 PM »

Be hard to see in cherry, like butternut or walnut.

Modat22 · « **Reply #27 on:** December 02, 2009, 04:27:26 PM »

I think cherry must have some sort of anti-fungle property of something.

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #28 on:** December 02, 2009, 05:44:56 PM »

It's possible some extractives prevent it or mask the coloration. Don't know enough about it to say. It does rot, spalt is just a step away from rot.

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