Spalted maple and black walnut side table

comments (2) June 8th, 2010 in Reader's Gallery

AlecSebastian AlecSebastian, member
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Hand made in Bethel CT, this elegant little table is made from locally recovered black walnut with a top of spalted sugar maple that came from a tree more than 350 years old. When left to sit in a damp forest, maple logs will nourish a particular fungus. It is this fungus that causes the multitude of what appear to be inked, drawn lines. Left to cure too long, the log will be consumed by the fungus. Given six years or so and the log will retain wood hard enough for a mallet, yet so wonderfully drawn upon that one cannot help looking for the hidden pictures, as though looking into the clouds.

Shellac and tung oil finish. Tenons pinned with rock hard sugar maple.


Design or Plan used: My own design - Alec Jordan
posted in: Reader's Gallery, table, walnut, maple, spalted
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gofigure57 gofigure57 writes: Very nice Alec.
Posted: 7:27 am on June 11th

Pomelle Sapele Pomelle Sapele writes: Outstanding work combining the spalting with an elegant design. Spalted wood tends to run a design towards the primitive, but you didn't just avoid that trap - you mastered it. This one goes in my notebook.
Posted: 8:34 pm on June 9th

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