Pretty Wood
A more realistic view of the log you just crawled through. Spalted hard maple.
Spalted hard maple bowl blank for a turner cut with the chainsaw. Got a few more blocks like this. If you use your imagination you can see a river flowing with mountains in the background.
Broken branch on spalted sycamore.
Spalted sycamore butt. I haven't cut this log yet. I'm thinking about cutting a few rounds off the butt and seeing what I can do with it.
Bugs busy making pretty wood.
Another picture of the bugs making pretty wood.
Osage orange and a piece of walnut for contrast.
Quarter sawn spalted sycamore.
Crotch walnut.
Crotch honey locust.
Crotch honey locust close up.
When I starting digging through my pictures to use on this page and as a background for all the other pages I realized how lucky we are in the midwest to have such a variety of beautiful woods. I have sawn about every species we have over the years but failed to take a picture of most of them. Some of the species that are seldom seen as lumber are dogwood, redbud, ironwood, persimmon, kentucky coffee tree, apple, and a bunch more. Going to make an effort to get a picture of each one on this page as I aquire the logs.