On 3 Oct 2006 12:34:40 -0700, "bc" wrote:

If that's the same grey wood that Nahm used on a table project
(reclaimed wood from the bottom of a river), the stuff was ugly to
begin with and no great loss. It was wood from Mordor.

R
I think the grey stuff is different from what the OP was talking about.
The grey stuff was from a peir or a rail road trestle that had been in
I think salt water and had gone all grey and you're right it started
ugly and ended that way too. The stuff like what the OP was talking
about is found in the bottom of fresh water rivers and although the
outer inch or so goes nasty the interior looks just like fresh sawn
wood. They have some that you can look at at heartpine.com


There is another company that does the same thing in the Great Lakes,
salvage dive and recover of old growth logs that sank during transport
from logging operations in the area. They plank or veneer depending
on the type of wood, condition of log as a whole,etc.. If the cherry
your talking about was birds eye then veneer would be more profitable.