On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:42:44 GMT, "Ron Magen"
wrote:

a} The wood was solid and absolutely dry. It had been dead for some years
and sort of 'Air Dried on the stump'. The chainsaw residue wasn't 'sawdust',
but looked like 'cut Spaghetti' !! From the shape of the leaves I've raked .
. . I'm guessing Maple.

b} The surface, where the bark had fallen off, was 'speckled' with 'worm'
{ant ?}holes.

and c} The ends showed a distinct 'spalted' pattern !!! When I looked closer
it was even on the surface of the pieces.


A few questions, based on my collecting spalted maple from the woods
in the past.

Does the solid wood have two different colors, (not including the
spalting) where the darker stuff seems noticably softer?

How deep do the worm holes go- or can't you tell from the pieces?

Do the annual rings appear to have separated at all?

If you do want to get rid of it, and are willing to take a couple of
pictures, I'd be happy to consider taking some of it on, if you're
willing to ship a hunk or two of it. The big thing I'd be looking for
is that it does not have rotted areas or severe cracking- there's
plenty of that all over, but good spalted maple is a beautiful thing,
and much less common.