Hi Prometheus

Picture isn't that great, but it looks like nice maple, and a pleasing
shape, but I would not wait for the wood to dry, without giving the wood
some room to shrink and move or IT WILL SPLIT, drill a LARGE hole in the
bottom as far up as you dare, without going through the top, you can
later when the wood is dry install a plug.
That way you might get away without having the wood look like a nice
piece of firewood, and that would be a shame.

Have fun and take care
Leo Van Der Loo

Prometheus wrote:
Hello all,

To those of you who offered your advice regarding collecting deadfall
a while back- thanks again! I finally got around to getting out and
looking a bit, and discovered that the stuff wasn't that hard to
identify, as most of it was right next to the tree it fell off of.

Anyhow, I found a pretty decent hunk of spalted maple, and posted a
couple of pics of the first thing I turned out of it on ABPW under the
header "Found wood lamp", for anyone who is wondering how it turned
out.

Looking forward to getting a good pile of blanks together for those
times when the lumber budget gets a bit slim.


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