[TheForge] aging wood, art

[Mike Spencer]

> There is a natural process known in wood turning circles as "spalting".

Anybody know the origin of this word?  Etymology?  It's not in my
dictionary.  I first heard it from a wood worker in the 80s.

Annnnd, I have a whole bunch of it in beech, maple and birch.  But if
you want some, you gotta drive into my drive into my dooryard before I
get it sawn, spit and in the woodshed.  Hardwoods rot here in Nova
Scotia faster than they do in central New England, never mind desert
places like Arizona.  This firewood is about a year old and much of it
is "spalted", i.e. showing a lot of decay infiltration.  If it sits
out of doors another year, the beech will be rotten, the birch half
rotten and the maple on its way there.

- Mike

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