[TheForge] aging wood, art

[A Vida]

Would you have rock maple by chance... unspalted?  I need to make a new 
butcher block. :)

Mike Spencer wrote:
>> 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
>