Pretty Wood
A more realistic view of the log you just crawled through. Spalted hard maple.
Spalted hard maple bowl blank for a turner cut with the chainsaw. Got a few more blocks like this. If you use your imagination you can see a river flowing with mountains in the background.
Broken branch on spalted sycamore.
Spalted sycamore butt. I haven't cut this log yet. I'm thinking about cutting a few rounds off the butt and seeing what I can do with it.
Bugs busy making pretty wood.
Another picture of the bugs making pretty wood.
Osage orange and a piece of walnut for contrast.
Quarter sawn spalted sycamore.
Crotch walnut.
Crotch honey locust.
Crotch honey locust close up.
Eastern red cedar sometimes called incense cedar.
Nothing like the bright purple, reds, and yellow of fresh cut eastern red cedar. The bright color fades with exposure to sunlight and turns an attractive brown.
When I starting digging through my pictures to use on this page and as a background for all the other pages I realized how lucky we are in the midwest to have such a variety of beautiful woods. I have sawn about every species we have over the years but failed to take a picture of most of them. Some of the species that are seldom seen as lumber are dogwood, redbud, ironwood, persimmon, kentucky coffee tree, apple, and a bunch more. Going to make an effort to get a picture of each one on this page as I aquire the logs.