Cool Wood Finds #1: Found this Wood "Formation". Anybody got any ideas?

That is truly spectacular.

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Oh Wow! I’d love to make a Roller Ball Pen out of that!!!

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That is the oddest grain I have ever seen. Do you have any other board from the tree.

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Mario,

When I started this table project, I had around 1000 board feet. I did photograph each piece before I sent it to the kiln for drying. I reviewed several of the photos and there is quite a bit of this mass on the boards. Luckily, I am a pack rat and have saved the cut offs and that’s where it is.

I should be able to recover some for turning and veneer work if it is usable.

More on this blog later. Got to finish the table first.

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looks like you found some of the rare spaghetti wood!

I’ve seen small 2” chunks in oak before, but never any of any size. Great find.

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I’ve picked up a couple of salvage boards at a sawmill. The owner wouldn’t let me have the whole pile. It has some grain like you are showing but it also has bark pockets the go right through the wood.

The edge of the board has the grain like you are showing.

The owner thought it might be Pin Oak and he had seen only one other log in his sawing experience.

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I saw Marty’s find personally. It is a beautiful piece.

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That would be the coveted Ramen pattern. You can cut that easily with a plastic fork after soaking in hot water for 15-20 minutes. ;2)

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just out of curiousity, can you pull on these “threads” and they come off the wood like a string? I’m not asking you to check, I’m just wondering if you could tell by looking at it. The end result sure resembles laceswood (when the rays stay tight together). Thanks for sharing this. I keep looking back to learn more. Thanks for your post too Karson. very cool!

HokieMojo,

Check out this spaghetti wood: http://www.designboom.com/weblog/read.php?CATEGORY_PK=&TOPIC_PK=2893

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lol, now that is some crazy stuff.

I have seen formations like that on sugar maple and white oak. They grow typically in an over-grown hollowed out butt swell. I have no idea what causes them. They all had bark on them facing the center of the tree. I had one saved in my dad’s barn as a turning blank that I intended to sell. My brothers cleaned out the scap wood from the barn and put it in the burn pile.

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bark pockets are really rare/ According to a salesman that works in the outlet store at FML, Frank Miller Lumber in Indiana, they only occur about one in ten thousand. When they have it, they charge 20 bucks a bft wholesale for quartersawn white oak with bark inclusions. They have a dovetailed trunk on display made with the stuff.
Saw mill is about 100 years old and has some really huge buildings. To put the 20 bucks in perspective, I bought 31 bft of quartersawn white oak there a couple days ago for 127 bucks tax included. 4/4 5/4 6/4 boards.

http://www.frankmiller.com/

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This was a really interesting thread.Thanks for sharing.

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