suggestions please

It’s hard to tell from the pictures how tall the trunk is. Perhaps the good portions could be used for turning blanks?

-- Brian in Arlington, TX - Laziness is the foundation of efficiency.

This section is about 6 feet long

-- Mother Nature created it, I just assemble it. - It's not ability that we often lack, but the patience to use our ability

looks like you could still get some decent 1×4’s

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How about a live edge table top using epoxy to fill the center and attach the pedestal?

At least with the pith out of the picture you should have less chances of checking and splitting whether you decide to slice this into quartersawn boards or cut sections into turning blanks or bowl blanks…the last two if you turn. With either way to decide to go with, be sure to seal the endgrains…the areas outside of the rot appear to be in good shape at the moment.

-- ---Joel; Central MD...rookie empter nester and getting back into woodworking!

many interesting cuts are possible. Some nice wavy edges were edges curl in. Straight cuts just off hole allows very interesting boards. Interested to see a sanded end.

-- Phil Zoeller louisville, KY

Sand and polish a slice, then back it with a mirror and it will make a beautiful picture frame for the mirror.

-- Hal, Tennessee http://www.first285.com

Hal I really like that idea. I could cut boards around the hole, but it just feels like I should do something that uses the hole.

-- Mother Nature created it, I just assemble it. - It's not ability that we often lack, but the patience to use our ability

You could mount it over a bucket and carve a windor seat into it :)

-- "there aren’t many hand tools as awe-inspiring as the #8 jointer. I mean, it just reeks of cast iron heft and hubris" - Smitty

Slice the trunk into 4” slabs, then nestle a bowl for dip/salsa in the cleaned up hole and hollow out between the edge & dip bowl for chips.

-- Randy-- I may not be good...but I am slow!

I can thinks of things to make with it lol

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Pardon the vulgarity, but my when my uncle Marvin saw a knothole in a board I was about to use he said ‘that would make a perfect a—hole for a hobby horse’.

That was 50 years ago and I still chuckle whenever I see a knothole.

Elm is one of the more split-resistant woods, so save at least some of it for mallet heads.

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