Spalted Pecan 4 Drawer Dresser

Beautiful! I really like the style….......

-- Carl Rast, Pelion, SC

looks good sawdust

Very nice chest. Nice clean lines. beautiful wood.
God bless

-- Gene, a Christian in Virginia

Very nice. Beautiful wood, nice grain.

-- Max "Desperado", Salt Lake City, UT

Great design for using the spalted lumber!

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

Exactly what I like – natural edges & wood with a story to tell. That top especially looks amazing. Beautiful!

-- Res severa verum gaudium - True pleasure is a serious business.

Pretty nice!

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

I like it a lot. Beautiful wood and nice clean design. Excellent job!

-- Leon -- Houston, TX - " I create all my own designs and it looks like it "

Nice Work..

-- Rob (A) Waxahachie,TX

excellent job.

-- hap, gunbarrel city tx.

Pecan is one of my favorite woods. Beautiful job of letting the wood do the talking.

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thanks for sharing. I haven’t seen any pecan furniture before and really like the looks of the wood. I think you did an excellent job on the piece.

-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.

Very nice work…. It’s the first time I have seen Pecan furniture as well. I like all of the color and grain pattern changes; it makes for a very interesting piece of furniture.

-- Chris

Very nice looking piece!

-- North Texas

Boy, talk about some great grain patterns.

-- Maplewood, MN

Great looking dresser. Is this some wood you cut and dried yourself?

-- miles125, Alabama.."Architecture is frozen music""

Thanx for the kind words everyone. Yes Miles this is pecan I cut myself. It is best to cut the slabs no less then 1.5 inches as all pecan and hickories will cup and curl alot in the drying process so you want to have plenty of thickness for planing. Kiln drying is best and will give you workable stock sooner but you can air dry for about a year. In order to get the spalting you have to let the log set for about a year and then cut it at the right time. Most all woods will spalt, Maple, Sycamore, White Oak, Pecan, etc… but some woods better then others. The spalting is a process of decomposition where opposing colonies of microbes draw their boundaries so to speak in the fine black lines that look similar to a china ink drawing. Some of the patterns are quite interesting and sometimes look like an artist actually drew the lines.

-- Frank, Little River/Academy, Texas , http://www.allthingsrustix.com

Absolutely beautiful. This would go great in a cabin also :)
Not to change the subject I was at sawmill a couple of weeks and they had small slices of cypress wood,...a big stack of them,....I asked the owner if they were for sale he told me no they were going to a customer that had ordered them to put down as flooring in a 2 million dollar log home. WoW was my response,....but I bet it will be beautiful when it is completed. Just thought I would share. It sure was a great idea.

-- Dana,Texas

Thats a nice dresser.

-- CJIII Future cabinetmaker

Now that is my style! Looks great! Also answered my next question “what is spalted”. great post!

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-- It seem's I just make scrap wood and saw dust most of the time !

what a wild look in that spalted pecan. that wood looks gorgeous!

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