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Looks kind of like a planet…. Mars maybe?

-- Welcome to downtown Coolsville, Population: US! --Hogarth Hughes

George,

At first glance, it looked like the planet Mars, due to the red color, but when I saw the swirls it reminded me of Jupiter.

So perhaps, “heavenly body” or “planet wood” ...... just some thoughts!

Hans

-- "I never met a board I didn't like!"

Picture no.3 made me think Jupiter

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

i would make it into a new table and live eith it i would not use it to look at its much to nice for that

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I’m with thedude50t’d be a very nice coffee table. It’s not that creative though.

-- What are those few hours of mine compared to those decades Mother Nature has put in it!

Turmoil. -or-
Changing of the tides.

-- "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do."-Walter Bagehot

The first name that came to mind when I saw this was Harvest Moon.

Beautiful piece of wood.

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I understand and respect the fact you didnt carve or hack into it. Its a beautiful piece. i would name it THE CHALLENGER! because we have all come across a nice piece but never done anything with it “I have at least five sitting in my shop just waiting for a good idea” its a challenge! and any craftsman loves a challenge! looks great bud

“Tempest” or “Natures Tempest”.

-- Close to Ottawa Ontario Canada

Torris Sol Solis – :atin for “burning sun”

-- "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

How about Sand Dollar

-- Vince

George,

At first glance it reminded me of the Sun. I thought WOW! Now that’s a Hot chunck of wood!

So maybe the name Sun Spot would be nice. Or maybe Stormy Grain or Waves of Grain.
It sure is beatutiful and useing to make a table top would be nice too!

-- Tony C , My high school shop teacher said "You can do it"... Now I can't stop!

Sense you want to display it why not the best of both ideas. Make a colonial folding top table (even a modern style of one). These are the tables that you see near a wall or in the corner of a room where you pull them out a little and fold the top down. The top on many are the so called pie crust design.

helluvawreck aka Charles
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-- If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. Henry David Thoreau

Simply hang it on a wall and call it: “Unfinished Piece #1”
Beautiful piece of wood… I’m not sure it needs any more work. The planet ideas came to me first… and then I thought one of those hanging oriental copper bongs…

Anyway, you are fortunate to have it.

-- Al H. - small shop, small projects...

“not a table”

-- The smell of wood, coffee in the cup, the wife let's me do my thing, the lake is peaceful. http://gagnerwebsite.com/Deceiver/Craftsman_on_the_lake/Craftsman_on_the_lake.html