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A bowl, and a request for help!

I've turned this bowl from salvaged firewood from my local firewood vendor, this is not as it might seem, a rounded lip bowl with very thick walls, but actually it's a rounded lip bowl with a closed up opening (an hollow form? almost, but not quite...), with walls 2 millimeters (about 1.5/32") thick all around, it took very careful scraping and then lots of sanding to get it to that state.
It's finished with bees wax, friction melted.
The help I need is with identifying this wood, as the guy selling the firewood told me it was English Oak, but all English Oak I've seen online, raw or turned, does not look like this wood at all.
I can help with saying that when it was green it was very soft, almost white in color, very wet, and very porous, water (it was water, not sap) was shooting off it all while I turned it, it took 7 months to dry out, and when I worked on finished it, it was bone dry and very hard, the scraper made more dust then shavings, and the brown pattern which I thought was some kind of fungus runs all the way up the trunk, and it is present in all the logs of this type of wood I've seen so far, and I've seen thousands of them in all the places that sells firewood, they all had it, so I think a fungus may not be the case.

Thanks!!

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Yuval Lahav

Registered: March 2013
Location: Ladispoli, Italy
Posts: 19

Date: Fri January 3, 2014
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Keywords: bowl request for help