Spalted maple and walnut hollow form

This is an 11 inch by 8 inches very spalted maple and walnut hollow form.

This one I blew up 3 times. The wood was just to interesting to give up on. The 1st time was when my live center broke and it turned into a UFO. The 2nd I just got a bad catch while hollowing and the 3rd time was while is buffing it and it got away.

I have at least a whole bottle of CA in it stabilizing the soft spongy parts and holding all of the broken pieces together. However, I think the final results was worth all of the frustration and effort.

If anyone is interested I have photos of the pieces.

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Nic Davies

Registered: February 2010
Location: Belfair, WA
Posts: 122

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Date: Tue March 30, 2010
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Keywords: spalted maple walnut hollow form

Comments

Michelle Rich

it was worth saving that spalted. It has lovely colors/markings

#1 Tue March 30, 2010 10:18am

Don Leydens

Don Leydens

Great looking piece, Nic! Certainly worth the effort. A beauty.
Don L.

#2 Tue March 30, 2010 10:24am

Frank Van Atta

I really like the spalting on this wood.

Something that sometimes works well on spongy spalted maple: soak for a couple of days in a 50/50 mixture of Elmer's Glue and water then let dry. In many cases it will firm up the spongy parts so they almost turn like "normal" wood - not always, but enough that I found it worth my while to try. I just hate to lose any of that beautiful spalted wood.

#3 Tue March 30, 2010 2:26pm

Frank Reed

This is a beautiful piece. I can empathize with you on working with spalted wood. The biggest issue I have is with sanding. The punky side goes away before the solid side. Its worth it in the long run.

#4 Wed March 31, 2010 2:19am

Don Andrews

beautiful

Don

#5 Wed March 31, 2010 6:35pm

boxxmaker

Ken Ward

Fantastic piece ,love it Thumbs Up!

#6 Sun April 4, 2010 4:40pm

Makepeace

Leo Makepeace

Beautiful, I agree.

Ruining lots of good wood to get a few average bits.

#7 Tue April 6, 2010 10:04pm