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Originally Posted by SheffieldLass  Seeing that the beech was off to a sawmill, and you say that there were quite a few logs with the fungi on, maybe the beech has been deliberately left to be attacked by fungi, to create the very desirable 'spalted' beech, much prized by cabinet makers. I made a small chest of drawers from spalted beech, it can be a very attractive wood.
The following is quite interesting reading about spalted wood. Seems that leaving the felled logs in a damp shady wood is all that you need to do, which sounds as if that was what they had done. Forest Industries - The Spalted Wood
Melanie |
That’s a very interesting article Melanie, a bit like Tunbridge ware I suppose,
The “ideal” conditions mentioned in the article would be a little bit unusual in this country , 70 to 90 F is hardly the norm in the uk, but the moisture content of 30% would be no problem, given one of our usual summers
The more I learn about fungi, the more I realise that mankind would be lost without it one way or another, even if its only discussing it on WAB,
Brian