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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 |
Hi Melanie thanks for the interesting link, and I think your spot on, I know Fountain forestry who manage the land do specialist timber as well as the normal pine, they do tend to stack most of the timber in the woods and leave it over at least one winter take it this is all part of the weathering process, will be going back there on my next day off, this is also meant to be one of the best places near me for fungi with now over 600 hundred recorded fungi in the area so it will keep me busy especially in the late summer and autumn
