The Beauty and Character of Working with Spalted Ash
I remember the first time I stumbled across a slab of spalted ash at a local sawmill. It looked like someone had taken a fine-tip fountain pen and drawn a series of chaotic, beautiful maps all over the wood grain. I'd worked with regular ash before—it's a solid, dependable wood—but this was different. It had a story to tell, even if that story was technically about a bit of fungal decay. ...