Spalted maple cup

[bikebum1975]

Doing up a small cup from spalted maple. Didn't know when I had cut the branch today this was gonna be such a stunning piece of wood my camera doesn't really do it justice but this is the start of it. so far just using my hawk for the bulk oof the shaping my spoon knife and my Opi a bit

http://i758.photobucket.com/albums/xx221/bikebum1975/kuksa/100_3183.jpg

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http://i758.photobucket.com/albums/xx221/bikebum1975/kuksa/100_3182.jpg

http://i758.photobucket.com/albums/xx221/bikebum1975/kuksa/100_3181.jpg

[AdrianRose]

Splatted Maple? is that a new genus of tree hitherto unheard of?

lol

Ade

[bikebum1975]

It's Norway maple what I got this branch off of the splatting refers to the way the color and almost staining in a way is on the top shot. Almost a pattern in a way in the wood

[Roadkillphil]

Spalted :cool:

[AdrianRose]

LOL Point missed completely!! Sorry, its my cruel sense of humour.


It's Norway maple what I got this branch off of the splatting refers to the way the color and almost staining in a way is on the top shot. Almost a pattern in a way in the wood

[AdrianRose]

Bingo!!


spalted :cool:

[bikebum1975]

first time I heard it called that used to some friends calling it splatting lol

[CanadianMike]

Lol, I came into this thread because I wanted to see maple splatted on something hard........ funny typo!

If I came into a chunk that sized (I can buy come to think of it), I'd likely make something similar, but the stuff I buy has pretty heavy 'splatting' and needs to be stabilized, therefore while it looks awesome, it's totally unusable for food use.

Enjoy your new kuksa, hopefully future beverages don't end up 'spalting' on your pants. ;)

[bikebum1975]

LMAO yeah yeah

[bikebum1975]

Never was the best speller anyways lol it's updated I thought it saved the changes before

[Fletching]

Can't wait to see the finished item BB!

:)

[bikebum1975]

Any luck hopefully a few days sorta doing this one for me. I got a bigger one from beech I need to get done first

[Fletching]

No rush. We don't need to rush!

:)

[dfxdave]

great piece of timber/lumber like to see when finished great project

[bikebum1975]

great piece of timber/lumber like to see when finished great project


Thanks everyone
I'm hoping there is more wood like this in that big log to :D