happy Saturday all. i was doing my walkabout in the woods yesterday and happened upon a bit of hawthorn (?) branchwood windfall.
hawthorn can be a tricky wood to store and work but i've found that with patience and persistence it can pay off. i've come to love the wood for its tight grain and incredible durability. some of my treen-carved spoons from hawthorn have lasted us almost three decades.
anyway, back to the windfall. i cut some long chunks off and started seeing this closer to the base of the broken branch:
well that's new to me! i've worked a fair bit of the stuff over the years and never seen that. the wood is still solid, seemingly no signs of softening or rot.
anyone know what this is or what's causing that reddish patterning from the heart? disease or blight of some kind?
as i worked my way up the branch that reddish stuff petered out and the wood colouring returned to normal, so obviously it's either something creeping up from the base of the tree or it's just a varietal with natural heartwood color that i'm unfamiliar with.
Gooble word and image searchs turned up nothing useful so that was a dead end. hoping someone among us knows the story here.
hawthorn can be a tricky wood to store and work but i've found that with patience and persistence it can pay off. i've come to love the wood for its tight grain and incredible durability. some of my treen-carved spoons from hawthorn have lasted us almost three decades.
anyway, back to the windfall. i cut some long chunks off and started seeing this closer to the base of the broken branch:
well that's new to me! i've worked a fair bit of the stuff over the years and never seen that. the wood is still solid, seemingly no signs of softening or rot.
anyone know what this is or what's causing that reddish patterning from the heart? disease or blight of some kind?
as i worked my way up the branch that reddish stuff petered out and the wood colouring returned to normal, so obviously it's either something creeping up from the base of the tree or it's just a varietal with natural heartwood color that i'm unfamiliar with.
Gooble word and image searchs turned up nothing useful so that was a dead end. hoping someone among us knows the story here.
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