Spalted Beech #83

£25.00

This piece was felled, milled, dried and stabilised all within 300m of my workshop.

This tree had to come down due to safety concerns and I was very fortunate to salvage the wood from it.

The spalting process is where two species of decay fungi infect the wood, when the colonies meet they create a dark band (called the reaction zone) which is the classic figure that you see. This decay fungi form pseudoscerotial plates which help to give the different colours in the wood and levels of decay

This block has been XCD stabilised, this means that this block has unparalleled dimensional stability due to its state of the are pre treatment. This proprietary process removes all of the residual oils left after vacuum drying and creates micropermeations in the cell walls. What’s left is a chemically inert block that the resin can bond to, giving you stabilised wood like no other. 

50x30x131mm

This piece was felled, milled, dried and stabilised all within 300m of my workshop.

This tree had to come down due to safety concerns and I was very fortunate to salvage the wood from it.

The spalting process is where two species of decay fungi infect the wood, when the colonies meet they create a dark band (called the reaction zone) which is the classic figure that you see. This decay fungi form pseudoscerotial plates which help to give the different colours in the wood and levels of decay

This block has been XCD stabilised, this means that this block has unparalleled dimensional stability due to its state of the are pre treatment. This proprietary process removes all of the residual oils left after vacuum drying and creates micropermeations in the cell walls. What’s left is a chemically inert block that the resin can bond to, giving you stabilised wood like no other. 

50x30x131mm