While doing some cutting at walt's place over the weekend we came upon some beautiful wood. I was totally amazed at what we found in this wood. Flowers? Angel wings? Even a bird but that one doesn't show good in the photo.
This is the beauty of milling. Ya never know what you'll get when you open up the log. You see the wood in a totally different light than typical firewood rounds/splits. I've seen some really beautiful turned box elder. For example (not mine):
Now that I think about it, that was the longest and straightest box elder I've ever seen. Most box elders around here split into 4 or 5 sections about 8 feet off the ground, or the get 20 feet tall, rot and fall. It may have been interesting to mill it.
Wow. Kinda reminds me of the "gift" my son gave me the other day (he's 3)...his banana that he spit out into my hand. Was too much to chew all at once so when he swallowed what was left in his mouth he came back and sucked it all up again outta my hand. I guess that's what I get for telling him that was too big a mouthful to chew all at once!
Dat ain't no buckey! Box elder for sure. The leaves were totally wrong for buckeye and buckeye doesn't have the red in side, at least any I've ever cut didn't.