Spalted Bay Laurel Bowl

[OldWrangler]

Hurricane Ike dropped a big old rotten Bay Laurel in a neighbors yard. It was badly rotted and full of Carpenter Ants. I brought a piece home since he offered it. Yesterday I started cutting it up to see if there was any good wood.

Much of it was soft and punky but I got several pen blanks and some for small bowls. I soaked all of this in Min Wax Wood Hardener overnight. Today when it was dry, I turned a pen and a little bowl. The pen sold about an hour later to the first customer who came by the house....didn't even get a photo.

But I did get a pic of the bowl. How's this for spalting?

 

[el_d]

Nice Bowl George.......... like the patterns the spalting adds

 

[ahoiberg]

boy did that turn out nice. great work.

 

[sparhawk]

Really nice work. I have some wood that is spalted something like that but don't have a clue what it is.

 

[Skye]

I think that bowl is a little spalted!

Wowza. Let's give it up to the ants!

 

[MarkHix]

That is one beautiful bowl. What is the finish?

 

[areaman]

nice bowl, so if you have punky wood the minwaxwood hardner will hold it together pretty good? How big a piece will work and how far does it penetrate. I have some crab apple I would like to do something with thats mostly punk.