18” Texas Cedar Elm Platter - spalted

This is an outstanding very large platter, Tim.

The Spalted Texas Cedar Elm wood you chose for it is beautiful.

-----odie-----

Looks great!

odie said:

This is an outstanding very large platter, Tim.

The Spalted Texas Cedar Elm wood you chose for it is beautiful.

-----odie-----

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Thank you Odie. It was one of those moments when I saw the piece of wood - I knew it would be a real challenge - but I could not resist.

henry dalton said:

Looks great!

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Thank you Harry!

You did a spectacular job on this platter, Tim.

Bill Boehme said:

You did a spectacular job on this platter, Tim.

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Thank you very much Bill. I hope I can find some more of this wood, and that has the spalting.

I can relate to the hard and soft aspects, love it, it came out impressively well and I echo the previous comments

Thanks Hughie! It was a real challenge to focus on being so gentle with cuts to prevent tear out in the heavily spalted wood, and - equally for sanding to prevent "divots" and dished out areas. AnStill - there are a couple of minor ones....But the overall one this piece is....I wish I had more like it. One the backside of the piece - in the spalted area there is a scene of the mountains. A true gift from nature. I will post that because it is one of those things we don't get to see often.