Gary Beasley
Member
A couple of weeks ago we were in Arkansas visiting my mother. She's wheelchair bound and has a ramp out her door shee can go out and putter in her flowerpot garden. I found out the landing at the bottom was in serious need of reworking so I volunteered myself to do the job. I dug out the fragmented concrete and blocks, encountering several large sycamore roots in the hole I needed to pour the concrete into. This tree had been dead for several years and the roots were not all solid and were turning colors. I thought this was a great opportunity to aquire some more unusual wood so I cleaned off the solid chunks left and packed them back home with me. I sawed them up the next day seeing some impressive grain structure, spalting and colors. They been drying since and this one is the first I've tried out. Looks pretty good and it's not even the best looking blank.
