Interesting wood "grain"

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sorcerertd

sorcerertd

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My local Klingspoor's just stocked up on a lot of lumber, and they got some really nice stuff in. I could have easily gone broke, but I restrained myself to a nice Padauk board, a beautiful (but expensive) piece of Bocote, and this...

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For those that don't want to play the guessing game, this is zebrawood. I found that spalting pattern pretty cool in it. Does anyone know if that can be part of the grain, or is likely really spalting? I only got a smaller piece cut as I probably won't use it that much, but really wanted to see what was inside there.
 
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Never seen spalted Zebra wood. I have seen and have heavy dark grained Zebrawood It is getting to the exact time of the year I use to love and that was black Friday weekend. The lumber dealer I use to buy all my lumber from use to run a sale on all woods they had and it was a big deal for those that knew about it. I use to stock up on the exotics as well as the domestics because this dealer has some of the finest woods I ever seen. Not sure his source but he got in grade A stuff. I still have and never will use the stock pile of woods that I have. But it was like a kid in a candy store. But I would always save money for that day. The day his shop and warehouse burnt down was a sad day and he never reopened. He lost everything including all the machinery in there. Huge loss.
 
I haven't seen any spalted zebra wood either, but in the manner of John above - being a specialized wood for the USA user, only quality wood is usually or probably shipped, and therefore we just haven't seen it.

I found this link to making spalted wood:
 
sorcerertd said:
I've seen where people have done this. It seems pretty cool and DIY gives you the option to get the max spalting without letting it get too punky.
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You can also spalt with multiple species of fungi, and also stain. If you seed multiple types of fungi, its possible to get wild spalting (some with the fatter veins, some with the very fine veins, some with the whitening in certain areas), as well as the various blue, green, pink and yellow staining. If you REALLY want to go all out! :P

From what I've read, buying such spalted and stained wood is exceptionally expensive, most of the time. Its a lot cheaper to do it yourself, if you can. (Not sure that I can...its super dry here in Colorado most of the time.)
 
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