Nature's amazing color pallette

[low_48]

I cut some amazing hard maple this afternoon. It was from a huge hard maple that blew over in the high wind we had yesterday. This one section had a huge lightning strike wound running down it and I could see the color was special. I got into a small crotch section and . As I have found in other lightning strike wood, the cracks are everywhere. I guess several thousand volts will do that, but what colors!!! I just had to share a picture, hope I get about a dozen blanks from this. Can't tell where all the cracks are yet.

 

[Johnathan]

Wow, great looking wood.

 

[chitswood]

Its purdy![][]

 

[Woodnknots]

Gorgeous!!

 

[chitswood]

Looks good! what you gonna do with it??

 

[alamocdc]

Thanks, Rich! Now I have to clean all the drool off my keyboard so LOML doesn't think I've been to one of those "bad" sites. [}]

 

[EdwinSSIV]

Gorgeous wood! Nature is amazing. []

 

[JimGo]

Wow, I don't think I'd want to cut that up...looks too pretty at that size! I think I'd rather keep that whole and use it for part of a table.

 

[Dario]

Wonderful colors indeed!!! [:0]

I just hope it stays after drying and sun exposure.

 

[wdcav1952]

Incredible, Rich!!

 

[pete00]

fantastic color.