As this great red oak tree began to die the veins turned blue & gray staining the remaining living fibers making colourful grain patterns, the timeline to harvest these blanks is short I must collect them & start drying them as soon as they are cut out before they start to go punky & lose their solid fiber structure.
From the sections of the trunk & crotches of the tree, I chainsaw out square & rectangle blanks of wood, sections of wood with splattered grains & burls that grow on the trunk make great bowls from the swirled grains & colour patterns. I then place the blanks into a plastic bag, so it can dry slowly & it will not split & crack apart. Before I can start to carve & shape them, they must dry slowly for a couple months so check back for up-dates on this project.
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