This is great! Thanks for sharing your knowledge and enthusiasm. I'm a woodworker and enjoy several types of naturally spalted woods. I've let logs rest on the ground for several months before sawing into lumber, allowing them to spalt.
I freaking love this man! I've seen the most epic acoustic guitars and ukuleles with spalting and I never knew it was caused by fungi, they called it exotic woods lol! Now I wanna try it
Mate I’ve been waiting for someone to make a video regarding spalting. I’m setting up part of my sawmilling business solely for spalting wood, it’s in its infancy but this has just helped kick started it!
I just stumbled across a Xylaria (I believe that’s right) culture near my house and I’m not sure how to go about acquiring it. Do you cut out a piece of wood that’s spalted and place that directly on water agar? This culture is beautiful doing tremendous work on an American holly tree the cross-sectional looks so cool and I’d very much like to dive into spalting, Or at least figure out a way to preserve this interesting culture
So..... I just bought your spalting cultures.....now trying to decide how to get best result. Im going to use on green American Hornwood which rots easy....
To splat wood for turning the old timers would bury logs in mineral rich soil, and I now understand that the active mycelium was probably the culprit where the way I understood before was mineral leaching
What is you made cotton twine, like what you use on a turkey, and let it sit in liquid culture for a day or so then you can lay that our on a board seeding the spalt exactly how you like. Let it sit under some wet newspaper or something for a bit to give it a chance to move into the wood, them cover the whole thing in turkey tail saw dust spawn.
@@aeronautee did you get it directly from her? I tried to get it from her on FB, but I missed out. She told me to check back on the 30th. With her research and this gentleman's mushroom ideas there is no end to the creativity a person could get up to. I'd thought of trying mushrooms earlier this year with some birch I have, but didn't make the time. Maybe next year. 😁
@@JoelElder2013 I pre-ordered from Amazon back in October. The original receive date was February 9th, but it kept moving up. I was surprised to get it Sunday.
Dr. Sara Robinson, AKA Dr. Spalter. Oregon State University. She's been doing this for years. She's also very gernerous about sharing all her findings.
@@mycominer I wouldn’t want to kiln dry, joints would likely shrink away from each other, but I’m thinking you could just keep adding water, until you had the effect you wanted, then seal/oil and the fungus would slow to almost zero.
Spalting is any form of wood coloration caused by fungi. Although primarily found in dead trees, spalting can also occur in living trees under stress. Although spalting can cause weight loss and strength loss in the wood, the unique coloration and patterns of spalted wood are sought by woodworkers.
I had no idea these marks were caused by fungus but I think we’ve all seen these marks on wood. How freaking rad.
Your new operation looks amazing dude
Thanks Brian!
This is great! Thanks for sharing your knowledge and enthusiasm. I'm a woodworker and enjoy several types of naturally spalted woods. I've let logs rest on the ground for several months before sawing into lumber, allowing them to spalt.
I’ve got hundreds of slabs and would love to give this a shot
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I freaking love this man! I've seen the most epic acoustic guitars and ukuleles with spalting and I never knew it was caused by fungi, they called it exotic woods lol! Now I wanna try it
That sounds awesome!
i saw this dish in your lab and Jack told me what it was! this is just amazing
Mate I’ve been waiting for someone to make a video regarding spalting. I’m setting up part of my sawmilling business solely for spalting wood, it’s in its infancy but this has just helped kick started it!
I just stumbled across a Xylaria (I believe that’s right) culture near my house and I’m not sure how to go about acquiring it. Do you cut out a piece of wood that’s spalted and place that directly on water agar? This culture is beautiful doing tremendous work on an American holly tree the cross-sectional looks so cool and I’d very much like to dive into spalting, Or at least figure out a way to preserve this interesting culture
Fantastic idea well done 👍👍👍👍👍
That's awesome! Cutting edge new Ideas I don't even understand it haha but I like it Andrew keep pushing.
Do an update on your LC setup!!! I see a whole shelf of LC, and also a whole mess on stir plates in the corner
I’d love to be there with you to experiment and learn!
Brilliant!👍👍👍
So..... I just bought your spalting cultures.....now trying to decide how to get best result. Im going to use on green American Hornwood which rots easy....
To splat wood for turning the old timers would bury logs in mineral rich soil, and I now understand that the active mycelium was probably the culprit where the way I understood before was mineral leaching
What is you made cotton twine, like what you use on a turkey, and let it sit in liquid culture for a day or so then you can lay that our on a board seeding the spalt exactly how you like. Let it sit under some wet newspaper or something for a bit to give it a chance to move into the wood, them cover the whole thing in turkey tail saw dust spawn.
Inoculate some 4 inch thick logs with plugs maybe?
Look into the work of Dr. Seri Robinson, a professor of wood anatomy at Oregon State University who has written two books on the subject.
aeronautee I was going to suggest her as well, her new book comes out on December 30th.
@@JoelElder2013 I just received her Spalting 101 yesterday and looking forward to getting into it.
@@aeronautee did you get it directly from her? I tried to get it from her on FB, but I missed out. She told me to check back on the 30th. With her research and this gentleman's mushroom ideas there is no end to the creativity a person could get up to. I'd thought of trying mushrooms earlier this year with some birch I have, but didn't make the time. Maybe next year. 😁
@@JoelElder2013 I pre-ordered from Amazon back in October. The original receive date was February 9th, but it kept moving up. I was surprised to get it Sunday.
@@aeronautee nice!
There is no audio in the right channel. Left channel only. Nice to see you though, in any case. This is cool.
Dr. Sara Robinson, AKA Dr. Spalter. Oregon State University. She's been doing this for years. She's also very gernerous about sharing all her findings.
What if you took a board and put it in a Polly bag and inoculated with liquid culture
All your audio is only coming in via the left channel. Heads up! :)
What about dowel jointing with inoculated dowels?
Oh, I freaking love that! Though can you kiln dry the whole piece after it's been joined so that you can kill the fungus?
@@mycominer I wouldn’t want to kiln dry, joints would likely shrink away from each other, but I’m thinking you could just keep adding water, until you had the effect you wanted, then seal/oil and the fungus would slow to almost zero.
I think I prefer your method of treating the wood for effect, prior to crafting.
@@mycominer once it is dry the fungus dies, can also just spray with alcohol.
Laetiporus spawn could produce yellows and oranges in the wood if this works
would love to hear this but having major audio problems & could not hear what you were teaching.
updates?
What is spalting
What is spalting?
Spalting is any form of wood coloration caused by fungi. Although primarily found in dead trees, spalting can also occur in living trees under stress. Although spalting can cause weight loss and strength loss in the wood, the unique coloration and patterns of spalted wood are sought by woodworkers.