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This is my last piece of spalted palo verde and it was big enough to make this lidded box. I used it this way to capture the spalting on the top. I showed to a friend here at the park and he could see a 3, a 2 and 00 in the splating on top- for whatever that would mean. He also said that palo...

The following project was made from Palo Verde that had laid in a wood pile for sometime. This was a bear to turn and was a real tool duller. Has can be seen from the pictures there were numerous cracks and consequently to keep it from blowing apart I left the walls fairly thick, just to the...

These bowls were made from some old downed palo verde branches that were just starting to get spalted. The pieces were not too thick so I was able to get a couple shallow 4 1/4" diameter bowls made for gifts for the neighbors out here in the park. The first one had a fine black burn line on the...

I was at this craft sale and saw this big barrel pot and thought I'd like to try to make a lidded barrel box this way. I found one last piece of spalted palo verde in my wood pile and it was only big enough to make this 3" dia x 2 1/2" high box. I turned the inside and left a shallow reverse...

Urban Sonoran Desert miniature accent art piece procured from an abandoned, dead, Palo Verde Tree. I guess I would call this abstract art. I resisted the urge to over sand and polish this piece. I simply cross cut the end of this as it was rotted and decaying. When i did, I noticed a most...

Palo Verde vessels with Teak base. 8" x 2"

I had found Palo Verde wood to be very plain and it seemed to have no character to add to a finished piece. While we were cutting up logs for turning blanks on the Grizzly band saw that LJ Dingle purchased for us guys to use here in High Chaparral park, Dennis ( from Washington) brought out...