Need to pick your brains..

No real help with the shape or anything but you can’t use spalted wood for any type of food items. Too great a risk of the spores making people sick. Need to wear a good mask when cutting or turning spalted wood also.

Thanx Dan, but yea I looked into that and found that it was ok to use, the wood I use was kiln dried so anything should be dead or dormant, and I am going to soak them in oil and seal them, also I have been using a spalted Pecan cutting board for years..I think a little spalting looks…well cool..and I see alot of nice spalted salad bowls at the shows and knife handles….I dunno, but you brought up a good point of discussion..thanx

Here is one of the articles I referred too:

http://www.finewoodworking.com/item/12583/spalt-your-own-lumber-health-problems-associated-with-spalted-wood-and-debunking-myths

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Hollowed out, it would make a cool candy dish. I guess resawing it into thinner pieces- for coasters- isn’t really related to food.

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Maybe a plate for it and a knife to sit on, it could be used to serve the cheese.

I’ve seen cool cheese sets where the cutting board twists apart and the knives are stored inside. You could drill for a hinge pin, slice the thing in half and route out knife profiles.

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