A coworker is having a walnut log band sawed into lumber. We agreed on me getting a 3" slab from the base. I picked the angle I wanted and marked a section out taking advantage of two flares at the base which should have some good grain in the butt and also through the wrist. This isnt an overly large log about 22" at 4 ft high. But the base flares enough to make it work.
The base looked great when we cut it, and I sealed it with paint. When he cut it at about 8ft long, there was what looked like a "inner" ring of secondary sap wood about 10 inches in diameter, growing on the inside area of the tree?
it was about an inch and a half wide, similar to the outside sap wood below the bark. There was no bark present that I could see, so its not a tree growing in a tree, just this second inner lighter ring of wood. It might mess up my plans for the plank now, as I don't know how far down it runs. Your thoughts. Anyone ever see this before?
