That's not firewood!
Furnished content.
(from Lumberjocks.com)
While visiting our daughter's family in December, last year, our son-in-law was about to throw these two pieces of “firewood” into the wood stove but I managed to wrestle them away from him – I don't get my hands on spalted maple very often. Our son had asked me to make him a couple simple nesting tables and I thought that the spalted maple might dress up an otherwise boring looking table set. There wasn't enough to do the entire tops but I had enough other salvaged maple scraps to make up the difference.
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