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Spalting in pine wood?

This is a separate post since I could not be of much help with the post on spalting below but have something similar. I made two bowls our of red pine (perhaps not the best wood but it grows well where I live). Both bowls developed dark areas (I assume some sort of fungus or bacteria) as the rough bowls dried. Because of the dark areas the bowls hardly look as nice as the picture in the link in the post below. But does anyone know how safe it is to use a bowl with potentially a fungus in the wood for food - say popcorn? Would certain finishes help?

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TWW
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I've turned a small amount of pine. Here in Kentucky we have an abundance of Virginia Pine (Pitch pine to those who are native). The bowls I've turned from pine have also had some grey areas show in the wood after being turned. I'm not sure if this is spalting. In Kentucky, we also have a major infestation of beetles that have begun to destroy entire forests of pine. I've turned a few that had the larvae of these beetles and the wood was always gray around the area the worms had bored through. If you put a good finish on the bowl and don't emerse it in water, it should be safe for food use.

JD (Kentucky)

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JD

Here in BC the pine beatle is killing countless acres of pine forest and the dead wood takes on a blue hue in some stratas of the growth rings. I don't think it much good for turning but the lumber is really nice for pine furniture with its colouration . . "JD snipped-for-privacy@wku.edu" I've turned a small amount of pine. Here in Kentucky we have an abundance

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Tom Storey

Be sure to have the items - if you do some - gassed by a preservation / pest gas. When living in Redwood country and having acres of the big weed (live there and you agree) you were required by law if you sold anything.

I cut a honey locust down - as it was a pest to have behind the shop. I put the trunk on the ground and took several spindles - 6" diameter, sealed the ends and put them in the metal shop - on an I-beam.

I looked at them a month later and half the wood was powder! Glad they were not on a rafter or next to a post.

We life 'in' the pine forest of East Texas now.

Martin Martin H. Eastburn @ home at Lions' Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net TSRA, Endowed; NRA LOH & Patron Member, Golden Eagle, Patriot's Medal. NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder IHMSA and NRA Metallic Silhouette maker & member.

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