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I can't quit saving pieces of firewood headed for the furnace to use in the woodshop. This little piece is one I trimmed off of a corner of a much larger piece like it.
It's lightly spalted tiger maple.
Tiger Maple is figured maple not a different species of maple. What you see is not growth rings but a grain distortion that sometimes forms running the other direction.
I also have a small but growing batch of saved sections of 8" to 12" diameter hollow limb wood that is going to become natural looking bird and squirrel houses.
I can't help it... I just can't chuck that kind of stuff in to burn...
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I thought I was the only one with that issue,,I just put 2 pieces of ash in the stove and three pieces in the save pile LOL

Why would you want to “reform”?

If your tiger-maple pile gets too big, you can always slice it up into blanks and sell it on eBay. (Or if that’s too much work, just ship the excess to me! ).

I daresay the wood in your photo would sell nicely.

Wish I had that problem. Quality hardwood, or any hardwood for that matter, is tough to come by in my neck of the woods.

Yea but we cant get those huge pine trees here .

Man I miss the smell of those things.