{"id":834,"date":"2013-02-18T17:15:12","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T00:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/koentoppguitars.com\/blog\/?p=834"},"modified":"2013-02-18T18:50:58","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T01:50:58","slug":"a-hunted-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/koentoppguitars.com\/blog\/a-hunted-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"A Hunted Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day I was planing down some flame maple boards and ran into a rare but interesting situation. The board appeared to have some dark spalting across the middle of the plank, or so it seemed.<\/p>\n

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Maple with dark spotting<\/p><\/div>\n

After a few passes through the planer a shiny dot started to reveal itelf within a dark spot. I immediately stopped and grabbed an awl to try and pry out the metal. The metal was soft and popped right out.<\/p>\n

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A piece of metal revealing itself<\/p><\/div>\n

It turned out to be a ball of lead shot. Each dark spot in the wood contained one single ball of lead shot.<\/p>\n

Apparently, this tree stood in the way of a shotgun and absorbed the shot spray as a young tree. It continued to grow and engulf the small balls and over time the metal reacted with it and left these dark spots. I might look differently at spots like this in the future!<\/p>\n

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Lead Shot<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The other day I was planing down some flame maple boards and ran into a rare but interesting situation. The board appeared to have some dark spalting across the middle of the plank, or so it seemed. After a few passes through the planer a shiny dot started to reveal itelf within a dark spot. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-events"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t