At our last club meeting we were set the task of "anything spalted" for our monthly competition.
I have been working on a couple of pieces, one of which is the ash vase I posted here.
The other piece is a 4" diameter box I attempted to turn out of a really punky piece of spalted ash. Unfortunately the lid was just too badly gone and virtually disintegrated on the lathe. I turned another lid out of another piece of ash and the two pieces don't match, which I know will be a big fail as far as the judges are concerned, so it won't be going into the competition. My daughter, though, thinks it's one of the nicest things I've done recently, so - it's hers. Here it is: