WT #130, Hollow Form Vessel from Beetle Killed Ponderosa Pin with Turquoise inlay.

WT #130, Hollow Form Vessel from Beetle Killed Ponderosa Pin with Turquoise inlay.WT #130, Large Hollow Form Vessel from Beetle Killed Ponderosa Pine with Turquoise inlay, 21. 5 tall x 14 diameter with 3. 125 opening. Cyanoacrylate and buffed oil finish to 50,000 grit diamond polish. The grey blue staining in the wood is spalting which is caused by a fungus that the mountain pine beetles carry in their mouths. The crushed turquoise inlay fills the cavities eaten thru the wood by the beetles and also in the checking that occurred as

He planted the tree with his parents as a child

5” tall x 9” diameter

Titled “Ferdinand” after the bull in the 1936 children’s story “Ferdinand the Bull” by Munro Leaf

but it can be exceptionally beautiful

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The wood was given me by a dear old friend from his old home place east of Pueblo

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