A spalting chance? Ash staining. Any ideas?

[Bm101]

Is this spalting of some form? I sawed some ash today. It had some grey staining on the face which I presumed was an external stain, chemicals or such. It looks like a stain not as if it has spread through the grain /cellular structure. However, when cut it's clear it not splashed or drawn up through the capillary action (etc) of the tree.
What are we looking at? Fungicidal growth? Just a natural growth pattern?
Bit baffled.

Cheers as always,
Chris

 

[custard]

Hello Chris, you get this brown colouration quite often with Ash, my guess is that it's Olive Ash. It's generally a little more pronounced than on your example. Like Pippy Oak, it drifts in and out of fashion. Currently, well figured boards of Olive Ash can command a premium.

 

[Sgian Dubh]

It's almost certainly an early stage in the development of olive ash, probably the result of a bacterial infection, although there may alternatively be a fungal cause. It's not spalting. Slainte.

 

[Trevanion]

As already said, the beginnings of "olive ash"

I dug this piece out of my timber storage the other day:

 

[Cabinetman]

Hi Trevanian, it seems your pic has disappeared, "Oops we ran into some problems"

 

[Bm101]

(Thanks Mod/s for fixing the thread!)

(You're very welcome!)

 

[Trevanion]

Hi Trevanian, it seems your pic has disappeared, "Oops we ran into some problems"

Should be fixed now.

 

[Doug B]

Spalting tends to have defined black lines as others have said Chris it looks like the beginnings of olive Ash.
I thought the wood in this top was just standard Ash but on planing it up it had quite a lot of olive markings.

 

[Bm101]

Thank you chaps. As always you hit the mark.

 

[Bm101]

As already said, the beginnings of "olive ash"

I dug this piece out of my timber storage the other day:

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Wow. Want to post that to me Trev? Thats incredible.

 

[Trevanion]

Wow. Want to post that to me Trev? Thats incredible.

Believe it or not, that's the flooring in someone's house as well as a very pretty small set of stairs, they felled a bunch of ash trees on their land and they were all very heavily figured olive ash trees.

I do actually have a plan for it, unfortunately, otherwise you could have it. Although I may have some leftover once I'm done