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A Spalted Beech bushcraft spoon

A Spalted Beech bushcraft spoon

Posted on 14/01/202214/01/2022 by Mark Cornish

What is Spalting? Fungi are everywhere and are responsible for the breakdown of matter and the beginning of the rotting process. Sometimes sick trees are attacked by these fungi, but once trees or branches fall to the ground in the moist atmosphere of a UK winter, Fungi will not take more than a few months…

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