We have been utilizing stabilizied colored wood in our work for three years now. Most of the wood is maple burl or spalted maple. Our friend, Wood Chuck, brings us spalted wood to have stabilized. During this process, we can have color added to the acrylic, giving us boards colored throughout.

The price for doing this is expensive; it makes the wood cost over $40.00/bd. ft. But it utilizes wood with beautiful grains, patterns, and figures, wood that would be discarded as useless. Stabilizing the wood makes it harder, more durable. And adding the color brings out the beauty inherent in the wood.

Customers like red, purple and teal best. I like the blue; some comes out light blue; other times we get boards that are dark blue. Purple comes in different shades too. And the wood takes on the color in different ways, with some areas not accepting the color, with black lines of spalt dding dimensions.