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I have more birch but hard to tell if it is spalted.... I am unable to attach these photos so here is a link to some birch i have. 2pieces definatly have spalting as shown the bigger piece shown is what is left of the piece i made the pipe from. I put a dollar in the pics for size. https://picasaweb...

Unsure of the type of Birch. A friend from church had the tree fell on his garage and I have burned most of it. I only have a few branches left. It has been siting outside for almost 2 years in my wood pile.

I live in Minnesota.

Can you send me a picture of the inlays out of birch?

I tried my first pipe in Cherry wood but after drilling and starting to shape the stummel I came upon some bad cracks. The only other dried wood I have is some branches of birch in my firewood pile. Below are the pictures after 40 minutes of work, drilling and roughing the stummel. Anyone else finis...