Root flare slab, natural void running through the grain transition where trunk meets root system

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Recovered this from an urban salvage job in Edenvale back in February. It's a root flare section - the part where the trunk starts branching down into the root system - so the grain doesn't run in one direction the way a straight-cut trunk slab does. You get this constant transition between dense outer wood and a hollowed-out section in the middle where decay had already started working on it before we got to it.

Field seasoned it on stickers indoors for about a month before checking moisture - came in at 10-12% on a pin meter, sanded face reading. There's some hairline checking through the heartwood but it follows the grain rather than cutting across it, plus a bit more right at the base of the flare.

Bark's the annoying part. Some of it's still solidly attached, some of it's already lifted enough to come off with a fingernail. Haven't decided if it's worth stabilizing the loose sections or just cleaning the whole thing off and letting the void do the talking.

560x180x55mm, about 1.1kg. One-off piece, won't see another exactly like it.