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I've had a few pieces of silver maple burly chunks kicking me in the shins for the last few years. They were beautiful when I first got them but I procrastinated and didn't process them into the bowl blanks I wanted and they just sat around outside under a leaky tarp with bark on for a few years getting all wormy, cracked and fungus covered. I finally felt guilty and debarked them and brought them inside the conditioned garage which stopped the fungus but made the cracks worse. I figured they were goners and was about to put them in the truck for the land fill just to free up some space, but before trashing them thought I'd take a few slices on the band saw to see if there might still be some life left. Blue stain got to them so they are pretty dark and lifeless off the saw, but a few spritzes of mineral spirits brings out some color. I think there are potentially some really nice book matched panels in there. What do you think?