Using Rotten Wood For Container

[mrcasey]

I'd like to use some rotten pieces of wood for shitakusa containers. What is the best way to preserve the wood?

 

[The Barber]

I'd like to use some rotten pieces of wood for shitakusa containers. What is the best way to preserve the wood?

Do you mean deadwood? Rotten wood is generally too soft/spongy and too far gone to preserve. If you're looking to make a pot from deadwood that hasn't become rotten then I would think polyurethane would work. Probably best to use a matte polyurethane to keep the wood natural looking as a satin or gloss would make it look more wet.

 

[Cruiser]

Have you considered using the wood as-is then putting each pairing on small slabs?

 

[Gabler]

Nurse Log Imagination—Hemlock, Huckleberry, and Salal

I’ve been wanting to do a nurse log as a kusamono planting for quite some time. Always had another project in the way. But recently the creative mood hasn’t led me to work with older tr…

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Nurse Log Imagination #2 ~

‘Nurse logs’ are a central feature of Pacific Northwest forest ecology. When an old Western Hemlock, Douglas Fir or Western Red Cedar is downed by a storm, young plants—some of th…

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Revisiting a Nurse Log Composition

At the start of the pandemic in April of 2020 my apprentice at the time, John Eads, and I took off for a burn area in a forest. We were seeking a charred log for a new project. We planted native pl…

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[palafr01]

You could probably use the process Jelle (aka @leatherback) uses for preserving deadwood but on a larger scale. You would have to figure out the logistics though.

Here's his video: