Hey Everyone,
Recently my neighbor cut down an incredibly large holly tree and said I could have the lumber if I wanted ( can you believe that, he was going to throw it away). As luck would have it he decided to cut it down during the winter time and I considered myself very lucky to stumble across 4 logs about 4 feet long and 10-11.5 inches in diameter. So I fired up my bandsaw and got to work re-sawing everything.
So far, I've cut most of the logs and stickered and stacked them. Before i stacked them I also made sure to give them a very heavy coat of denatured alcohol to keep fungus from forming and put a fan in front of the stack to keep air moving.
Now I've never dried holly before and I'm really really hoping I can end up with great bone white holly for some future projects. However, it's been about 4 days since I cut and stacked this stuff and I've noticed that the wood has these darker grey veins running through it and I'm hoping you all will be able to help me find out if this is normal or if I screwed this up somehow. Now the wood is still very wet and I'll get a moisture meter to it and post the results as soon as I can.
Here are some pictures to provide context:
Logs
http://imgur.com/d5fVmEh
Cut and Stacked:
http://imgur.com/JfJYsDH
4 days of drying:
http://imgur.com/d5fVmEh,JfJYsDH,1MxJHd2#2