This piece of cherry was milled from a log a customer had been storing for a couple of years. It was pretty rotten and I'd said it may not be worth milling originally....
We persevered and milled it anyway with the intention of possibly using one of the boards to make a coffee table. I picked the best one out and stored it until it was dry enough to use. I then flattened the board and the extent of the rot was pretty bad. However, it also had some really pretty grain patterns and colours in it.
I dug most of the rot out and shaped it back to solid wood. It meant cutting out the whole centre of the board....
Sanded down and polished the grain really started to pop.
Nothing particularly technical with this - Just a pretty board with metal legs bolted to it.