Hey, that looks familiar!!! DaveO spotted my stockpile of turning wood outside my shop. The wood is stacked up just like you would stack a cord of firewood - although almost all of it is end-grain sealed. I left a few pieces on the ground, and some with no end-grain sealer, just to experiment a little. That piece in the picture was in the stack WITH end-grain sealer, IIRC. When I cut it up, I just left it as-is, with scraps in between for stickers. It's still sitting on that counter, and is drying pretty well!
I turn something out of that stack everytime I get the bug. Maybe I'll get the ol' lathe going again soon...
Anyway, I've read about techniques for accelerating the spalting process also, and I always figured I would try that out some day. The reality is, though, that if you procrastinate as long as I do trying out something new, you'll find that the wood spalts itself quite nicely!!! :mrgreen:
... one of these days, I'm gonna stop procrastinating!