Spalted Paper Birch Surprise

Lately I have been doing a lot of turning, after having released my video on using wood from  locally felled trees for turning.  Feeling that my tool control had reached a new level, I wanted to put my skills to the test, by attempting one of those really thin-walled goblets  So, out to the wood pile I went to find a chuck of "scrap" wood.

Now, one of the greatest joys of turing green wood is that you never know when you will strike gold in a piece of what was supposed to be "scrap"