As mentioned in Cedar Comments, many of the hollow logs that come through Wille Logging get salvaged and turned into furniture and/or artwork by talented craftspeople and artists. Here is an example of such a chunk of wood that made the transformation from "rotten and worthless" to "beautiful and functional."
This piece was designed and commissioned by Don Wille and created with the help of three Minnesota wood artists and Debbie Wille. The table is made of a hollow white pine log and the carvings were created out of Wille Logging materials.
Table & Carvings not for sale.
Table & Carvings not for sale.
Here is the table with its glass top and other household objects on top.
Removing the top glass helps the camera take better photos of the layered scene inside the table, which mimics a lake. Here a carved duck decoy sits on top of a clear, plexiglass 'water surface.'
Looking down past the duck, a lake bottom scene has been created.
The plexiglass distorts the camera image of the lake bottom.
At the bottom of the table are two beautiful carved fish and two carved lures.
Though difficult to photograph, the table is really quite detailed and interesting to view in person.
