Strange but beautiful figuring

[Graham]

This is the end view of a slab of Yew just after I chopped of about 300mm
The fissure in the middle ran through the whole bit I cut off getting progressively worse. It disappears a few inches down this piece so it is just one piece of wood.

Trouble, or joy, is that each side of the fissure has its own set of growth rings....... I wish I had taken a pic before I cut it, it was much more obvious in the bit I cut off but that has been cut in half now

Maybe its common but I haven't seen it before.

<edit - forgot the pic

[seventhdevil]

that was simply a double stem that ended up as one.

it happens

[Bryan Milham]

Seventhdevil is right,

Yew is considered a 200% loss wood. For boarding and planking you lose twice as much as waste you get usable timber.

[andersonec]

Two separate trunks which grew in such close proximity they grafted themselves together, if turned as is it will split.

Andy