Spalted pattern, this live-edge plate came from a large maple in the Long Beach area of Ten Mile        Lake.  The maple was one of several trees that were removed from a sap-producing “sugar bush” to make room for a building site.  
 
The sugar bush was used by the former owners in the 50’s and 60’s, and again by us in 2011-2012.  Back in the day, there was a sugar shack onsite, in the midst of the maples, and sap was run through an elaborate evaporating tray that would receive sap at one end and dispense nearly finished syrup at the other, quite an accomplishment. Finished with 2-part epoxy over water-based poly.