This is the latest beautiful surprise we’ve cut from some of our old stock stone. The finished result is one of the most visually appealing slabs from this fabulous source I’ve finished yet! This beautifully detailed slab is a rip cut petrified wood specimen carved from a fragment of what must have been an enormous ancient conifer tree! This was my favorite cut from the stone as it revealed a particularly nicely preserved and beautifully centered large knot prominently in the face of the stone! The color, agate density and wood grain pattern are superior by Saddle Mountain standards. This big, thick, mirror polished work of natural art is one of the finest I’ve recently handled from this Washington state fossil log deposit! The rip cut reveals a few fissures in the log that likely represent decay in the wood before or as it petrified. The display face is polished to a mirror finish to show the color and wood grain in their full splendor! This is a truly amazing, beautifully prepared petrified wood specimen that has been cut with the wood grain to reveal growth structure and wood characteristics not seen in our more typical cross cut specimens. It’s a large slab from a petrified conifer tree and it turned out really nicely. It comes from the Saddle Mtn. Area of Washington State. This location produced quite a bit of nice petrified wood but a large piece of this quality is a pretty unique find. You don’t have to be a petrified wood collector to appreciate how uniquely beautiful this agatized fossil from an ancient forest is. The interior looks to have been painted with a paintbrush on a creamy agate canvas. It’s really stunning in person – the depth of color and translucence of the agatized wood can’t be fully appreciated in a photo. I guarantee that once you’ve added this piece of spectacular, highly agatized wood to your collection you’ll be glad you did. It’s really gorgeous. This stone has been professionally cut and polished to a mirror perfect shine. Our custom built polishing laps produce a finish unlike anything many collectors have ever had the chance to own themselves. The polish really is liquid perfect – a difference in the quality products Sticks-in-Stones has built its reputation on! This giant slab measures about 9 1/4″ x 5 1/4″ and is cut about 0.38 thick. It weighs 1.36 lbs. A nice, unique naturally wonderful stone collectible exclusively from Sticks-in-Stones Lapidary. The item “SiS BEAUTIFUL 9 Saddle Mountain KNOTTED Conifer Rip Cut Petrified Wood Slab” is in sale since Saturday, November 13, 2021. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Rocks, Fossils & Minerals\Fossils\Vegetation\Petrified Wood”. The seller is “rockshop” and is located in Camas, Washington. This item can be shipped worldwide.