Now that's some scary stuff, definitely aliens.

Willis,
I have spalted ash grips on my 45 acp and have worked with a decent amount of spalted maple - the easiest to get here. I have seen very little spalted cherry.  I have a small collection of spalted wood and have tried to spalt cherry with zero success.

This link is to the house I built my x. As you can see I am very fond of wood - especially cherry and walnut -- and spalted maple. They used to have more pictures. I used 31 species of hardwood. Some we harvested on the property (86 acres). We even made some of the doors and windows and the flooring on the main level was made of every species of oak in VA, - from blond to pink to dark brown. This was house number 3 and I learned a lot about movement and cracking and checking. Also fell in love with quarter sawn anything. Especially red oak (all the trim was red oak).

Your cherry is very unusual. I wish we were closer as I'd love to see how you are getting that effect. Pic's are good but not like hands on.

You can't see it but we made all the cabinets to match (all cherry) - furnature as well -- except -- there was zero sap wood used in furniture.  This took me almost 2 years. I hope to do one more before I start sleeping on the wrong side of the soil.

You would have had a lot of fun had you been with us on this one as it was all about the wood -- and tall ceilings (ex. 27 feet in living room).

http://www.dreamingcreek.com/portfolio/residential-portfolio/homes/structural-grace-marshall-va/ 

Let me know what you think. We let the cherry slowly darken from the light - that's why I was asking.

Michael,

Gorgeous house, I will take a picture of the view from where I am sitting, pretty similar.  The beams here are redwood.  To the right you can see the staircase that I removed the carpeting from.  It is the next project capping the stairs in hardwood, probably live oak.  Also making plantation shutters to replace the blinds but that is an on going project as this house has a LOT of big windows. 

The tree I mentioned only produced a few boards that were well spalted.  It took almost all 4 boards to make that board as there was a lot of garbage wood that had to be trimmed out.  As to how it was made...it is a bookmatch.  I noticed the pattern and lined it up so the part I liked was doubled on itself.  Hard to explain but you know what bookmatch means.  


 

It means you have a much better band saw then I do.
And by the looks of it  - more skill in pairing and matching boards.
At one point in 2002 I was told I'd be restricted to bed for 2 to 5 years on 5 antibiotics plus other crap (17 meds) so I thought I'd learn how to make knives foolishly believing I'd be able to at least work in a small shop as the tools aren't very demanding. Before I got started I collected as many sets of spalted scales (handles) of as many woods as I could find. It was really interesting and I still have a box full of spalted wood and ivory, giraffe bones, mammoth material, walrus tusks, warthog tusks, etc. I was ready to be a great knife maker - I thought. The parasitic attack that was in my lungs absolutely kicked my butt and I could only manage to take a couple classes and lie in bed with my laptop on my stomach watching movies. Any way I take out that box every once in a while and look through the woods and they are just so beautiful it makes me very happy. I'll also every once in a while take a piece of Brazilian tulip and cut it as it smells incredible. Ahhh the love of wood! 
I see you to like the tall ceilings. Thomas Jefferson said something to the effect that you couldn't have big thoughts in rooms with low ceilings.