The fat wood I collected today was mostly from the centre of old chainsaw felled stumps, the few rotten trees I kicked over contained just rotten wood . I cant swear Ive got resin rich wood, havent tried it yet, everything was very wet and Im going to leave the pieces to dry out before I scrape all the rotten mush off, the hard stuff does seem to have that maya stick translucence to it though so fingers crossed!
Ive spent the evening refining my resin chips and I now have 3 nice cubes of resin each about the size of the end of my thumb from a fist sized bunch of chips, the old billy can and the spoon have had it though! Not sure how I'll use it but I'll be keeping one in my fire pouch anyway! Interestingly the refined cubes are not sticky to the touch, theyre like hard cubes of butterscotch without the stickiness! I guess if I remelted them and cast them they would loose the milky colour and clarify a bit!
All good fun, and the house smells of furniture polish!
Reminds me of Pinon pine wood we burned in New Mexico, wonderfully aromatic stuff and burns so easily you hardly need to use kindling, quite a dry climate there tho.
Jason