arbutus burl

While thinking about a name for this piece I googled Urban Dictionary and discovered the slang for fluted is drunk or intoxicated. I thought how fitting for this piece as the bowl being oval must be intoxicated! Arbutus Burl twice turned 11.5" X 7" X 3" finished with 2 coats of tung oil and buffed.

This piece of burl has some interesting voids so rather than trying to fill the voids I wanted to enhance the piece and leave its natural beauty. The fluting was done on the lathe using a laminate trimmer and a new jig setup I put together recently. The jig doubles as my setup table for branding...

It's difficult to take a side photograph an oval bowl without it looking round. Arbutus Burl Oval Bowl measures 13.25 X 9 X 3.25 finished with about 7 coats of tung oil. This piece was rough turned and boiled in Oct of 2022 and re turned over the holidays. All of the turning is done on the oval...

These 3 nested Arbutus Burl bowls are the cores from my previous post. These bowls were all green turned and wet sanded within a few days of being harvested. They are all about ¼” thick and have 3 carved feet so they will sit flat after they morph. Finished with 2 coats of tung oil. This process...

I was offered a stump from an Arbutus tree that was taken down by arborists due to its proximity to the home. A nice change from the mountain trees we got last winter! The tree was cut down in early October and we cut the stump out the next day, I ended up with 2 large burl chunks. This bowl was...

This Arbutus tree was growing out of rock and was falling over so was taken down. When I first looked at the tree I saw a rock (circled in blue) and had an idea for that piece of wood. We harvested that stump into usable pieces for turning. This is the 2nd style of this vase I have turned. The...

Arbutus Root Burl with naturally embedded stone. This piece measures 20" X 18" X 12" high, finished with 3 coats tung oil. The bowl measures 9.25" X 3" deep and the piece weighs in at 26.2 pounds. As you would expect it was turned at very low rpm especially while on the vacuum chuck to remove...

a bottom view to show the live burl edge

This bowl was gifted to the property owner that generously offered up a large Arbutus Tree that was falling over as the rock it was growing in crumbled. We harvested a very rocky root burl which will yield some interesting pieces. This bowl had a rock in the rim where the notch is. 16" X 6.5"...

This set of 3 Arbutus Burl Natural Edge bowls came from the storm damaged tree we recovered off the mountain last winter. We spent 3 1/2 days using a zip line to move the chunks out of the forest to our truck. I couldn't have hoped for a better chunk of burl to put on the lathe. The large bowl...

This Arbutus Root Burl bowl measures 16" X 8" without the plinth. The arbutus (Madrone) in our area grows on the southern rocky outcrops and being a root burl we almost always encounter rocks. This bowl has 5 rocks in total, 2 are on the inside while 3 are on the outside. Any areas where there...

This storm damaged tree was harvested on a mountain side and a ZIP line set up several times was used to move the wood.. This large bowl has a battle scar likely from being bounced off a rock face, you can see a crack near the rim on the far side. The piece was once turned, wet sanded to 320...

This is the second piece of burl that was turned green and left for nature to finish its final shape. This one has a flat foot and it stayed near perfect so sits quite stable. The bowl was 16" x 9" and has taken on a interesting form. The cores from both of these morphed pieces will be twice...