Pays to have a friend who owns a tree service. Anyway my question is. Normally he gets me cherry burls. There are a few there. But this time there are some oak, maple too. Which wood normally has the most burls.
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Got a few burls
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Pays to have a friend who owns a tree service. Anyway my question is. Normally he gets me cherry burls. There are a few there. But this time there are some oak, maple too. Which wood normally has the most burls.
I used to get a lot of burls from the Amish mills in WI. Many of those were cherry, but I always thought it depends more on the predominant species in the area and what they were cutting.
Well, that's a nice score. Wow.
I've got an eye on a big oak tree in a neighbor's yard right across the street from me that has 10 - 12 burls plainly visible from the ground. I keep thinking that one of our big storms will take it down, but no luck so far. I've got the chainsaw ready to go to help clean it up after a few small surgical procedures.
I have gotten small white oak burls out of the woods near me but they usually have many bark inclusions. There was one time I got a white oak burl from a neighbor that was more of a layered or onion skin type that was extremely hard. The burl sitting on a flat bed trailer measured about 5 feet around and was about 4 feet high. the platter is just one of many pieces that I got from that one burl.
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That's incredible.
If that's a question, among our local woods the answer would be Box Elder.
Here’s a tree across from the house I’m doing right now. Never seen so many burls on a tree.
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Some of those on the tree appear to be cankers. Tighter limb bud burls are much better than chunky growths.
Burl trees are pretty rare in this area too, but here's a pic of one in TN. Luckily this maple tree is on family property waiting on me to process some day.
Red Maple tree about 35' to 40' tall that's burled from the ground up:
Closeup of the bark showing the tree's abnormal twig/bud growth associated with some types of burls:
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Wow. That’s really awesome. I would already be turning those pieces. Lol
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Maybe you could tell your neighbor that the tree is seriously afflicted by uglyosis and needs to come down immediately before ugly spreads to other nearby trees. Generously offer to help haul off the wood.
What caught my eye was the snow! We had quite a few inches this year here on Maui, over 6 I think. Is that wood frozen? Nice haul!
Yea in PA we get a lot of snow. Easily got 2-3 feet this year.
They were frozen a bit. My buddy cuts them down for me all the time. He also has a sawmill on his property. So he cuts up lumber for me for free constantly. He is paid to remove the wood. And I let him use my lathes so we have a good arrangement
They were frozen a bit. My buddy cuts them down for me all the time. He also has a sawmill on his property. So he cuts up lumber for me for free constantly. He is paid to remove the wood. And I let him use my lathes so we have a good arrangement
Here’s one of the burls from the photo. Cherry. Had to leave it kinda thick. But it’s a cool piece.
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Sam,
That's a nice bowl, but it would appear a lot of the burl got turned into shavings based on the two pics. Use all these burls as a good excuse to buy yourself a coring system if you don't already own one and your lathe is big enough. Or ask someone in a local turning club to do the work for a share of the cored blanks.
If you're interested in coring then try this link for more details: http://www.aawforum.org/community/index.php?threads/bowlsavers-or-bowl-coring-systems.8555/
That's a nice bowl, but it would appear a lot of the burl got turned into shavings based on the two pics. Use all these burls as a good excuse to buy yourself a coring system if you don't already own one and your lathe is big enough. Or ask someone in a local turning club to do the work for a share of the cored blanks.
If you're interested in coring then try this link for more details: http://www.aawforum.org/community/index.php?threads/bowlsavers-or-bowl-coring-systems.8555/
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Please put your images and accompanying text together in the same post so that I don't have to fix them.
Ok. Yes I did do it backwards. A lot of waste. I wanna get the on way coring system. Someday.
Bill. I keep trying but can’t figure it out
Bill. I keep trying but can’t figure it out
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