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Harvesting a Poplar burl

brian horais

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Late last year my brother-in-law dropped off a very large Poplar burl he had been promising for a while. He had just cut down some trees and this Poplar was one of them. I started researching how to cut up burls and found a few items on the web including discussions and YouTube videos. The process was still a little 'sketchy' so I decided to do this writeup on my 'burl dissection' to give readers some additional insights in case they are thinking about processing burls. The attached PDF provides a full writeup on my process and some finished examples. Here are a few teasers. Enjoy

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Brian, is that a Populus Poplar or a Tulip Poplar? It doesn't affect your observations, I'm just curious about what for us is an exotic wood.
 
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