BIG BURL

[Buzz-sawyer]

Who knew I sat by the fire shootin the bull about bear huntin with an ARTIST
Really fine man ..howz the Mrs back doin?
Don

[pasbuild]

Getting better slow but sure, hard to get her to take it EZ  >:(
She quite her job today, that should make her feel a hole bunch better.

[SwampDonkey]

Nice work pasbuild.
When you said you find alot of cherry burl in one place the first thing that popped into my mind is this guy is gathering black knot infected cherry. But those bowls don't look like black knot or they'de be full of black gum pockets. All my cherry have black knot which wouldn't be as nice as those pieces you have for turning. They may be ok if ya slice off the infection and use the heartwood of the main stem.

cheers

[pasbuild]

One of my neighbors came over to help me put the BIG BURL to the knife ;)


I was a little disappointed in that it didn't have that crazy grain pattern that is often found in burls.I cut three burl caps, four table tops and the rest was cut 4 to 6 in. thick for bowl blanks. there was some nice color variation were the heart wood grew into the burl and a little spalting were the heart wood ended and the burl wood --Photos MUST be in the Forestry Forum gallery!!!!!--.com/albums/v418/pasbuild/poto3burlslice.jpg[/img]                                                                                                                            

[SwampDonkey]

pasbuild:

Ever get any burls that are cherry red? Some of our yellow birch get cherry red up here and the bark is usually silver-grey in those specimens. Some fellas call them silver birch. But I think its like trembling aspen sometimes, such as the fact that some of them have white bark like white birch (it doesn't peel of course) and others are greyish-green. Must be just the environment they grow in.

[pasbuild]

I'v had spruce burls with red, purple, green and every kind of brown you can think of in them( not all in one burl), some of the cheery burls can be a bright red, some will be loaded with eyes on the outside layers.
I'v had hard maple burls that look like they were mineral stained with every color from black to a pinkish color all in the same burl, they make an outstanding looking bowl when you get them shined up.

[SwampDonkey]

I've seen birds eye in yellow birch and white ash also. I didn't know it was in yellow birch until a lad was splitten stove wood and brought a piece with the bark still on it, definately yellow birch.

[pasbuild]

Our white ash burls look like they have eye from the --Photos MUST be in the Forestry Forum gallery!!!!!--.com/albums/v418/pasbuild/ashbark.jpg[/img]
on the inside they also look like eyes but I'v never had anybody call them --Photos MUST be in the Forestry Forum gallery!!!!!--.com/albums/v418/pasbuild/2ashburl.jpg[/img]

[SwampDonkey]

The birds eye I've seen is in the straight grain, not the burls. Although, the burls of birds eye figured trees probably have it.

[Gilman]

Nice looking bowls Pasbuild, but now you've got to share what kind of lathe you have.

[SwampDonkey]

Alot of this burl is covered by cold white fluffy stuff. ;D

~ 48 inch dbh White Elm, the skis are 8 feet tall.