Karson and I were talking on the phone the other night, the topic being burls.
He posted pictures of a burl someone left in his driveway. The conversation started with us discussing the best way to cut it to yield the best results. Unfortunately, I have very little knowledge in this area.
I do have a friend, Rick Hearne, of Hearne Hardwoods I intend to ask about this process, as I too have a bunch of Cherry burls waiting to be sliced.
I mentioned to Karson I saw a very large burl on a tree I pass on a regular basis. I hadn't noticed it for at least a year of driving past it. Later I realized it covered with ivy all summer long, so it was pretty much hidden.
In the beginning of the winter I got to see it as I drove past, so I made a u turn and snapped few photos of it.
Now that it was winter, and all leaves were gone, I didn't notice what kind of tree it was!
I went past it a couple days age and was able to determine it's an oak, but I don't know if it's a red or white oak.
I'll check next time I drive by. (I'm generally in a daze when I go past there apparently).
I have posted this picture here before. Here is a redbud log I gave a guy $20 gas money for. The tree itself was maybe 12"...but it was burl on top of burl. I'm 6'3" and couldn't get my arms around the burls.
I sat here for a minute trying to figure which one is bigger. (I guess it's a male thing)
Initially I thought this one is bigger, but after looking at my pictures again and seeing the full sized Ford Bronco, looking rather small, I'm not sure. It's hard to get a size perspective from my shots. Maybe I should measure it just for ha ha's.
These pictures shows how they are harvested though, now how are they sliced?
So it's kind of like Lee and I talked about the best grain seems to be a flat slice through the burl then you get the birds eye figure. If you go from the middle out then you get the long wavey lines.
Lee redbud have small red flowers usually about the same time as Dogwood trees. In Missouri you used to see them in the woods interspersed with dogwoods. A great sight before leaves start to form.
Lee, what Karson was saying is correct. If you look at the piece I am holding in the picture you see those long rays. That was sliced toward the center of the tree. If I slice the top off of it, those rays are birdeyes (or could be called that, they are little dots of figure). You can kinda see that in those "pen blanks", same burl just cut differently.
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