Burls #1: Burl the size of a car

Holy Moly…that looks like something out of a Harry Potter movie. Watch out it doesn’t reach out and grab ya!

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

big one !

-- ..... art for lifes sake

Now, that is a burl!

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

What do you mean you didn’t see that . It’s almost in the middle of the road. You must have found a supply of the good stuff in Philly.

Nice pictures Lee and You were able to find them. Thats also great.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

Looks like a property owner you should befriend, Lee. Otherwise when this tree goes it will likely be ground to mulch.

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

Whoa! When will you mill this? ha.

I’ve got one here in town that I mean to take a photo of too! Probably not quite that big – but big, nonetheless.

But – now that you have rights to the burl blog series, I’m just not sure where I’d post it…would you be willing to host it/post it? another ha.

-- Dorje (pronounced "door-jay"), Seattle, WA

Now that’s a burl!

-- Maplewood, MN

Holy cow!

-- I've cut that board three times and it's still too short!

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-- Urban logger, http://nelsonwoodworks.biz/

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.

-- Urban logger, http://nelsonwoodworks.biz/

Amazing growths on these trees.

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?

Great shots!

Lee

-- by Lee A. Jesberger http://www.prowoodworkingtips.com http://www.ezee-feed.com

Daren,

What is a “rebud” log?

Lee

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Redbud is a tree. Had one in our yard when I was a kid. That is one big burl, Lee. I have no idea how to do anything with one.

-- Thos. Angle, Owyhee Design, Oregon

Thanks Tom;

I guess the thing to do with these is stand back and say wow!

That’s my guess.

Have a good day.

Lee

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Or….slice them up like Daren does! Check out this page of his ...not a burl but a walnut stump…pretty cool!

-- Dorje (pronounced "door-jay"), Seattle, WA

DROOOOOOOOL…...DROOOOOOL SOMEMORE. MIKE

-- Mike. Profisher50@yahoo.com

WOW! that’s big, you could hollow it out, save the wood, & make it into a roadside diner.

I don’t think the wind could ever blow this tree down.

-- Dick Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

This is what I did with that one log http://lumberjocks.com/projects/2683 . I kinda like burls, here are some maple, catalpa, redbud….

You make stuff like this (the clock was for someone else, I just made the wood part, he put in the clockworks)

And cut the scraps into pen blanks.

-- Urban logger, http://nelsonwoodworks.biz/

and what would you do if someone dropped that baby off in your driveway??!!

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Get a smaller car!

Thanks fro the info Dorje, regarding Darens previous post.

Lee

-- by Lee A. Jesberger http://www.prowoodworkingtips.com http://www.ezee-feed.com

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.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

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.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

-- Dorje (pronounced "door-jay"), Seattle, WA

Thanks Karson and Dorje;

Karson, I don’t think that’s correct. Birds Eye isn’t likely in a Cherry burl. (possible, but not likely).

Lee

-- by Lee A. Jesberger http://www.prowoodworkingtips.com http://www.ezee-feed.com

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.

-- Urban logger, http://nelsonwoodworks.biz/

Hi Daren;

Thanks for helping out here. As I said, I have some burls waiting to be sliced, and lack of knowledge is why there still sitting there!

If God went to all that trouble, I don’t want to screw it up!

Lee

-- by Lee A. Jesberger http://www.prowoodworkingtips.com http://www.ezee-feed.com

Thanks for the support Daren. A bad choice of words for a cherry burl I guess, But in maple it shows quite prominently.

Lee so when are you going to cut up a couple of your pieces each a different way so we can see the difference. Don’t cut the big ones.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

sweeeet!

that could about a million pens. even more toothpicks

Hey Bonzo,

No good for toothpicks, the grain is all over the place. LOL

Lee

-- by Lee A. Jesberger http://www.prowoodworkingtips.com http://www.ezee-feed.com

I’d like to see the lathe that could chuck up that burl. A man could spend a life time chopping and turning that into fine art. Can you even begin to imagine the veneer you could get out of that, a set book end would cover a conference table with left overs.

-- Ed Collinge- Edmonds, WA.

Hi Ed;

I’ll bet there is a lathe that could handle it, but I would want the electric bill from it!

Lee

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