Red Oak Burl

I’ve got a couple of Burls that I’ve been carrying around. One is White Oak it was probably 18” around and 10” thick. I’ve made cuttings for pens from it. I also have one that the sawmill owner called his turtle. It’s now mine and I call it that also. It has a head two hind legs out behind him and I big humpped back.

I’ve not done much turning except for pens, maybe someday.

Very nice.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

Looks real interesting wish the PICTURE was bigger!

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I really like it Os. It has a lot of character. Any burl is cool, they are just the frosting on the cake. Yea I wish it was bigger too. Nice work, really nice. mike

-- Mike. Profisher50@yahoo.com

Thanks, Jocks!

-- Jesus is Lord!

Hi Mark;
—-great piece of swirling burls, now you’ve went and done it!

....burls, burls,
and watch those curls,
as the spinning of lathe often twirls,
and i stand before this wood shaping those swirls,
till i am lost in time of place to your breathtaking beautiful whorls….

Hope you don’t mind the rambling of my fingers reacting to this piece of wood art you have shared with us, thanks!!!
GODSPEED
Frank

-- --frank, NH, http://frank.wordpress.com/

Frank, I enjoy the rambling of your fingers and the wisdom you share. Thanks for your comments.

-- Jesus is Lord!

Nice piece of burl Os. Looks like it was a fun piece to turn.

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

Nice burl! I’m always happy when I don’t orbit some chunk when I turn one.

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

a homemade lathe… another one of those “someday” projects. I do wish I had a nice place to turn outside – would allow me some quality time “in the shop”, while not sequestering myself to the basement on a nice summer day.

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

It was a bit scary to turn, but would have been harder to do if I wouldn’t have had my homemade lathe to do it on. I could turn it very slowly. Thanks for the nice comments.

-- Jesus is Lord!

Wonderful piece of woodworking art Os!

-- Carpe Lignum - Seize The Wood,

there’s that homemade lathe mentioned again!!! it sounds so … interesting

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

Debbie, I am going to do a blog with pictures, soon as I can round up the parts that are left. I’m sorry that it is taking me so long.

-- Jesus is Lord!

that’s ok Os… you keep me filled with anticipation. It’s like a little mystery waiting to be solved :)

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