Woodworkers dream of finding burls

[ashling]

[Baitball Blogger]

1. Is this the reason?

[Major Nikon]

2. That's one of them

Burls are mostly used for veneers

[sakabatou]

3. Ooh

Usually they just scrape a tree's layers for that, right?

[Major Nikon]

5. more or less

Some burl can be very expensive, so creating veneers out of it is a way to get more mileage out of it. Burl by itself isn't very structually sound, so creating a veneer with it gives it strength from the underlying substrate.

[sakabatou]

7. I've heard of reclaimed wood to make burl

can be very expensive.

[ashling]

4. Lovely

That explain my current preoccupation with them

But I have recently been inspired to do some carving with them, too.

[Baitball Blogger]

6. Did you do any of the ones in the video?

[ashling]

8. I wish I were that good

I really haven't done much carving really.

Right now I am working on a elm bowl.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

9. indeed. beautiful specimen. thanks for posting it.

[pintobean]

10. That's nuts. nt