This is awesome.
My wife wanted a wooden engagement ring, and so I fashioned one (well ~10) out of a Pacific madrone burl.
Great material to work with, but wouldn’t recommend wooden bands unless your actual wedding is near!
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#12I adore burl. Burl coffee tables, cell phone cases, jewelry boxes, guitars, you name it.
I should start taking classes now so that I’ll be ready to pivot to woodworking when AI replaces engineers.
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#13Buck eye burl tops are quite common in custom shop guitars and basses.
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#14This is awesome. My wife wanted a wooden engagement ring, and so I fashioned one (well ~10) out of a Pacific madrone burl. Great material to work with, but wouldn’t recommend wooden bands unless your actual wedding is near!
Why not?
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#15This is awesome. My wife wanted a wooden engagement ring, and so I fashioned one (well ~10) out of a Pacific madrone burl. Great material to work with, but wouldn’t recommend wooden bands unless your actual wedding is near!
Why not?
Fingers change size, but wooden rings can't be stretched.
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#17This is great.
I used to avoid burl when I would make wood rings [1]. It's just very hard to predict how it'll behave if you try to steam bend it.
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#18I can't watch the video, so I had to look this up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burl Woodworking with these. In a previous life I did genetic engineering with agrobacterium-mediated transfection. Agro causes galls. Good blast from the past.
I didn’t know what it was (clicked thinking it was curl related). Thanks for the link, it was an interesting read.
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#19Buck eye burl tops are quite common in custom shop guitars and basses.
It’s essentially thick veneer.
Veneer gets a bad rap but it’s a great way to make highly-figured wood available to as many people as possible. And since burl and spalted woods are often unstable or have big pits or cracks, it’s a good way to avoid structural problems.
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#20I spent a week burl hunting with my uncle in Alaska. Good times! (except for the mosquitos)
I used to find burls with a neighbor. He was an amazing wood turner. He told me to do it for extra money, so one summer I went off on my own to start cutting them. And that's the story of how I learned that sometimes burls form when a tree grows around a fence post. Alternate title: Stihl chainsaws can't cut steel fencing.
i use a metal detector. some of these trees can be a stash[cashe] and you may encounter things hidden long ago, most of them not good for your chain, some of them not good for you.