Make the most of your burl
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Make the most of your burl
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#2This is an absolute masterclass in remote presentation. Cindy does incredible work.
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#3Once in high school woodwork class I had to make an artificial burl out of scraps to try and show off some wood turning fu I didn't actually have. Open day does that: look like you know what you're doing.
Eric Sloane would have loved this, it's a true reverence for wood.
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#4I spent a week burl hunting with my uncle in Alaska. Good times! (except for the mosquitos)
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#5I highly recommend this National Geographic series, Filthy Riches. It has an episode about "burl hunters".
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#7Wonderfully early 00s-style website.
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#8I 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.
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#9I 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.
Re: Make the most of your burl
#10I 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.
We have quite a few nice looking burls on our property and its the exact same story.
Most of them are old fence lines where someone decided attaching barbed wife directly to gum and hickory trees was a good idea.