Oak Burl HF

[Jack Mincey]

Here is the HF I turned from the same oak burl as the two nested sets. This burl has amazing pin burl grain in it. It is just over 8" in dia. by 7" tall. It is the first bark edge HF for me. I still have two large bowls drying that I cored off the bottom of the two nested sets so in all I got 14 bowls and three slabs for game calls out of the one large burl. I use deft for finish on this HF and might still put a few more coats on to fill some of the small voids. I used the #1 and # 2 3/4" John Jordan hollowing tool with his arm brace to hollow all my HF's.
Jack
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[Ken Glass]

Mike,
Absolutely gorgeous. You can't not like Burl and Oak seems to transform itself when it burls. Very well done, you should be very proud of this Hollow form.

[steven carter]

Absolutely beautiful!

Steve

[alex carey]

That is a beautiful piece, great job on it, the wood is wonderful.

[Steve Schlumpf]

Beautiful hollow form Jack! Amazing wood! I like the way you used the natural bark edge as a lip - very different! How did you finish the bottom? From the photos it looks like it is rounded over and I was just curious if you turned a slight recess for use as a foot?

Really nice work Jack! Thanks for sharing!

[Jack Mincey]

Thanks for the kind words everyone. Steve, I jam chucked it and turned the foot off and made a concave bottom of around 2" for it to sit on.
Thanks again,
Jack

[Jeff Nicol]

Jack, That burl you got was true gem! It was tight and had some of the best eye burl I have ever seen in oak! You did a truly great job of using all of it and everything so far is very nice! We all should be so lucky to get a burl like that!

Jeff

[curtis rosche]

that burl just keeps on giving and giving doesnt it?

[Chris Rae]

Beautiful piece! I really like the NE lip and I like the shape really well too!

[Gary Max]

Work of Art-----Thanks for sharing

[Bernie Weishapl]

I agree with the others. A beautiful piece of wood and hollow form.

[Ryan Baker]

Magnifiscent piece. The natural edge rim really suits it. I have the smaller Jordan tools and really like them -- the bend is just right.

[Jim Kountz]

WOW!! Amazing grain!! The form is great, the wood is great, whats not to like!!
Fantastic job!!

[Mike Svoma]

Jack, that is really a beautiful piece of oak burl. Nice shape, and finish. Let's see some more.

Mike

[Mark Norman]

I suppose eventualy I would attemp to do something like that. Veddy nice indeed!

[John W Dixon]

Jack, Terrific job. What a gorgeous piece of wood. I could stare at that for hours. Looking forward to seeing some game calls from it.

John

[George Guadiane]

Really beautiful!!!

[Jarrod McGehee]

man that burl is BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!! i've never seen such pretty oak.