steven carter
05-04-2010, 9:30 AM
My wife had knee surgery last Thursday, and I got her out last night, went through a drive thru, picked up some food and went to the park to eat. She needed to use the restroom, so I drove her to it, and noticed a buckeye tree that had lost it's top in thunderstorms we had last night. Just the trunk was left standing, about 10 feet tall, and there was a burl that I had never noticed before, about 5 feet from the ground. When hurricane Ike went through a couple years ago, the park let people cut wood, and I got some chestnut oak and mulberry, so I took this as tacit approval for some more cutting. I went home, got my saw and salvaged this burl. As you can see from the yard stick it is about 18" in diameter, my first harvested burl!
149873
I don't yet have the means to core bowls, so I'm thinking of trying to do something like what the estimable Mr. Keeton did with his big leaf maple burl and try to hollow it. I think this would use more of the burl than making a bowl and having most of the burl end up on the floor. Thanks to John Keeton, and Baxter Smith, I will be receiving the Drozda finial DVDs, and it could not be better timing. Funny how things conspire in the universe.
Steve
149873
I don't yet have the means to core bowls, so I'm thinking of trying to do something like what the estimable Mr. Keeton did with his big leaf maple burl and try to hollow it. I think this would use more of the burl than making a bowl and having most of the burl end up on the floor. Thanks to John Keeton, and Baxter Smith, I will be receiving the Drozda finial DVDs, and it could not be better timing. Funny how things conspire in the universe.
Steve