Allan Speers
06-20-2016, 10:46 PM
Sorry, I couldn't resist a bad joke.
Had a bad day. Now I feel better. Sort of.
A while back I asked you guys if 11 year old burl was still OK to turn, and got the answer I was hoping for. I never DID get a lathe, but I wanted to know if they were worth trying to sell, if I don't keep them for veneer.
Well, I couldn't find the bloody things... Today I discovered them under a tarp way in the back. I had moved them about a year ago. Cut to the chase, about half of them are fine, but the other half seemingly hosted a PPB convention. Little did I know you're not supposed to store them with the bark on. Ughh....
I've now de-barked them, (And heavily dosed with Bora-Care) and happily there are very few holes in the main burl area, they are almost exclusively on the ends. I'm thinking of "cutting them back" on my bandsaw, in hopes the critters didn't dig too far in, but this will of course remove a good deal of the "non-burl" trunks, which currently extend past the burls by just a few inches on each end.
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MY QUESTION IS: Do you ever turn burls that have some beetle holes & tracks, filling it in with acryllic, or maybe just leaving it open as you would with a looser burl formation? Or should I go ahead and start cutting them back?
My other option would be to turn them all into veneer, and toss the ones with holes, but these are nice big burls & that seems like a waste.
Had a bad day. Now I feel better. Sort of.
A while back I asked you guys if 11 year old burl was still OK to turn, and got the answer I was hoping for. I never DID get a lathe, but I wanted to know if they were worth trying to sell, if I don't keep them for veneer.
Well, I couldn't find the bloody things... Today I discovered them under a tarp way in the back. I had moved them about a year ago. Cut to the chase, about half of them are fine, but the other half seemingly hosted a PPB convention. Little did I know you're not supposed to store them with the bark on. Ughh....
I've now de-barked them, (And heavily dosed with Bora-Care) and happily there are very few holes in the main burl area, they are almost exclusively on the ends. I'm thinking of "cutting them back" on my bandsaw, in hopes the critters didn't dig too far in, but this will of course remove a good deal of the "non-burl" trunks, which currently extend past the burls by just a few inches on each end.
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MY QUESTION IS: Do you ever turn burls that have some beetle holes & tracks, filling it in with acryllic, or maybe just leaving it open as you would with a looser burl formation? Or should I go ahead and start cutting them back?
My other option would be to turn them all into veneer, and toss the ones with holes, but these are nice big burls & that seems like a waste.