Joe Pelonio
03-27-2007, 9:15 AM
One of my other hobbies is bonsai, as I may have mentioned before. Many of the hobbyists that display their trees like to place them on a flat burl. On one of the bonsai forums there have been people asking where they can buy them so I thought I'd ask, if anyone here has access to or a source for burl slabs that are in the 12"x18" size range, finished or not, at a decent price. Some of these people will go for exotic woods like Coolibah and Jarrah, but others would rather save $ and use domestic wood like redwood, cedar or maple.
Here's an example of how they are used:
Here's an example of how they are used: