Joel Sauder
03-12-2008, 6:41 PM
Ok, this wood disease is getting out of control!
A couple of weeks ago me and a fellow turner stopped by the local arborist's woodpile. He said he had a walnut stump that was the graft between an English and Black Walnut that might have some nice figure in it that he would make us a deal on. It was about 5:30pm that day and getting dark, plus the stump was at the bottom of the pile. But it looked to be about 2.5 feet in diameter and 6 feet long, we figured that even if it didn't have any cool figure it would be fun to have that much walnut. We said we would take it.
Today we went to pick it up. Look what he loaded in the back of the truck! It has 4 crotches plus the graft zone and it sure ain't no 2.5 ft by 6 ft. It weighted 2100lbs on the local trucker scales.
And if that was not enough, he made us a bonus deal on this Silver Maple stump. That brute you see next to my Toyota Tacoma is a easy 5 feet at the butt, and it weighed 13,000lbs when they cut it last fall. It has a rotten heart, but here is the part that is going to make you cry, the whole upper end is a mass of birdseye burl! I roughed out 2 chunks today. A 14in bowl and a 9 inch hollow form (my first ever). Tomorrow we are going to make our first efforts at carving it into manageable chunks.
If someone has been looking for a nice piece of figured walut or maple for a special project, I would be happy to share wealth. Just send me a PM and we can work out some sort of deal.
A couple of weeks ago me and a fellow turner stopped by the local arborist's woodpile. He said he had a walnut stump that was the graft between an English and Black Walnut that might have some nice figure in it that he would make us a deal on. It was about 5:30pm that day and getting dark, plus the stump was at the bottom of the pile. But it looked to be about 2.5 feet in diameter and 6 feet long, we figured that even if it didn't have any cool figure it would be fun to have that much walnut. We said we would take it.
Today we went to pick it up. Look what he loaded in the back of the truck! It has 4 crotches plus the graft zone and it sure ain't no 2.5 ft by 6 ft. It weighted 2100lbs on the local trucker scales.
And if that was not enough, he made us a bonus deal on this Silver Maple stump. That brute you see next to my Toyota Tacoma is a easy 5 feet at the butt, and it weighed 13,000lbs when they cut it last fall. It has a rotten heart, but here is the part that is going to make you cry, the whole upper end is a mass of birdseye burl! I roughed out 2 chunks today. A 14in bowl and a 9 inch hollow form (my first ever). Tomorrow we are going to make our first efforts at carving it into manageable chunks.
If someone has been looking for a nice piece of figured walut or maple for a special project, I would be happy to share wealth. Just send me a PM and we can work out some sort of deal.