by aczerepinski
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- I adore burl. Burl coffee tables, cell phone cases, jewelry boxes, guitars, you name it.
I should start taking classes now so that I’ll be ready to pivot to woodworking when AI replaces engineers.
- So the works Cindy displays are beautiful but is wood turning the way to "make the most of your burl"?
I feel like there's a value that's related the surface area you can get out of a given burl. If you have a burl, are you better off trying to cut thin panels with parallel slices? With turning, though a skilled artisan can produce a beautiful result, don't you lose out on a lot of volume?
- This is great.
I used to avoid burl when I would make wood rings [1]. It's just very hard to predict how it'll behave if you try to steam bend it.
[1] https://woodaround.com
by NoboruWataya
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- Wonderfully early 00s-style website.
- Once in high school woodwork class I had to make an artificial burl out of scraps to try and show off some wood turning fu I didn't actually have. Open day does that: look like you know what you're doing.
Eric Sloane would have loved this, it's a true reverence for wood.
- I highly recommend this National Geographic series, Filthy Riches. It has an episode about "burl hunters".
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3654672/
by jumploops
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- This is awesome.
My wife wanted a wooden engagement ring, and so I fashioned one (well ~10) out of a Pacific madrone burl.
Great material to work with, but wouldn’t recommend wooden bands unless your actual wedding is near!
- I spent a week burl hunting with my uncle in Alaska. Good times! (except for the mosquitos)
by toolslive
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- Buck eye burl tops are quite common in custom shop guitars and basses.
by michael_forrest
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- This is an absolute masterclass in remote presentation. Cindy does incredible work.
- I can't watch the video, so I had to look this up:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burl
Woodworking with these.
In a previous life I did genetic engineering with agrobacterium-mediated transfection. Agro causes galls. Good blast from the past.
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