Burl Wood Bowl Blanks – Where Do You Start?

[Music] Jimmy rented this alien baby come from I'm picking from a tree yeah so it's not really an alien baby this is a burl off I believe a red oak tree well no more once we cut into it and here's the thing I am making no promises here because burros are like a box of chocolates you never know what you're gonna get here's what we're gonna do Jimmy and I are gonna cut this apart and see what we can get out of it what what potentially is cool with burles is that the tree was down here and this whole big wart was growing off the side of the tree now what I'm hoping to find in here is grain patterns that are just going in eighteen million different directions but we're not gonna know until we start to cut into it so probably this is going to include electric chainsaw which lets us work here in the shop and then the bandsaw to kind of further refine what we get and what's weird with this Ginny is that like the bark on these things can often be super thick like let's turn this so they can see and then poke your finger in that big one so they can see how deep that is so the bark can be really super thick so it can take a while to work your way through the bark to get to the real meat of this Junie is gonna be the holder honor and I'm gonna be the chainsaw operator and then I'm just going to start cutting and we'll see what happens so basically what I want to do is start at the outside and take off as little as possible and start to expose wood and once we can see light colored material meaning the bark is going away and we're getting to the wood then we'll change our cutting direction all right that's good safety pays in many ways eyes and ears you know it good thing I didn't work out today what now I can be strong what what what that never gets old yes it does ready you're just kind of lean on it and we'll see what happens all right first look let's spin clockwise all right so we got some coolness going on here look at the grain here and they cool Jenny yeah and then over here there's a little spotting going on this could be a problem there's a little bit of a split there yeah but I think we'll be done in this direction we'll start in this direction you're probably from here we're just gonna keep cutting and with the chainsaw and not stop every time unless we see something really cool like a pot of gold or a bag or a huge tarantula which would be weird for Wisconsin but you never know all right second verse kind of the same as the first I'm gonna come like here what do you think oh cool it looks great so we took this thing from an alien egg - what is going to be a really cool handful of bowl blank so here's what's gonna happen next I'm done with the chainsaw juni did a great job of holding on to the log a chop it's a pretty hard job so yeah well sometimes you just kind of hold on to what you got the wood inside here lets it work there's some amazing stuff not only grain patterns but if you look up here this is the SAP wood out here on the perimeter and there's the start of some black lines that's called spalting that's a fungus that grows in the wood if it just lays on the ground for a while so we'll see as we get in further maybe it'll be some more Spaulding next for this I'm done with the chainsaw and I'll take this to a bandsaw and continue to process it down to smaller sizes now here's what's really important the moisture content is a piece of you'll pretty wet or pretty dry pretty wet yeah moisture content high and that's good because we don't want this to dry out cuz it'll lead to do you know did we know it starts to crack so we want to keep this wet and that's why I wrap this one up stretch film is a great solution for this this is a 15 inch roll of stretch film this one is wrapped up it gets it pretty hermetically sealed until I can start to work with it for the next step I'll do the same thing to each of these pieces even these off cuts look at this one that one is definitely worth holding on to because that's really cool inside there it'll be a small piece of something but it's definitely worth holding on to so I'll stretch film everything set it aside until I can get back to it are you amazed by what came out of the Burrow Milton it's definitely cool I mean warts are sure ugly on the outside of trees but once you crack them open don't judge a burl by its cover or its bark yeah alright I think we're done yeah

Channel: WoodWorkers Guild Of America

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Length: 5min 32sec (332 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 02 2016