Can you guess what this is? NOW IDENTIFIED

I don't know if you have yellow popular/tulip trees out there, but here in Virginia I've seen popular burls that look a lot like that.

Dave
 
Shawn fu said:
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!.....
I blew coffee out of my nose:D
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I liked the fossilized spaghetti and meat burls too.
While I didn't blow coffee out my nose like you know who, my wife did hear me and came into the room to see if I was all right.

There have been some close guesses, but not the exact correct one yet so I will let this go on for a while.
 
A few of you guys were real close.

The block is California Black Oak from Oregon. It is in the red oak family but a lot different than normal red Oak.

The black oak will form a few different types of burl. Each looks a lot different but most will have the tangled spaghetti looking grain.

Since most tend to have large voids or rot away in the center, we use them a lot to carve bowls or cut slabs for natural picture and mirror frames.


Tiiiiiiiim, Nick Wheeler,R.C.Reichert, Dan Pierson & Frogfish all had the closest guesses.


Justin Mercier and Dan Pierson, if you post a photo of your unidentified burl, maybe we can figure out what you have.
 
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Nick Wheeler "It's probably stabilized lasagna! ", R.C.Reichert "Fossilized spagetti and meat burls. " and Knifemaker.ca "coprolite with pinworms" had the most entertaining guesses.
 
Black oak...Yeah,Yeah,,that is what it was. Tommy Flanagan told me that was what it was. Yeah,thats a fact.
I'll bet you got that wood from Haney, He draws those lines on it with a pencil. He had a bunch of it in the boot of his stutz the last time he was by my place.... Told me it was Virginia Black Oak.

Few of those reading this will understand.
 
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