The Mother Load Photos

[Burl Source]

I spent the first half of today horse trading with a sculptor who lives here part of the year and Arizona in the winters. I ended up trading about 1000 pounds of maple and buckeye burl and a big pile of money for this.

 

[erik markman]

Are you gonna hurt my paypal again?

 

[mete]

That will be fun to work with !!
BTW it's LODE !

 

[Burl Source]

Are you gonna hurt my paypal again?

It will only hurt for a minute. But you'll be happy in the end.

I just started cutting one of the small chunks. Pretty good color inside this piece.

 

[severtecher]

Looks like Rolls Royce may be calling soon.

 

[deker]

I'd love to see some details of how you're going to cut the non-burl bits up. I've got a pretty decent sized pile of ironwood here that needs cutting, but I'm not sure of the best way to do it.

-d

 

[silver_pilate]

I would love to know when that goes in the sale forum, especially if you find some good burl scales in there.

--nathan

 

[NickWheeler]

oooooooh baby!!!! :d
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[Burl Source]

Well, I got this far before I trashed the bandsaw. Tomorrow I will have Lynn get it back up and running and I will get back to cutting. Does anyone like the pieces with sapwood. The problem I see is it is only on one side of the block.

 

[butcher_block]

i lieik it all and now i hate you
i see more PP $$$ leavign my acc

 

[jdm61]

I have little knowledge about such things, but that looks like a fairly good ratio of heartwood in most of those pieces. Can't wait to see what the burly parts look like. What do you do with the sapwood?

 

[bacustomknives]

oh no no more!!!!!!!!!!!!!