It's all peat round these parts, so maybe that's why there isn't any. Well, apart from the one at the train station, but aside from some good bark I need to liberate it's as clean a s a whistle.
Hunting for Burl
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I think we *should* have downy birch which is quite fond of peat apparently, but I've not seen any so far. I've got this book coming:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0007236859/ref=oss_product
And I'll be, um... going tree spotting.
Oh yeah, here a photo from today's outing:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0007236859/ref=oss_product
And I'll be, um... going tree spotting.
Oh yeah, here a photo from today's outing:
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I think finding burl is luck and finding burl which is suitable for harvesting is luckier and finding burl which is suitable to harvest when you have a saw big enough to do the job on you is very very lucky.
Hey mrcairney
What a freak this one is,20 feet up, maybe 4 feet was a bit of an exaggeration but still 2.1/2" foot range easy, it was also the longest tallest thinnest Birch I’ve ever seen,I remembered seeing it 2 or 3 years ago and I thought I would come back for it sometime but it is also doing ok Grrrrrrr.
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Found this nearby on a felled Beach tree Spalted beach.
Hopefully I’ll get back up the river for that dead one I seen at the weekend.
As salad said.
(you need a bit of luck and a saw)
fortunately there’s thousands o Birch trees round here to trawl round, but still that’s the fun part.
.LURTZ was here.
What a freak this one is,20 feet up, maybe 4 feet was a bit of an exaggeration but still 2.1/2" foot range easy, it was also the longest tallest thinnest Birch I’ve ever seen,I remembered seeing it 2 or 3 years ago and I thought I would come back for it sometime but it is also doing ok Grrrrrrr.
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Found this nearby on a felled Beach tree Spalted beach.
Hopefully I’ll get back up the river for that dead one I seen at the weekend.
As salad said.
(you need a bit of luck and a saw)
fortunately there’s thousands o Birch trees round here to trawl round, but still that’s the fun part.
.LURTZ was here.
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That spalted beech is a cracker. I will have to find some way to repay the favour if you send me anything. The souls of my cats?
Rowan Burr. with 6 inch scale
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.Just for a bit of perspective.
PS Question Is Rowan burr an attractive wood?
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.Just for a bit of perspective.PS Question Is Rowan burr an attractive wood?
robin wood
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
That's a beauty. Rowan does not commonly produce burrs and when I first used it I was not sure what to expect inside, often trees that have growths with smooth bark like that inside is a swirly grain rather than the lots of little pips of true burr. The few rowan burrs I have used have been lovely, tight small burr pattern. Whenever you use burr wood you end up with something much smaller than you expect, start buy taking the bark off the outside and carving roughly all the sticky out pointy bits until you get down to solid wood, then you can see what shape you have and what best to do with it.
Hey mrcairney.
Check out the "Firebows, spindles hearths and bearing blocks" Thread, Johnnyboy mentions someone using a small burr and a limpet shell as a bearing block ,that sounds like a nice idea for using up some small burr's.
I'll send off a wee one to some time.
Check out the "Firebows, spindles hearths and bearing blocks" Thread, Johnnyboy mentions someone using a small burr and a limpet shell as a bearing block ,that sounds like a nice idea for using up some small burr's.
I'll send off a wee one to some time.
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Hi Robin
Is Ash Fraxinus excelsior a nice burr?.
Found a stunning burr yesterday on a big Ash tree perfectly round with a deep bowl shape.I gave it a tap and it sounded solid as a rock inside. Photographed in the evening hens the dark images, camera mobile phone struggled a bit in the lowlight . But what nice burr.
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Is Ash Fraxinus excelsior a nice burr?.
Found a stunning burr yesterday on a big Ash tree perfectly round with a deep bowl shape.I gave it a tap and it sounded solid as a rock inside. Photographed in the evening hens the dark images, camera mobile phone struggled a bit in the lowlight . But what nice burr.
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Is that on the road around the estuary, if so I now exactly where that is if not I have another one for you!
Here is a Silver Birch burl, still a healthy tree, just stumbled onto it
Hand for scale,
and the other side
Its at my shoulder height, me being 6'
Hand for scale,
and the other side
Its at my shoulder height, me being 6'
robin wood
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
What a perfect hemisphere and lovely bark. Ash does not commonly produce burr but when it does it is nice. Black ash in the US was used traditionally for some gorgeous burr bowls. see some here http://www.bowlman.com/historicalburltreen.html
Dam it! look what I found,Same burr as above but in daylight.
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.41 inch circumference.
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This one is off limits then Grrrrrrr.
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.41 inch circumference..
This one is off limits then Grrrrrrr.
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I went for a walk the other day and spotted a large burr on a dead pine tree, so question is a pine burr nice or of any use ?
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