Beech burl kuksa.

[fishfish]

A work in progress.


on a recent walk in the local woods i happened upon a beech tree i had seen a hundred times,even camped next to one time,its very old like over 200 years,sadly it is in bade shape and many of the limbs have fallen and the core is rotted ,yet it clings on! anyhow whilst looking i noticed the most wonderful burr/burl on it so i lopped it off,initially i feared it was rotted but there were small sprouts on it. I believe it is a rare thing to find a true burr/burl on a beech.

When i started carving it into my new kuksa,as i carved it became apparent that it is not only a fine burr/burl but spalted too!

here is some pics:

heres the kuksa ready to be sent for stabilisation:

thanks for looking.

 

[chas brookes]

Excellent Find most Excellent Kuksa

 

[v-ness]

What a lovely piece, nicely crafted.
Cheers
Ness

 

[skate]

Nice find and well carved. I don't see any spalting though! Hope it doesn't leak.

 

[Retired Member southey]

Well done you, what a fantastic find, great looking wood chap!

 

[brancho]

Very nice indeed

 

[fishfish]

thanks guys,it will be off for stabilisation this week.

 

[bushcraftbob]

wow thats amazing! what do you mean by stabilisiation???

 

[Luke_Sorensen]

Beutiful very well done

 

[fishfish]

this will be stabilised in the same way knife scales and blocks are,resin will be pushed in under imense pressure,thus stabilising the wood,then all that needs doing is sanding to fine and then wire wool it,it will polish like glass.

 

[milius2]

WOW, that's one nice kuksa! Congrads!