Birch Burl Bowl - WIP

[Kepis]

I was given a lovely Birch Burl yesterday by my good mate Hugo. He had originally got it from Peter at the recent BCUK Sussex Group March meet and had made a start on it at the meet.

I had commented that i wished i had picked up a burl at the meet, so Hugo does no less than gives this one to me and says something along the lines of "you will do a better job on it than i will", or something along those lines.

So next week, I'm going to try and do him proud and make a bowl from it using my adze, and if the grain patterns he showed me in the Kuksa he made from a similar, but smaller burl are anything to go by, it should, fingers crossed, be a stunner, the burl is pictured above with a Hugo Little Whittler on it for scale.

Keep you all updated on it's progress in this thread.

 

[Ed]

Deffinatly keep us updated .... by the looks of that burl its should look fantastic

Ed

 

[jackcbr]

Tis true, a great piece of wood needs to be handled by better people than cack handed buffoons like me. That's why I didn't grab a bit. But one day I'll get there and do a piece of wood like that justice, not end up with something that resembles orange peel.

 

[Kepis]

I was going to try really hard this time and get something resembling Pomegranite peel or if im really lucky, i could get a tooled Fig like finish on it

 

[bikebum1975]

Wow I can already see that is gonna be a stunning bowl can't wait to see it

 

[Kepis]

cheers chaps

 

[jackcbr]

I was going to try really hard this time and get something resembling Pomegranite peel or if im really lucky, i could get a tooled Fig like finish on it

That sounds like it will look amazing. Fruit really is your speciality. Myself, I'm perfecting the pineapple look, but still only able to get chips so far

 

[Kepis]

That sounds like it will look amazing. Fruit really is your speciality. Myself, I'm perfecting the pineapple look, but still only able to get chips so far

some times whenit goes wrong i end up with a right lemon

 

[outdoorpaddy]

Anybody else find their thread title difficult to say? lol
looks awesome Kepis, looking forward to seeing the finished product
cheers

paddy

 

[steve581]

Interested too see how it turns out.

Steve

 

[SOAR]

Looking forward to seeing this one mate!.

All the best.

Simon

 

[grey-array]

That's a good size and nice looking burl you got there, cant wait to see your handy work, and I'm sure you'll do Hugo proud ^^
yours sincerely Ruud

 

[Kepis]

At last, ive had a bit of spare time, so i made a start on hollowing out the Birch Burl Bowl.

To start off with i adzed out the interior of the bowl

then once it had been taken down to a reasonable thickness, out with the crook knife to take the sides down a little further

The walls are about 3/4" thick at present, im going to let the bowl dry a bit now, before i tale the wall thickness down any further of work the exterior of the burl.

The black line you can see in some of the pics, is a reminder to myself not to remove any more wood from above this line, bar the rim, as it's getting a little thin in places.

More to follow as and when it happens.

 

[bikebum1975]

WOW damn stunning piece indeed she's gonna be purdy when oiled up

 

[Kepis]

WOW damn stunning piece indeed she's gonna be purdy when oiled up

cheers mate, nowhere near finished enough for oiling yet

 

[Kepis]

well people, it's taken a while, but having a spare day or two this week, i thought id better get the bowl finished off, results as per the below pics, 10p piece for scale.

Still got some work to do on it, as there are a couple of things on it im not entirely happy with, ive left some of the inner bark on for effect, not sure if i like it or not.

 

[Dannytsg]

Nice work there!

 

[British Red]

Gorgeous mate - love it

 

[Kepis]

Cheers Red

 

[Hugo]

I like it a lot, nice shape and also the swirls from the grain, when it is fully dry the colour will change in places I found.
Thanks to PeterT for the wood supply that week at Broadstone.