Thread: Clown nose brush

Originally Posted by irish19

Here's a couple of places to try.


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Bad Dogs Burl Source: Bad Dogs Burl Source - Home Page
Lee Tree Wood Works (Aussie): The largest source of Australian Burl
Up North Burls: Home Page
Goby Western Walnut & Hardwoods: Lumber, Wood, Slabs, Gunstock Blanks | Walnut, Maple, Figured Maple, Curly Maple, Quilted Maple, Madrone, Myrtle | Goby Walnut
Cook Woods: https://www.cookwoods.com/

This should give you something to go on.

That gives me a lot to go on thanks I have those bookmarked now.

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

You can get alot on ebay,but most is wet and waxed so you have to be carefull.
I hunt for woods and burls like most of you guys hunt razors.

I used to make primitive bows, snow boards and skate boards as well as some other odd projects, in fact I may still have the moisture meter around here somewhere.

Originally Posted by HARRYWALLY

Pixel is right. This piece in fact, in its raw form, was still not completely dry. Some need time to completely dry before you use them.

I had built a small wood kiln out of cinder blocks just stacked on each other with no mortar and a couple 60W light bulbs, worked pretty well for the small amount of wood I was working with.

When I lived in the bay area,I had access to a real commercial Kiln (company called Globalwoods)am looking into building a solar kiln.

I really like the Jarrah burl, has anyone used that yet?

This is piece of Crepe myrtle I scavenged from a tree crew the other day,some nice grain,hard, dense. maybe it will turn out to be some good wood.
Never know.

Originally Posted by guitstik

I really like the Jarrah burl, has anyone used that yet?

What interesting to me is that Jarrah,Mallee,Koolabah all come from Eucalyptus trees,all from australia.

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

What interesting to me is that Jarrah,Mallee,Koolabah all come from Eucalyptus trees,all from australia.

I found this when I Google'd Jarrah, Mallee and Koolabah AustralianBurls.com - Burl Harvesting

It's funny you guys bring this up. I just read about this a couple days ago. Had no idea they all came from Eucalyptus trees. I get all my info from. wood-database.com I'll have to check out Jarrah burl again. I'm sure it's lovely.

What interesting,you eluded to Burls being warts, They are actually more of a cancer type growth.
Fun to work with as no two are the same.
I turned a pce of Madrone Burl a few mos. ago,hard as hell,had some small rocks embedded in it.

I suppose your right. I've always looked at them as warts but they are more of a tumor I suppose. There are two different types, as I've read in a book by David Ellsworth. An Onion type and a pin burl, which is a series of dormant buds.

One of the worst burls I've turned for foreign matter was Briar. Nothing like hitting a pocket of sand. Ahhhhhh!!!

Here is the Madrone Burl,I wanted to use it for brush handles, but the wife wanted a candle Holder