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Got to finish the pile of olive and redwood burl I am working on first, but this will see the bandsaw in another couple days.

What you are seeing is not curl, it is burl eyes on the end grain. All of those streaks are burl eyes. When resawn that will put all of the figure on the sides of the brushes for the best effect.

No, it is about a year old and dry. It is hard maple not big leaf maple so it is very dense. They make baseball bats out of this wood (without the burl). You just have to properly finish it. I have...

I turn hundreds of brushes a year. My maple burl supplier dropped me an email about a slab of hard maple burl he had and wanted to know if I was interested. That was a silly question. This should...