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Pink Lady Burl 15to19
Pink Lady Burl is a type of chestnut oak. The burl in these particular pieces is outstanding. We heavily glued these from the outside of the pieces, then sanded off the glue remaining. Expect to glue burls such as this when working on them. The best practice seems to be using fine cyanoacrylate followed by a medium if there is a gap big enough to allow that. Usually fine is all you need. Some ask why we don't stabilize these, which is an option but we think glue is better in this case because stabilization can cause these type of burls to split apart during the process.
Piece 18
Pink Lady Burl, dried, size: 1 5/8 x 1 5/8 x 4 3/8 inches
Pyinma, figured, L to P
Pyinma with very high figure, dried. Note that piece L is stabilized with resin. These cannot be replaced due to a 7 year old import ban.
Piece M
Pyinma, dried, figured (GG grade), size: 1.5 x 1.5 x 12 inches
Piece O
Pyinma, dried, figured (GG+ grade), size: 1 7/8 x 1 7/8 x 6 inches
Shedua high figure
NOTES: These Bowl blanks were cut from the same thick board. All are basically the same in figure, color etc. All have been carefully dried over years.
Piece B
2 7/8+ x 6 x 6 inches
Knife Blanks
Pink Lady Burl 9to14
Pink Lady Burl, dried pieces. The colors are great, don't forget to took at the closeup photo to see the crystalline appearance of this burl, quite something in my view anyway! So what is this wood?: It is a type of Chestnut oak and these pieces are by far the best quality oak burl I have ever seen. They were extensively glued from the outside, but always expect with burls like this you might need to stabilize them with glue on the inside too. Some ask why I don't stabilize them instead, but two things: Stabilizing does not fill gaps in the wood, and second, the force of stabilizing is really strong, it can break and twist burls like this as well as make the color look dull/odd. So we prefer in some cases to glue them extensively instead.
Piece 9
Pink Lady Burl, dried, size: 1.25 x 1.75 x 6 1/8 inches
Piece 11
Pink Lady Burl, dried, size: 13/16 x 1 5/8 x 5.25 inches
Piece 13
Pink Lady Burl, dried, size: 7/8 x 1 11/16 x 5 1/8 inches note: 1 11/16 = 1.69 inches
Piece 14
Pink Lady Burl, dried, size: 3/4 x 1 11/16 x 6 5/8 inches