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Old 04/16/12, 07:31 PM
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Cutting firewood yesterday dh & I found this burl on an Ironwood tree! I scraped off a piece of the bark and the wood under is beautiful! What do I do with it??

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Old 04/16/12, 07:35 PM
 
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Taxidermy mount. Stuff a squirrel and put it in the hole.

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Old 04/16/12, 07:52 PM
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Old 04/16/12, 08:04 PM
 
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If you know any wood lathe enthusiast, they would be interested. The wood grain in a burl makes some very nice bowls.
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Old 04/16/12, 08:21 PM
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Wish you were closer i would love to take it off your hands I make pens on my lathe and soon will be making larger items like bowls
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Old 04/16/12, 08:45 PM
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Really? I think the shipping would be a lot I'll check it out though! Thanks
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Old 04/16/12, 08:56 PM
 
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An intact entire burl like that could be well worth any shipping charge. There could be better places than eBay, but my basic point is that you have something that might bring you a lot of money if properly marketed.
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Old 04/16/12, 10:53 PM
 
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IF you are working with wood it will make nice knives handles and handle for a gun or other wood work for nice bowels. If it were 4 foot you could sell it for for furniture manufactures.
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Old 04/16/12, 11:09 PM
 
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First cut the burl off in as large a chunk as possible. Then wax all cut surfaces or at least paint with latex paint. Wax is best. I have a iron wood burl bowl in fact three of them it is pretty. Keep the burl in the shade waxing. You can use melted candle wax or a product called Anchorseal but it is expensive. PM me the size of the burl and I will give you a value. If I cut a tree with a burl I have the anchorseal ready and cover all surfacxes not covered with bark and load it in the van right then and keep it in the dark out of sunlight If you wait it wll crack and be worthless. I will check my PM tommorow morning. Got a new computer and hate typeing on it so please excuse the mistakes. David
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Old 04/16/12, 11:50 PM
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Kinda hard to tell, but that looks like elm, or soft maple.
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Old 04/17/12, 04:45 AM
 
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Kinda hard to tell, but that looks like elm, or soft maple.
Northern Ironwood trees are a variety of Elm. They are also known as "Pis-elms"
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Old 04/17/12, 04:26 PM
 
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I used to make candleholders out of them.....haven't done any wood stuff lately....
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