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1st April 2015, 11:24 AM #1
Leg Cleek
have been given two large chunks of wood i dont know what it is mayby you guys do
Its amazing how hard it is to work took me over a hour to take a slice off it . It burnt a drill bit out whilst i was drilling a hole fo the threaded rod insert for the leg cleek
still some tidying up to do on it. It does have some woodworm in it its amazing they survive in wood as hard as this ?
I managed to salvage it from being burnt , the guy thought the tree was over 600 years old? .It had been felled during a strom some years ago and just left . but he wanted rid of it . Hoping to get some more of him.It does have some woodworm tried to work round it but its just to nice a wood grian to leave. i treated the wood worm section of it with PVA as it was softer there . Still needs tidying up yet but getting there. I found it better to use a rasp on it its to hard for the chisel and mallet although the rotary tool can tackle it
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1st April 2015, 11:52 AM #2SENIOR MEMBER
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Hi I am pretty sure what you have is burr elm.
Burr oak is a possibilty which is even harder but the grain and colour sways me more towards elm.
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1st April 2015, 07:03 PM #3SENIOR MEMBER
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I'm with Mark - burr elm. Shot 3 clinched it for me. We used to use elm mostly for coffins where I did my cabinet making apprenticeship.
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1st April 2015, 07:09 PM #4SENIOR MEMBER
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I wont hazard a guess as to what it is, but if it has been burnt at some stage that could possibly harden the timber, I have some blackwood that went through a fire and it is like working with steel.
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2nd April 2015, 10:02 AM #5SENIOR MEMBER
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The stuff is definitely burr or burl. Couldn't say what species of tree. Its a cancerous type growth on the trunk. Most species of tree produce them but they are not usually common. The grain inside them is erratic to say the least. Hard to work but the rewards are great. Polished up, the twisted grain looks fantastic.
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2nd April 2015, 12:20 PM #6
Beautiful grain in that wood!
Claude
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3rd April 2015, 08:34 AM #7SENIOR MEMBER
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I feel pretty certain that it is indeed Elm burr, as others have suggested.
Not that a knife man should know anything bout burr wood! I've turned it a few times, & made a few crooks from this wood but even with rotary burrs don't go expecting to do any detailed carving with it.
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3rd April 2015, 09:59 AM #8
Thats a thing i was hoping to do some carving on it?
But i think its already burnt out a rotary tool.either that or the bushes have gone ? i know i have to replace a set on one of the rotary drills.
I suppose i will have to try a carving on it and see what happens , trouble is with carving the devil is in the detail. most of the time ? and think i`m addicted to carving ? i just have to do it.
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3rd April 2015, 07:48 PM #9SENIOR MEMBER
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Problem is that burr wood has loads of tiny spirals of grain direction in it ,plus Elm is a coarse grained wood & even a straight grained piece will not take any detail whatsoever.Take a small scrap of it & try some stuff out before investing a lot of time in design & roughing out would be my advice.Even Oak which is a cavers wood of course, is impossible to carve in its' burr form, except at a large scale & in a very soft blobby manner.