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19th April 2012, 09:01 PM #1
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buloke burl
this is a peice of buloke burl i turned about 8 months ago, aparently very rare.
its got the tightest burl grain i think ive ever seen about as hard as anything ive ever turned!
305mm diam. x 80mm high finished with tung oil
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19th April 2012, 09:47 PM #2
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Hi
Interesting piece, I like the colour and the tung oil sets it off. Having not turned a diverse range of timber what was it like to turn and how difficult was it to keep the original shape. Cheers Happy turning
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19th April 2012, 10:11 PM #3
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buloke
nice work
beatiful timber, we have some good buloke and sheoak down our way south east SA. Have done some work with buloke or bulloak seen it spelt both ways, really is a beautiful timber very hard to get in large pieces due to checking. For sure the hardest timber I have worked with, but polishes up a treat due to the high silica content.
Have carved a timber sculpture out of bulloak, got on exhibition in the Mount Gambier art gallery at the moment. will try attatching photo have'nt done before.
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19th April 2012, 10:29 PM #4
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....and no wonder - I've just learnt that it's the current world record holder for hardness at about 22.5 Janka, ebony is about 20, gidgee 19, Spotted gum 11.
Originally Posted by bench1holio
Beautiful work, very well done indeed.
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20th April 2012, 09:44 PM #5
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Great job. That would have been a white knuckle experience keeping it together with those holes!
Graeme
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21st April 2012, 01:43 AM #6
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Love it! Have turned a few bits of buloke. Never seen burl before. But I don't get out much.
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21st April 2012, 05:55 AM #7
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I can only think of one comment - beautiful.
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21st April 2012, 10:25 AM #8
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wow thats amazing such tight grain
just by chance did you save any for pen blanks ??????????????
let me know
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22nd April 2012, 10:33 AM #9
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troy sorry mate, i only managed to save two small peices that might make one pen Originally Posted by mkypenturner
wow thats amazing such tight grain
just by chance did you save any for pen blanks ??????????????
let me know
i really need to get a bowl saver for one off peices like this.
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