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How does a Toymaker make the most of this beautiful hardwood burl offcut.
How does a Toymaker make the most of this beautiful hardwood burl offcut.
I had a birthday last week, quite a big number and to my surprise a bloke who’s been like family (brother) to me since 1960 gave me two bags of gorgeous blocks of timber.
The burl in particular is amazing but how does a toymaker make the most of it keeping it beauty intact.
So folks I need helpful advice/suggestions as to how to approach a worthy project for this piece of timber, keeping in mind I’m not a wood turner.
Thank you in advance.
I had a birthday last week, quite a big number and to my surprise a bloke who’s been like family (brother) to me since 1960 gave me two bags of gorgeous blocks of timber.
The burl in particular is amazing but how does a toymaker make the most of it keeping it beauty intact.
So folks I need helpful advice/suggestions as to how to approach a worthy project for this piece of timber, keeping in mind I’m not a wood turner.
Thank you in advance.
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crowie, there is only one solution....................................send it to me ! 😁
i dont know how you would make a toy from that beautiful burl ?
i dont know how you would make a toy from that beautiful burl ?
working with my hands is a joy,it gives me a sense of fulfillment,somthing so many seek and so few find.-SAM MALOOF.
Yes, what Potz said, and he won't be home, so asked me to handle it for him. . . .
My suspicion is, were you to sand the inside you'd see some nice figure. In other words, I suspect anything you do following the grain is going to offer up some beautiful product, PROVIDING you make the pieces as big as you can.
Had a genius drop off a load of maple firewood years back. The entire cord was figured maple and he had no clue as to what he had (he tried to sell a short cord as a cord, so don't feel sorry for him). We are still using some of the spurtles I made from it. The figuring is yet beautiful 20 years later.
Had a genius drop off a load of maple firewood years back. The entire cord was figured maple and he had no clue as to what he had (he tried to sell a short cord as a cord, so don't feel sorry for him). We are still using some of the spurtles I made from it. The figuring is yet beautiful 20 years later.
thanks buddy 😁
working with my hands is a joy,it gives me a sense of fulfillment,somthing so many seek and so few find.-SAM MALOOF.
Not really a toy, but I could see this being a pretty jewelry box.
yeah maybe as a lid ? but crowie what size is it ?
working with my hands is a joy,it gives me a sense of fulfillment,somthing so many seek and so few find.-SAM MALOOF.
Thank you gents for for encouragement and thoughts
Here are a few extra photos of the piece along with a tape measure for sizing.
And YES their is some beautiful figure in the timber!
Here are a few extra photos of the piece along with a tape measure for sizing.
And YES their is some beautiful figure in the timber!
Life’s Good, Enjoy Each New Day’s Blessings
Make jig and slice some curved pieces of veneer on the bandsaw?
--Nathan, TX. Hire the lazy man. He may not do as much work but that's because he will find a better way.
yes that, or it could be a box lid ? definitely not for making a toy ?
working with my hands is a joy,it gives me a sense of fulfillment,somthing so many seek and so few find.-SAM MALOOF.
Make jig and slice some curved pieces of veneer on the bandsaw?
Way above my current skillset and I don’t want to muckup & waste the piece
Life’s Good, Enjoy Each New Day’s Blessings
yes that, or it could be a box lid ? definitely not for making a toy ?
Would agree it’s way too nice for a toy but saying that, my box making skills haven’t reached the level I’d be comfortable trying to make the lid!
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