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I got a hold of the person that owned the property and it is definitely Mulberry.
Thank's for the help, and when I get one finished I'll post pictures.
Frank

When you mentioned Mullberry, I remembered that I had a small Mullberry die last year and it was laying in my brush pile, so I cut a chunk to compare with this wood and it looks exactly the same. So...

This is some logs I got from my brothers place. I have no idea what the tree looked like. The sap wood has a yellow cast to as does the brown heartwood. It seems to be fairly dence and heavy, the...

This is from some of the latest Madrone burl I've gotten. The form isn't exactly what I wanted, but the wood makes up for it. The collar is Bloodwood. It measures 8-1/2" tall and 4" across, the wall...

I use a recess all most always, I've turned several hundred bowls and I may have used a tenon 6 times and at least 3 of those the tenon snapped off sending the bowl flying across the room. the only...

Norm,
There are several outfits on the web that sell redwood burl. The stuff I get comes from a guy I know, there his scraps, even through sometimes there huge.

Frank

Here's another of the bowls I've finished lately. This one is black walnut from a limb crotch, it measures10-7/8 by 3" by 5/16". Fished with Antique oil and buffed.

Frank

Here's a nice redwood burl I just finished. It measures 10-7/8" by 3-1/4" by 1/4", I finished it with Antique oil and than buffed using the beal system. This is one of several I've just finished,...

Peter,
It's been a couple of months since I've been down to Santa Rosa, are they still working on the freeway? I need to get to woodcraft and stock up on sandpaper.
Frank

Dolon,
Yes I engrave my pieces. I use one of those cheap little engravers you use for marking tools.
Frank

Hi Dave,
Thanks, sorry I missed the meeting at your place. I'll make a meeting one of these months. I've got more pieces I'll post in the next few weeks.

Frank

Wayne,
I built a drying cabinet using a 30 watt light bulb, it seems to speed the drying time. I roughed this bowl out about 8 weeks ago. The honey locust took about 6 weeks and the redwood took...

This one you could call a shallow bowl or a plate, this is honey locust and I tried to get the grain as symmetrical as I could. It measures 11" by 1-1/2" by 1/4", again finished with antique oil and...

This bowl I did similar to the madrone burl in the other post. It measures 10-1/4" by 4-1/8" by1/4". Finished with Antique oil and buffed.

Frank

About 2 months ago I got some very nice Madrone burl and Redwood burl. This is one of the bigger pieces of Madrone that I've finished so far. It measures 10-3/4" by 3-7/8" by 1/4", I finished it with...

I don't turn alot of fruit wood, but I turn alot green Madrone, and it warps and splits worse than any other wood I've turned. What I do is rough it out like any other bowl, than I boil it for about...

On a side note this was one of hardest pieces of my maple I've dealt with. It dulled one of my bandsaw blades in a matter of minutes and I was always resharpening my gouges.

Frank

On my last wood haul I got one maple log that had a dark brown heart, none of the other logs had that. I love woods with a great contrast between the heart and sap wood, so I couldn't wait to finish...

Here's two bowls finished from the last haul of wood I got. The first one is Myrtle 8-3/4" by 2-1/2" by 1/4"finished with tung oil. The second one has to be one of the prettiest pieces of Redwood...

Steve,
You should introduce yourself, Thats how I meet this guy. He's a tree trimmmer/ firewood guy who also deals in burl, but the burls he's after need to weigh a least 1000lbs. I've also got...

Dick,
I haven't been doing much turning lately, but I'm starting to feel the need to start again. No Madrone on this load, but there are 2-3' burls that I'm going to get next weekend. I'll start...

I just got back from my wood guy, he had several logs and burls that he had no use for so he gave them to me. The first two pictures are Redwood burl slabs that I cut the one on the left is about 30"...

Thanks everybody.
Jeremy, I sand up to 400 grit followed by using a red scotch brite on the lathe, on this piece I only sanded the inner part with the lathe spinning, to scary to sand out by the...

This is a piece of yellow mallee a guy in Canada sent to make something out of, usually he wants plates, that's how he likes to collect and display the different species of wood he has in his...

On this one I went for a almost closed form. It created a beautiful bullseye pattern on the rim, this one has some nice curl. it measures 8" by 1-13/16" by 1/4", finished the same as the other one.
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