Madrone burl stock, preparing the wood on a cool not rainy day (one of few we have had, the not rainy part, rain was 25% over for the year, snow-pack is sitting at 125% to 250%)
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Madrone burl stock, preparing the wood on a cool not rainy day (one of few we have had, the not rainy part, rain was 25% over for the year, snow-pack is sitting at 125% to 250%)
Madrone2.jpg
Making sawdust mostly, sometimes I get something else, but that is more by accident then design.
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Wow - we don't have anything around these parts that has that kind of wonderful coloring! Looking forward to seeing some turnings out of this!!
Steve
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WOW - thats some pretty wood.
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Great looking colors in that wood? Almost hesitate to ask if that great big piece got cut up into all those little ones though!
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Oh ya. It's heart stopped to start cutting $300+ worth of big chunks into little chunks. Even more so when you consider Madrone's tendency to warp and split. So the wood has to be kept wet/damp until you work it down and boil and #*$!!! out of it.
As for color, you note that some pieces have white, red and even black, all in the same piece.
I don't think anyone knows for certain how the color develops, but there is some suspicion that it's the nutrients in the soil. Locally Madrone is almost always light colored. This Madrone is brought up from the southern Oregon area.
Making sawdust mostly, sometimes I get something else, but that is more by accident then design.
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Wow that has some beautiful color.
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