Last year at the SWAT symposium in Waco, TX, my friend Jim Adkins won a giant Yellow Mallee burl cap. It was super heavy and something to drool over, for sure! About 3 days after everyone got home, I received that burl cap, as a gift, from Jim! So I cut it up the other day and this is the largest piece from the cap. I have enough left over for some bottle stoppers and probably some pens! I just love Australian woods...except for the hard as concrete aspect!
After shaping the outside, I discovered that there were still some inclusions in the light colored part of the wood (closest to where the spikes of the burl cap where located). This presented me with a decision. I normally would have hollowed this piece very thin, but the vallleys from the inclusions created some visual appeal... so I left this HF thick, as to not create holes in the "valleys". The piece ended up shy of about 1/4" thick and it's still pretty heavy!
5" tall x 5 1/2" wide. Finished with several coats of Tung Oil Finish, buffed and Ren Wax.
Comments and critiques are always welcome. Thanks.
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