Last weekend I finally got around to cutting apart the mesquite stump with the burl on it. It wasn't a large burl and someone had put a chainsaw kerf right down the middle of it, so that kind of limited how to cut out the blanks. I found another small burl when I turned the stump over, so I ended up with 3 blanks, one of which is long with plenty of wood underneath so I think I can get 2 or 3 small hfs from it.
I turned this piece was from the 2nd burl on Friday. It was shallow (didn't stick out much from the log) and the surface was very irregular (had a big dip in the center of the bark side). I rearranged it a few times before I finally settled on an orientation (opposite of how I would have preferred) in a typical ne bowl blank orientation. Most of the burl figure was in the sapwood, but with the dip in the bark edge I would have turned away all of the sapwood in order to turn a tenon and the way the blank was I would have lost alot of the sides.
It's about 8 1/2" x 2 1/4 and has a coat of BLO so far. It still has a decent amount of figure, but the 1 drawback is the one straight wing which was where a branch was cut off, not much I could do about it.
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And here it is with a little black accent piece, terrible pic but the "accent" wouldn't hold still
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Thanks for looking!
Comments and critiques are welcome
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The accent part makes up for it though.
