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2. Burl - Wikipedia

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   Burl wood is very hard to work with hand tools or on a lathe, because its grain is twisted and interlocked, causing it to chip and shatter unpredictably. This "wild grain" makes burl wood extremely dense and resistant to splitting, which made it valued for bowls, mallets, mauls and "beetles" or "beadles" for hammering chisels and driving wooden ...

3. Burls on trees are mysterious and valuable. Let them grow ...

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   Burls are woody growths that erupt from trees and are used by woodworkers and woodturners to create beautiful furniture and bowls.

4. Acer negundo - Wikipedia

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   Such purposes generally use burl or injured wood, as the injured wood develops a red stain. [ citation needed ] The wood has been used for a variety of purposes by Native Americans , such as by the Navajo to make tubes for bellows , [ 31 ] by the Cheyenne to make bowls, [ 32 ] and by the native peoples of Montana who use the large trunk burls ...

5. Tobacco pipe - Wikipedia

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   The burl absorbs water in nature to supply the tree in the dry times and likewise will absorb the moisture that is a byproduct of combustion. Briar is cut from the root burl of the tree heath (Erica arborea), which is native to the rocky and sandy soils of the Mediterranean region. Briar burls are cut into two types of blocks; ebauchon and ...

6. Bird's eye figure - Wikipedia

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   Bird's eye maple may be expensive, up to several times the cost of ordinary hardwood. It is used in refined specialty products, such as in automobile trim, both in solid form and veneer, boxes and bowls for jewelry, thin veneer, humidors, canes, furniture inlays, handles, guitars, bowed instruments, custom rifle stocks and pool cues are popular uses.

7. Pterocarpus - Wikipedia

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   [2] [3] Most species of Pterocarpus yield valuable timber traded as padauk (or padouk), usually pronounced / p ə ˈ d uː k / or / ˈ p æ d ˌ oʊ k /; [4] other common names are mukwa or narra. The west African species may be traded as African rosewood. [5] P. santalinus also yields the most precious red sandalwood in China known as Zitan.

8. Lignotuber - Wikipedia

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   The largest known lignotubers (also called "root collar burls") are those of the Coast Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) of central and northern California and extreme southwestern Oregon. A lignotuber washed into Big Lagoon , California, by the full gale storm of 1977 was 41 ft (12 m) in diameter and about half as tall and estimated to weigh 525 ...

9. Quercus macrocarpa - Wikipedia

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   The acorns are very large, 2.5–5 cm (1–2 in) long and 2–4 cm (3 ⁄ 4 – 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) broad, having a large cup that wraps much of the way around the nut, with large overlapping scales and often a fringe at the edge of the cup. [3] The wood when sawn transversely shows the characteristic annual rings formed by secondary thickening.