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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. George Lailey - Wikipedia

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    Both his grandfather, George William Lailey (1782–1871) [1] and his father William (1847–1912) were also bowl-turners, specialising in the production of bowls and plates from elm wood using a pole lathe. [2] George Lailey was particularly noted for his exceptional skill of turning bowls in a 'nest', one inside another. [3]

  4. Lignum vitae - Wikipedia

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    Lignum vitae is hard and durable, and is also the densest wood traded (average dried density: ~79 lb/ft 3 or ~1,260 kg/m 3); [4] it will easily sink in water. On the Janka scale of hardness, which measures hardness of woods, lignum vitae ranks highest of the trade woods, with a Janka hardness of 4,390 lbf (compared with Olneya at 3,260 lbf, [5] African blackwood at 2,940 lbf, hickory at 1,820 ...

  5. The Great Alaskan Bowl Co.: More Than Just Wooden Bowls - AOL

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    In the past, wooden bowls had been milled on the shallow side, but Bratcher wanted his bowls deeper to set them apart. It would take McCormick a full year to finish the specialized cutting machine.

  6. Swamp kauri - Wikipedia

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    Wooden bowl made of swamp kauri. Swamp kauri, sometimes marketed as "ancient kauri", are prehistoric kauri trees (Agathis australis), buried and preserved in peat up to 50,000 years ago in New Zealand's North Island.

  7. Bob Stocksdale - Wikipedia

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    Bob Stocksdale (1913 – January 6, 2003) [1] [2] was an American woodturner, known for his bowls formed from rare and exotic woods. He was raised on his family farm [ 2 ] and enjoyed working with tools.

  8. Treen - Wikipedia

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    Native Americans worked these burls into domestic objects like bowls and ladles with tools such as stone blades, hot coals, and beaver teeth. [8] Native Americans traded these wooden items with European colonists, who later learned to harvest burl and carve them into treen in the style of their home countries. [6]

  9. Woodturning - Wikipedia

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    Detail of woodturning in work A turned wood bowl with natural edges Bowl turning. Woodturning is the craft of using a wood lathe with hand-held tools to cut a shape that is symmetrical around the axis of rotation. Like the potter's wheel, the wood lathe is a mechanism that can generate a variety of forms.

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