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Birch Burl Bark Inclusions

I am turning a 14" burch burl bowl. Using a onwway coring system I have two cores from the bowl and the grain is very nice. The problem is there is a large bark inclusion that runs from the rim of the large bowl to about 3" from the center. Some of the burl also has some rot or weak spots on it. The smaller bowls also have the inclusion and weak spot problems. The burl has just been cut from the tree in the last month and is very green. I need advice on how to treat this to preserve my bowls. Should I use CA glue or epoxy? Should I apply the glue now or try and cure the bowls first? I would like to keep the bark incllusions in place if possible. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Rod

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rodnhazel
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Next time: Boil it, clean off the bark without scratching the beautiful naked surface, clean out the irregularly formed inside to something resembling a bowl, but manually with a hollowing iron. Oil and use for fruit, nuts or anything; or just as an ornament.

This time? Probably firewood.

Bjarte

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Bjarte Runderheim

Hi Rod

14" that's a nice size Rod, I just (like 10 day's ago) rough turned a couple of Elm bowls, not that big, but they had a soft spot and I tend to not throw out good looking wood, especially if I have put some time into them, not always the best decision, but some turn out to make real gems, and always I learn from them.

Anyway what I did with the last ones, I got myself a gallon jug of white glue and made a soup of 50/50 water/glue, then got a plastic container and placed the bowls in there and a good size rock(you need less glue that way :-^) ) to keep them from floating and filled the whole thing with the glue soup, I let it sit for a day, then took them out and let them drain, after that I let them sit for two days and then stuck them in a paper bag, just checked them the day before yesterday and they are hard and solid now, haven't finish turned them yet, but I expect them to turn just fine.

The bark inclusion will make for some real neat looking bowls if you are able to keep them from splitting wide open, I have seen some turnings where they laced some, wire, raw hide, etc. to keep splits from widening and some looked real good, you might do something like that.

I think you should try that, on one at least, and maybe thin epoxy on the other one.

Have fun and take care Leo Van Der Loo

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l.vanderloo

Leo. are you trying to give Lief a run for is LLD money???? You will have to come up with a good acronym. WG water/glue just doesn't have the same ring to it. Maybe some others out there could help you along. Decoupages, can't spell French or pronounce it, isn't that were you take pictures and things and cover them with white glue and wait for it to dry clear??. May be you have a new way of finishing your bowls, surface decoration. Pull it out of the soup and put pictures cut outs ect on the bowl then let it dry:) :)

Bruce

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Bruce Ferguson

Hi Bruce

You'd think I'd have a chance ?????? :-))

Well GWG is a good one, so GW might be a better one than WG ??

Talking about surface decoration, you need to use burning tools nowadays, and sheep, horses and cows are all the rage it seems.

Using glue beats wax to stiffen up fibers though, and the final outcome is still in the works over here, I'll wait and see before I unconditionally approve the process, :-)) tic, very firmly

Have fun and take care Leo Van Der Loo

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l.vanderloo

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