Burl Preparation Question

It's stable if it's been indoors 20 years. It is not necessarily all usable, as burls often contain voids, bark pockets and such which can interfere with your mind's direction. Burls look good turned rough side up or down, so your only task is to cut a length approximating the width, attempt to deduce the extent of the burl figure and plan your piece to reveal it.

Shallow burls make grand plates or shallow dishes with rough side up, but may have too much outside surface variation to make other than a perforated conventional bowl. Takes a better bulge to get one of those.

Cut and turn one at a time so what you've learned can be applied to the next.

. It is also old wood and dry; I'm not sure how stable

Is it safer, or should I say, more successful to turn burl while it's still wet/green or dry. I would think that once fully dry, it would become very brittle. Any thoughts?

-Roy

Is it safer, or should I say, more successful to turn burl while it's still wet/green or dry. I would think that once fully dry, it would become very brittle. Any thoughts?

-Roy

I have turned dry big leaf maple burl. Turns great.

-Roy