This Burl Spoke To Me – Don’t Cut Me With A Tenon
by Alan Stratton on Friday, February 3rd, 2023 | 10 Comments
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The wood for this project came from my club’s wood exchange. It is cottonwood burl – somewhat on the small size. But this meant that there was no wood to spare – nothing much to use for a tenon. I also wanted to keep as much of the burl figure as possible in the walls of the bowl.
This requires a different process – and no scroll chuck. Instead, lots of hot melt glue and some creative thinking.
This begs the question – what would you have done with the beautiful, but small, burl?
Enjoy.
p.s. If you would like a more in depth demonstration, please contact me for an IRD (Zoom Demo) on this or other topics.
Well done demo and small bowls are lovely as well as larger ones.
Thank you Jim
Alan
Excellent demo, thank you.
Thank you Albert
Alan
Well you gave me a couple new ways to turn a small bowl I look forward to each Saturday to see what your doing next Thank you JJ
Glad to here that. Tell a couple of friends.
Alan
Wow that one made your thinking cap work harder than usual.
I did have to take a break afterwards. 🙂
Alan
Well, that was a fantastic set of techniques to turn a small bowl. I’ve often used glue- chucks and paper joints but the recess to hold the underside of the bowl is really clever Alan.
Thanks again.
Peter in the UK
BTW I’ve never used that before.
Alan