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Burl Clock
Clocks are a remarkably easy project, and make great gifts. Total cost – about $A40, including the burl slice, and the clock mechanism (from Jonathon Knowles Clocks) This one I didn’t give away, and is...
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Burl Clock
After having a couple of inquiries, thought I’d post a brief description of the Burl Clock, seen in the Gallery. The burl (and clock mechanism) were purchased at the Working with Wood show. Total cost:...
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Timber of-the-Month: Brown Mallee Burl
Timber of-the-Month: Brown Mallee - Eucalyptus Dumosa (?) The inaugural timber of-the-month from Brad’s Burls is a piece of Brown Mallee Burl, which looks very interesting in it’s as-cut state, and...
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Turning Pens
In the past I’ve only ever used slimline pen kits for turning pens (and pencils), but I’ve been planning on trying some different styles. I bought some at the Melbourne Wood Show last year, and again...
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Tricky Grains
One of the things that I always had in the back of my mind when deciding if I really wanted to buy a drum sander, was all the sanding I found myself doing with a belt sander when dealing with small...
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SSYTC007 Preparing a Burl
Taking a slice of burl, and getting the surface flat has traditionally meant I have broken out the belt sander which (unless it is a particular shade of green) is NOT a precision machine. Some will...
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A Burl Clock for the Shed
To start the process, I’ve been preparing the burl slab itself, and the first part of that was the recent YouTube Chronicles video, running the burl through the drum sander. Next, I took the random...
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Completion of Clock Project
Things were able to progress faster than I was expecting – the Liquid Glass finish from www.photogloss.com.au was ready for the next stage by the following day (guess I got my mixture pretty right) The...
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Here it comes, and there it goes….again
And as quickly as it was arriving, the show is over for Melbourne for another year. I really did mean to post updates each day, but what with the long days, and longer drives to and from the show I...
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Surfacing a Burl
This video was shot on a low definition phone camera at the recent wood show, so sorry about the quality, but it is hopefully interesting just the same. This is the burl that I am making the desk...
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It’s Time
At the Melbourne Working with Wood Show I had taken a slice of burl, and used the Torque Workcentre to start surfacing it as a demo of the TWC, and the idea quickly progressed as the timber talked,...
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Burl Bowl
While I was shedless for a year, working out of a cramped (uninspiring) garage, I made a start on a bowl from a Mallee (?) burl. It was an excuse to use the Teknatool Titan II chuck on the DVR XP as...
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Burl meet Torque
Another burl found itself being flattened at the hands of the TWC at Ballarat last weekend. This one had quite a curvature, with over 1″ from edge to centre on the cut side. For a thicknesser, this...
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