What Is Stabilized Burl Wood

Stabilizing wood is a technique of treating a soft or punky piece of wood in order to turn it into a usable blank ready for use in your next project.

What is stabilized burl wood.

Also boxelder amboyna burl and buckeye burl have their own pages. 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. Block of stabilized wood karelian birch 125x38x28 natural color. How to stabilize wood it a question that has come up a lot more.

All our poplar burl is forested in europe and each piece is carefully selected before stabilization. Redwood burl to be stabilized preparing the wood blanks. Still each variation is natural and beautiful. I am a believer that god made this wood for.

Stabilized poplar burl maintains the unique grain patterns of the untreated wood. Not every stabilized wood is on this page go to the pen blank page for pen blanks and see the ones marked as stabilized. Learn about our wood stabilizing processes and see more examples at our dedicated stabilized woods site. Use a moisture meter to verify that the moisture content of the wood is below 10.

I am highly experienced at cutting and processing each piece of burl to achieve the highest quality of figure. Maple burl redwood burl buckeye burl curly redwood burl myrtlewood burl and black walnut burl. Stabilized maple wood burl turning knife scales blanks bar burl handle exotic. Our stabilized wood inventory is now offered at our new partner web site vivid stabilized woods.

We can also produce custom stabilized wood in colors and sizes to meet your specifications. The figured various page sometimes also has stabilized pieces. A wet blank cannot be stabilized. Burlwood has been selling high quality burl for 35 years in six different domestic species.

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. Block of stabilized wood karelian birch 125x38x28 orange. Burl wood is a wonder of nature and every piece is unique.