I got some Hybrid blanks from George's bits of timber, and this was one of them. A friend picked it out from something I had posted. Well he wanted a certain plated slimline. This is what he picked out. When I assembled it I swear a part of my soul died.
This is a Fig burl Hybrid from George.
Hi Ed, just a little correction about that blank, is not a burl, the wood have come from a Fig tree trunk fork that has spalted and cracked magnificently while in the weather for a couple of years on my wood storage paddock.
I have never seen Fig burl formations and I've seen a lot of Fig trees, you get sometimes some tiny small bulge formations the size of a plum at the outer skin of the trunk, those are in fact inset bits that form a type of cyst.
I'm glad that you give it some "body", I don't think that would be much left of that blank if you had turned a thin/slim profile and in all honestly, I don't think that is any reason for you to say such a thing, you followed your customer's request, and that is what matters...!
I really like what you've done with it, congrats...!
Thank you also for mentioning the blanks origin...!
Cheers
George