I will be starting a new thread on this group buy that will be in the interest of getting the burl sold.
I still have to get the buyers to agree on a price for the wood but for now I will post these pictures as examples of what to expect offered in that thread.
the ruler in all photos is 12 inches. the slabs run from 1-7/8 inches thick up to 3 inches thick. one other slab is over 7 inches thick.
I will start with the part I am most happy with. I managed to get 91 lbs of slabs that evey square inch is top notch grade A pen blank burl. this is an example of just one of them. this particular one is 12 lbs. 1 7/8 inches thick.
Now don't cry that only 91 lbs out of 500 looks like that. the next step down has areas just like the above but also has areas that are not quite as marbled. the figure in the grain becomes more spread out in areas of the slab, But will still make a top notch bottle stopper blank, really nice pen blank or even make a tool handle that would cause you to never use the tool again. This is a good example of these slabs. In this case the slab even has an area that is pretty poor in grain but in these slabs there really is not much of that.
I got 177 lbs of these.
Next step down are slabs that have burl that will work very well for turnings just a bit larger in diameter than a pen. all of this will work well for bottle stopper blanks or any spindle turning of an inch or more. I have 106 lbs of these slabs
Finally are two slabs I picked to become peppermill blanks. they both have nice grain color and even some figure. but only on a scale that will work for a 2" diameter turning. in total there are 122 lbs and at an extimated 5 lbs for a blank there will only be enough for 24 blanks at best. both of these slabs are 3 inches thick so can make blanks for even the largest peppermills.
this slab is 60 lbs.