I'm wanting to try some different burl materials for the realistic cigar pens (preferably stabilized) and am looking for suggestions. I have used stabilized maple burl, red malee burl and desert ironwood that wasn't a burl and wasn't stabilized but turned out nice. I'm planning a trip to a local cigar store next week to look at and photograph some of the high end stogies. What say you folks, any ideas? Thanks in advance.
WB
Well, the only one that I have that could be suitable for cigar making is my Colonial Red Gum Burl that is one of those that, the more "eyes" the wood have the more fracture cracks the wood will have, identical with some of the Jarra Burl.
In fact, very recently I have added 2 more varieties of the Colonial (very aged timber/trees) Red Gum wood, I had the normal #9 wood, the #9 Burl, now I have also the #9 Curly and the #9 Root, all very different but all from the same wood species.
For the #9 Burl, there is a very small number of blanks that are cut at 21mm square x 130mm long that have lots of eyes and no cracks, those are rare and far in between however, if they are what you want, I can have a look and see what I can do...!
Let me know...!
Cheers
George