Name that BURL!

[NittanyLion]

Here is today's harvest. With temperatures in the teens, I had to fight a cranky chainsaw. Can you guess what kind?......and no Dan Masshardt allowed

 

[carlmorrell]

Cherry?

 

[NittanyLion]

Sorry...not cherry.

 

[Ambidex]

The rays look like some redbud I have but the wood's too light...in others words..donno

 

[The Penguin]

maple

 

[longbeard]

Flamed Maple (box elder) maybe


Harry

 

[NittanyLion]

Nope...Nope.

 

[lorbay]

Is it fir or some kind of evergreen.
Lin

 

[mchech]

Hemlock?

 

[BayouPenturner]

it looks like cherry

 

[longbeard]

Hemlock?

Thats a good guess there Mike


Harry

 

[Joe S.]

Hills weeping fig?

I just can't stop! :biggrin:

 

[Dan26]

I'm thinking some kind of pine.

 

[NittanyLion]

Nope.....sorry guys. Joe, what was that?

 

[Silverado]

Plum?

 

[Cmiles1985]

Cedar?

 

[keithbyrd]

Hickory?

 

[Ambidex]

Mulberry?

 

[NittanyLion]

Alright...Good guesses, but it's Weeping Willow Burl....here are a few I made from a chunk a while back:

http://www.penturners.org/forum/f13/aeros-willow-burl-111647/

 

[Dan Masshardt]

Once you see it in person, the bark color is a bit distinctive I think.

Most of the pictures I post are taken on a piece of Willow burl from Steve.