Help me identify this burl!

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Mack C.

Mack C.

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My post office lady thinks I'm the wood identification guru! She bought this chunk at a garage sale just because she liked it. I's going to sit outside in her garden.

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It weighs 6.5 kgs, 45 cm long with an 80 cm circumference.


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The other side.

I said it might have been a burl from an Apple tree. Help me identify it please. I don't want her to lose faith in me!
 

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Don't let it go to "waste". Buy it from her and share it with your "friends". Mack, can I be your "friend"?
 
Tell her that surgery is required in order to make a reasonably positive ID . Cut off a 1/4 inch piece from one of the log ends , sand it to 400 grit , and compare it to several end grain pieces of apple treated the same way , under a 10 power loupe or higher magnification .

She could also go back to the sale site and ask if they new the origin .
 
I would say some kind of evergreen, looks the same as one I turned the otherday. If it is like the ones I have turned before and the one the otherday, there is not figure in them.

Lin.
 
I think the British call that a "Burr" as compared to a Burl. That will likely have some wild grain, but not the eyes associated with the term burl. (Some use the term burr to describe both those bulbus area as well as burls with eyes).

Fruit tree is a good guess -- and a grafted variety is likely.
 
Mac...

From the bark it looks like a conifer species, perhaps white spruce or even white pine.

Wade
 
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