What Is Stabilized Burl Wood

The figured various page sometimes also has stabilized pieces.

What is stabilized burl wood.

There is no need to throw away your scrap pieces after this article you will be stabilizing your own blanks and making the very most of your materials. Stabilized poplar burl maintains the unique grain patterns of the untreated wood. This wild grain makes burl wood extremely dense and resistant to splitting which made it valued for bowls mallets mauls and beetles or beadles for hammering chisels and driving wooden. Stabilized maple wood burl turning knife scales blanks bar burl handle exotic.

I am highly experienced at cutting and processing each piece of burl to achieve the highest quality of figure. I am a believer that god made this wood for. We can also produce custom stabilized wood in colors and sizes to meet your specifications. Stabilizing wood is a technique of treating a soft or punky piece of wood in order to turn it into a usable blank ready for use in your next project.

A wet blank cannot be stabilized. How to stabilize wood it a question that has come up a lot more. Our stabilized wood inventory is now offered at our new partner web site vivid stabilized woods. Block of stabilized wood karelian birch 125x38x28 natural color.

Stabilizing wood can be a great way to use scraps that are not solid enough for general use. Burlwood has been selling high quality burl for 35 years in six different domestic species. Redwood burl to be stabilized preparing the wood blanks. Not every stabilized wood is on this page go to the pen blank page for pen blanks and see the ones marked as stabilized.

Maple burl redwood burl buckeye burl curly redwood burl myrtlewood burl and black walnut burl. The first step in stabilizing a wood blank is to make sure the blank is dry. Learn about our wood stabilizing processes and see more examples at our dedicated stabilized woods site. Burl wood is very hard to work with hand tools or on a lathe because its grain is twisted and interlocked causing it to chip and shatter unpredictably.

Use a moisture meter to verify that the moisture content of the wood is below 10. Still each variation is natural and beautiful. Block of stabilized wood karelian birch 125x38x28 orange.