burl

[rocket]

does anyone know of a good source to enquire about burl. I want to try using some burl to veneer headstock, i think it would look cool;

[Kim]

Tim Spittle of Australian Tonewoods had quite a unique collection last time I looked, give him a call as some of the stuff he has is just stunning.

http://www.australiantonewoods.com/atw/index.htm

Cheers

Kim

[kiwigeo]

Kim's right on the money. Tim is the head wood pimp around these parts.

Cheers Martin

[Nick]

Tim would be your first port of call for sure!
Constantines also do a range of burls if you need to go offshore, have to take what you get though.Although I got the burl assortment and used the Imbuya on my rosette and headstock, you get quite alot of each burl so it ends up being quite reasonable price wise.

[TimS]

Here is some York Gum Burl. I will see if I can upload a couple of other images.

regards

Tim Spittle

[kiwigeo]

Looks like a placenta

[TimS]

Nah...... It is a beautiful piece of wood!

[Nick]

Looks like a placenta

There's always one that just has to lower the tone, ain't there!

[kiwigeo]

If you want to bring down the tone at a post christening party then do what one of my buddies did......run a few slides of the happy birth and then thrown in a blow up photo of the placenta.

[kiwigeo]

If thats a reflection of your head on the burl then ya need some serious Botox mate.

Looks like a placenta

[Nick]

If you want to bring down the tone at a post christening party then do what one of my buddies did......run a few slides of the happy birth and then thrown in a blow up photo of the placenta.

Hehe, just as long as the guests hadn't eaten prior.

[vandenboom]

Rod - there's a guy not far from you in Croydon - The Woodsmith - who I think has a stash of this sort of stuff. But he is only open for business a couple of days a week.
http://www.thewoodsmith.com.au/thewoodsmith/contact.htm

Frank