Woodturning: Turning a Cherry Burl Bowl - The Just a Bowl’s Little Brother
In any case, I’m always nervous about cutting burls, so I searched for some videos on the decision-making process for cutting burls into turning stock. One of the best I found was by Jim Sprague of @SpragueWoodturning and I literally watched it 4 or 5 times. Because…cherry burl!
The cherry burl I am working with mostly encapsulated one of 2 branches and I was able to slice the other branch off and then split the burl roughly in half, leaving the pith on the side that the burl didn’t completely encase the branch. This is the piece we are starting with on this project, though I did slice about an inch and a half off to remove most of the branch grain and I’ll use those nearly bookmatched slabs in a serving tray or some other such piece. I was able to get another baby bowl cored from this piece as well and coupled with the baby bowl from the other side will become a lidded box
I used the Woodcut Bowl Saver coring system and could not be more pleased with the results. Here’s a link to the video I did the first time I used the coring system Woodturning: Turning The Big Green Monster into 3 Bowls using Woodcut’s Bowlsaver Bowl Coring System • Woodturning: Turning T...