Woodworking Projects – Unique Birch End Table
My next woodworking project: I always wanted to do something with burled wood. I very rarely get my hands on it. This large Birch stump had one large burl and several smaller ones on it. Instead of cutting them out and discarding the rest of the log, I wanted to integrate them all in one object. The stump itself has many interesting cavities and depressions in it, so I felt it would do the tree injustice if I only took the burls. The wood has tons of beautiful features, like black lines from spalting, green and red spots from other fungi, brown streaks from pieces of cambium, leftover pieces of bark and the chaotic burl grain. When I applied the first coat of oil, my jaw dropped to the floor, I never could have dreamed it would look this good (you can see that later on in the vid) This table was made in Hortus Haren, Netherlands. Useful websites: www.saburr-tooth.com EU, UK, NL website for ordering Saburr-Tooth equipment: www.chainsawcarvingtools.eu Main dutch Chainsaw Carving forum: www.carvingtoolshop.eu WoodCarving Illustrated message board: www.woodcarvingillustrated.com My WCI Gallery: tinyurl.com
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Beautiful work – my father in law was? inspired by this and is working on something similar now…what’s the song from?
Wonderful!? Very nice work!
@arviragus Is a song from the german band Schiller, they have? many more like this.
how much do you get for something? like that?
very good craftmanship!
@moparmanpete @moparmanpete Thank you
I actually? didn’t sold it…I cannot bear to do it.. It’s sitting in my living room at the moment.
Very nice….I love the look? of tung oil
yay? chinsaw time lol
Very cognitive video. But? many things can be found here: alturl.com / 3z6sr (delete spaces)
Pretty spectacular. a mossy chunk? of stump turned into a gorgeous table. nice.
@darkinmysilence? Thank you
great piece!! looking at the top there are some? small cracks (like it btw) but my question is: how do you keep it from splitting all the way and dividing the table in two? Is tung and lemon oil really all you put on the top. thx and keep making these more than beautifull pieces
@waldodesteghe Thank you! It depends on the type of wood how bad the cracking will be (or ‘bad’…I rather like cracks, they make it look like wood, not plastic!) For example, Oak and Beech will surely crack because? they are tough woods and don’t give way. Birch, Maple and pine are reasonably soft, and will crack not as bad. Still, to minimize all-to-big cracking I have removed 90% of the corewood, releaving stresses. Using oils help also, making the wood dry slow and steadily.
wow that is cool as i found a great? place for woodworking plans there is like 16000 plans its crazy its at downloadablewoodworkingplans.blogspot.com not sure there is many that use a chainsaw tho lol
beautiful
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wow?
i just cut down a? black walnut tree. 20 ft log still standing. thinking of making a table.
Beautifull work…god ? bless your hands!! big hug man!!
Very nice job! I have many trees here in Maine and some have burls on them…mostly on the red oaks. I always wondered what I could come up with for a beautiful product.? Now I know. By the way, could you be so kind and let me know how removed the core from the bottom? After plunging the saw all around, the base, I am wondering how it was released. My guess is that you had to chisel out chunks at a time. Thank You for a great video!
@oxfordmoon Thank you, and observative! Getting the center piece out took some time. After the plunging I made more cuts, only this time in? triangular patterns so I was able to remove the core in pieces:
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If the above doesn’t really help, I’ll try again to explain
@oxfordmoon Haha I? live in Maine and been doing this kinda work. Were in Maine do you live?
@duff835 , I am in beautiful Raymond, Maine. I haven’t started this type of work, but I am setting up……but I have a long way to? go…….meanwhile my trees are getting bigger…thanks for asking.
@oxfordmoon Well best of luck, I live in Poland Maine, I’m 17 and just started woodworking a little over a year now. I do? a large amount of lathing but have starting doing some other kinds of projects, its expensive to get into but if what you make looks nice you will make a little money selling it.
Thats a very nice piece there, keep up? the good work
amazing.. you ever thought about wood? burning with this? i do wood burning. and you are giving me some killer ideas! if you like, look up genreofstubby.us to check out some of my work. i would love to work with you on this. amazing!
Very beatyful! sorry, did how many disk for grinding use??