Fast and high-quality drying of burls and suvels at home. Burl products, processing What is birch burl

May 19, 2015, 03:05 pm

Sometimes painful growths appear on the trees, which are popularly called "witch's broom." At first glance, this benign formation in its shape resembles a human head. That is why it is generally accepted that the name of the growth comes from the ancient Slavic word "cap". It means "head" in translation. Where can you find growths on trees? Cap is found on walnuts and on oaks, aspens and black alder. However, the most common growth is on a birch. Cap is a bundle of thin twigs that grow from a drop-shaped neoplasm. Weigh "witch broom" can be about a ton. What is a stem cap? This is a growth that is located directly on the trunk of a tree. What is a kapokoren? This is a growth that has formed at the very root neck of the tree. Sometimes it can be seen above the earth's surface. An underground burl grows on the roots. He is found on the run. Releases their cap in early spring. These shoots are not viable and quickly wither. Sometimes burl is found on tree branches. The beauty of an amazing material If you make a cross section of the burl, you can find its structure, in which the cores of the knots are pronounced. The drawing of such material is always very beautiful. Due to the accumulation of unblown buds, the cut is an amazingly beautiful picture of knots, curls and twisted fibers. At the same time, the pattern for each cap is strictly individual. The burl formed on trees with a striped texture of fibers and contrasting color combinations is distinguished by its special beauty. Pine growths have such characteristics. However, they are quite rare on these trees. You can find black dots in the texture of the kapokorn. They are located among the light stem fibers. These black dots are nothing more than non-viable shoots that release underground neoplasms. Where is cap applied? As a material for carving, the build-up on the tree is not of particular value. Its rugged surface and striped mottled texture interfere with each other. When making crafts in this way, the relief of the carving does not look and the pattern of weaves and stains disappears. As a material for carving, the build-up on the tree is not of particular value. Its rugged surface and striped mottled texture interfere with each other. When making crafts in this way, the relief of the carving does not look and the pattern of weaves and stains disappears. Numerous areas of the burl have a mother-of-pearl tint. That is why this material, which has no special industrial significance, is valued very dearly. Burl products are mainly boxes and women's hairpins, cigarette cases and various small jewelry, bowls and pipes, chess and powder boxes, ink utensils and spectacle cases. The material is also used for the manufacture of knife handles. What is cap in industry? This is a material that is used in the decoration of furniture. In this case, the growths formed on exotic trees are taken and used as veneer. What is a cap for a master? It is a material that does not warp, crack, shrink or swell and is excellently processed. In addition, it is heavy and durable. Where to find cap? Growths grow on trees. Therefore, it is necessary to look for them in the forest. However, it is not so easy, because caps grow spontaneously, and only the most stubborn and big-eyed can see them. You can cut off the build-up only with a very sharply sharpened saw. It is most realistic to find a cap at logging sites. There, these growths fall into the waste. At logging sites, there are also kapokorni, which you simply cannot find in the forest. Preparation of material for work Cap can be found on various types trees. However, the most beautiful and valuable in our area is the growth that has arisen on a birch. Cap products are not obtained immediately. The material needs some pre-training. How to process birch burl? To do this, you need to use the steaming method. It is suitable for those growths that are not very large in size. The cap is cleared of debris, placed in an unnecessary pan and filled with water. Then salt must be added to the container. For a liter of water, its dosage is two tablespoons with a top. Salt can be poured and more. She will draw the juice from the tree. With this method, sawdust obtained during the processing of resinous wood species is also used. They need to be put into a bowl. The sawdust gives the burl a pleasant color that can range from yellowish-pink to brownish-buff. The resins found in the sawdust will add strength to the build-up and allow the texture to show up brighter. After boiling water, the fire should be slightly reduced and the pan left on the stove for six to eight hours. As scale builds up, it should be removed. In the process of steaming, it is necessary to monitor the volume of water in the pan and periodically add it. At the end of the “cooking”, the build-up is washed from sawdust under running water and placed in a closet for a day or two. After that, the whole process should be repeated at least two to four times. During the last cooking, while the tree has not cooled down, you should peel off the bark from it, and at the end put the growth in a closet for one to two weeks. Having completely dried out, the cap in its characteristics will become similar to the bone. The material prepared in this way is excellently cut, sawn and polished. At the same time, it will not have any foreign odors. Making caskets Crafts from a birch burl in their beauty are not inferior to souvenirs made of wood Karelian birch and even surpass them. Often magnificent caskets are made from this material. In the process of work, the burl boards are carefully connected to each other, making sure that their texture pattern is similar. A very responsible operation is the manufacture of wooden hinges. This stage requires precise formation of rounded spikes and grooves on the edges of the cover and body of the product. The hinges must fit snugly and accurately. Another difficult operation is drilling holes. In wooden hinges, this is easiest to do with thin steel wire. At the next stage, a lock crashes into the box. The product is almost ready. It should only be puttied, dried thoroughly and coated with alkaline varnish. After completion of these works, the box is treated with polish and wiped with alcohol. The product is polished until the wood acquires an amber color and until all the veins of its amazing texture play brightly. Cane decoration Using a cap, you can make a great gift for an elderly person with your own hands. The work can be done even by a novice. Hollow cylinders should be alternately put on a tube or a metal rod, which are previously machined from birch kapokorn. Details should be tightly fitted to each other, creating the impression of a single whole. A carved or smooth birch handle can crown such a cane. Burl bowl Various souvenirs can be made from wooden growths. Popular burl products are decorative bowls. A rough blank is made from a little raw material. Next, the blank is left to dry. If small cracks form in it, then they are lubricated with PVA glue. After the final drying, the product is given the necessary shape, it is ground, polished and varnished.-

Material, which has long been known in Russia as a tree bone.
It's a growth, see photo 1, (or influx, as it is also called) on the Birch, which is formed on the trunk of a tree for various reasons. For example, weather, climatic influences environment. Also, such an effect can be achieved artificially by wrapping the trunk, for example, with wire, over time it will acquire Suvelya. It was called bone due to the fact that after careful polishing and impregnation with various oils, the tree takes on a bone appearance, and its thin parts are visible through and through.

Photo 1. View of Suveli after sleeping. It looks like a bump or an influx. Initially, it is difficult to judge the internal appearance of wood after sawing it.

In most cases, with proper sawing, you can observe amazing phenomena, namely the interweaving of wood fibers that form mother-of-pearl sections of different (unique) in pattern and direction, which literally glow, reflecting daylight in themselves. Patterns and colors may vary, mostly pink-yellow, straw, or brownish. yellow with a deep mother-of-pearl glow on the cut, in some cases there are specimens with a dark brown color with the presence of swamp green hues. This color scheme is explained by the fact that the wood grows in different conditions and terrain, for example: If the growth was sawn down in a very wetland, then the fact that the color of the wood will most likely be brownish-green is not excluded. Or another example: If Suvel is on the butt of a tree (the butt of the trunk is the part that is 10 - 15 cm underground and 15 - 20 cm above it, this is on average) and it is covered with moss, then most likely it will be dark brown with the presence of a pale pink shade, or straw yellow - golden with dark brown growth rings - that is, the presence of dark shades will dominate, but not always.

Photo 2. A rare and valuable copy of Suveli natural drying for a period of about 1.5 years. In the photo you see the beam glow of the fibers in daylight. This glow is called "Mother of Pearl", it can be different types, from clear mother-of-pearl beams to those that you see in the rest of the images, there is no limit to the variety.

Photo 3 . This sample is also rare, its main difference from what is on photo 2, it is a marble texture and drying technology, it was dried in a quick way, namely boiling in a salt solution. The photo clearly shows how it differs from what is on photo 2, the one above has a total straw or golden color and on photo 3 the color is predominantly brownish-pink.

Photo 4. Here you see a species that is also rare, but more common than those in photos 2 and 3.

Photo 5. In this photo, mother-of-pearl stains are called ashen or glass. This species is most common, but its value is not lost from this, because everyone has different tastes. Someone likes the beam section, and someone likes luminous ashen stains.

Photo 6. This, as we have already understood, is the radial direction of the fibers with the presence of ashy streaks. (mixed type)

Photo 7. The specimen, which looks like a simple one, but in fact it is not, is the same rare species that grows mainly in swampy swamps, which is why it has such a color.

Photo 8. This is an example of how Souvelle looks in finished form (product) in combination with Reindeer horn and metals. Knife by Valery Sokolov "Svalbard", made in the Scandinavian style.

Yet, general form of this wood depends on the type of drying (this does not affect the quality of the products), there are several options for drying.
1. Natural, this is when the wood dried up in natural conditions, without human intervention, that is, after sawing it off over time, the tree dried up on its own.
2. The old Russian method of quick drying, the wood is boiled in a saline solution for several hours, after which the bark is removed and placed in a dark and dry place for a few weeks, this is the minimum, even after that it is quite suitable for processing.
A noticeable difference after these types of drying is the color. With natural drying, the tree remains of a natural color, and after cooking it acquires a gently pink or carrot hue, this is already an amateur, whoever wants it dries it. In the skillful hands of a person who has everything in order with imagination, any piece of wood will shine and look expensive, you just have to really want and connect your imagination.

Souvelle is a material from which various objects can be made, for example, women's jewelry in the form of pendants, earrings, hairpins and bracelets, it depends on how much a person has a developed fantasy. Previously, no, not only before, and now some enthusiasts make cutlery from it, quite suitable for its intended purpose, take Scandinavian “Kuksy” for example, this is something like our mugs, only made of wood, better material than Suvel is not to be found for this.
But most importantly, this material is most suitable for the manufacture of knife handles. Due to its inherent qualities, such as hardness, density, ease of processing and polishing, unique texture, variety of color shades, beauty of mother-of-pearl weaves, etc. One thing is clear that this material will never get bored, although some will disagree with me, this is their right. I used to make handles only from exotic woods, but they quickly tired me with their monotony and monotony, although to each his own and someone will say and say the opposite. But I definitely learned for myself that there is no better raw material than Birch and what it gives us in the form of Kapov, Suvel, Svili, Koml and the root part.

All samples that you see in the form of bars are ground and polished, then treated with oil for the shelf. This allows you to preserve the natural color of the wood and protect it from moisture and decay + treated with carnauba wax.

The variety of Suveli is very rich, I would say infinite, this material is combined with almost all types of wood, bone, metals, etc.

Drying burl and suveli at home. Drying burl and suveli. So first, let's define some concepts. KAP- (aka a witch's broom) is a benign formation on a tree, which is a bundle of thin twigs growing from a drop-shaped (most often) growth. When cross-sectioned, it has a texture with pronounced knot cores. It is difficult to process due to the strongly curly texture and the huge number of knots. Extremely beautiful, durable, perfectly sanded and polished.

Separate numerous areas have a mother-of-pearl tint. It has no great industrial value, but is highly valued because of its beauty. If it is used in industry, it is only in the form of veneer for furniture finishing (mostly exotic wood burl is used), as well as the production of small items such as caskets, cigarette cases, women's hairpins, small jewelry (birch burl). The use on knife handles is considered good taste and is also prized by wood carvers for its unique texture.

It is impossible to find two identical pieces of burl, even halves of a sawn burl have a different pattern, the growth is so heterogeneous. It grows on many trees (linden, alder, birch, maple, oak, etc.), but the most valuable and beautiful is birch (from those growing in our latitudes). The build-up is usually small, maximum the size of a volleyball or a large plate.

Cutting some kind of pattern on the cap does not make sense, since the texture clogs everything. We look at photos of what tutati looks like: The photo shows a birch burl. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get a cut of exactly a birch burl (I took these pictures next to the local police station and, as you understand, they wouldn’t give me anything to cut down there ... But I contrived and found a burl of ash, most of the burls are similar in texture and differ only color and size of knot cores

SWUVEL- (it's a svil) As the name implies, the growth got its name because of its structure (twisted structure, that's putting it mildly).

Suvel is a drop-shaped or spherical growth on a tree (there is also an annular variety, it covers the tree trunk around the perimeter), it usually grows 2-3 times faster than the tree itself. When cut, it has a texture similar in pattern to marble and mother-of-pearl (this is the main sign of difference from CAPA, in the future do not confuse suvel and burl). The presence of mother-of-pearl stains on a polished tree creates a beautiful iridescent picture that glows from the inside. The twist is also poorly processed, like the burl, but not as hard.

The size varies from a walnut up to 1.5 meters high (I myself saw one on a birch) and up to 2 meters in diameter (an annular suvel completely covered the tree trunk). In the Vatican, there is a font much more than a meter in diameter, carved from a single piece of suvel. He himself once sat in an armchair carved from suveli. Holds fine thread perfectly, but it is not recommended to cut the suvel. It is better to sand and varnish (impregnate with oil). The product will only benefit from this.

The most valuable is the root or butt streak. The presence of dark veins and well-defined twisted annual rings. This is a fairytale. BEAUTIFUL, that says it all. The barrel suvel is distinguished by a finer texture and a finer "frosty" pattern. And lighter wood. In terms of strength, the butt suvel is slightly superior to the stem one due to the structural features of the tree trunk. Suvel is strong, beautiful, easily polished and polished. Well-dried and processed, it begins to "glow" from the inside (with proper impregnation with oils, the tree becomes like amber and even a little transparent). Usually has a color from pale yellow to pinkish brown to quite ocher brown. It all depends on the conditions and drying time. Cap has the same colors.

As you can see, the cap is completely different from the suvel.

chaga- this is a mushroom (not to be confused with a tinder fungus !!!) and we do not need it for our purposes.

So, how to dry. I must say right away that the "steaming" method is suitable for small pieces of wood. Somewhere in the half of a football ball or a small log.

1. We cut down the growth. We do this with a sharp saw. Otherwise, you will be tormented by sawing, and the tree will begin to shaggy. We do not clean the bark. Do not forget to cover the cut on the tree with oil paint or wax, or something similar.
CUTTING THE GROWTHS IS DESIRABLE IN THE DRY SEASON, IDEALLY AT THE END OF AUGUST, THE BEGINNING OF SEPTEMBER, BEFORE THE BEGINNING OF Sap ​​Flow.

2. We take an unnecessary pan (bucket), and throw a piece of wood there. The pan is precisely unnecessary, since during the cooking process a very tricky broth is formed, which is then very troublesome to wash. It is better to clean the piece of wood from all sorts of rags of birch bark and other fragile and dangling tails. still fall off. I consider the birch growth as the most accessible and beautiful, the rest of the growths are boiled using the same technology. The log is accordingly cleaned of any debris and fragile particles. We pour water. It is convenient to do this with a faceted glass (it contains 250 ml). Water should cover the piece of wood by about a centimeter or two. The tree naturally floats up, but let's press it to the bottom and see everything. It doesn't matter if you pour water, cold or hot - it will boil anyway. You can throw a piece of wood into a saucepan no matter how much it is a pity, the volume of a separate piece of wood is important and not the total volume of wood.

3. We take table salt, which is not a pity. We don't make soup. Pour 2 large tablespoons with a top of salt per liter of water (who will count glasses of water ??? Huh?). It is possible and more, no matter how much it is a pity, it's okay, it's impossible to overdo it. The main thing is that the water should be sugary salty. You can use clean sea water (just clean, otherwise it will be disgusting to smell like mud). Salt will draw juices from the tree, but the tree will not saturate.

4. We find sawdust of resinous wood species. Spruce, pine, the easiest to get. We take a saw: and forward. We need two powerful handfuls of sawdust (we rake the sawdust with both hands). It is sawdust, and not shavings from a simple hand planer. The shavings will come from an electric planer (you can get it at the nearest sawmill or cut it yourself). I always use them. They are quite small and are usually plentiful and easy to obtain. The more resin in the sawdust, the better. And the smaller the sawdust, the better. We fall asleep in a saucepan. It was possible to take a saucepan and more! Sawdust will give the suveli a pleasant ocher color. From soft pink-yellow to ocher-brown. And also resins will add strength to wood and show texture.

5. When the water boils, reduce the fire and leave it simmering for 6-8 hours, maybe more, as long as you have enough patience. If the saucepan is large, then you can not turn down the flame, let the water boil and bubble. But you need to watch that the water does not boil away completely. Salt, sawdust, temperature and time will do their job. Add water as needed. During the cooking process, a red "broth" is formed. And scum. Scale is best removed immediately. It is very difficult to wash off.

6. 6-8 hours have passed (depending on the size of the piece of wood). We take out the wood. Rinse under running water from sawdust. We throw out the water from the pan as useless, but you can leave it for the next time, if you have somewhere to store it. But pouring water is easier. We throw the build-up on the cabinet with nothing on wrapping it. For a day or two, let it cool down.

7 The process of cooking and drying is repeated 2-4 times, depending on the volume of wood. You can use a pressure cooker to speed up the process. Time is reduced to 4-6 hours.

8. At the last cooking, you need to quickly peel off the bark while the tree is hot. Although she herself should fall off by this time. Carefully!!! Hot!!! use gloves!

9. We throw it on the closet for a week or two. The wood is basically already dry, but let the remaining moisture go. The tree will "get used" to the atmosphere. After the final drying, the tree will become like a bone, and it will be possible to cut, saw, grind it. There will be no foreign smell. It will only smell like wood.

10. In the process of accelerated drying of wood, it must be remembered that small cracks may appear, and therefore an allowance must be made for their removal in subsequent processing.

11. Where to look for growths... Naturally in the forest. BUT! there are no specific places of growth, they grow spontaneously, and the largest and most beautiful growths will be found by the most big-eyed and persistent. This activity is akin to hunting for mushrooms, whoever ran around the forest more and further got more. Look like that's it:. Once again I remind you that large pieces cannot be dried like that. Cracked. Necessarily. Checked.

12. After the tree finally gets used to the atmosphere, we make a knife. You will find how it is done yourself, not small ones. In any search engine you will type "" how to make a knife "" and you will be happy. It is desirable to impregnate the suvel and cap with oil and, if desired, with wax too. The tree will show the texture, "play" as they say, all the inner beauty will appear.

If wood is the most beautiful and most popular natural material, then burls and suveli are a concentrate of this beauty. What an irony: what arborists call “a defect in the shape of a tree trunk” becomes a happy find for skillful hands, who turn suveli and caps into real masterpieces.

Wood burls: what is it?

Wood burl is not only an amazing material from an aesthetic point of view, but also from a botanical point of view. A group of hundreds or thousands of dormant adnexal buds, in the form of tubercles or needle-like growths with a rudimentary ring structure around them, is the cap. Outwardly, it looks like a growth of a rounded shape, or ringing the entire trunk, covered with bark. Sometimes "sleeping" kidneys can wake up and escape from the cap.

Souvelle (left) and burl without bark

Wood burls are typical for hardwood trees - linden, birch, oak, aspen, walnut, elm, but in our latitudes, birch burl is most common. Perhaps the birch burl has the most beautiful structure. It is rare to find a burl of coniferous trees.

As for the size of the burl, they can vary from barely noticeable on the trunk, the size of a walnut, to one meter and even two meters. The tree burl is a very rare phenomenon, occurring much less frequently than the burl. Although sometimes two or even several burls can form on one tree. Cap grows for a very long time - we are talking about decades.

The burl that forms near the root is called basal, or kapokorn; the burl that grows on the trunk or branches is the stem.

Why does a burl appear on a tree?

Highly interest Ask to which it is impossible to give a 100% correct answer. - like Chuk and Gek, they are almost always pronounced in pairs. However, they have absolutely different nature education.

Option 1. An adnexal bud appears under the bark, but the bark of the tree is so hard that the bud does not have the strength to break through it. But the growth mechanism has already been launched, plant hormones tend to the place of potential germination, nutrients, which assist in the emergence of many new buds, which also do not have the strength to break through and, thus, the cap grows.

Maple burl texture

Option 2. An adnexal kidney appears under the bark, but due to mechanical damage - a hurricane, a human hand, an animal - it cannot develop normally. And it develops abnormally, with the deformation of the wood structure.

Option 3. An adnexal bud appears under the bark, however, due to spring frosts, viruses, bacteria, fungi, insects, and the specific mineral composition of the soil, the tree feeds not a shoot, but a cap.

Be that as it may, the most interesting thing about wood burl is not its origin, but its texture. Let's talk about her.

Wood burl: texture

The main thing that differs between caps and suvels is the presence of a “eye” of knots in caps in a transverse section. The pronounced core of small branches, together with a wavy complex texture, pronounced twisted annual layers, give an incredible, fabulous pattern. Moreover, in nature there are no two absolutely identical caps - neither in shape nor in pattern.

On a fresh saw cut, the texture of the burl is weakly visible, it appears after processing - grinding, polishing, toning. At the same time, the texture of stem burls is finer and more refined than root burls.

After processing, the burl looks more like a stone - marble, malachite - than a tree. In this case, the material acquires a muted luster and pearlescent radiance.

The color of wood burl largely depends on the type of wood and on the place of its formation. The predominant colors in the burl texture range are brown, milky, pinkish, greenish.

because of a large number Knots and burls are difficult to process, but they lend themselves well to grinding and polishing.

Wood suveli: what is it?

Wood suvel (tree svil) - a round outgrowth on a tree, both deciduous and conifers, which consists of twisted, deformed wood fibers. There are suvels encircling a tree around, or groups of several suvels on one tree.

Another difference between suvels and burls is that under the bark, woody suvels have a smooth surface, sometimes with bumps, but large, not “pimples”, like those of burls.

The density of suvels is slightly less than that of burls; hence, they are slightly easier to handle.

How are suvels formed on a tree? As a rule, this is the result of an external influence on the tree, as a result of which a wrinkle is formed. Over time, the fold becomes overgrown with sinuous fibers. Suveli on trees are much more common than burls.

Wood suveli: texture

Suveli can have a different texture, depending on the intricacy of the structure of the build-up, however, waves, bends, spots, stripes can be called the predominant figures. After grinding and polishing, the radiance and brilliance of the wood appears.

The color of the suvel can be yellow, brown, gray, pinkish or greenish.

Svili can be stem and root - like burls. Root suvels are valued more because of the pronounced, intricately twisted annual rings and dark veins. Stem suvels do not have such a rich pattern, besides, their wood is lighter.

Masters note that after sensible processing, wood suvels begin to glow from the inside, like amber. The drawing of the suvel resembles marble.

Caps and suveli: use

The use of burls and suvels is primarily decorative. Of course, functional things are made of them, but even their main task is to please the eye, and not be something purely utilitarian.

Rarely used in carving. Their extremely bright texture "eats" the entire carving. In addition, the carving looks cheap on expensive material. As a rule, craftsmen simply grind the material and impregnate it with oil or varnish it.

Suveli and caps are not used on an industrial scale. Earlier in Russia, more precisely - back in the RSSR, there were several enterprises whose workers created masterpieces from suvel and burl. Now, these unique creations of nature go, roughly speaking, into the furnace. For foresters, growths are simply a defect in the wood, a defect in the material.

So, what are products from capa and suvel?

Let's conditionally divide them into three groups - decorative products, functional products and veneer.

1) Decorative products from burl and suvel. It can even be cap or souvel in its natural form, just without bark and varnished - a great decor for an eco-style home.

A special place is occupied by sculptures and figurines, especially depicting animals. Why animals? Mouthguards and suveli in texture perfectly imitate the plumage of birds, wool or animal skin. In addition, the natural smooth lines of this material themselves suggest what they can become - it remains only to remove the excess. But for the image of human faces, caps and suvels are not suitable, because they give them an unhealthy look.

Another product made of burl and suvel is a panel. Mouthguards and suveli are such a unique material that it is enough to choose the right tint - and the real picture is ready. However, such material is used in mosaic, marquetry and intarsia.

And, of course, the beautiful texture looks great on hairpins, key rings, pendants, cufflinks and other jewelry. And bowls, vases, coasters and candlesticks will give any home a sense of luxury and real taste.

2) Functional things from capa and suvel. It can be small furniture, dishes, caskets, snuff boxes, tool handles, office supplies, lamps, frames, chess, canes, watches and much, much more. Of course, such things fulfill not so much their functional requirements as decorative ones. Functional items made of suvel and cap say a lot about the excellent taste of their owner.

Kap - these are growths and thickenings that are found on the trunks of birch, maple, oak, walnut, pine, etc. There are such influxes in places of tissue growth:

Its name comes from the Slavic "cap" - head. And indeed the cap resembles a human head on a tree. Cap is found on the branches of old trees, on trunks. There is also a kapo-root, this is a burl that formed at the root of the tree. The largest kapo-roots reach a diameter of 2m. Furniture is often made from capo root:

As it is an extremely durable and extremely decorative material, which is valued on a par with precious wood. The texture of its pattern on the cut is an interweaving of annual layers, the core of dormant buds in the form of concentric circles and dark dots. There are more dormant buds in the stem cap than in the capo root, so its texture is more expressive:

Burl is harvested only from fallen trees in the places of sawmills. After the burl is cut, it is freed from bark, knots, resin. Then the workpiece is boiled in a 5% solution of common salt. The duration of boiling depends on the diameter of the workpiece: up to 10 cm in diameter is boiled for about an hour, large workpieces are boiled for up to 3-5 hours.

Boiling is necessary to neutralize the juice inside the workpiece, so it dries faster. After boiling, until the workpiece has dried, it is cleaned of the remnants of the bark. Boiling makes the texture of the pattern more expressive. Then the blanks are dried for several weeks indoors, or for several hours in an oven or on a radiator. After that, the cap is sawn into plates. After that, they give all free rein to fantasy, making sure that your ideas do not contradict the natural beauty of wood, emphasizing its structure. Inner part products are chosen with an adze, semicircular chisels, cranberries. When finishing the product, excess knots are removed, trying to reveal the play of different layers of wood, polished with sandpaper. Small cracks can be puttied by mixing small sawdust with PVA glue. If desired, the product can be tinted with stains or natural dyes, such as onion peel, alder cones, etc. You can cover the finished product with varnish or wax mastic.

Beautiful caskets, smoking pipes, chess, knife handles are made from burl:

And also very decorative vases, candlesticks and just sculptures for decorating the interior of natural forms are obtained from the burl:

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