Camphor Burl

[Mase]

I bought some nice Camphor burl the other day and started coring it today. Smells nice. Have any of you made cues out of it?? I expect I will core with purpleheart of something similar as it is very llight.

 

[Pete Tonkin]

I bought some nice Camphor burl the other day and started coring it today. Smells nice. Have any of you made cues out of it?? I expect I will core with purpleheart of something similar as it is very llight.

Here are some pictures of a cue i built with a camphor burl handle camphor burl is real light and soft need to put a stiff core in it.I put a .875 flat lam maple core in the cue and it came out nice and stiff.Also it is a very oily wood it took almost a year for the piece i used to dry and stablize if you drill a under size hole through say .625 and hang back up it should speed up the process.

Pete

 

[Mase]

Here are some pictures of a cue i built with a camphor burl handle camphor burl is real light and soft need to put a stiff core in it.I put a .875 flat lam maple core in the cue and it came out nice and stiff.Also it is a very oily wood it took almost a year for the piece i used to dry and stablize if you drill a under size hole through say .625 and hang back up it should speed up the process.

Pete

Very nice. Thanks.

 

[Cuedog]

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Very nice is right. In your opinion, is that a typical amount of figure in that burl, is this one particularly nice, or does it get better? Thanks.

Gene