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Hello,who could teach me how distinguish the Thuya burls between Camphor burls and other similar woods burls?They are so similar,but price gap are much!!!Thanks a lot
The difference between Thuya burls and Camphor burls!
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Benelli
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All the cool kids go for Amboyna burl.
When I was trying to educate myself on different burls for a butt I was designing I would go and look at cue maker websites and see what the finished product looked like on their sticks.
You may also want to ask this question in the cue maker section
When I was trying to educate myself on different burls for a butt I was designing I would go and look at cue maker websites and see what the finished product looked like on their sticks.
You may also want to ask this question in the cue maker section
This is thuya with ebony points:
My Jim Pierce Custom is coming together
Started with all the right components in the attachment below (thuya burl in sleeve and butt, ebony points with natural and black veneers, black and natural rings, black pebble leather wrap, 2 old growth maple shafts). And now it is together...
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Camphor Burl
The Camphor tree (Cinnamomum camphora), or Camphor laurel as it is sometimes known, is a tropical hardwood found in Southeast Asia. This is another one of those trees where the plain wood is considered below par in the woodworking world. It isn't as strong or hard as many tropical hardwoods and has a fairly mundane, light brown color that is often mixed with rather unattractive olive or gray tones. Because of this, plain Camphor wood is rarely exported for commercial purposes.
Camphor burl, however, is a completely different animal. Here the wood takes on a much more vivid golden-brown color complemented by intense curly figures interspersed with bird's eye patterns. Camphor burl is commonly available in both veneer and solid burl forms, and is often used for electric guitar tops. One unusual fact about Camphor wood is that freshly worked material smells strongly of root beer!
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Thuya Burl
Thuya (Tetraclinis articulata) is one of the more interesting and exotic trees in our list. Native to the remote Atlas Mountains of Morocco, this relatively small coniferous tree is a member of the Cypress family - Cupressaceae. Thuya wood has been used since ancient times, and was highly prized by both the Greeks and Romans for its pleasant fragrance and mesmerizing orange-brown to red-brown root burls.
In fact, Thuya was purportedly used - along with the famous cedars of Lebanon - to construct King Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem. In the 1st century BC, the famous Roman politician Marcus Tullius Cicero bought a Thuya burl table for the princely sum of 300,000 denarii. This sum was more than 1,300 times the annual salary of an average Roman solider.
Today, Thuya burl is becoming much scarcer because of the tree's limited geographical range and widespread deforestation. As a result, Thuya burls are typically only available in small sizes.
The Camphor tree (Cinnamomum camphora), or Camphor laurel as it is sometimes known, is a tropical hardwood found in Southeast Asia. This is another one of those trees where the plain wood is considered below par in the woodworking world. It isn't as strong or hard as many tropical hardwoods and has a fairly mundane, light brown color that is often mixed with rather unattractive olive or gray tones. Because of this, plain Camphor wood is rarely exported for commercial purposes.
Camphor burl, however, is a completely different animal. Here the wood takes on a much more vivid golden-brown color complemented by intense curly figures interspersed with bird's eye patterns. Camphor burl is commonly available in both veneer and solid burl forms, and is often used for electric guitar tops. One unusual fact about Camphor wood is that freshly worked material smells strongly of root beer!
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Thuya Burl
Thuya (Tetraclinis articulata) is one of the more interesting and exotic trees in our list. Native to the remote Atlas Mountains of Morocco, this relatively small coniferous tree is a member of the Cypress family - Cupressaceae. Thuya wood has been used since ancient times, and was highly prized by both the Greeks and Romans for its pleasant fragrance and mesmerizing orange-brown to red-brown root burls.
In fact, Thuya was purportedly used - along with the famous cedars of Lebanon - to construct King Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem. In the 1st century BC, the famous Roman politician Marcus Tullius Cicero bought a Thuya burl table for the princely sum of 300,000 denarii. This sum was more than 1,300 times the annual salary of an average Roman solider.
Today, Thuya burl is becoming much scarcer because of the tree's limited geographical range and widespread deforestation. As a result, Thuya burls are typically only available in small sizes.
I had a cue once with a thuya handle looked incredible
This camper doesn’t look that good In comparison
This camper doesn’t look that good In comparison
thuya burl ? its distinctive smell .
you should visit a wood supplier who stock it, that's a much better way to learn than a forum ...
you tend to see things as confrontational
i was merely trying to educate the op
and i answered his question
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this from you
"Your warm and inviting post is what makes this place so charming. Keep up the good work."
go read some of your replies in NPR and see how "warm and inviting" you are
oh by the way
keep up the good work...
