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Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: DC on February 06, 2016, 09:15:09 pm

Title: Ocean Spray burl
Post by: DC on February 06, 2016, 09:15:09 pm: I found this Ocean Spray burl while looking for bow staves and couldn't leave it there. The knob is 3 1/2" wide. It would make a heck of a fish club or war club if I was at war with someone. It weighs 2 pounds. I've never seen an OS burl before. Hopefully it will dry without checking too much. Got no idea what to do with it.
Title: Re: Ocean Spray burl
Post by: osage outlaw on February 06, 2016, 09:56:23 pm: That's pretty cool looking. I'd try to make a war club out of it.
Title: Re: Ocean Spray burl
Post by: Zuma on February 07, 2016, 01:12:43 am: You can dry it in the microwave DC .
Just zap it a minuet at a time. open the door
after every zap to let the moisture out and the wood to cool.
Hold it to your cheek untill the cool/cold is gone.
Neat find.
Zuma
Title: Re: Ocean Spray burl
Post by: chamookman on February 07, 2016, 05:11:58 am: I think it would make a real good "Head Knocker" . Bob
Title: Re: Ocean Spray burl
Post by: Tracker0721 on February 07, 2016, 01:26:05 pm: Whoa whoa, is that serious Zuma? Heard of a lot of uses for a microwave but drying wood hasn't been mentioned. I found an old microwave cookbook from the 60s or so and it really opened my eyes to microwave uses
Title: Re: Ocean Spray burl
Post by: Zuma on February 07, 2016, 07:12:32 pm: Quote from: Tracker0721 on February 07, 2016, 01:26:05 pm
Whoa whoa, is that serious Zuma? Heard of a lot of uses for a microwave but drying wood hasn't been mentioned. I found an old microwave cookbook from the 60s or so and it really opened my eyes to microwave uses
LOL would I lie ;)
Zuma
Title: Re: Ocean Spray burl
Post by: DC on February 07, 2016, 07:46:14 pm: Moot point, my microwave isn't big enough. I don't want to shorten it any. OS checks so easy I would want to run a test piece first.
Title: Re: Ocean Spray burl
Post by: mullet on February 07, 2016, 10:31:48 pm: Tracker, take a Hole saw and cut two holes in the side of the micro-wave. I wrap staves in wet rags and bend recurves in them after about 40 seconds of heating.
Title: Re: Ocean Spray burl
Post by: Tracker0721 on February 08, 2016, 12:56:23 am: I'm gonna do it. But only after I get my medical insurance to max coverage haha
Title: Re: Ocean Spray burl
Post by: Del the cat on February 08, 2016, 04:34:06 am: Oooh that's cool.
Great for setting arguments >:D
Del
Title: Re: Ocean Spray burl
Post by: mullet on February 08, 2016, 07:36:06 am: It's micro-wave not radiation.
Title: Re: Ocean Spray burl
Post by: JacksonCash on February 08, 2016, 10:17:31 am: Yep, opposite end of the spectrum. Closer to radio waves.
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3PAvlTLclkA/T9X2I7OLlQI/AAAAAAAAAJg/yFtfByYDmME/s1600/uv12.gif)
Title: Re: Ocean Spray burl
Post by: Urufu_Shinjiro on February 08, 2016, 10:50:47 am: Yeah, as long as you aren't staring into the hole or holding the wood in place with your thighs you'll be fine, lol.