Red Mallee Burl Compote

Those Aussie burls; I can't get enough of them.
This compote was turned from Red Mallee Burl, a native of Australia. It's composed of 3 different parts: bowl, spindle, and base.
The inside bowl and spindle are friction polished and the base and bowl edges are finished with BLO. Wanted to get that dramatic look on the inner bowl versus the outer edge. Comments are always welcomed.
DImensions: 6.5" tall x 5"-8" wide.

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Leo Frilot

Registered: February 2007
Location: Baton Rouge, LA
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Date: Thu March 8, 2007
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Keywords: red mallee burl compote

Comments

Gil

Leo, a fine dish from lovely wood.
Gil

#1 Fri March 9, 2007 12:32am

kidcolombia

Leo, Wow and wow again! Beautiful work with a beautiful piece of burl. Where does one buy such wood? Did you have trouble deciding what to do with such a blank or did it decide for you. Congrats!

#2 Fri March 9, 2007 12:51am

cptenaud

I have not seen anything you have done yet that I don?t like. But this is what I would call rare. I?m sure the wood cost quite a bit. And then add the time. This is truly a Gallery piece.

#3 Fri March 9, 2007 2:34am

Larry Charlot

High quality piece you created there

#4 Fri March 9, 2007 2:54am

N_Addy

Creative, unique, and beautiful. Nice work!

#5 Fri March 9, 2007 8:21am

cfuller

Leo I can't get enough of seeing all the great things you've turned from the aussie burls. This one is really nice!.

#6 Sat March 10, 2007 3:19am

Leo Frilot

You guys/gals are the best. I'm gonna put all of you in my next commercial. Thanks for the kind words.

TONI, these are burls from YOUR native land. You need to get us all hooked up on the burls from Australia. Then we could all afford to turn this stuff! Smile

#7 Sat March 10, 2007 5:13am

jgo317

Leo, do you mind telling us how much this piece of burl cost? I'm very curious. You obviously did a very good job, but I think you could mess up and the characteristics of the wood could make up for it.

#8 Sat March 10, 2007 1:16pm

TomTunget

Tom Tunget

Beautiful piece of work Leo!

#9 Sat March 10, 2007 5:28pm

Leo Frilot

Actually, the wood came from a WR member. His name is Lee Tannenbaum and the website is www.leetreewoodworks.com. It wasn't very expensive, in my opinion. He's got a big supply of Aussie burls. Tell him I sent you.

#10 Sat March 10, 2007 11:15pm