Jane Hiatt

Thanks! This was an exceptional piece of maple burl. Thanks, Scrappile. I just love this stuff, still after all these years.

Thank you so much Peter!

Almost everything I do nowadays is on slabs of Maple burls. No real grain, so I can pretty much go where I want with the blade. I've decided through experience that anything thicker than an inch and a quarter or inch and a half is just too thick for me.

Thank you, Jeff! On to another one or two orders.

Thank you so much!

I think these burls are just beautiful. That's all I use for this type of items. Thank you.

Thank you! I just love to work on these burl slabs. So gratifying when I'm finished.

I really appreciate your compliment. Thank you!

I absolutely am sold on using the maple burls. Thanks for the compliment!

/thank you so much!

maple burl slab

For an avid bass fisherman, a friend of my son who lives in Reno. He loves to go for bass. This big boy is the third one of this pattern that I have completed this winter. Getting ready to UPS to the customer. Pattern by Candy Zine, this piece is again, cut into an inch and a quarter (1-1/4) maple burl slab. I mainly used my Seyco 21" for this project with straight blades, since I struggle with spirals.

I've been working with mostly" maple burl" since about 1985. A little difficult but not because of the grain, I found. Just going through blades and being sure to cut so that the finished cut looks the same on the back. One of my problems with the burls is that the points that held the bark intact, are very, very pointed and sharp. The slabs sand to a beautiful finish. I use mostly 1/16" drill bits but have a big supply of very small bits. ie. #58, 60, 65. I do have a problem with bits that don't have a long enough shank to go all the way through the thick slabs. I found some very, very small aircraft bits, as they are called, but they have such a long, vulnerable shank that they break very easily. I've been known to shorten that shank (shush, don't tell the manufacturer) so that it works for me. Thank you so much for all your kind compliments. Jane

cut into inch and a quarter thick maple burl slab. Cut with Flying Dutchman and Olson blades on my 21" Seyco.

This was a special order from a man whose father and step-mother claimed the zebra as their spirit animal of sorts. Both of these people died and the man that ordered it wants to memorialize his dad and step-mom.