Burl – y Bowls

Burl – y Bowls

Like many good ideas, it presented itself whilst sitting by campfire. Picking up the gnarly, bulbous chunk of wood, I thought: “this could be made into a bowl…”

“Nothing to it,” I thought. Just carve out this here thinger and we’ll be slurping up some Campbell’s Chunky in two shakes of a whisker… or so I thought. But let’s back up. What the heck is a “burl” anyway?

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