Good veneer wood for furniture and interior decorating. Logs having an olive-colored heart (“Olive Ash”) as well as Ash burls are in specially high demand as Olive Ash. Also used as wood for sports equipment (parallel bars, etc., due to its high bending strength), gun stocks, tool handles and grips. Brown heart veneers are stained dark and are used as interior veneers.

Origin: Europe

Very decorative veneer wood, high quality architectural woodwork and high class furniture making. The color of the heartwood is light to dark brown. Fine-eyed burl veneer with large dimensions and few open defects or bark pockets are sold at very high prices. The wood takes any surface treatment well.

Origin: Central Europe

Mapa Burl are Poplar trees which develop abnormal trunk formations as a result of external influences, i.e. burl growth in the form of widely        scattered, little spots in their trunks but not in their roots giving the veneer its burly appearance. As rotary cut wood for high quality face veneer.The wood is not steamed, i.e. rotary cut cold.

Origin: Central, Western and Eastern Europe.

It is used for high quality architectural woodwork, furniture production possible but only produced in Southern Europe so far. The veneers are       relatively fragile. The Vavona Burl is deep dark red in color and in principle one can differentiate between two types (1) Lace form: the actually burly wood &  (2)  Birdseye form, fine, darkly pronounced dots are scattered over the surface similar to the Birdseye Maple.

Origin: North America

The burl is only a “by-product”, the actual purpose of the tree is to grow nuts.second product and sold. Highest quality interior work and furniture production.Walnut burl occurs in many different forms. From head veneer and cluster to solid burl which now as before numbers amongst the most expensive and most sought after veneers. Splitting often occurs within the trunk.

Origin: West coast of the USA from Southern California to Oregon