Curly birch, known also as Karelian birch, Masur birch or Karelian Birch burl x-cut blank. Perfect material for carving Nordic-style birch handle or hand carved items like pens or sustainable wooden jewellery.
Our wood is cut in winter-time and kiln dried. We saw blanks from our trees manually to bring out the best of the Birch burl pattern including flame- and curly figures. Part of the wood is covered with luminous-looking wood waves. Ideal material for carving knives with birch handle.
Please notice that wood is a natural material and can contain (not visible) small, easily repairable inner cracks. Every Curly birch scale pattern is unique.
Dimensions of blocks may vary slightly, it means, that you can get a bit bigger block than described.
Additional information about Curly birch
Curly birch’s also known as Karelian birch, Masur birch or Birch burl. Curly birch grainy pattern wood belongs to the world’s ten most expensive among the precious wood. Cultivation of curly birch is environmentally friendly management, because valuable quality wood originates mainly from former agricultural areas. Main of our plantation curly birch trees are certified clones of most famous Finnish curly birch tree called “Visa Kuningatar”