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Sorry folks, a Tilia Cordata again.

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The tree is of course far from glory untill now.
But I can't help my self, I simply like this tree.
Maybe because of the memories ...
Sometimes I think, there is a very special kind of feeling, that is associated
with this collecting-thing.

I clearly can remember the time I digged the tree.
It was in spring of 2012:
On the ground, near the trunk there laid the radient white lower jaw of a deer.
The smell in the air was like a mixture of the forest itself and the humble flavor
of a faylike little flower.
The light was a kind of reddish-tender glowing.
The climate had a feeling of a freshnes, that the winter left behind while fleeing northbound.
I was standing right in the middle of paradise that day ...

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Impressive tree. How are the big chop wounds healing?
 

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They will not heal anyway, petegreg.
They will rot and rot and the callus will roll in at the rim of the wounds.
This procedure is natural to this species, no problem, will look good in acouple of years ...
 

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Most certainly would have dug this up given the opportunity. good material and nice work

the wood is very soft on Tilia, i was surprised how bendy the branches and bits of trunk were on my own two, that alone tells me it would rot easily and wouldnt be good for carving. Uro's can work though.
 

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Yes, i am with you Bobby.
Decaying of carved linden-wood is very fast, but they have the possibility to shield the rotting-process from healthy tissue.
 
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Really like it. Nice find! Please post a few picks ones it's leaves come in. I can't wait to see it.
 

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Here we go Nwait.

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Please bear in mind, that the tree is in its very first step of development.
Foliage can not be in a mature stage .
Sorry no foliage-pics of 2015 ...

By the way Bobby , opportunities for collecting are not given, but found and acquired ...
 
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Lol that's funny!

I turned in to a bush.
 

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Yes indeed ...
... but puts alot of energy into the tree as well ...
and that was my aim at that stage of develo. ...
 
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Great tree and even better story to go with it.

I got out looking to small trees to carve in to staffs/walking sticks and it reminded me off it. Thanks..

I can wait for spring.
 

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Nice carving job, also great material.
Did you color the inside of uro (with what)?
Also good photographing skills.

Inspiring staff...
 

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Yes klosi, the hollow-parts are colored with woodstain from the hardwarestore.
and thank you for nice comment according to photo.-skills because i am relativly new to
that photographing-area ... ;)
 

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Aren't uro's carved :rolleyes: ?

A Uro can be made from a callused over wound or scar, dead branch stubs that have callus rolling in on the trunk, simply by hollowing out the rotted wood inside. thats the way i usually do them, but yeh you can carve them into live wood if you like. i wouldnt do that on Tilia though. i have done it on harder wooded trees. you could just as well remove rotted wood with a knife:rolleyes:
 
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Cool tree and a good example of how to hide big cuts in a few short years.

As is, the tree is very nice but have you ever considered ground layering at the slightly bulgy section of inverse taper on the trunk?
 

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matt your are maybe right, there is something to be done on the tachiagari.
but the good news are, that there is a "reserve" under the soil's surface.
i mean, i think it is possibly to enhance the lower part of the trunc by
promoting the upper root-sytem.

by the way, other viewing angles would not show an "inverse taper",
but i liked this view best.
 
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