Est. 1998 — 27 years of woodworking knowledge
https://www.reddit.com/r/woodworking/comments/193o0ki/my_grandpa_made_this_table_and_has_no_interest_in/
I found this interesting. Being Reddit, it has lots of comments from younger (aspiring) woodworkers discussing what burl is and why it is valuable, what its best use might be, etc. (Click link for comments.) Different age demographic here, and I'm curious what y'all's thoughts are.
My first thought is: how do you move something like that? Second thought is: how do you dry something like that so that it doesn't self-destruct? Actually I've got an oak burl of considerable size (3' diameter?) growing in my front woods and would have the tree cut down and harvest the burl but I'm sure that I'd manage to screw it up by some mistake along the way.
Reminds me of the 70s/80s salvager throwing things like this on a wall to sell to nearby traffic on the highway driving to their favorite fishing hole. These, sometimes, showed up at junk stores but were mostly burned years later at another favorite fishing hole.
I had to chuckle at the house cleaner's pragmatizm in the Reddit comments. Exactly my sentiments. . . . Maybe, it could live out on the cabin's patio near the fire ring.
My thoughts: As oldies-but-goodies I think we get wound up in perfectionistic details and fail miserably at the big picture. I am reminded of one cabinet maker/author to Pop Wood designing and building a massive armoire/chest of drawers to fit some bedroom no longer sized to fit it with the king-bed that had 6-inch clearance from walls. Antique stores had these same pieces occupying warehouses, and; Habitat for humanity was offering them for wood salvage values. Pretty but ghastly big.