Compared with other wood species for the bowl, do you feel that mulberry is the easiest to heat-bend? i.e. you can easily bend a thick piece without breaking it
Mulberry definitely is one of the most easy-bending woods I've tried yet. but also tricky to work with because of the lack of density that it has, so it's even better to bend it in more thicknesses between 3 to 3.5 everything is excellent. some Iranian makers bend mulberry even in 4-6mm with boiling technique but not for the Oud.
@@mansouroud That's interesting to learn. So first bend it and then thin it down with scrapers to say 2.5 mm? Also where does the mulberry you used in this video come from?
@@abdumushuk2219 this is a very high quality mulberry from north east of iran (khorasan province) also famous as: desert mulberry. Very toxic to work with but valuable. About the scraper an thickness: no, scraper does not remove that much material from the wood. Very little very thin layer it shaves. All major thickness strategies must be done before bending
@@mansouroud By "toxic" you mean it is tricky to work with or it gives allergic reactions lol? I play Uyghur duttar (entirely made of mulberry) and tried working with mulberry. Unfortunately after a dozen of times working with it, it started to give me allergic reactions on the nose and skin...
@@mansouroud The mulberry used for making duttar comes from the oases of Tarim basin in Xinjiang, but they can be quite different in terms of density and rigidity. I have this feeling that the less spring wood (porous part), the harder and heavier it would be.
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Compared with other wood species for the bowl, do you feel that mulberry is the easiest to heat-bend? i.e. you can easily bend a thick piece without breaking it
Mulberry definitely is one of the most easy-bending woods I've tried yet. but also tricky to work with because of the lack of density that it has, so it's even better to bend it in more thicknesses between 3 to 3.5 everything is excellent. some Iranian makers bend mulberry even in 4-6mm with boiling technique but not for the Oud.
@@mansouroud That's interesting to learn. So first bend it and then thin it down with scrapers to say 2.5 mm? Also where does the mulberry you used in this video come from?
@@abdumushuk2219 this is a very high quality mulberry from north east of iran (khorasan province) also famous as: desert mulberry. Very toxic to work with but valuable.
About the scraper an thickness: no, scraper does not remove that much material from the wood. Very little very thin layer it shaves. All major thickness strategies must be done before bending
@@mansouroud By "toxic" you mean it is tricky to work with or it gives allergic reactions lol? I play Uyghur duttar (entirely made of mulberry) and tried working with mulberry. Unfortunately after a dozen of times working with it, it started to give me allergic reactions on the nose and skin...
@@mansouroud The mulberry used for making duttar comes from the oases of Tarim basin in Xinjiang, but they can be quite different in terms of density and rigidity. I have this feeling that the less spring wood (porous part), the harder and heavier it would be.
Greetings, brother! do you have a telegram channel?
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Hello brother 👋 nice to have you here.
I'm on telegram but don't have a channel. Personal profile.
But of you have a question or something I can give you my telegram number 🙏
@@mansouroud Yes. Thank you. Give me your number, please.