Brazilian Rosewood burl?

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Anyone has authentic BR burl; Could you post pictures?
I have imported quite a bit of BR from a very reputable luthier company and some pieces are extremely curly, presumably unsuitable for guitars. People may also call it “stump wood”.
Here is a piece in question.

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I don't think I'd call that a burl, but yeah, "stump wood" is likely a good description. Certainly "swirly grain" fits as well.

Beautiful piece, whatever you decide to call it :smile:
 
I would consider the bottom left the start of burl, the kind of "ghost face" patterning. Here are some photos of a piece I have; essentially a small half log. Incredibly hard to photograph--wet didn't help, so here it is dry. This was cut from a small log that clearly had a burl (this is from a section that was all gnarly on the outside). Hopefully, you can see the abundance of "eyes" or "faces" and swirly grain. I've never seen super burled BRW.

Nice piece you got!!

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Never cut any BRB but I see that kind of figure in burls. Burls are not just eyes and rays some crazy 3d curl gets in there and huge color variations. Burl = aberration. JMO of course.
 
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