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Originally Posted by powerfunk
I've also seen "burlwood" dials. Briar root is a type of burlwood, so maybe they're the same thing? Doesn't look like the same color though
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Burl (or burr) wood isn’t a type of wood like Birch or Walnut - It is the wood inside those big lumps, like goiters, you see growing from the side of a tree trunk, often at the base. All the 5-digit dials are from burls, just from burls which grew from those three different species of tree.
The catalog pages I’ve seen specify only the three in my post, I’ve never seen oak nor madrone (nor briar) listed.
The 4-digit “Wood” dials are different, regular straight grain wood, not burl. I’ve never seen the type of wood specified on those, though I’ve also seen one seller call it Sequoia. It could be so, those are obviously an open-pore wood.