It's a Burl - A photo tour of where I work

[Burl Source]

The place where I work is called It's a Burl. It's kind of an unusual place as you will see from the photos. Mostly what we do here is make burl furniture and other items for our galleries. We also sell a lot of wood to crafts people as well as resellers. Myself, I primarily prepare and sell wood online and sometimes make stuff for our galleries.

It is a pretty easy going place. Our boss lets us work when we want. He figures if we set our own schedules we will do better work. There are several people that work here making furniture and other unusual stuff. Some of these people have really active imaginations. Summertime we get to work outdoors. One of the workshops is up in one of the trees.

People tease us sometimes saying that we are an unusual place, with unusual people making unusual things from unusual wood. I'll leave it up to you to form your own opinion.

There are lots of tree houses around the place. This first one is a work shop during the summer. Nice and shady with a good breeze. They use the forklift to get things down when a piece is completed.

This one is a 3 story tree house.

The old tow truck was used for moving big burls around before it was retired.

 

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As you can probably tell, I am just wondering around the place with my camera. It's not a fancy place, but it is kind of fun here.

One of the guys that used to work here liked to carve carousel horses and stuff like that. Now he's famous and carving stuff in Mexico for the rich tourists.

Kentucky Fried Chicken's Corp office threatened a lawsuit over the guy in the striped coat back when he was holding a rubber chicken instead of the sign.

The guy in the overalls is my boss Harvey. He's 76 years old but outworks most of the people here.

This is JD. She makes cool furniture and is one of our best bowl carvers.

 

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Here are some more photos of the outdoors portion of our place.
Washing a burl.

Some caps in the burl barn.

The outside of the burl barn.

More wood

Lots of unusual stuff around the place.

Now some photos inside the galleries

 

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More photos inside the gallery.

The guy who does the carving here is pretty good.

Now back outside to head over to the other gallery.

We make a lot of porch swings this time of the year.

This is Jeff. He does pottery here a few days out of the week.

 

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Kids really like the place too.

An old 3 wheeler tractor.

If you are ever in SW Oregon you should stop by.

 

[Tostig]

Great pics ! I would love to visit that place one day. Man do I adore Oregon.


Tostig

 

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Several of the forum members have been out to our place. It's kind of fun to just wonder around. Especially when the weather is good. Last year Subaru came out and filmed on of their commercials here. If you come out just be sure to allow at least half a day to spend here.

 

[sharpeknives]

Now that looks like a cool place to work.

 

[molly's survival]

those chairs and benches are awesome

 

[JasonSCarter]

Unbelievably cool! looks like a really nice place to work!

Jason

 

[velosa]

Awesome pics, and thanks for sharing. Looks like a pretty sweet place to work. Wonderful wood as well. Keep them coming! :thumbup:

 

[2Edgy4u]

Hey BurlSource. Very cool pics.! I lived in Idaho for 6 years, and in my backyard was.. Just about the most burlwood I have ever seen!!!! I had so much of it, I made tables, chairs, endtables, clocks, lamps, well you name it. Cool thing was that 90% of it was knive handle quality!!! so that made alot of great furniture and a bunch of other things my brain cooked up. I still have 4-500 lbs. of most of the real wild stuff for knives, but I am still tryin to figure out how to hardin or stablize it (then it really looks cool) I guess there is just a bunch of great burls in Oregon & Idaho.!! Looked in both states (Oregon was right across the Snake River that was in my backyard. Well 75 yards away from the back of my house.) Well you have yourself a great one, and thanks for the pics. (I guess I should post some of my own soon) Enjoy. Edgy

 

[Fletch Helical]

those chairs and benches are awesome

I was thinking the same thing. Very cool looking place pretty sure most of us addicts would get all giddy being around all that wood. If there would be an easy and cheap way to get some of that stuff across country I'd probably refurnish rooms as I needed it with whatever you guys have there. Wife loves that kind of stuff too.

 

[Mark Knapp]

Thanks for the show Mark, cool place

 

[Wloch248]

Cool, cool, cool!

I love stopping in to places like those. SO many creative minds in one place.

BTW. how much would a chair like the one 3 pictures up on the right be? I'm sure it is out of my current range but have to ask.

 

[Leadfoot2]

Will have to stop by, I'm not that far away.

Leadfoot

 

[Dan Pierson]

Way cool. I'm trying to figure a way for a least a lightning visit next month...

 

[montana guy]

Very cool. Looks like a lot of fun.
How close to the California are you? My sister lives real close to it and one of these days I will make it over there and would love to see the place in person.

 

[Shawn fu]

Looks like a great place to work.A creative atmosphere to say the least:thumbup:

 

[David Wesner]

Very neat spot !!! :thumbup: :thumbup:

Thank you for posting the pics