How to sell burls. Bottom line its a huge gamble on what it is worth until it is sawed into usable view able scales then it may be worth quite a bit. Nested set of black ash burl bowls all cut from one burl. We would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us. Value buying selling barbara gill remlik va according to a guy i talked to at a place that specializes in burls a whole burl might not have as much value as one that has been opened up and proven sound.
Most burls grow beneath the ground attached to the roots as a type of malignancy that is generally not discovered until the tree dies or falls over. So especially if youre hoping to find lots of burls in a single location check first under heavily canopied areas near a water source. It may be caused by an injury virus or fungus. Fungal diseases are a major cause of tree burls and tree fungi thrive in dark damp conditions.
A burl results from a tree undergoing some form of stress. Such burls sometimes appear as groups of bulbous protrusions connected by a system of rope like roots. Ebay is a good place to sell box elder burl because theres a few guys one in particular who dyes and stabilizes woods and resells it mostly as knife scales because they are so profitable but also as pistol grip blanks. Burlwood has been selling high quality burl for 35 years in six different domestic.
A piece of wood that makes up the handle itself like on a custom bowie knife is just referred to as a handle. The other problem with those big round burls is that until you get cutting into it you really dont know which way to make the best cut to get the best looking scales. If you want the mother lode of burl then have a look around the site. The burl i sell is second to none.
Let me supply you with your burl wood needs. I get a lot of responses to my website from people who have burls and want to sell them.