In celebration of 35 years, Mapex Drums recently released a special-edition Saturn Evolution series drum kit featuring a Maple Burl Blaze finish here. Its exotic maple burl veneer, with rich, ...

Thieves seeking valuable maple burls have hit at least half a dozen trees in a Corvallis park, leaving officials searching for answers and police searching for suspects. Since December, the thieves ...

One thing I love about living in the age of the internet is that old students can keep in touch much more easily than when I was young-via email or social media. Recently a highlight in this kind of ...

If you hear chainsaw noise in a Corvallis park, it's not necessarily city maintenance workers. One or more vandals are attacking trees at Corvallis’ Willamette Park and Natural Area for their burls, ...

I’ve had my eye on this maple in my woods for some time. Not because it’s a beautiful timber tree. It’s only about 8 inches in diameter, after all. But it has an interesting burl about 14 feet up the ...

Park volunteers and city staff are on alert after someone sawed valuable pieces off a tree in an Albany park. Sometime in the past week or so, a tree on the Eagle Trail in Takena Landing Park was ...

I don’t know exactly how it happened, but sometime between 2018 and now I became obsessed with burl wood. Maybe I was under the influence of ’70s decor after coming out of my PoMo phase, but something ...