• The forum upgrades have been completed. These were moderate security fixes from our software vendor and it looks like everything is working well. If you see any problems please post in the Forum Technical Support forum or email us at forum_moderator (at) aawforum.org. Thank you
  • February 2026 Turning Challenge: Cookie Jar! (click here for details)
  • Congratulations to Matt Carvalho for "Red Mallee Folded Form" being selected as Turning of the Week for February 9, 2026 (click here for details)
  • AAW Symposium demonstrators announced - If the 2026 AAW International Woodturning Symposium is not on your calendar, now is the time to register. And there are discounts available if you sign up early, by Feb. 28. Early Bird pricing gives you the best rate for our 40th Anniversary Symposium in Raleigh, North Carolina, June 4–7, 2026. (There are discounts for AAW chapter members too) For more information vist the discussion thread here or the AAW registration page
  • Welcome new registering member. Your username must be your real First and Last name (for example: John Doe). "Screen names" and "handles" are not allowed and your registration will be deleted if you don't use your real name. Also, do not use all caps nor all lower case.

Filthy Riches

Emiliano Achaval

Emiliano Achaval

Administrator
Staff member
Beta Tester
TOTW Team
Joined
Dec 14, 2015
Messages
3,374
Likes
4,710
Location
Maui, Hawaii
Website
hawaiiankoaturner.com
I now have a big screen TV with an Apple TV in my shop. Today I had a Netflix show on "Filthy Riches" One of the jobs is a group of friends hunting for burls. Amazing huge burls from hard to reach locations. I sort of watch while I'm sanding... I think I might go back and watch it again. Like with all the weird things they find, like some kind of worms and Ginseng, they put a $ value, I think they are exaggerating the price, maybe they are not selling them to woodturners, maybe for veneer they can get those prices... I think I will email the producers and tell them I have a "filthy" job for their show, ahh, wait, we have the filthy part, but not the riches, lol
 
Emiliano Achaval said:
I now have a big screen TV with an Apple TV in my shop. Today I had a Netflix show on "Filthy Riches" One of the jobs is a group of friends hunting for burls. Amazing huge burls from hard to reach locations. I sort of watch while I'm sanding... I think I might go back and watch it again. Like with all the weird things they find, like some kind of worms and Ginseng, they put a $ value, I think they are exaggerating the price, maybe they are not selling them to woodturners, maybe for veneer they can get those prices... I think I will email the producers and tell them I have a "filthy" job for their show, ahh, wait, we have the filthy part, but not the riches, lol
Click to expand...
If you have a "filthy" job, you should have contacted Mike Rowe and his show "Dirty Jobs" while it was on. I enjoyed that show. It showed what average people had to do to make a living.
 
They always exaggerate the prices on reality TV shows to add interest to the show. Just like Storage Wars ruined the market for anyone buying storage units. Just what we need a bunch of get rich quick schmucks running around in the forest cutting burls off of trees.
 
Mike Johnson said:
They always exaggerate the prices on reality TV shows to add interest to the show. Just like Storage Wars ruined the market for anyone buying storage units. Just what we need a bunch of get rich quick schmucks running around in the forest cutting burls off of trees.
Click to expand...
I posted this also on the WOW. Very interesting there!! Chris Ramsey knows the guy from the tv show, he got ripped off by him... He is one of the guys that purchases burls for big money... He recommends another nice person to buy burls... I'm happy that I found a once in a lifetime Koa Burl. I'm almost ready to turn it...
 
re reality TV. Like the not so Amish Amish guys on Amish mafia. I did work for a loose association of folks who were weather chasers. They were approached for a reality show that never got far. . The honchos in the group were talked into getting all these high tech expensive things for "the show" which never happened. A few hours of stuff was actually taped and it turned out some of the tape was actually phone conversations recorded without permission. (A felony in this state) . Then as it turns out, the promoter actually wrote an advance check to one of the honchos in the group and he quietly spent the bucks and never told anyone else. A lot of folks got burned in the thing and the group pretty much was tore apart.
 
Mike Johnson said:
They always exaggerate the prices on reality TV shows to add interest to the show. Just like Storage Wars ruined the market for anyone buying storage units. Just what we need a bunch of get rich quick schmucks running around in the forest cutting burls off of trees.
Click to expand...

We already have burl thieves in the Pacific NW. The theft of figured western maple out of the National Forests got so bad the state enacted a law requiring proof of ownership when transporting cut wood.

Back in the day western maple was considered firewood.
 
there’s also been people stealing redwood burl from the Northern California forests - they don’t seem to care if they’re taking from old stumps or the base of old growth living trees - just hit and run and convert to cash.
 
JeffSmith said:
there’s also been people stealing redwood burl from the Northern California forests - they don’t seem to care if they’re taking from old stumps or the base of old growth living trees - just hit and run and convert to cash.
Click to expand...
One way to try to stop that is making it a higher crime, more fines, jail time...
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top