Forest Gems

Specialties

Seems for Yelp I have to specialize in explaining our 2 star rating. Go to my website photo gallery and look for the yelp logo. I give Yelp minus 100 stars for specific reasons my replies to Yelpers explains. Remember folks, Yelp reviews are totally unverified. We have over 50,000 random visitors a year, My actual customers have kept me around for over 39 years and almost none find the time or need to «Yelp». A group of non purchasing visitors feeding off each other’s «reviews» have each given us one star. See my replies where I offer cash to them to prove their rants via a polygraph. Real customers continue to know how unusual this business and what we offer is. There are more thanks and respect to them than space allowed here. Anyone’s experience anywhere depends on what they as individuals project. Harvey Windle, owner of Forest Gems has made his living doing original woodcraft designs and working with customers from around the world for 39 years. Forest Gems mills much of our own spalted and quilted Western Maple that we and our seclect group of woodcrafters work. In addition we have milled wood and finished items in Oregon Myrtle, Redwood and other high figure woods from the West Coast.

History

Established in 1976.

About the history of our 2 star rating. Go to my website photo gallery and look for the yelp logo. We have over 50,000 random visitors a year, and display fragile work with a trust often violated. Remember folks, Yelp reviews are totally unverified by Yelp, and all those people you would like to avoid yourself in life are impossible to avoid in retail. Mental state, sobriety, need for revenge when corrected while damaging things, and common sense of our «visitors» varies widely as in the general population. My actual customers have kept me around for over 39 years and almost none find the time or need to «Yelp». There are more thanks and respect to them than space allowed here.

My work has found homes in virtually every country in the world, representing the region‘s artistry to travelers who found me at the Pike Place Market crafts line from 1976 to 2000, and now at Forest Gems since 1996

Meet the Business Owner

Harvey W.

Business Owner

The most important thing to know about this business owner are his answers to unverified Yelper reviews. Go to my website and look for the yelp logo. Thanks to my great customers who have better things to do than «Yelp». Do read the tone and attitude of «reviewers» and my replies. Quick story… woman gives me a 5 star review but says we lower prices for locals after October, her slam at «tourists». She had no understanding of our year around customers and spike in wood sales and more expensive custom orders in the winter. Yelp would not remove the damaging «5 star review» that starred this woman’s ego, not my business. She finally took down her «review» after I had to private message her repeatedly, showing her my official reply seen by all showed she did not know my business at all. Yelp has no process for even this simple correction. I didn’t need her 5 stars. I don’t discriminate. This woman’s distorted reality was approved by Yelp.