Here's where you come to follow the progress of your piece of furniture in the shop. No, wood doesn't talk--or does it? Sure it does! As we work on your piece we learn things about where it's been, how it's been used, maybe even who (or what) has used it, and often about where it came from originally. It's a lot of fun and typically quite interesting.

This space also gives us a chance to let you know about any special experiences or progress related challenges. We try to chronicle work completed on your furniture whenever anything significant occurs. So there may not be an entry every day, but when we document them, we hope you will find these journal entries are fun, informative, purposeful, and creative.

So, have fun "listening" to our dialogue with your piece, as it is, it's Wood Talkin.
Email: woodtalkin@gmail.com

Sunday, January 16, 2011

It's An Anticipatory Hummmm


Do you remember what it felt like at the end of the school day when you were in elementary school? I do. All of us were watching the clock and counting down the minutes. There was a perceptible humm in the room anticipating the bell. "Reeeeeng," and we were on our way home!

That's what it feels like here at the shop right now. The various pieces are in readiness. I can "hear" the hummm, a low decibel (whisper) repetition of the words, "We're goin' home...?!"

The really cold weather was responsible for slowing some shop processes down a little bit and bunching up the delivery effort. It's nearly caught up now. The pieces seem to sense it, a walnut coffee table, two mahogany hutches, a little music box, an antique rocker, and two antique dining chairs. I'm sure they're commiserating!

The pictures you see: (top) two "exploded" hutches in the spray booth and the walnut coffee table
(below, right) awaiting a buff before its finish coat . Breathless anticipation.

That's it for now, more Wood Talkin.

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