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Chair and Table Evolution
12 June 2009
Chair and Table Evolution
Chair and Table Evolution
We have been building tables and chairs for over twenty years. In that time we have made quite a few design changes. Our first chairs had straight backs and were much more massive than our newest design.
Over the years, I have noticed that a frequent complaint about log dining chairs, is that they are too heavy. Our chairs have evolved from the chunky log look and weight to a more refined, lightweight item of furniture.
Our early table tops were made from vertical grain fir that we obtained from a local mill. We had some problems with the vertical grain and we switched to a top made from little fir thinnings, sawn in half. That top has become our favorite top.
We are sending this newsletter to show you our most recent chair design, the Rustic Elegance. We also want to show you a 6' trestle table with a manzanita brace in the middle crafted from one branch that just happened to grow with the perfect curve for the job.
Write us if you are interested in this set, or one with different dimensions.
In our showroom we also have some chairs of older designs and other items of furniture that we want to sell at close out prices.
Chair and Table Evolution
We have been building tables and chairs for over twenty years. In that time we have made quite a few design changes. Our first chairs had straight backs and were much more massive than our newest design.Over the years, I have noticed that a frequent complaint about log dining chairs, is that they are too heavy. Our chairs have evolved from the chunky log look and weight to a more refined, lightweight item of furniture.
Our early table tops were made from vertical grain fir that we obtained from a local mill. We had some problems with the vertical grain and we switched to a top made from little fir thinnings, sawn in half. That top has become our favorite top.
We are sending this newsletter to show you our most recent chair design, the Rustic Elegance. We also want to show you a 6' trestle table with a manzanita brace in the middle crafted from one branch that just happened to grow with the perfect curve for the job.
Write us if you are interested in this set, or one with different dimensions.
In our showroom we also have some chairs of older designs and other items of furniture that we want to sell at close out prices.
Barstool Order- again
1 April 2008
I have never laid eyes on Jim Abraham, but I have taken a liking to him, nevertheless. I suppose the main thing that makes me like Jim is the fact that he is a valued customer. Jim owns and manages a restaurant in North Conway,New Hampshire called the "Muddy Moose". I first heard from him about nine years ago, when he called me and we negotiated for 40 barstools and several custom table tops for a new restaurant that he was opening. We sent him the bar stools, and went on about our business.
Two years later, I recieved a call from Jim. He informed me that the bar stools that he had purchased were coming apart on him. I was distraught. I asked him what he wanted us to do, with some trepidation; I had visions of packing and shipping forty barstools back and forth across the country, at great effort and expense. Jim put my fears to rest. "Send me forty more," he said. ""My customers are really hard on furniture, but everybody really loves those barstools.!!" We agreed to make a few design changes, in the hope of more durability.
We made the next forty, and sent them off, with gratitude for such a good sized order, and a sigh of relief for what might have been.
Just a couple of weeks ago, seven years after the second order, Jim called again. "I need forty more barstools" Jim said. "They lasted over seven years this time, and they still generate a lot of admiration from my customers." We are hard at work, as we speak building the latest version of our barstools for Jim.
I was so impressed by Jim's loyalty to our product that I have invited him to come visit us in Oregon. I even offered to put him up in our log home during his stay. My wife and I live in a five bedroom log home outside Cave Junction, in Southern Oregon. We built the log home when we had six children at home, and moved in thirty years ago. All of the children have graduated from college, and scattered to the winds. My wife and I are rattling around in that cabin like marbles in a dish, so we have lots of room for company. I hope Jim takes me up on my offer, but, if he is as busy with his business as I am with mine, he probably doesn't take a lot of vacations.
Delbert Kauffman
Two years later, I recieved a call from Jim. He informed me that the bar stools that he had purchased were coming apart on him. I was distraught. I asked him what he wanted us to do, with some trepidation; I had visions of packing and shipping forty barstools back and forth across the country, at great effort and expense. Jim put my fears to rest. "Send me forty more," he said. ""My customers are really hard on furniture, but everybody really loves those barstools.!!" We agreed to make a few design changes, in the hope of more durability.
We made the next forty, and sent them off, with gratitude for such a good sized order, and a sigh of relief for what might have been.
Just a couple of weeks ago, seven years after the second order, Jim called again. "I need forty more barstools" Jim said. "They lasted over seven years this time, and they still generate a lot of admiration from my customers." We are hard at work, as we speak building the latest version of our barstools for Jim.
I was so impressed by Jim's loyalty to our product that I have invited him to come visit us in Oregon. I even offered to put him up in our log home during his stay. My wife and I live in a five bedroom log home outside Cave Junction, in Southern Oregon. We built the log home when we had six children at home, and moved in thirty years ago. All of the children have graduated from college, and scattered to the winds. My wife and I are rattling around in that cabin like marbles in a dish, so we have lots of room for company. I hope Jim takes me up on my offer, but, if he is as busy with his business as I am with mine, he probably doesn't take a lot of vacations.
Delbert Kauffman
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19 March 2008
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