Solid Wood Expertise

by Sunday, June 8, 2014

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To ensure a top quality product when building solid wood furniture made here in America, a certain level of expertise is required. The Amish communities in Ohio possess furniture crafting expertise in every way, from the initial stages of assembly, to the actual execution of the piece.

First, they start with a simple method of sketching the projected design, which can take only seconds as these experts have had ample practice. This efficiency in sketching illustrates a mastery of the skill required to produce high quality solid wood furniture.

Once the plans are sketched, the building process begins from scratch. A special glue matrix is used in assembling the furniture to prevent warping and cracking due to moisture fluctuations that happen frequently in solid wood posts and slabs.  All of this initial of drafting, building and perfecting of the raw furniture sets the stage for the array of finishes and detail that can be added to complete these beautiful, top grade solid wood pieces.

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