A good example

3/18/21, 11:45 PM #1

Clint Searl
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A good example

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Of the state of current high end limited production furniture featuring "responsibly sourced" lumber turned into stuff featuring no design content whatsoever.

https://urbanhardwoods.shop/

Re: A good example

3/19/21, 12:25 AM #2

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Re: A good example

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I agree. Some local "woodworkers" slap 4 Rockler wire legs on a live-edge slab, call it a table and offer it for $600. There is absolutely NO joinery or design. Don't know that they've sold any but they get a lot of gushing comments on the local Facebook group page.

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3/19/21, 1:57 AM #3

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Rats

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You ruined my retirement scheme.

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3/19/21, 8:00 AM #4

Derek Cohen (in Perth, Australia)
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Are they charging enough?

Derek Cohen (in Perth, Australia)

https://urbanhardwoods.shop/collections/occasional-tables/products/cedar-block-end-table-1

$1280 (excludes shipping)

Regards from Perth

Derek

Re: A good example

3/19/21, 3:07 PM #5

paul in AZ
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Expensive kindling

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3/19/21, 3:26 PM #6

Steve Elliott
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You might be surprised

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That cedar end table is similar to an elliptical table my shop was commissioned to do. It was a single piece of salvaged wood with radial splits that had to be filled with epoxy to hold the piece together. The base was smaller than the top so there was a considerable amount of wood to remove.

The first craftsman who was asked to do it refused because he didn't know how to do it. (I wasn't aware that turning down a project was an option.)

By the time the piece was ready its cost would have been several times the $1280 that Urban Hardwoods is charging. No one complained about the price.

I was surprised to see the Urban Hardwoods shop is just a block from where I've been working here in Seattle.

Re: A good example

3/19/21, 3:37 PM #7

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Just threw one of those into the wood-fired boiler

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I’m a fairly spry 82-year-old who had been a reader/participant at WoodCentral since the demise of Badger Pond. I started visiting BP to learn something about finish for a project I’d completed and became hooked on internet forums as a way of increasing my knowledge about all sorts of topics. I have been a moderator for a couple other forums on subjects I enjoy. My interest in woodworking began in the early 1970’s when my wife and I had contractors add to our house near Traverse City, MI, and I ended up doing the trim work to reduce mounting costs. I had no tools. I bought a P-C skilsaw, hammer, screwdrivers and one of those wooden miter boxes with a backsaw. I made trim for windows and doors from one-by lumber and started my woodworking career. At the same time, I started a 50-year career as a ski instructor. I got onto the night shift at a mental hospital so I could ski days, and spent my 30s and 40s with that schedule. I eventually replaced the PC-upside-down-in-a-board with a real table saw and began the purchase of enough equipment to fill a jam-packed 40-foot shipping container we used after we sold our property in Michigan. The ski instructing had taken us to Colorado and we were spending too much on maintaining utilities for two homes. A couple years ago, the dozen years spent at 10,000 feet of elevation was making my body produce too many red blood cells, so we had to leave my “forever” home in the mountains and we moved back to Michigan. Now I have to find myself a shop space for all those tools in the container.

A good example

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