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CRAFTING BESPOKE FURNITURE
Our furniture pieces are Bespoke, this is because
most pieces 
are designed and crafted for a specific client. These hand-crafted individually unique furniture pieces are what we excel at and take great pride in producing. Making so many individual pieces is also the best way of training our team to take what they have learned and start putting these unique skills into practice.
The art of crafting an individual piece is very demanding as each piece will require a different process be used and different methods of joinery in its creation, from its predecessor.
When the project starts, George personally selects the recycled timber to be used in the piece. Once the timber is machined, he color matches the boards to give the best feature to the important surfaces of the piece. This is critical as the wrong timber or colors, can substantially detract from the finished article.
After the color matching, comes the process of making the many complex joints that will ensure that the piece will last a lifetime or longer. The aim is to use no nails or screws in this process if at all possible. The use of interlocking joints helps to achieve this. Some of the joints we use can be seen at the bottom of this Joinery Techniques page.
This picture of a bench under construction shows the large and varied amount of joints that are used in the crafting of a piece of our furniture.
In the picture below, you can see a half dovetail joint that locks two rails together.
In this next picture you can see a half dovetail that is also locked into position by a wedged tenon. The wedged tenon ensures that the two joints will not come apart. This how we can make furniture without nails.
Before the piece is assembled, all pieces are sanded to very smooth finish. The final piece is then assembled as shown in the next picture.
After assembly, the piece has a final sanding and then the chosen finish is applied. This finish can be either a lacquer or our own oil based finish. Both finishes then have 3 coats of beeswax polish applied before being released from the workshop. This type of finish enhances the look of the piece but more importantly, the life of the piece, as the beeswax helps to condition and preserve the wood.
All of our furniture is made using the traditional methods of furniture making that have evolved over hundreds of years. This includes mortise and tenon joints and drawers that have Dovetail Joints to name a few. We DO NOT use nails in the construction of our furniture.
Our furniture is crafted from recycled Philippine hard-woods. We do not use soft woods like Philippine Mahogany (Internationally called "Lauan", but can also be called "Meranti", or "Serai") as it is too soft and has the tendency to shrink and expand to much to make high quality long lasting furniture.
We do not get involved in mass production or copying mass produced furniture for clients. We will however take into account a design that you show us and make that into our interpretation and concept of the piece for you.
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
― Aristotle ―
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