Have you ever seen a piece of furniture and thought, "Hey, that would look great in my house…if only it were a little longer,” or, “if only it was made of a different type of wood,” or, “if only it were constructed better,” or, well, you get the picture. 

Custom woodworkers building custom furniture and other woodwork enable you, the consumer, to obtain exactly what you want in the way of furniture and cabinetry.

   Why should I care that Wood Moves?

Many people are under the impression that wood is generally an unchanging, static material. In fact, wood moves (shrinks and expands) perpendicular to the direction of the grain. This is true even after the wood is properly kiln-dried.

It is the responsibility of the custom woodworker to account for that movement and design a piece of furniture that will either allow for that movement or minimize it through the use of custom made veneers laminated to stable, non-moving substrates.

Veneering has practical and aesthetic advantages as well as structural ones. Woodworkers capable of slicing veneer realize a greater yield from each piece of solid lumber. Beautiful patterns can be created, depending on how the wood is cut. For example, two pieces of veneer that have been opened from a common edge like the pages of a book, creating a mirror image, or book-match, in the grain. 

A substrate is a material that is structurally stable, has a smooth surface, and a core that is commonly made of Douglas fir engineered and glued in thin cross grain layers that minimizes wood movement.

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