Good Morning Friends,
I along with several other folks are in the business of reproducing Arts and Crafts Furniture using some of the same techniques of the masters and are trying to keep our prices reasonable, but in the same respect we must make a profit as lumber in these days are much different than they were when Stickley, Eastlake, Morris and others made furniture.
We who are trying to keep the A&C movement alive and moving are working and striving to meet or match the furniture of old.

I know that my business is really picking up as a result of being exact in my construction of these pieces.

I hope that others are doing as well. There is nothing wrong with buying a reproduction as the authentic pieces are falling by the wayside by the younger generations throwing them out not realizing their value. They would rather go to the box stores and buy particle board junk with wood grained vinyl, that will only last for a few years, where they will throw it out and go buy more junk.

Respectfully,

Ralph Jones

Ralph,

Having to reconcile the cost of materials and the hours required to make quality items is common in all ages. The craftsmen of the period had to compete with the mass produced, machine made items a hundered years ago just as we have to do today. One of the greatest tasks was, and still is, to elevate the taste of the consumer to appreciate quality and to understand the beauty of design that is part of construction.

I am a craftsman who's work is very contemporary in design and I think of myself as using the same work ethic and love of material and technique that was implemented to create the work of the AC Movement.

Quality is never a wasted effort and there are those who appreciate and will pay for it.

Keep up the good work Ralph.

Fred

You are a woodworker... Why are you going around and bad mouthing other peoples businesses; Stickley Audi Co. has been around for along time and they make good furniture... You should be shamed of yourself trying to get business this way...

Good Evening Larry,
You must have misunderstood what I stated, because I was also including Stickley Audi as some of the quality makers of furniture and anyone else who are still making the quality furniture as we who care are trying to do.
What I was referring as junk was furniture that can be found in most box stores and are stapled together particle board with the wood grain vinyl.
The manufacturers of today of this kind of furniture are mass producing as they were when John Ruskin established the movement.

If I rubbed your feathers the wrong way I am sorry and apologize, and I also was in no way trying to advertise my self as I am one of the Master Administrator Group of this forum and know better that to not to meet the terms of service. I also have the power as a few others to delete anything derogatory against any person.

Respectfully,

Ralph Jones