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| How To Choose The Right Retailer Of Log Furniture The great thing about looking
for a retailer or manufacturer of rustic log furniture is there are plenty of
sellers out there these days, especially with the age of the world wide web.
Since the birth of the internet everyone and there brother seem to have tried to
start making and selling all types of rustic furniture online, but what I am
sure that they found out is that making log furniture the right way is a hard
task to achieve. Now don�t take me the wrong way there are some great builders
of this style of furniture and you will notice they are the craftsmen that have
been around for a while. So knowing this let me tell you how to make the right
decision on choosing your rustic furniture. One of the first things you need to
decide is the species of wood you would like to go with, there are dozens of
them out there, but only a couple of good species that will stand up to the
elements outside. There is hickory, cypress , pine(not recommended), aromatic
cedar, eastern white cedar, Northern white cedar etc. As for the species I
mentioned I can tell a little about each, hickory is a nice species but I
noticed the furniture I see made is that the diameter of the wood is always
small and I get a little suspicious of the strength of it. Cypress, has hardly
no grain that I see compared to the rest. Pine is absolutely not for me, it is
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more.. Aromatic cedar is a beautiful wood but when it weathers if turns dark in
the elements untreated. Eastern white cedar people will say it is the same as
Northern white cedar, but let me tell you its not, I know from working with it.
The wood is really knotty and hairy compared to Northern white cedar. The looks
are similar in color and the aging process is the same. As for Northern white
cedar it weathers to a beautiful silvery gray if untreated and exposed to the
elements. Northern white cedar can with stand the elements for years, some say
that it will last for 50 years outside untreated, but I can tell you by
experience that it really only last for 20 years. White cedar is not sappy at
all, making it easier to stain or varnish unlike other species, like pine that
will actually have the sap come out years later, right through the paint or
varnish that was on there. Once you decided the species the next thing to do is
find the retailer out there selling the log furniture with that wood. When you
locate this seller, keep in mind that if that seller is just a middleman, you
will not get the service you will get from the actual manufacturer. More than
likely, if that person is not the manufacturer and is just a website owner or
guru, it is probably just a drop ship situation and they will surely tell you
they can get you the furniture right away, when they have no idea of the
inventory or how busy the manufacturer really is (don�t be fooled with factory
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want.. Second, just how much can that person really know about rustic log
furniture if they are just an order taker. Dealing with the person who is
actually handcrafting your furniture and can tell you exactly when it will be
done, is by far a more reliable way to purchase your furniture. Trust me, there
are more websites out there selling log furniture then there are manufacturers
of it. Now we can get to the construction of the log furniture. Some log
furniture is sanded smooth, some are skipped peeled, some have the bark on and
some are completely peeled. As for which one is better, I can only tell you what
I think. The sanded log furniture definitely takes away from the rustic feel,
skipped peel is a nice look, but I wonder about the smoothness of the wood with
just a peel on parts of the log. The furniture with the bark left on definitely
has to have some sort of finish on it to keep the bark on, and sometimes I have
seen where the bark will peel off over time Turn your world for the remarkable
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log furniture is smooth with out splinters and can easily be treated and has the
true rustic look and feel. Getting past that you should then take note of how
the log furniture is actually connected together. Some furniture is just butted
up together and is nailed, I do not recommend that style of construction. Most
have a mortise and tenon connection, which is extremely durable. Things to watch
out for with this is the size of the dowels, some out there will go with a
smaller diameter dowel meaning their logs are usually smaller too. I recommend
asking the diameter and make sure it is at least 1.25�, since that is the
weakest point of the furniture. The diameter of the logs should be no less than
3� as far as I am concerned. Most of the rustic log furniture I see on the
internet does not meet that size on a good percentage of there lines of
furniture, even though it looks large in the pictures I would definitely ask the
sizes of the logs to get a good comparison from one builder to the next. The
hardware that is used on the log furniture is a big factor also, because if you
are going to have your furniture exposed to the rain and snow or what ever you
don�t want the hardware starting to bleed or rust, all the hardware should be
zinc coated on all parts of the furniture. This is one of the many ways that
some of the manufacturers and garage builders cheapen the quality of the
furniture. Another thing to look for in the hardware part of it is whether they
nail or screw the furniture together, screws are the better way to go than
nails, but nails that are hot dipped in glue are just as good as screws. The
nails without the glue coating will actually start to back out over time due to
the fibers of the wood pushing on them. If you take a closer look at the
pictures and ask some of these questions you will get two things out of it, 1.
You will find the better quality log furniture and 2. You will find out if that
person who is selling you the furniture really truly knows anything about rustic
furniture. Other than construction or species the only thing I can tell you
about looking for a quality piece of rustic furniture is that you should take a
closer look at the company you are dealing with. Building rustic furniture is
not like building a square table that can be pre cut to length and then put
together on an assembly line. Rustic furniture needs plenty of design work,
custom fitting, lots of judgmental decisions being made do to the differences of
the sizes of stock, and craftsmanship that you do not get from the builders that
have 75 employees, there is now way that all the employees have these kind of
skills or patience or pride, they are on an assembly line slapping the pieces
together and getting the furniture out the door to you, plus they have the big
money to market the product and get the exposure to be seen by the public.
Notice while your looking on the Internet or anywhere else that there are plenty
of sites or stores with the same manufacturers, these are the big companies.
Getting your rustic furniture from a small company that has been in business for
at least 10 years and takes pride in every hand fitted piece, will give you all
the things you need to get a quality piece of rustic furniture that will last
for a long time to come.
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