Custom Rocking Chairs

"Custom" can mean:  designed and built anew to a customer’s needs and specification, or made to order and extra fine.  Our rocking chairs are usually made to order, always extra fine, and can be personalized.

We do not change the size and contour of our rockers — for good reason.  People from 5’-0" to 6’-4" love them and call them "perfect".  This does not sound possible, and I hesitate to write it or to say it over the phone.  But I have heard it from so many for so long that I have no hesitation in offering this guarantee:

The Weeks Rocker is guaranteed to be the most comfortable, the most beautiful, and the best constructed rocking chair that you have ever experienced or we will refund your money, including all shipping charges.

[Although I do not exclude them from the guarantee, the very tall and very wide may want more chair and may need a custom maker of the "designed and built to specification" definition.  See our Directory of Handmade Rocking Chair Makers.]

Our guarantee has superlatives seen and heard enough in advertisements and in sales pitches to make one wary, but it is not speculation, hyperbole, or opinion.  It is a legal agreement.

To get the Weeks Rocker to this level of performance and warrantability, I invested the equivalent of several postgraduate semesters of time, money, and mental heavy lifting in the design.  We have invested as heavily in tooling, skills, and organization so that our chairs are unexcelled in fit and finish while priced to amaze other fine furnituremakers.  "How can you build and sell that chair for that price?"

We build rocking chairs in small batches or "runs" of the same species of wood.  Thankfully we have a history and a momentum so we can schedule runs before we have orders.  Thus we keep lead-times short and ship dates firm.  By the time we are assembling and finishing the chairs in a run, we usually know whom they are for and why they are purchased.

We offer these honored patrons a choice of five woods, a mix of woods or of contrasting details, and the option of an inlay or engraving.  Sometimes we have "special edition" rockers:  chairs of figured woods of our catalogued species or of other woods we happen upon.  Our patrons choose a chair that fits and is fitting.  An order for one is not an act of shopping but an exchange of trust.

For a person or family, a Weeks Rocker becomes specific and steadfast.  It is an individual in its match of figure; it is distinctive in any setting; it is not made in mass for "distribution".  It is made for someone to use.