The Weeks Handmade Rocking Chair
(the Ordering and Shipping Process)

cherry $1600		maple $1750		walnut $1750		mesquite $3700		mahogany $1750

This rocking chair  is my original design and the signature piece of Gary Weeks and Company.  Every curve, contour, angle, and dimension was generated by its contribution to comfort.  Every joint was tested for strength and longevity. Every view was refined as sculpture.  Every surface is finished to delight the hand.

For more detail and larger photos see
Designing the Weeks Rocking Chair
Our Hand-rubbed Oil Finish
or any of the other pages listed in the side bar or noted in the text.

Although we get near absolute confirmation (see the Testimonials), I had rather not say that this chair is comfortable for people who are short and people who are tall.  It just does not sound possible. (see Why the Weeks Rocking Chair is so Comfortable.)  But knowing what we know about it, we do not hesitate to leave the judgement to you:

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.

These rocking chairs are carefully handmade and built to last.  (See How We Build a Rocking Chair.)  Because we know to what standards and how these chairs are built, we offer this guarantee of service:

The Weeks Rocker is guaranteed against defects in materials or workmanship for the life of the original purchaser.

(See the full terms of Our Guarantee.)

I designed the Weeks Rocker in the winter of 1991-92.  In the years since, we have built a family business on the comfort, beauty, and workmanship of our chairs — more precisely and to the point, we have built a business on the satisfaction and enthusiasm of our patrons.  We build furniture to make people happy.  (See the Testimonials and Publicity.)

The rocking chair has a connection with family, hearth, and home.  Families often keep them; we regularly hear such comments as, "I have my grandmother's rocking chair."  This family connection is abetted, of course, because people often get a rocker when starting or adding to their family. When designing the Weeks Rocker, its suitability for rocking babies was paramount.  (See Rocking Chairs for Nursing and Nurturing)  Rockers have a connection with other milestones. (See The Gift of a Rocking Chair)  And a Weeks Rocker is a fine place to sit and talk to friends, relax, read, or watch the TV.

We build the rocking chairs of cherry, walnut, maple, mesquite, mahogany, and sometimes other fine woods or combinations of woods.  Regardless of the species of wood, we carefully select and match each part and each chair for a coherent composition of color, figure, and character within the form of the chair.  Our rocking chairs are identical in contour and comfort. (The seat of the mahogany rocker is constructed differently so that it can be used on covered porches if desired, but it sits the same.)

The chairs of different woods have different expressions and ambience, speaking to different people.  We recommend choosing the wood for a rocking chair according to color, setting, intuition, and personal connection.  All are strong and hard enough for long service.  More photos and information are provided for chairs in the various woods on the corresponding pages.  (See in Cherry, in Walnut, and so forth, and see the chairs in Settings)

We have shipped our rocking chair to every state and several countries.  We guarantee the delivery of furniture in mint condition.  (See Shipping.)

The internet has been the source of much of our business — patrons find us in a search for rocking chairs.  When someone calls from Jerome, AZ or Ketchikan, AK and says, "I found you on the web and I'd like to order a chair,"  it feels a little like hitting a line drive into the gap in left field.