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What Makes a Rocking Chair Beautiful?

I'll try making a list that we bring to our design and making:

The messages below are a measure of our success.

Dear Gary and Austin, We received our walnut rocker today and everything is perfect! What a beautiful chair! Thank you very much for your wonderful service, Thanks also to Bela for your beautiful abstract art on top of the box!

Thanks again,
C.

Austin

It arrived right on time and looks beautiful, still a little finish smell but that will fade I know. Attached are photos. We are very happy with all the pieces, they are great in our room and we are so glad we worked with local artisans. Although we don't really need them, we are thinking about getting the two more chairs just because it would complete the look. We will let you know.

Thanks again
I.

Hi Austin:

Just wanted to let you know: the chairs arrived a couple days ago, and they're beautiful.

We love the rich and varied detail in the wood, and the workmanship is perfect.

Thank you so much — and hope you and your family and business have a fantastic 2014!

M. & S.

Dear Austin,

We received the chair in perfect time. It is more beautiful and comfortable than we could have imagined.
Our son loves it.
I can not wait until our vacation home is complete and we can order another one so that we have at least a pair.
Many thanks for your service and delivering a product that is so superior to anything we have found.

D.

Your chair did arrive exactly as promised — and it's beautiful and oh, so comfortable. I'm 6'6", and the chair is comfortable for me. My daughter is 5'8", and it fits her, too. My daughter and her husband love it, and it looks great in the nursery.

Thank you for your work, your art, and your service.

D.

Austin,

Our rocking chair arrived today in excellent condition. The chair is a delight to the eye, hand, and back. Thanks to Bela Weeks for the bonus art work.

R. and E.

Mr. Weeks and company,

The chair arrived this afternoon. Simply stunned. The craftsmanship is superb. It's so quiet when I rock, I just wasn't expecting what I unwrapped. It looks beautiful, it feels great, and I'm glad I bought from you guys. I will definitely be coming back for a side table and foot rest.

Very Respectfully,
C.

Hi Gary,

I was just about to email you. We wanted to let you know that we did receive the chair a couple of days ago in excellent condition and that we truly love it! Workmanship is outstanding and the chair is truly comfortable. I am 8.5 months pregnant, so I know what comfortable means.
Look forward to using the chair with our new baby and our 4 year old as well.
Thank you so very much for continuing to make these beautiful pieces of furniture.

Our best regards,
M.

Gary,

I am enjoying the chair immensely. It is wonderfully made and is very comfortable (a feature very much appreciated by my back). And thanks for noticing my email address. Not many people understand the reference. There must be great satisfaction in creating beautiful furniture that will last for generations and never become obsolete (unlike anything with batteries, etc). Thanks again to you, Austin, Kitty, and all others who lent their artful hands to the crafting of the rocker.

B.

They're here, and we're very happy with them. Beautiful, comfortable, sturdy, wonderfully finished!

S.

My rocking chair was delivered today and it is everything you said it would be. It is a beautiful and well made piece of furniture. It fits better everytime I sit in it. I was also surprised to learn you put some felt on the bottom of the rockers so I would not mar my wood floors — very nice touch.

I am very happy with my purchase and enjoyed doing business with your company.

D.

Loving the chair, ...

Thank you for your beautiful work. Wonderful craftsmanship.

J.

Austin,

The rocking chair was delivered on Monday. Love it. Already been on lots of test drives. Garnering lots on compliments about the comfort and looks. Looking forward to years ( generations ) of use. Thanks for a quality product. It is obvious y'all care about your work. That kind of woodworking isn't an accident.

B.

Gary,

We received our rocking chair a few weeks ago and have waited to write to you while we tried it out. We even kept the shipping box in case we decided to return it. Well, all that was foolishness. I think we knew from the first moment we saw it and sat in it that we wouldn't be sending it back. What a wonderful combination of comfort and art! We had visited many local furniture stores and searched on line, but never found anything that we liked. Every chair was either clunky looking or uncomfortable, or both. Then, by luck, we came across your chair on the web. It has turned out to be everything we had hoped for. We are especially happy with the smooth yet warm and soft finish — such a pleasure to run our fingers over. Thank you for creating such a terrific product.

Thanks again for the loving care and attention to detail that you put into creating our chair.

B. and D.

Gary,

The chair was delivered seamlessly, and my husband and I love it. It is beautiful and so comfortable and soothing to sit in. We took a leap of faith ordering it, and are so glad that we did. We are very grateful for your skill and artistry, and you can imagine us using it before the fireplace during our very long, cold upstate New York winters!

Thank-you.
D.

Hi Gary,

Everyone who sits in our chairs loves them. You make a beautiful piece of furniture. My husband is a beginning woodworker and is wondering how you get such a smooth finish on your furniture. Do you use mineral oil and sand, sand, sand and do you use an electric sander or is it all by hand? He is so impressed and would love to know how he can get that kind of finish. I am sure you are very particular about your wood too. Is that part of the secret?

N.

Dear Gary and Austin,

We've just received the rocker and the stool. They are just so beautiful and so comfortable (oh, well.. You probably hear this so often...).

Best
Y.

Bonjour Gary,

Quelques mots en français pour vous dire combien nous sommes heureux de nous balancer dans votre rocking chair.

Il est arrivé en parfait état et il est magnifique. Tout le monde se bat pour s'y assoir et je crois qu'en final c'est un cadeau pour tout la famille!

Merci encore et bravo pour ce magnifique travail.

P. et toute la famille

Hi Gary,

My chair arrived safe and sound yesterday afternoon. Unfortunately, I only had time to uncrate it and dash off to work before really getting a chance to test drive it. I will give you a more detailed critique once I get some "seat time" but on initial inspection, your chair is stunningly beautiful. The craftsmanship is superb.

Warmest Regards,
J.

Hi Gary,

The rocker and footstool were delivered last Thursday and were uncrated on Saturday. Both of them are just beautiful. I've, more or less, had to stand in line to try it out. I've heard it is very comfortable.

. . . I had tried out a few locally but they were either very uncomfortable, ugly, too low or all of the above.

Thanks again,
R.

Gary,

Yes, the chair arrived yesterday. Thanks for inquiring. My wife and I both love it. I am sitting in it right now and find it quite comfortable. The cherry wood is gorgeous and the finish is silky smooth. We really appreciate fine American craftsmanship.

Best regards,
J.

P.S. My son said, "I have never sat in a wooden chair that is this comfortable. It's a really nice chair!" I agree. A perfect chair for desk work and reading.

Yes, it came yesterday afternoon, and I've been enjoying it thoroughly ever since then! We took careful note of the packaging when it arrived, as it'll be going with us on all our various postings around the world and we want to make sure we treat it right (and make sure the movers do as well) — is there anything non-obvious we should know to be careful about when shipping it every few years?

We learned about you through a web search. I'm from Seattle, where opportunities to come across a beautiful piece of handmade furniture made out of gorgeous wood are, as it turns out, a whole lot more abundant than they are in the DC area. However, I'd always dreamed of getting one, plus I wasn't about to have an infant around with no chair to rock it in. As it happens, my husband and I both came across your information in separate bouts of searching — I think mine was something like "artisan hardwood rocking chair" or something like that. There are several beautiful options out there, but many of the others were either prohibitively expensive or we (who don't own a car) would have had to get ourselves to another state somehow to see/order/pick up a chair. Seems like we made the right choice!
Another friend who is expecting has already asked where we got it . . .

Thanks again,
M.

Hi Gary,

Yes I received the chair last Thursday. It is beautiful. I'll let you know how it feels after rocking in it for a couple of weeks.

Thanks.

D.

Gary, my rocking chair was delivered today, as previously arranged. Computer on lap, I've been working from home, from the rocker for several hours. What a beautiful and comfortable chair! Thank you so very much for a superb piece and for a delightful shopping experience. Yours —

A.

Dear Gary,

My rocker was delivered today. It is truly beautiful, a work of art to be sure. I love how you centered the grain of the wood on the top cross piece and the seat. The color is lovely and will become even more so. I will enjoy it in my living room, but also it will be easy to move to the sun room in the summer.

Please don't take the following as a complaint, or even a shortcoming of your chair, but only an observation, which if enough people make (which I doubt) you may want to consider as a potential custom item. I would prefer a gentler deeper/longer? rocking motion. I guess that would be accomplished by a shallower arc to the rocker . . . but that might compromise the overall visual effect, which is beautiful as it is.

Thank you and your staff for your wonderful art.

B.

Oh my goodness . . . The most beautiful rocking chair I have ever seen arrived today.

Thank you Dad for your generosity and thank you Gary for your talent and passion!

M.

The chair is here in our condo in NC. It is beautiful.

Thanks so much
G. and V.

Hi Gary,

Our furniture was delivered tonight around 6:30pm. Wow, we are so pleased.
Your craftsmanship is impeccable. I am especially pleased with the design. The table has beautiful simple curves that go so well with its strong well-proportioned structure. Denice said it was all so beautiful and far better than she expected. She also feels the chairs are "just perfect" too. You are an artist and your commitment to perfection shows. Thank you for taking that extra time to achieve it.

I do have one question about maintenance. Will the table and chairs occasionally need an application of oil? Do you recommend a particular product?

J. and D.

Thank you so much — We did receive the BEAUTIFUL rocking chair and it came in perfect condition. It is everything I had hoped for, and a beautiful addition to our home as we await the first Grand Baby! Now we would like to order the footstool, as Grandpa looks forward to napping in the super comfortable chair. (And that says a lot — to get him out of his recliner!)
You have been so delightful to work with, and I can see and appreciate how much love and care go into your workmanship. We are true fans! I will call during work hours tomorrow to order the cherry footstool. Thank you again!

V.

Gary,

Thanks for not only your amazing workmanship (I know it is a team effort!), but also for the outstanding hospitality!! I really appreciate folks who will take the time to show off their work centers and are proud of the work they do. Your team all seems really happy and proud of producing amazingly beautiful furniture.

Hope you and your staff have a wonderful Christmas season.

Blessings and peace!

B.

It arrived Wednesday. Comfortable and elegant, it exceeded my expectations.
The pictures didn't do it justice. It looks great next to the fireplace.
Thanks for all.

M.

It's arrived and perfect and beautiful!!!!

I will think of you every day. My desk actually faces out into a garden — I am so lucky. Thank you again! All my best.

L.

Yes I got it delivered yesterday. I am very happy with the set. My husband thinks its very nice too and comfortable. My daughter loves it too.

. . .

It is a beautiful addition to my kitchen.
Thank you for your attention to details not only in your woodworking but also your customer service.

B.

Hi Gary,

We do indeed have the chair! It's beautiful and so comfortable!

My husband is in love for the second time. Haha! I think if he could sit in that chair all day he would be the happiest man in the world . . .

We're both looking forward to having our little girl here and sitting with her in the rocker.

Thanks again for the wonderful service and of course this beautiful chair.

Sincerely,
T.

I have the chair, and I am very pleased, not only with the comfort of the chair, but also with the aesthetics of it. In terms of visual aesthetics, the chair is pleasing to the eye in that it is simple and sinuous in a zen-like way. In terms of tactile aesthetics, the sensation of running one's hands over the arms and curves of the chair is one of great satisfaction.

Thank you.
C.

Gary —

All look great. Sorry I didn't tell you, but they're covered with quilts as the last bit of work is done. Thanks for your patience.
Beautiful functional art.

Dear Mr Gary Weeks,

Thank you so much for the beautiful rocking chair made for our son and daughter in law in San Antonio, Texas!

Every part of ordering the rocking chair, from starting the chair order on line to the delivery of the chair could not have gone more smoothly!! Your help is greatly appreciated and your company's service is unmatched by others ! In today's world it is refreshing to work with a company such as yours!

Again, thanks for your expert workmanship, the chair is SO beautiful ! Thanks for your service unmatched by others! Thanks for the extra care I know you took to make sure my order was made perfect and thanks for how delivery people took extra care to deliver chair on time and in perfect condition!

Warmly,
Grandma

Gary:

Thanks for your email. Yes, the rocker and footstool arrived on Tuesday. The furniture is beautiful, comfortable, and everything we had hoped for. We are really enjoying it!

Thanks for following-up.

Best regards,
G.

Everything got here just fine as expected. We are satisfied customers!

P.

Dear Gary and Company,

The table, chairs, and barstools are absolutely beautiful! The "custom" Paschall Table met and exceeded our expectations for an artfully crafted, unique, comfortable, and substantial presence in our new kitchen.

The P.

Gary —

S.'s curly maple rocker arrived yesterday afternoon in good order and has been under commission since. If I could change one thing about it, I wouldn't, because it's genuinely perfect. The joinery, finish, and balance are all superb. Most of the highly sculpted rocking chairs I've seen seem frail, too overly wrought and unappealing in their oddness. There's nothing delicate about the build of this chair and it has just enough traditional elements to make it classic.

Can you make another in curly walnut? I will call next week.

Thanks again —
B.

Hi Gary,

I got it Wednesday and am sitting in it now. It is beautiful to look at and comfortable, too. It arrived safely and I am enjoying it.

Thanks,
N.

Gary,

The rocker arrived yesterday, unharmed from its long journey from Texas. Even the box it was shipped in looked good: Some child, either at your end or en route, decorated the box with crayon drawings of a butterfly and a ladder!

The rocker looks great in our 1850 schoolhouse home, and the pleasure I get from sitting in it is almost embarrassing. The wood is so sensuous to touch, and I sit transfixed by the little "flaws" in the grain, which stare back at me like little eyes. For me, sitting in it is both relaxing and energizing. I can lean my head against the back and hold a cup of coffee in my lap, the chair arms beveled perfectly for that restful position, but soon I find that I'm rocking slightly, and that gets me to thinking . . . and then to a sense of "OK, there's work to be done." Even a little rocking energizes my legs.

We're going to have a bunch of visitors today, and I can't wait to have them "have a sit."

You've created a beautiful piece of work that I am grateful to own.

D.

hi gary, well i have my beautiful rocker & its everything that you said it would be !!!! love it !!!

D.

Gary,

Rocker arrived safely this morning. I love it, absolutely beautiful! It fits me perfectly. The whole process from order to actually sitting in my chair has exceeded my expectations.

Thanks so much,
R.

Hi Gary,

YES! We have received the rocking chair! We love it! As promised, it is the most comfortable rocker we've ever sat in. And besides that, it's beautiful!

We have no idea how you can make a rocking chair with measurements to please everyone — but you have — and we are grateful!

I am sitting in the rocking chair as I write this message! We are very excited about the baby arriving in a few weeks — the baby already seems to like the chair. As soon as E. gets up from rocking, the baby starts bumping around.

Thank you!
N. and E.

P.S. There was some lovely artwork on the box. We enjoyed the pink castle and ? battle ? — there seemed to be a bow and arrow involved. Do all shipments come with complimentary artwork? :)

Dear Gary,

Thank you! Your chairs were delivered yesterday to my parents (with great care, I'm told), and as you can see in the picture, they were very well received. :) As my Mom's subject implies, these chairs have found a permanent home. :)

My parents insist that despite their being made for outdoor use, that these chairs are simply too beautiful to consider having outside. Both of my parents are amazed at both the design and the comfort.

We'll be joining them in Ohio over the weekend, and look forward to seeing these up close (and perhaps even stealing a few minutes in one). :)

Thanks again for everything . . . all of your correspondence and help with the purchase, and of course, the quality of your product!

With gratitude,
J.

Gary,

The chair arrived yesterday. IT IS BEAUTIFUL! And COMFORTABLE!

The delivery guy was very nice and the box was in good condition. The box also came with a beautiful art work on the outside cover. Please thank Bela for us. I enclosed a photo of the art below.

We are very pleased, Thank you.
B.

The furniture arrived on Thursday as they promised.

That was a hefty packaging job on your part. The chair looks beautiful (as do the stool and table, too). I've sat in it the past two days and find myself sighing as I relax. And even my dog loves sitting on my lap when I'm in the chair (although he loves sitting on my lap wherever I'm sitting).

Thanks for your craftsmanship and attention.
R.

Really beautiful piece of craftsmanship and very comfortable rocks effortlessly. How many hours to build that chair ?

Regards
H.

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