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    Default Custom Trestle Table for a customer

    Where there is nothing on the market to suit a space, we simply do it custom. Here's a table made to the customer's specs and built by JL Treharn & Co out of Ohio. Solid tiger maple (no veneers, no junk wood), full 1.25" thick top, 60" L x 34" W. Weighs nearly 100 lb. Stout! This table is so well made it will still be around 200 years from now. You can see the mortise and tenon construction and the lock pins in the build.

    Some folks get scared off by the word 'custom'. We did this for $ 1,705. About half the price of that made-in-China junk from the trendy stores (Restoration Hardware, Pottery Barn, Arhaus, etc).


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    Default Re: Custom Trestle Table for a customer

    That's a great price... Our Nichols & Stone (owned by Stickley) table is of similar size, and I think it was around $1500-$1600....

    I'm surprised they can do a custom table at that price... very nice!

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    The reason the price is so good is because we have no layers to pay...I do the design work, and draw it out - then have the maker build it. We have to no office staff, no advertising department, no accounting department, no staff to pay - other than me. And the builders themselves are small little operations operating the same way. There's a lot of money in material on that table, probably close to $ 800 in raw wood stock before its even taken out of the stack. Treharn makes a little on it, and so do I. But we don't get greedy and charge premiums for custom work - just the same build margins as if it were ordinary stock items.
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