Acacia_Dave

OUT STANDING !!!! I think your furniture lab is a great way to clean up and reuse,repurpose our world. I am an award winning woodworker in Southern California. I make custom pieces from art furniture to built-in cabinets. I sure would like to be part of your endevor by sharing my experience with who ever wants get some saw dust and shavings on thier work clothes. AcaciaFineWoodworking is building a new site that I hope you would use to help the cause. I truely believe the wood can have at least three lives. Fist as the beautiful tree with it aromas and shade. Second as a piece of furniture or house trim or something. And third as a repurposed piece of what ever the maker has in mind. In the movie "Miracle on Thirtyfouth Sreet" there is a great line "There is the French Nation, the English Nation and the IMAGINATION". My imagination runs pretty wild and I would like to share it out there.

I met Sam and Beverly just after they moved into the new House and shop through a friend of mine named Chrisy Grahm from fullerton whose husband was a minister to Sam and AlFfreda. I am a woodworker living in Wrightwood and jumped at the chance. Sam wasnt there when we first got there (he was at the dentist) but his secretary let me go down to his shop to watch the craftsman working, what a treat! Sam came and took us (Chrisy and friends) around the house and the shop. We sat in the kitchen and had coffee just like having a friend over and chatted about his work. He took us to lunch in Claremont to a favorite spot where we chatted more. He is such a "regular guy" even with his Smithsonian exhibits, Rockers in Presidents homes and numerous books and products. It was so nice to talk with this "regular guy" that I made him a Cross to hang. He said that he hung it in his kitchen. What a nice man, Sam Maloof.