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Bob Bird, Vice President, Canwood Furniture Inc. |
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Garibaldi end table designed and produced by Michael C. Petersen |
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Atrium chair by David Stryck |
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The trend to lighter tones in furniture and interior design has focused the spotlight on a fine-grained wood that is naturally blonde – Pacific Coast Hemlock.
How found in furniture around the world, pacific Coast Hemlock’s international reputation continues to grow as more and more designers recognize the wood’s unsurpassed advantages in creating pieces of outstanding beauty without sacrificing durability.
Pacific Coast Hemlock works equally well in traditional style or in advanced explorations of the furniture designer and marker’s art. Chairs, tables, desks, cabinets and cupboards all take on a special look when made with this close-grained, honeyed wood.
The wood’s reliable uniformity of tone and grain is greatly appreciated by designers and manufactures wanting to maintain a consistent appearance across a line of
Furniture or throughout an interior. Matching furniture pieces can be finished to an overall visual uniformity without dramatic changes in grain pattern, colour or texture.
Being stiff and straight – grained, resin-free and evenly textured, pacific Coast Hemlock will saw cleanly, plane evenly and finish to a superb, silky, light-reflective smoothness. The wood yields clean, straight edges and accurate contours to either machine or hand tools ; while its fine, tight grain takes and holds small diameter nails or pins extremely well.
Pacific Coast hemlock’s tight-grained affinity for gluing makes it a natural choice for finger-jointed and/or edge glued furniture components.
The wood finishes beautifully, painted or stained. And while it accepts a range of finishes exceptionally well, Pacific Coast Hemlock is so naturally attractive, many designers and consumers prefer its original creamy surface, simply enhanced with clear varnish.
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