Our handcrafted quality production wood shop, our joinery and the hardwoods that become our custom made tables and solid wood table tops.
Our Production Wood Shop: Our tables, tops and hardwood legs are handcrafted one at a time at our table manufacturing facility located at 7 Jackson Street in East Dundee, Illinois. Our well-equipped woodshop features many large industrial quality machines, some of which have been purchased from well-known furniture makers who have moved their manufacturing operations overseas. We have table saws, planers, jointers and sanders that were used in the operations of Pennsylvania House, Ethan Allen and Henredon as examples. These heavy, professional and industrial machines are again making quality American made furniture as they did in the past. Our tables, table tops, legs and furniture is shown in the adjacent Furniture and Decor Showroom within The Living Edge Showroom.
Perfect Glue Joints and the Joinery that Makes for Heirloom Quality: Our legendary perfect glue joints are the result of both woodworking experience and a true dedication to quality and long term endurance. Each and every glue joint is crafted to be square, true and parallel to a boards flat surface using our precision industrial jointer. All glue joints are dry fit before glue-up and made again if not perfect. We do not use biscuits, dowels or other aids as nothing replaces or strengthens a properly crafted glue joint and we feel that their use is a telltale sign that a woodwork does not trust their glue joint to stand the test of time. Our reputation lies upon the integrity of our glue joints and we pride ourselves on their quality. Our finely crafted splined miter joints in our hardwood legs are also widely admired in their perfection and their heirloom quality. We set ourselves apart in the precision of our joinery and glue joints found in our table tops and legs and are confident that they are unrivaled in terms of their heirloom quality.
Our Kiln Dried Hardwoods, Every Board is Hand Selected: We personally hand select each and every piece of wood for the tables and tops that we build. Our board selection process helps to assure that the grain match is as eye appealing as possible and that boards and slabs are arraigned in way that will provide long term stability. We use wide grain boards for table tops which sets our furniture and tops apart from even the finest US furniture manufacturers. Every board, plank or slab in our shop is kiln dried to 6-8% moisture content which is an absolute necessity in making quality furniture, tops and tables.
For Live Edge Tables, We Use Only Local Sustainable Hardwoods: Our Walnut, Cherry, Maple and Ash furniture is crafted from hand selected slabs that come from very large and old trees that have suffered storm damage, have "passed on" by other means or were headed for the chipper. The colors, grain, texture and quality of the urban and rural sustainable hardwoods is simply amazing and is not found in any mass produced furniture. We purchase trees and logs from these downed or felled trees and have them sawn to our specifications before air and kiln drying them.
Our Production Lead Times, Service Area and National Blanket Wrapped Delivery Service.
Lead Times, Delivery and Shipping of our Furniture: Although each table and top is handcrafted one at a time, we have been able to keep our turnaround times very competitive. Delivery times are dependent on many factors such as the quantity of pieces ordered, the complexity of the legs and current shop and kiln schedules (for live edge tables and tops). Lead times usually vary between 4-6 weeks with 5 weeks being average on most full table orders. Please feel free to email us at sales@spiritcraftfurniture.com to inquire about our current workflow and lead times. Note: Furniture quality and longevity is directly related to the time spent in the craftsmanship and in the finishing. We do not usually consider rush jobs as we have a organizational commitment that demands that only furniture of superb quality is allowed to leave our shop.
Shipping and Delivery of our Tables and Tops:We personally deliver our live edge and slab tables and table tops within 100 miles of our workshop and showroom in East Dundee, Illinois. We also ship tables and table tops nationally using our blanket wrapped, room of choice delivery partner. Our larger tables including legs include set up and hauling away all crating materials as part of the room of national choice delivery. For budgetary purposes, white glove, room of choice shipping and delivery usually ranges between $300.00 and $400.00 depending on location while our local delivery starts at $100.00 and includes set up. All nationally shipped tables and tops are custom crated to ensure safe delivery.
Our Local and National Service Areas: We serve the Dundee, Arlington Heights, Algonquin, Barrington, Libertyville, St Charles, Vernon Hills, Evanston, Lake Forest, Geneva and Glenview areas in Illinois along with the Greater Chicagoland suburbs and Lincoln Park, Old Town and other neighborhoods of Chicago. We also ship more than fifty percent of our solid wood tables and table tops nationally to clients to other states including California, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Washington, Virginia, Florida, Texas, the Carolinas and more.
Spiritcraft Furniture
a Division of Great Spirit Hardwoods LLC