LJ's Barrington

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My brand-new L-J rep was here a week ago, and I haven't seen the Barrington line or the Deco line.

Who'd you have to sleep with to see it Eric? :D
 
LJ's Barrington is reflective of Ivy's top selling cherry mouldings.
Garrett Moulding purchased a lot of Ivy's machinery and is producing a lot of the line of cherries plus a few of their own design.
LJ's finish is very close to Ivy's and Garrett's is so flawless it looks almost faux.

Ron,
I saw both at the show in Atlanta. My LJ rep said they knew of the new lines before the show, but didn't get to see them until then. LJ is probably reeling from the number of orders for samples from the show so your rep may be doing without.
 
Well, not trying to brag or anything
but, I've had them on my wall since the beginning of August and had 100' of two of the profiles in the back since 8/12. Have sold a few pieces with them. They are very nice. I never had Ivy, but these fill a nice hole I had in my offering.

Cliff
 
Now Ron,

my UPS guy certainly is easy, but I don't think he has that much pull.

I'm on 'automatic ship' for all lines as they come out. It makes it simple. If I don't like 'em I just toss them, and I don't have to subject the Rep to rejection or lie about how 'I can't wait to sell this to the very next customer' and then toss 'em.


Wally, thanks for the lead on Garrett
 
I thin I saw them about two or three weeks ago. I think they are ok, not my thing. But I think they shall sell well
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Barrington is a little wood-ish for me and I doubt that the new Taos line is going to be a big seller in Minnesota. But I can't wait to get my hands on Deco. Those are yummy!

Kit
 
Since they are cherry mouldings, shouldn't we be worried about how the color will change in the future? I know that I work hard to make my choices of mat and frame match... what will it look like in a few years when the cherry wood changes color?
 
Cliff, I'll bet Dave Modene is your Larson sales rep. Great guy. I've had my samples up for about the same length of time. I like them, but I like the finish on the Ivy or Picture Woods better. Larsons are a little too shiney.

Except for Picture Woods, before they had an aged cherry finish (stain), I've never had a problem with cherry aging. It is supposed to do that, anyway. Most of the cherry finishes seem to me to be stained, not natural, anyway.
 
I thought the cherry looked fake. Being a woodworker for most of my adult life, I want natural finished woods to look like they should. Williamson had a really great line of natural finished solid cherry and the dummies replaced it with a cherry veneer that doesn't look half as nice as the solids did. Sure, they had a light stain applied to them but they had that glow that I like to see in cherry. And the price of the veneers is as high or higher than the solid cherry mouldings.

Sue, that is one of the characteristics of natural cherry that makes it so popular with furniture builders and wood craftspeople. It darkens with age and takes on a sort of glow or patina that can't be duplicated with any stain or treatment to new wood. Many of these dark "cherry" finishes try to imitate an aged look. They look more like walnut or some in-between generic wood than anything else. You can't beat the look of time aged cherry, mahogany, and walnut.

Framerguy

[ 09-21-2003, 11:30 AM: Message edited by: Framerguy ]
 
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