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Workshop

Twenty-two people in Gianyar, Bali. They cut, joint, sand and oil every piece we sell, in one building. Nothing is subcontracted, and nothing is bought in and rebranded.

A finished teak dining table on the workshop floor next to stacked boards and a bench

Gianyar, Bali

One building. Rough sawn teak comes in one end with its SVLK papers, finished furniture leaves the other end in a crate with your order number on it. Between those two doors there is no third party, no contract shop and no white label supplier.

This is the reason a Clearbridge table costs what it costs. There is no showroom chain taking a margin on it, and no importer taking a second one. You are paying for the wood, the hours and the freight.

Read about the wood
22People in the workshop
1Building, nothing subcontracted
5Pieces we make
6 to 9Weeks from order to shipment
8 to 10%Moisture content at cutting
10Year warranty on construction

How a piece gets made

Then how it gets to you
  1. 01
    Stock and papers

    Rough sawn Javanese plantation teak arrives with its SVLK documentation. Every board is checked for sapwood and knots before it is accepted. What does not make the grade never enters the shop.

  2. 02
    Conditioning

    Boards sit until they hold 8 to 10 percent moisture, which is the range an American heated interior will keep them at. Cutting wet wood is how a top cups six months after delivery.

  3. 03
    Matching and glue up

    Boards are laid out by hand and turned until the grain runs in one direction across the whole surface, then edge joined and clamped flat. An 84 in top is four boards, 30 mm thick.

  4. 04
    Joinery

    Mortise and tenon at every frame joint. On the dining table the legs are drawn into the rail frame with a through tenon and a stainless A2 bolt you never see. Nothing is screwed through a visible surface.

  5. 05
    Sanding and oil

    Sanded to 240 grit, then finished with a penetrating oil rather than a film. Oil sits in the wood instead of on top of it, so there is no lacquer to chip and a scratch can be sanded out at home.

  6. 06
    Crating

    Each piece is packed in a wooden crate with your order number on the outside. The dining table breaks down to five parts so it fits a stairwell, and goes back together with one hex key.

Two workers fitting a teak leg into a rail frame at the assembly bench

The people

Twenty-two, in four groups. One selects and mills stock. One does glue up and joinery. One sands and oils. One crates and handles freight paperwork. A piece passes through all four before it ships.

Nobody here works on more than five designs, which is the point of making five things instead of fifty. The person who cut your table has cut that table before.

See the five pieces

What we do not do

We do not hold stock. Every order is built after you place it, which is why it takes 6 to 9 weeks and it is the only reason it takes 6 to 9 weeks. Nothing sits in a warehouse for a year losing moisture on a pallet.

We do not run a second line in veneer or MDF. There is one grade of one species, and it is the one described on the teak page.

We do not sell through resellers, so there is no showroom price and no discount price. The price on the product page is the price.

We do not run countdown timers or stock warnings. The only honest urgency on this site is the lead time, and it is printed on every product page.

The specification
A worker sanding a teak surface by hand on the workshop bench
Solid teak, built in our own workshop, sold direct.