Entries by terry25

The Quality Dilemma in an Uninformed Market

A good client of ours just emailed me in response to a quotation, “Wow, that sounds expensive for smallish boards. It sounds like a wide board price”. As a China-based high-end producer we are really up against it. We are a lot cheaper than our European competitors like-for-like, but we are far more expensive than […]

Let’s Tessellate

One of the things I enjoy about parquetry is the challenge that comes with client requests for new patterns. This is usually in the form of a diagram of something that someone has seen and thinks is cool. One challenge is confirming that the design will work.  Is it practical to manufacture? All makers know […]

It has been a long time. 好久不见了。お久しぶりです。

It has been a very long time since I posted anything on my blog. Like everyone, our company, our lives and our habits were seriously disrupted from the moment the pandemic started. My second last post was a week before the pandemic was publicly acknowledged.  At the time I thought the Year of the Rat […]