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Milton Eidahl’s Marvelous Toy Ferris Wheel

Posted by CustomMade in For Customers, For Makers, Our Favorite Custom Finds on May 31, 2011

Every Saturday morning, without fail, Milton Eidahl and his wife can be found at the Moses Lake Farmers Market with their custom wooden toys, and every Saturday, without fail, people stop and pause when they see Milton’s Ferris Wheel. The legendary 17th century writer Gustave Flaubert used to say “Le bon Dieu est dans le detail” – [...]

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Custom pool table job is a hole in one

Posted by CustomMade in CustomMade Maker Sucess, For Makers on May 25, 2011

Howard Hatch’s CustomMade Success: $25,000 pool table and furniture set

“Thank you CustomMade.com. I recently got a commission to make a custom pool table and 2 cocktail tables through the Custommade.com connection. This project totals more than $25,000 in work for me. A major project in these tough times. I especially like the fact that [...]

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Mike Salguero on BostInnovation: CustomMade and the Custom E-Commerce Movement

Posted by Pedro in Company News and Info, For Customers, For Makers on May 23, 2011

It’s only Monday, but it’s already been a great week for spreading the CustomMade word.  Hot on the heels of Sunday’s NorthJersey.com feature on CustomMade, CEO and co-founder Mike Salguero has written the first article in BostInnovation’s featured series for the week on the Boston area’s flourishing custom e-commerce industry.  Mike looks back at the [...]

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Ask an expert – wood products and tips – Part II

Posted by CustomMade in For Makers, The Pro Shop on May 23, 2011

“I actually think that our greatest challenge is the rising cost of doing business, in the form of regulation, taxes, and illogical market subsidies for competing products. Unfortunately, turning this around requires the wood industry professional to get involved in local, state, and perhaps even federal politics and most of us are in the wood business because we hate that stuff.”

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The CustomMade Experience Featured on NorthJersey.com

Posted by Pedro in Company News and Info, For Customers, For Makers on May 23, 2011

Do you realize just how many different things can get the custom treatment, like a “lobster tickler,” a stool made from a sawed-up telephone pole, or a feng shui inspired entry door that holds a mezuzah?  At CustomMade, we love promoting the diversity of custom services we make accessible and telling the stories behind the [...]

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Wood Research Expert Discusses Sourcing and Costs

Posted by CustomMade in For Makers, The Pro Shop on May 16, 2011

Chuck D. Ray, Associate Professor, Wood Operations Research, The Pennsylvania State University and Contributor to Wood Pro and Go Wood, visits different wood production companies and different types of wood operations all of the time – he talks about wood sourcing, and the issues small businessmen face as raw materials costs rise, and lends some useful tips…

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Meet CustomMade: Excerpts from the Fox News Live Special!!!

Posted by CustomMade in Company News and Info, For Customers, For Makers, The People Behind CustomMade on April 27, 2011

Watch the live Fox News special and read excerpts from CustomMade’s national television debut…

Fox reporter: Michael Salguero, CEO co-founder of CustomMade.com, Seth Rosen the CFO also a co-founder is with him.

You guys start this business where people can custom make furniture and things like that when’s there’s like a housing depression and people [...]

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CustomMade on Fox News

Posted by Pedro in Company News and Info, For Customers, For Makers on April 26, 2011

CustomMade co-founders Mike Salguero and Seth Rosen were interviewed on Fox News, Monday, 4/25/11.  Check out the video and see how well they fared.

“Meet CustomMade.com.  Road to Recovery: Online marketplace connects shoppers with skilled artisans to create home furnishings”

You’ll also learn the following:

The key to success for CustomMade and custom manufacturers even [...]

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A Little Something CustomMade in The Wall Street Journal

Posted by Pedro in Company News and Info, For Customers, For Makers on April 20, 2011

Furniture retailers are learning something that CustomMade has known all along: consumers are willing to invest their time and money on quality custom furniture.  Anjali Athavaley explores the conversion to custom and retail’s turn towards artisanal production and limited edition furniture in her article in The Wall Street Journal Online and in an accompanying video.  [...]

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Regeneration Fine Woodworking – Vote for Your Fave Woodworker Under 30!

Posted by CustomMade in For Customers, For Makers, The Wide World of Custom Making on April 8, 2011

Back in January, we gave a shout out to hip young woodworkers near and far to come out of the woodwork and enter the Regeneration Fine Woodworking Contest sponsored by the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship based in Rockport, Maine. The Center runs this contest to support the next generation of woodworkers, those guys and gals [...]

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