Prices greatly vary for the type of work commisioned. Here are some examples:

Custom woodwork:
  1. Custom made small tables (examples:work tables, sofa tables and foyer tables) start at around $1500.00
  2. Custom made dining tables start at around $3000.00
  3. Custom made chests of drawers start at around $5000.00
  4. Custom made chairs start at around $1000.00

Conservation Chairs
Perhaps what I work on the most. I have had chair repair cost as little as $120.00 and more than 10 times that.

DIning Tables
Restoration on dining tables start at around $1500.00 and go up.

Chests of Drawers
In addition to a chest of drawers looking nice, it must operate nicely also. Drawers in period furniture slide in an out on wood runners which wear over time often causing sawdust or worse, splinters of wood to fall into the drawers. Often the cause is a previous repair in which new wood has been nailed onto the drawer bottoms. In these cases it’s only a question of time before the wood wears away to leave nail heads literally cutting a permanent groove into the piece. I am able to non-invasively and reversibly correct the rough movement of drawers so that they operate smoothly and with no further damage to the piece. Typical chest of drawer restorations start at $1000.00

Letter Carving
Prices start at $500.00 for design and execution of a small group (up to 6 characters) of letters.

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