My name is Andy. I am a woodworker and a craftsman.  I have owned and operated a furniture business in Albuquerque, NM, at the same location for the past 25 years.  I have to share credit of success with my customers – over the years, customers have spurred me on in product development.  Being a sole proprietor has given me the opportunity and challenge for the full management of my business – bookkeeping, design and development, and marketing. 

On my 25th year anniversary of being in business, I have decided to enter the 21st century with a website.  This is a new format for me and my business.  At least, maybe, I’ll save you some gas.

My appreciation for wood started in Africa while growing up.  Exposed to a nomadic people, I saw that woodworking was utilitarian, had multiple uses, and reflected the stark simplicity of a third world.  I also lived in Italy where I saw the most elaborate furniture, with carving and intricate in-lay, furniture with style and grace.  For me, growing up overseas, I saw woodworking as an artistic expression of quality, craftsmanship, and durability of product.

With over twenty-five years of business and fifty years of life-experience, I am now trying my hand at technology – modestly attempting to describe the product of Watersong Furniture.  I’m a no-tech to low-tech kind of guy. The internet is a new method of dialogue – bear with me.

I work alone, I like the idea – and customers do, too – that I’m the only one there from start to finish, design to delivery.  When there’s only one cook, there’s less salt in the meal.

My shop is 1500 square feet, chilly in the mornings and dusty at the end of the day.  The front third of my shop is devoted to a limited display and office which has my portfolios. The remaining two-thirds are devoted to shop space, tools, and finishing booth.

 

There is no truer and more abiding happiness than the knowledge that one is free to go on doing, day by day, the best work one can do, in the kind one likes best.  Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

RG Collingwood

 

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Or Drop Us a Line at Andy@watersongfurniture.com