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* A L@ST ART F@UND!!! SM

  * A SEAT WEAVERS JOURNEY
                    By Ronnie P. Goff

       34 years ago I received an Award of Complection
  from a community college for 1.0 Continuing Education
  Unit for Chair Caning which was the very, very humble
  beginnings of Country Seat Weavers as clients know
  it today from around the State of Virginia!!!
       Little did I know, & realize ho
w extremely important
  it was for me to take that Chair Caning Class!!!

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  TAUGHT PROFESSIONALLY!!!  I TEACH   
  PROFESSIONALLY!!!  UNTRADITIONAL LOCK
  STEP CHAIR CANING METHOD TM  CREATIVE, 
  INNOVATIVE CHAIR CANING, & SEAT 
  WEAVING!!!
 

     *Certificates in the following:
          *Carpentry
          *Furniture Refinishing
          *Stained Glass

       Teaching adult education for the following:
            Chesterfield County (Virginia) Public Schools
            Adult Education
            Chair Caning (Lock Step Method TM)
  made me realize how much easier it was for the instructor
  to teach Chair Caning Lock Step Method TM to the Adult 
  Education Students than the Traditional 7 Step Method
  of Chair Caning!!!
       It (Chair Caning Lock Step Method TM) became an
  absolute no brainer, & I have been using it ever sense!!!
       I was originally taught the Traditional 7 Step Method of
  Chair Caning!!!  What a real bummer!!! Frown

       * Important Document Shown Below:  This document comes
  from the Chesterfield County Public Schools (Adult Education).
  & it very clearly states I was teaching Chair Caning (Lock Step
  Method TM)!!!
      
And I still teach Chair Caning Lock Step Method TM today, &
  will not under any circumstances teach The Tradational 7 Step
  Method simply because it is a real bummer!!!
       This will be shown as to WHY in the photographic illistrations
  comparisons!!!  You be the judge!!!

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  LOCK STEP CHAIR CANING METHOD TM TAUGHT
  THREE (3) YEARS!!!
  DOCUMENTATION ABOVE!!!
  NOT A FRAUD, SCAM, SPAM, ETC.!!!

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  DEEPLY APPRECIATED LETTER OF "THANKS" FROM
  DR. GEARY FOR BUILDING "ONE OF THE LARGEST
  & MOST COMPREHENSIVE (CHAIR CANING)
  PROGRAMS IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA!!!"

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   $50.00 an hour seminars
  taught 4 years!!!
  Chosen from all local
  seat weaving craftsman
  in Central Virginia!!!

       * LEARNING FROM THE MENTALLY,
         & PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED!!! Smile


       Of all of the life changing experiences I have had with 
  with my Master Chair Caning etc. Knowledge is mentoring
  (PRO BONO)  the mentally, & physically challenged, (NOT
  HANDICAPPED) & will do so for the rest of my life!!!
      
When you begin mentoring the mentally, & physically
  challenged little do you comprehend, & realize that you,
  yes you are going to become a very, very special student!!!
       You are going to be taught life's lessons from a completely
  different book which you have never opened, seen, or read!!!

       It will be an extremely challenged read full of sur-
  prises which will absolutrly amaze, & spell bound
  you!!!
       You will experience all of the completely raw un-
  scripted emotions from your very first day at work
  on the J O B!!!

       And the completely raw, unscripted emotions will run
  from that first greeting with aprehension in their voices with
  a smile on their faces, to a frown, to absolute frustration,
  & more, & a chorus of I cannot do this to complete joy, &
  laughter when they finish running Step #1 on a Hand Caned
  Chair!!!
       I had a friend named Henry whom was a chronic complainer
  so I thought I would take him along the next time I went to see
  Dick to watch Dick Hand Cane A Chair!!!
       Dick was completely blind!!!  At the ripe age of 54 Dick went
  to bed with his complete normal vision, & awoke completely
  100% blind the next morning when he awoke!!!  I cannot comprehend
  or imagine what my reaction to an event of this magnitude would be!!!
       On that particular day Dick was doing a Lincoln Rocker which
  had been coverted from Hand Cane to Machine Cane!!!
       What I (we) witnessed that day I will remember to my dying day!!!
  It forever changed Henry's disposition as a chronic complainer!!!
       I had been nudged (more than gently) years ago that they didn't
  want my help, & didn't need my help!!!
       The tools Dick used to do this particular Machine Cane job I
  had never seen anyone use before doing a Machine Cane job!!!
  Dick had removed the spline, & now he was getting ready to re-
  install the Machine Cane in the back of that Lincoln Rocker!!!
       Dick had a hammer, four (4) nails, and a uniquely modified
  yardstick the likes of which I had never seen!!!
       This was indeed getting very interesting!!!
       Dick took that creative, notched yardstick, & began measuring
  the back of that Lincoln Rocker horizontally, & then vertically,
  then drove the four nails in their appropriate places, and then he
  hung that machine cane on those four nails, & proceeded to install
  that machine cane into that Lincoln Rocker!!!  It was absolutely striaght 
  in both directions as well as taunt in both directions as if a sighted
  professional Chair Caner had installed that machine cane job!!!
       Needless to say, I was left absolutely speechless, & then some!!!
       And so was my friend Henry!!!
       Now, back to my friend Henry!!!  I never, ever heard him complain
  about anything again in my presence!!!
       To be continued...&

       My clients have included the following:
            *The Woodworking Times
            *Williamsburg Foundation
            *Museum of the Confederacy
            *Edgar Allen Poe Museum 
                 * Restored Edgar Allen Poe's chair then sat in it, & read "THE RAVEN!!! 
            *Congressman Bliley
       Note:  Courtesy Quimby's Antiques Restored

       * Local Museums: 
            Greater Richmond, Virginia Area
            Chesterfield, Virginia
            Henrico, Virginia (Employee)

       * Associations:
            Kitty Gordon, President
            * Northern Virginia Antique Dealers Association

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