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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 how 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!!!
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*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!!! 
*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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$50.00 an hour seminars taught
4 years!!! Chosen from all local seat weaving craftsman in Central Virginia!!!
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LEARNING
FROM THE MENTALLY, & PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED!!! 
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 *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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