I work for a high end wood office furniture manufacturer. I help customers design custom things, but occasionally have to deal with questions that are just strange.
We have a bunch of different wood types we can use, and also many stain colors that we can apply to them. It is common for someone to order pieces of furniture from more than one manufacturer and put them in the same space. When that happens, they give us a sample of the wood that they chose from the other company and we match it. We sometimes get requests for wood that is un-stained, to which we apply a protective clear coat. Once in a great while we get a request for “Unfinished” wood that they plan to stain and finish at the job site. We will not do that. This customer was just confused as to what they want:
Customer: can you do custom stain colors on wood?
Me: Yes, we have a very good color lab, Stain To Match is a 10% additional charge to everything.
Customer: What about blue?
Me: blue?
Customer: Yes, blue, but they said that they don’t want any stain on the wood. They just want unfinished wood.
Me: That is blue?
Customer: yes.
Me: Unfortunately, our wood supplier can not get smurfwood, so you are out of luck on the naturally blue wood. I can see if we can stain something blue for you.
We have a bunch of different wood types we can use, and also many stain colors that we can apply to them. It is common for someone to order pieces of furniture from more than one manufacturer and put them in the same space. When that happens, they give us a sample of the wood that they chose from the other company and we match it. We sometimes get requests for wood that is un-stained, to which we apply a protective clear coat. Once in a great while we get a request for “Unfinished” wood that they plan to stain and finish at the job site. We will not do that. This customer was just confused as to what they want:
Customer: can you do custom stain colors on wood?
Me: Yes, we have a very good color lab, Stain To Match is a 10% additional charge to everything.
Customer: What about blue?
Me: blue?
Customer: Yes, blue, but they said that they don’t want any stain on the wood. They just want unfinished wood.
Me: That is blue?
Customer: yes.
Me: Unfortunately, our wood supplier can not get smurfwood, so you are out of luck on the naturally blue wood. I can see if we can stain something blue for you.
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