The Wood Wizzard
Services
Refinishing
Our primary service, what we are known for. Complete refinishing includes hand stripping, hand sanding, custom color application, sealer, and high quality durable polyurethane lacquer top coat finish. Our finishers customize the finish for your piece, blending your selection and our experience with the wood. Top only refinishing can become a cost saving option when viable, we still touch-up, sand, and top coat the rest of the piece to insure luster matches evenly.
Repair
We repair furniture as needed, and as best as possible. Generally speaking, if it's wood, we can fix it. If it's not, we can try, or we know a guy. Over the years, we've fixed everything from dog chew to mover damage. When contractors need something fixed, they bring it to us.
Upholstery
Fabric can be as important as the wood. We work directly with a few select upholsterers that mirror our quality of finishing work with fabric. Over the 40+ years of working with them, they are an extension of The Wood Wizzard family. We have full access to their materials and expertise, passing on the ‘bulk rate discount’ we get on to our clients.
Customization
We can build or alter most anything wood. We have sources locally and through out the midwest to acquire most woods needed for a project. We work with designers and custom crafters that have a passion for creating the custom piece for client's needs. As finishers, we help all parties get on board with and steer the process, with our shop being the final stage in custom crafting.
Painting
If it's wood, we can refinish or paint it. If it's not wood, we can still paint it. Professional painters usually work on-site, or in their garage on piece work, where as we have a full service shop to customize color and finish to a client's needs. Anything can be painted, and we'll paint any color. Hot pink anyone?
Cane & Rush Weaves
Both hand cane or machine cane can be replaced, stained and finished to match the original cane. Similarly, rush weaves are done by hand, tedious and time consuming, this old world art is still alive and well today. Due to the balance of supply and demand, we are no longer taking on machine cane, hand caning, or rush weaving here at the shop. We work closely with those that do work these crafts, and will be glad to finish the rest of the piece/s after the caning or weave replacement is complete.
Pianos
At this time, due an overload of our mainline production work, we are no longer working on pianos.
On-Site Services
Due to an overwhelming demand for our main production line: complete refinishing, we are no longer servicing onsite work of any kind. It has become too costly for clients, impacts our shop resources negatively, shop timeline, and man power in order to complete this kind of work. After 40+ years, we are renewing our focus on what we do best : furniture refinishing.
Pick-up & Delivery
The Wood Wizzard offers pick-up and delivery services for a small fee. Cost is based on distance from the shop, size and number of pieces, elevator & stairs, and number of men needed. It's is our shop staff that do the pick-up and deliveries - not a third party moving company. In fact, moving companies call us to move high end, specialty, antique pieces, or to repair them after they've tried. Taking care of cartage internally allows us to protect the pieces before we work on them, and insure the final finish is delivered in the quality condition our shop prides itself on.