Tag Archive for 'heirloom quality'

I Bought Something Today: Lil’ Wizard Lantern from Lehman’s

jackson published on February 12, 2009 in celebrity, technology and zeitgeist. 1 Comment Tags: , , , , , .

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Good Morning SuperForest!

I buy things so infrequently that I actually thought it worth posting about.

I was recently asking SuperForester Steve if he had any advice on where to buy sustainable products, and he helpfully reminded me of Lehman’s.

The Lehman’s catalog bills itself as “products for simple, self-sufficient living.”
Everything in the catalog is not only made to last, it’s made to outlast and be passed on. Everything in Lehman’s is heirloom quality.

I bought two Lil’ Wizard lanterns for reading and entertaining in the night times!

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Cute, no? I got two of these red little bad boys and a gallon of non-petroleum lamp oil. When they get here, I’ll take a picture of them lighting up my windowsill.

A question for all you SuperForesters:

Lanterns. Insanely geek or insanely chic?


Get This – Survey Results – GlowDay.com

Check out Lehman’s. They’ve got loads of good swag. Worth-checking-out-lasts-forever swag. Yay!

Goodfella’s Safety Razor Lasts Forever!

jackson published on December 15, 2008 in technology and zeitgeist. 5 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , .

Here at SuperForest we have a great love for heirloom quality objects and tools. “Heirloom Quality” means that once you buy something you could conceivably use it your whole life long, then pass it on to your heirs, who pass it on to their heirs, who pass it on… etc. etc.

The Goodfellas Chrome Safety Razor is just such a thing!

“The Goodfella® razor’s understated elegance is purely classic in appearance. Goodfella® has orchestrated computer-aided design and modern materials to create a product of today’s technology. Each part is produced and hand finished by goodfella’s skilled team who are passionate about their trades. that passion sustains goodfella’s lifetime guarantee.

Used daily by goodfellas, with a lifetime guarantee, it’s the only razor you need to buy.”

Old-school chic!

One single replaceable blade (easily recycled) and a lifetime warranty!

Want one? Here’s the Goodfella’s site.

Marvelous.

Here’s a SuperForest piece from last year called Eco-Math about disposable razors.

When you think about it, it’s hardly expensive when you’ve only got to buy one once.
Much love!

-Jackson

Things Worth Having: The Studley Tool Chest

jackson published on December 4, 2008 in build and celebrity. 1 Comment Tags: , , , , , , , .

From the endless delight that is wikipedia:

“Henry O. Studley (1838-1925) was an organ and piano maker, carpenter, and mason who worked for the Smith Organ Co., and later for the Poole Piano Company of Quincy, Massachusetts. Born in 1838 in Lowell, Massachusetts, Studley is best known for creating the so called Studley Tool Chest, a wall hanging tool chest which cunningly holds some 300 tools in a space that takes up about 40 inches by 20 inches of wall space when closed. Studley joined the Massachusetts Infantry at the start of the Civil War and was captured in Galveston, Texas in 1863. After the war he returned to Quincy and joined the Rural Masonic Lodge. He died in 1925 and was remembered in his obituary in the Quincy Patriot-Ledger for his remarkable tool chest, among his other achievements.

When closed and hanging on a wall it takes up an area of approximately 39 inches by 20 inches with a 9 inch depth, and opens up to become a 40 inch by 40 inch tool chest. The chest is made out of mahogany, rosewood, walnut, ebony, and mother of pearl, materials which were probably taken from the Poole Piano Company’s scrap material. The fine craftsmanship is exhibited by the fact that each tool fits snugly into its space, often with an audible click as the tool snaps into its closely-fit cavity. Sections of the chest swing out of the case in order to allow access to a second, and even third layer of tools.”

Nnnnngggh.

That is one covet worthy object. And the fact that there is only one in existence makes the coveting that much sweeter.

Imagine if everything in the Sharper Image catalog looked like this, or was made to last like this?
That’s one catalog I’d happily subscribe to.

Is there anything out there like a Sharper Image but for heirloom quality objects?
Must research.

Just found something interesting out: Henry Studley, shortly before his death in 1925, decided that the best thing to do with the tool chest he had spent thirty years perfecting would be to give it to a friend… Awwwww.

First saw mention of the Studley on notcot.