I welcome any feedback about this site, or my shop, or Kandi boxes, but I already have lots of problems with spammers so my email address is not a mailto but a graphic, which is harder to scrape. And that means you have to manually enter it into whatever email package you use at least once. Sorry, but we live in perilous times.

If you're interested in buying one of the boxes there's a few things that should be pointed out.

Each kandi box has an unconditional guarantee.

If you don't like it send it back. I'll return your money. I have no desire to cause anyone regret, disappointment, second thoughts. That's not what kandi boxes are about. Just let me know in a reasonable length of time.

Each box is different.

It's the nature of wood. The chance that one piece of spalted maple exactly duplicates another is infinitesmal. Even if they're cut from the same tree. And since the initial cuts for the boxes are dependent on what I see in the wood it's extremely unlikely that one box will be exactly the same as another. Add to that the fact that I might change a shape or a detail, especially when revisiting a design (a box might be finished; the design process never is), and the chances of duplication become even more remote.

Each box is made out of wood.

I know that sounds funny but I've seen sites wherein the products are claimed to be made of the "finest timbers". What in the world does that mean, anyway? More expensive? Rarer? Prep school education?

There are only individual pieces of wood. You try to utilize that piece's most compelling features, within the constraints of the design, whether it's strength, stablility, figure, color, whatever. That's all.  

Each box is made as well as I can make it.

That doesn’t mean they're perfect. Haven't been able to accomplish that. For instance, unframed tops like I use will probably not lay perfectly flat. The boxes are definitely not air tight. Wood moves (shrinks, expands in tune with atmospheric conditions) and some of the the woods I use (bocote comes to mind) are not perfectly stable like, let's say, mahagony, which, basically, never moves. Which means the wood cups a little (concave or convex - more or less, depends on the humidity). Obviously, I don't use that unframed design with woods that would really warp (think potato chip) - which is why spalts and quilts are framed. But, in general, I like the wood to be unconstrained. Unencumbered. Like our cat, Earl, who (politely) refuses to be restrained in any way. The fact that it's not 100% flat is fine with me. But if it bothers you, don't buy it. You'll be disappointed.

Buying one is easy.

Just let me know which box you want (my email address is above ) and we'll make arrangements.

Steve Altman    

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