I am keenly aware that I have not yet properly activated the 'From the Workshop' page of my site. - All that is there, since the beginning, is the wax label and the comment that I have been making (and selling) this product for many years.
This situation will improve, I promise, but, as with so many things, I have much to learn still about how to sell (or more pertinently from my point of view) get paid for sales made on-line.
In the meantime, for anybody interested in the product, please contact me via any of the means listed on the 'About Clive' page.
And indeed, from time to time I do get enquireis by phone, letter or email for the wax which is not widely available through the shops.
This traditional product is, typically, appreciated by the owners of fine and antique furniture and many, if not most of such people fall into what might be described as a more mature demographic!
Possibly as a consequence, some of these enquiries have charm or come with a tale..
I got an email enquiry last week which read...
'Sir, I have been using a tin of your beeswax polish with turpentine for several years and I am now at the end of same. The results that I get from this polish are superb. I have tried to source another tin but have been unable to locate any provider, so I decided to go directly to you.
Can you provide me with another tin? If you can, please let me know the cost including postage, or I can provide you with my credit card to cover your costs. The very smell of this polish is nostalgic, and brings me back to my childhood, when I think that my mother polished everything that did not move - even myself - if I was not quick enough'.
I replied....
A fresh tin of polish will be on its way within the next day or two. It will incude a note of cost which you may send-on at your convenience.
Your mother was right, fine things should all be polished!
And this was the letter that accompanied the payment from a telephone enquiry....
I don't know but I find such communications amusing, touching and delightful.....
