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siddhis -> RE: Functional Art - SF Bay Area Start-up Company (4/3/2008 12:27:15 AM)
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We value your opinion. We have forwarded your observations to our marketing firm -- directing them to make immediate changes and remove what you have percieve as misleading ambiguities.
Trademark
The link to FSC's website (no FSC logo, Acronym or Words) was intended as an educational and expedient means of explaining the concept of sustainability -- and with FSC certified suppliers in our supply chain (Precious Woods: SW-COC-059, Productos de Bosques Tropicales Certificados Noh Bec: SW-COC-1528, and Tropical American Tree Farms (100% New Plantings)) we felt comfortable in approving the link.
As stated above, if you find it misleading, so may others, the link will be changed.
If you know wood, and it sounds like you do, sourcing wood from responsibly managed and selected-cutting forests is complicated. We think we try harder than most, but do not claim to be perfect. For those persons who avoid leather and wood altogether, out of personal principles, we offer bamboo – which is a grass that grows up to 6” per day. If using living things for pleasure is the issue, Glass, Pure Rubber and Steel (all of which have their own environmental issues) are available through some of our friends at NJoy, XXX Glass, or Basix.
As for us, and our discerning customers, we prefer wood and other once living things to petroleum or mineral-derived toys that line the walls of the world’s 24-hour “Made in China” quickie marts.
Finishing Techniques & Materials
We protect our finishing technologies and materials for the same reason that Coca Cola and Pepsi keep their recipes as trade secrets. You are correct. Conventional and off-the-shelf traditional shellacs, urethanes, lacquers, oils, waxes etc. have been around for ages – though we do not recommend them as toy coatings - your salad bowl example good. We do not use any of these conventional finishes. And, for the record, we use only materials that have met USP standards.
Lubrosity gives a name to something that, if we shared, would devalue the years of capital and research we have put into solving the porous nature of wood. About as far as our attorneys will let us go, is to point you to the hundreds of state-of-the-art medical materials that have been tested and found safe for bio-implantation and insertion and let you do the R&D to find one compatible with wood. Rest assured, reputable commercial retailers and sex educators like Good Vibrations, Blowfish, Come As You Are, Babeland etc. would never have agreed to carry our products if we were using the run-of-the-mill furniture polishes and salad bown finishes.
BTW. Our company goldfish, "Nobby Nobs" (named after Terry Prachett's colorful character of the same name), has been sharing his bowl with one of our sculptures for 3 more than three months. Nobby and the sculpture are both doing well. We hope to have our Nobby Nobs cam on our MySpace account soon.
I am not sure that any of this makes a difference if your primary intent was to belittle. We will assume therefore, unless otherwise informed, that you were just trying to be helpful. Thank you.
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