Safriet's is proud to offer this high quality line of SOLID Pennsylvania black cherry
This high quality line is of outstanding quality and workmanship

The process begins with the selection of the finest wood available in North America While David Kent does not cut its own timber, we do buy directly from the lumber yards, where the best timber is handled.

The lumber is Kiln dried to specific levels of quality allowing for the manufacturing of fine American furniture, that is dried to between 6% and 8% mositure content. At David Kent, once the quality lumber is in our plant, we begin the process of making you the finest bed possible with todays quality timber.

First the lumber comes into the plant in rough state already sliced into planks of specific thickness, but is in random widths and lengths. The lumber is cut into specified lengths depending upon what is going to be manufactured that day.

These lengths are then "defected"(a process where as many bad defects are removed form the wood as is practical.) Defects such as knots and bad pitch pockets are cut away. These pockets are a character of cherry and only the worst ones are eliminated leaving some still in the wood.

Once The wood is defected, it is then sliced into acceptable widths that are then used to create a large flat panel for making the headboards. Once the length and width has been established, the boards are glued, using a special wood glue adapted for use on hardwoods like cherry and oak, into panels.

The turnings and finals for David Kent are made from squares manufactured in our own plant. The process is the same for panels except it is done for thicker units that will later be made into post for the beds.

David Kent has its own secret process making its own squares for its beds that gives us a greaty quality assurance. These large peices of wood call "Squares" in the industry are milled on our large surfacing planer and turned into large, some over 4 inches, square blocks of wood.
These blocks of wood are then turned on lathes in our plant into the beautiful turned beds that you see pictured in our catalog. The pencil post bed is manufactured by a special process developed by David Kent, giving us a unique 8 sided pencil post used in the manufacturing of beds from twin to King size.

After all the panels and parts are made for the beds, each one is individually assembled to ensure a quality customized fit.

One of the most important processes performed at David Kent is sanding---Sand, sand, sand,sand...We take great care to ensure you of a quality finish. Before any finishing is ever done. every part on every bed is sanded, and then sanded again.
We use state of the art sanding equipment where possible, however many processed must simply be done by hand. if they are to be done correctly. So we sand, sand, and sand.

This brings us to the Finishing Process

We use a 28 step process of finishing that begins with a wash coat of color and ends with evenly applied layers of high quality lacquer. Unfortunately, we won't tell the details of our finishing process, because it's a trade secret that we developed over 20 years ago. We hope you understand.

One of the old fashion steps taken at David Kent is the hand rubbing between each step. This gives us a great quality finish and a deep hand rubed look you can get no other way. These layers are hand rubbed before we begin the final process of pre-assembly packing your bed, and speeding it on its way to you.