Our wood products are completely hand-crafted. This takes time and care. Ritchie hand-selects each piece of wood from the lumber yard, mills, cuts, and sands the wood, and assembles each wooden prop. Each prop is finished with water-based satin finish.

Our standard line of props are made with Baltic Birch plywood, which is furniture grade, all birch, hardwood plywood.

--Using this wood has many advantages over solid wood. It comes in sheets as opposed to rough lumber, which greatly reduces labor costs, and it only uses premium visual grade wood for the surface layers, allowing less cosmetically attractive wood to be used as inner layers. This allows more of the tree to be used and ultimately saves precious trees and produces less waste. The grain of each layer is laid down perpendicular to the previous layer resulting in a very strong, stable, material with no weakness related to the direction of the grain. This wood is immune to the seasonal expansion and contraction movements of solid wood that causes products to weaken or crack.

--We work Baltic Birch in the same manner as we do solid wood, dovetail joinery is used wherever practical and dado joinery is used when dovetails are not.

We offer a variety of wood choices for our classic line of props.