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TENNIS - Big Boom Or Bust?

Some will argue that the sport of tennis began around the 12th century in a crude form, but most historians agree that the modern version of tennis as we know it today began around 1860.  Tennis initially bcame popular among the UK elitist snobery, then spread throughout the world.  The game rules varied until around 1924 and really haven't changed much since.

During the 70' and early 80's disco period, tennis surged in popularity.  The woodie racquets were quickly becoming garage clutter and were being dismissed in favor of the new sleek metal frames, thanks mostly to Howard Head, an employee of Prince Tennis Equipment Co.

Out of respect for the deceased woodies, Wood-Joy, a La Quinta, CA company recently created giant size wooden tennis racquets. They have a nostalgic vintage look to them and stand five feet tall.  They are purchased for many reasons, such as decoration, gifting and awards.  These eye popping big guys can be purchased directly from Wood-Joy or their retailing partners throughout the USA.

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Damn, she's hot!

They have also been used as props on television, clown acts and auctioned off in many important fund raisers, such as the annual Andy Roddick Foundation Charity Weekend fund raiser "Serving Children Today For Tomorrow".

The sport of tennis may be in for another surge in popularity, partly because of the high cost of of golf these days, as well as chubby Americans finding tennis an appealing cheap, non-boring alternative to expensive fitness clubs.  Many tennis players of the 70's and 80's shifted into golf over time and are now returning back to tennis.  Additionally, the entire globe is now very acquainted with the sport of tennis, especially ping pong charged China and badminton influenced India.  With a combined population of over three billion, China and India alone could easily triple the popularity of tennis over time.  Imagine all the different unusual techniques of play that would evolve eventually from this growth phenomenon.

Similar to golf, tennis is a perfect way to meet lifetime friends.  Regardless of your playing abilities, you can rest assured that there  are many others with similar athletic abilities.  The ideal opponent is the player that you can't quite count on winning with.  The element of surprise of not knowing makes for the perfect match up.  One only needs to join a tennis club or City Parks/Rec sponsored activity and have the tennis pro or staff give you a list of near equal players.  Or you may even find players off of craigslist.  If you are an international business or pleasure traveler, you'll find packing a tennis racquet and few cans of balls is quite an easy task.

Oh Yes, Tennis is BIG!

Will Desert Teak Fail?

We are asked frequently if desert teak will fail by many of our customers here in the California desert.  The answer is "of course not".  That is if the teak is a good Grade A level of quality and kiln dried properly prior to manufacturing the furniture pieces.  Remember, old ships were mostly made from teak for centuries and held up pretty well in all sorts of harsh environments.

All of our teak is Grade A and is manufactured by a very reputable manufacturer in Indonesia.  Wood-Joy teak patio furniture is harvested from government managed teak tree plantations. That means teak  trees are planted abundantly and quickly to offset the felling of mature trees.

Just like any other region, outdoor teak furniture needs to be cleaned periodically and sanded to retain that fresh teak look that manypeople enjoy.  Some of our customers apply teak oil or proprietary sealers, such as Cetol or Semco products to rejuvenate their teak pieces.  Then, of course there are many others world wide that prefer the dove silver or patina look that occurs naturally over time if left alone.

Unlike metal furniture, teak stays mild to the touch even during the hottest days of summer and not to cold on the coldest desert winter nights.

So enjoy...

Thought You've Seen it All? Check Out These Unusual Sports Gifts.

Can't seem to find that perfect gift for the sports nut?  Consider these GIANT size sports statues. 

Golf Clubs 7'-7" Long

Tennis Racquets 5' Long

Baseball Bats 6'-2"

Whether you have a passion for either golf, tennis or baseball it would be rather exciting to open your gift and find something you have never quite seen before.  Wood-Joy manufactures and sells giant life-size wooden golf clubs, giant tennis racquets and giant baseball bats.  These fine products are fun to give and receive.  They can be purchased alone or with custom display stands.  What's more, you can be assured that there are currently no other sources that produce these products in actual solid wood. So they are one-of-a-kind. 

The design is a vintage look which will never go out of style and will look truly interesting for all time, a perfect meaningful heirloom.  Engraved text is optional.

 

Wood-Joy can fulfill large orders for sports teams and corporate gifts.  Imagine your logo engraved on any of these beauties.

 

 

 

Any of these eclectic sports gifts can be purchased at www.wood-joy.com anytime of the day or night. 

Art Umbrellas - Original Cool

 

Art Umbrellas- now being sold exclusively by Wood-Joy in La Quinta, CA

 

Garrison Wayne – Artist

For more than ten years Garrison Wayne (resident of La Quinta, CA) has been hand painting his original and unique designs on market umbrellas for both residential and commercial use under the company name of CANVAS IN THE GARDEN. 

 

Garrison uses quality acrylic fabric with all-weather durability and paints uniquely on both sides of the fabric (mirror imaging) with exterior acrylic paint.  This technique (painting on both sides) provides full visual artwork underneath the umbrella as well as on the top side.  While you enjoy the shade of your umbrella, whether dining or just relaxing, the artwork just pops out there for your pleasure.  The acrylic exterior paints retain their color with UV exposure and are waterfast (no paint runs). 

 

You may cleanse these umbrellas by just hosing down with water in it’s open position.  In addition you may gently sponge with soapy water (similar to washing your car).  Simply rinse off any soap and then dry in its open position before storing away after the season. 

 

The frame is made of Asian hardwood, has eight ribs and comes in two sizes, seven and nine feet diameter.   For any table over 36” diameter, the nine foot size is recommend.  It is easy to raise or lower your umbrella with its simple rope and pulley system.  A metal pin holds it in place.  Options available are Aluminum tilting frames (9’ umbrella only). 

 

 

Garrison paints each umbrella individually and does not hire anyone else to assist him.  You can be assured when you purchase one of his umbrellas that you will be the proud owner of an original piece of art. 

 

Wood-Joy is pleased and proud to exclusively offer Garrison Wayne’s original artwork on-line at  www.wood-joy.com and at our wood-joy showroom located at 78-474 Hwy 111, Suite A, La Quinta, CA  92253.  Or you can buy these art umbrellas at most of the local Palm Springs regional art shows.  The next show will be held at the Art Under the Umbrellas Show in beautiful Old Town La Quinta, CA on April 11th, 2009, between 10 AM - 4 PM.

 

Additionally, we offer matching pillow shams.  They are also hand painted by Garrison with the same themes and exterior paints used on the umbrellas.  The fabric is heavy duty canvas.  They are sealed with an exterior weatherproofing agent.  In areas of extreme exposure to rain or dew it is recommended to store these in a dry location when not in use.  These pillows are sold unfilled to fit an 18” or 24” pillow form if purchased on-line and fully filled if purchased locally at our showroom.

 

 

 

 

Believe us, these are truly remarkable unique pieces of art that match up nicely with our teak outdoor furniture products.

 

 “Wood-Joy, always delivering incredible decoration and gifting solutions to those that have the highest of expectations”.

 

 

John Shoemate

 

 

                     

Teak Products Customer Comments

To our valued customers,

Please feel free to write any comments or thoughts you may have related to our TEAK Outdoor Furniture Products. This would be beneficial in helping new shoppers better understand the significance of the underlying value of Wood-Joy's teak outdoor furniture products as well to aid us in new product development.

We sincerely want to thank you for taking the time to write your comments as well as buying from Wood-Joy and its retailing partners.

Best regards,

John Shoemate

President

Sports Products Customer Comments

To our valued customers,

Please feel free to write any comments or thoughts you may have related to our Giant Sports Products. This would be beneficial in helping new shoppers better understand these very unusual sports products as well to aid Wood-Joy in new product development.

We sincerely want to thank you for buying from Wood-Joy and its retailing partners.

Best regards,

John Shoemate

President

Why Choose Solid Teak Wood Patio Furniture?

Wood: The Environmentally Friendly Choice
           For instance, did you know?

• Wood is natural, organic, renewable, nontoxic, recyclable and bio-degradable. Turning a tree into sawn wood or veneer requires less energy and produces less pollution compared to the large amounts of electricity and heat needed to produce other materials. Emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), methane, and other gases are also greater during the production of substitute building materials. For example, CO2 emissions are 3 times greater when producing steel.
• Wood is natural, it is a raw material found in great quantities all around the world. Over 1/3 of the Earth's land surface is covered by forests!
• Wood is organic. Healthy and growing trees absorb carbon dioxide and release pure oxygen.
• Wood is renewable, more and more trees are planted all the time. Trees need only light, water, some nutrients, air and time in order to grow. In the U.S. alone, about 4 million seedlings are planted every day! In Indonesia, for example, over 1 million acres are reforested annually. All the timber used in the making of our teak furniture is cultivated from plantations controlled by the governmental agency Perhutani State Forestry to ensure reforestation and the protection of rain forests vital to the world's ecosystem. Fossil fuels, like coal and oil, take millions of years to replace. Metals, cement, plastics and brick are not renewable.
• Wood is non-toxic. In its natural form, it does not release any toxic gases or fumes into the atmosphere.
• Wood is recyclable, it can be re-used and re-worked and put into different shapes and sizes over and over. A single piece of wood can be utilized many times before it loses its properties and usefulness. And, wood is still the major source of fuel in many parts of the world.
• Wood is bio-degradable, it will de-compose on its own and return to the earth's cycle.
  Research done all over the world demonstrates that specifying wood will save energy and reduce CO2 emissions.
• AND, let's not forget that wood is just plain beautiful, especially WOOD-JOY TEAK!

Wood-Joy is a direct importer of Grade A teak from Java, Indonesia.  Wood-Joy sells direct to the public as well as to commercial accounts at very competitive volume prices.  Wood-Joy offers a large line up of teak deep seating, teak tables, teak chairs, teak loungers, teak accessories and teak bar stools/bar tables.

Compliments of Wood-Joy

Wood-Joy's New Store Location

We are proud to announce that we have relocated our showroom to a new prominent address of 78-474 Hwy 111, Suite A, La Quinta, CA  92253.  It was important to make it easier for our customers to find us and to offer a more enhanced shopping experience.  We have much more room to display our fine teak furniture and vintage sports products now and have noticed a remarkable jump in business activity as a result.  Not bad for a supposed slow economy.

La Quinta (The Gem of the Desert) is located in the heart of the beautiful Palm Springs, CA desert area.  The weather is generally perfect most of the time which explains why there are many major golf and tennis tournaments among many other festivities held here each year.  So it is a pretty good fit for our unique specialty business.  Please make sure to drop in our store and spend as much as you can afford.  Ha! Ha! We are very pleased to ship anywhere.

Wood-Joy is the only direct importer of fine teak outdoor furniture in the Palm Springs desert area, therefore this enables us to pass along substantial low prices to the public as well as to our commercial and municipal customers.

Our primary teak furniture products include but are not limited to the following items:

Teak Tables, Teak Chairs, Teak Benches, Teak Loungers, Teak Deep Seaters and Teak Accessories.  The Teak Accessories include many items such as Teak Umbrellas, Teak Serving Trays, Teak Lazy Susans, Teak Planter Boxes, Teak Side Tables, Teak Side Boards, Teak Bars and Stools, Teak Serving Carts and many other items.  If fact, Wood-Joy offers over (270) different Teak options.

Be sure to visit us soon.  Just mention this blog and receive a free Teak Serving Tray ($71.00 value) with any purchase exceeding $300.00.  Free shipping not included with this offer.

Best regards,

John Shoemate

Wood-Joy is a Subsidiary Company of SBI, a California Corporation.  Established in 1978.

Teak, The Incredible Difference

As you are probably aware, Wood-Joy is a formidable distributer of fine quality Teak Outdoor Furniture.  Whether Wood-Joy's teak is purchased locally at our facility in beautiful Palm Desert, CA or nationally via our secure internet sales, you can rely on us to always follow through with our promises. ALWAYS!

Teak is a remarkable long lasting wood, so here goes a little teak trivia....  The first outdoor teak benches were made from recycled decking from old sailing ships.  Many public parks in England are still furnished to this day with such teak benches, some of which are a century old.

Contrary to popular belief, Tectona Grandis (teak trees) is a deciduous hardwood tree brought by the Dutch to the dry, hilly terrain of Indonesia during Dutch colonial rule.  It is not indigenous to Indonesia, but rather a Dutch import which was then planted in the many plantations that are still in existence today.  It is noteworthy that the Dutch imported the original seedlings from Thailand in the year of 1816.

The Indonesian government is doing a reasonably good job managing and controlling the sustainable-yield practices of these trees and of course Wood-Joy requires that the teak used for its furniture be strictly harvested from these government controlled plantations.

So after factoring in that teak outdoor furniture can last around seventy plus years, the life cycle cost is very low.  Not bad considering the elegant and timeless classy look this furniture offers.  It is very common to see this furniture pass through a few generations with minimal maintenance.

We are interested in your experiences buying from Wood-Joy and/or knowledge of teak relative to its long life or any other thoughts you may have.

Big can be a good thing.

Thanks for visiting Wood-Joy. 

So what do you think of our eclectic super large sports products?

If you are moved by sports nostalgia, you would be quite pleased with any of these big beauties.  We find while even working around these products daily that they can actually be very uplifting.  Of course we are a bit biased but there seems to be a common consensus of many of our valued customers that feel similarly. 

In March 07 Wood-Joy was an official exhibitor at the Pacific Life Open Tennis Tournament at Indian Wells, CA.  A big draw.  The aggregate attendance surpassed 300,000 during the two week event.  It was amazing to see the various expressions of those strolling by our exhibitor's tent.  I wish now we would have taken a series of video clips of the most outrageous reactions and comments.  And believe me, there were many!  The most popular comment was "WOW, those things are so cool".  Even though we love hearing those kind words, we look forward to what you may have to say. 

So whether you are an investment banker in NYC, a Russian astronaut or a right fielder in your-town little league, please join our blog and let loose.