Winter bench

Six weeks for a desk you will not replace

We do not keep desks in a warehouse.

68 desks delivered rated the build 4.9 out of 5

Made to order from ₹32,000

Desk 120, delivered and levelled.

Reserve a build slot Walk through the six weeks

You approve the boardPhotographed before we cut

Carried in and levelledTwo of us, in your room

Ten-year warrantyOn the joinery

1500mm of top, edge to edge

45mm of solid timber

6weeks, slab photo to doorstep

Why we stopped stocking desks

A desk should outlast the job you bought it for

We sold flat-pack for two years.

Flat-pack survives one move

Cam locks chew out of particle board.

Nothing is ever your size

Every stocked desk is 1200 by 600.

Warehouse furniture is already old

It was built nine months ago.

So we stopped stocking anything.

What a slot buys you

Six things a stocked desk cannot give you

Forty-five millimetres of one board

A single-board glue-up.

Joints you could take apart

Mortise and tenon, drawbored.

Timber we buy ourselves

Plantation growers near Nagpur.

Your height, not a standard

Legs cut to your measurement.

A finish you can repair

Three coats of hardwax oil.

Ten years on the frame

Collection included.

Drawing SGW-150

One thousand five hundred millimetres of solid timber

This is the 150 in plan.

Breadboard endsPinned at the centre.
Drawbored leg jointMortise and tenon.
45 mm top, eased arrisTwo millimetres off the edge.
Brass levelling feetTwelve millimetres of travel.

SAGWANJodhpur

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Where the six weeks go

The wait is the desk. Here is what it is doing.

Six weeks from the day you approve the board.

What arrives

Two crates, one van, and forty minutes

Honestly compared

A made-to-order desk against the flat-pack one

What matters

SAGWAN

Flat-pack

We are not going to pretend this is the easy choice.

31Years at the bench

The bench

A shed off the Boranada road and the man who runs the bench

Bhanwar Lal Suthar has been cutting joints since 1995.

There are four of us in the shed.

Every joint cut on one bench
Teak bought in person
Boards dried eight months
Smoothed with a hand plane

Bhanwar Lal SutharMaster carpenter

Delivered desks

Sixty-eight desks, eleven cities, four years

4.9average of 68 owners

41days, median build

0tops returned for a twist

Off the bench

Boards, joints and finished desks

Winter bench

Forty-two slots. Then March.

We cut about eight desks a month.

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The winter bench closes 19 November.

The winter bench, slot by slot

Each mark is one desk on the bench between now and the end of December.

Only 11 of 42 slots are still open — the rest are slots already reserved.

Reserve my slot

Take a slot

Reserve a place on the winter bench

Choose a desk and tell us where it is going.

Choose your desk

You approve the boardPhotographs before a saw touches it.

Ten-year warrantyOn the frame and every joint.

Carried in and levelledAssembled in the room.

Refinished at year fiveWe re-oil it free, once.

Before you reserve

The seven questions everyone asks first

Bench full?

Wait for the March run

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