About Us
Finikiti Woodworks
Finikiti Woodworks is a small business making all sorts of timber related products. We manufactured garden & patio furniture of the Adirondack style under a franchise licence from Eureka Inc. of Texas USA. We also provide training to people wishing to learn about things wood!
Who are we and what do we do?
Finikiti Woodworks is a small business making all sorts of timber related products. We manufactured garden & patio furniture of the Adirondack style under a franchise licence from Eureka Inc. of Texas USA. We also provide training to people wishing to learn about things wood!
Finikiti Woodworks stated a business in 2010 making small cottage type furnishings from South African pine, Saligna and reclaimed oregon. We also manufacture “bespoke” pieces from available exotic timbers. Repairs & maintenance of furniture & finishings to customers in Boksburg / Benoni and cities & towns in the surrounding area.
In 2012 the business relocated to premises in Benoni as a franchise licence was purchased from Eureka Woodworks Inc. (of Dallas, Texas, USA) to manufacture their ‘Adorondack’ range of patio & garden furniture. The business has now relocated to Boksburg CBD.
“This is the only franchise operation Eureka has in Africa and other than for another franchise in the West Indies, the approximately 500 other franchised businesses are all in the USA.”
Our Trees
The Producers of Wood
Big or small these miracles of nature are amazing! They have great beauty as growing trees – their colours and hues changing with the seasons. Most produce amazing flowers – some produce fruit – some are homes to all sorts of creatures – All produce timber.
While some alternatives to wood exist, to a large extent we use wood (and will continue to do so for many years to come) as a source of food – for making paper – for providing heat – in buildings, in transport, in furniture etc. No other natural product is so diverse!
We owe our lives to treet for they breathe in what we breathe out, and breathe out what we breathe in!
Our Owner
Altough trained as a professional accountant with many years in private practice as well as service in the corporate scene, woodwork has always been a hobby and a passion.
Years earlier, while still living in Zambia, to furnish a school my wife and I started, I hand made school desks, chairs, benches, and other furnishings from pit sawn Mukwa (known in South Africa as kiaat). This was one of the only hardwoods availble there suitable for making furniture – other timbers were too hard and brittle or just not available.
“I first became interested in woodwork as a youngster spending many hours in an uncle’s cabinet-making workshop – when it rained and fishing was out of the question!”
I continue with woodworking as a hobby when I moved to South Africa in 1984 and upon an early retirement decided to pursue the passion I had full time.
