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**BartRonalds** · 06-24-2006, 11:35 AM

They have an offline store in Chungdam-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul.
I have visited it and have found their stuff to be of unusually high quality.
And as a promotional event, they have a bogu craftsman at their store, till the end of July, who will custom fit the men - build it right before your eyes.
As I understand it, this applies to their hand-stitched bogu. They already have various sizes of futon already made, so it only takes a couple of hours to assemble the men. You have to wait a couple of weeks before you receive it though - lacquering the leather rim takes time, they tell me.
I have done a fair bit of 'bogu-watching' and at their price of $700 for a 1.5 bu bogu with deer leather kote and duralumin men, at the quality I discerned when I visited their shop, makes their offer an exceptionally sweet deal.

P.S The price, the prequilted futon -all this leads me to belive that the futon itself was made in a different country with lower labor costs. But when I examined it, the quality of the stitching, the suppleness and pliabilty of the futon were all excellent - perhaps on par with my hand-stitched bogu from Mori Budogu, Japan. All this with naname-zashi and fukuro-zashi stitching.

06-24-2006, 11:35 AM	#4
BartRonalds Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 420 Senior Member	They have an offline store in Chungdam-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul. I have visited it and have found their stuff to be of unusually high quality. And as a promotional event, they have a bogu craftsman at their store, till the end of July, who will custom fit the men - build it right before your eyes. As I understand it, this applies to their hand-stitched bogu. They already have various sizes of futon already made, so it only takes a couple of hours to assemble the men. You have to wait a couple of weeks before you receive it though - lacquering the leather rim takes time, they tell me. I have done a fair bit of 'bogu-watching' and at their price of $700 for a 1.5 bu bogu with deer leather kote and duralumin men, at the quality I discerned when I visited their shop, makes their offer an exceptionally sweet deal. P.S The price, the prequilted futon -all this leads me to belive that the futon itself was made in a different country with lower labor costs. But when I examined it, the quality of the stitching, the suppleness and pliabilty of the futon were all excellent - perhaps on par with my hand-stitched bogu from Mori Budogu, Japan. All this with naname-zashi and fukuro-zashi stitching.
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