Ron Cosser’s Famous Furniture Dressing on Sale for a Limited Time for the Last Time Ever!
A note from Ron Cosser: Creator of the Craftsman Furniture Dressing
We’ve made and sold The Craftsman Furniture Dressing for 50 years. I’ve had to understand and re-learn how to reach out to people electronically. Walt Whitman was right, as quoted in 1906, and he’s still right in 2025. “The keynote of life is work, and that upon the honesty of work depends all that is worthy and lasting in art and life.” Our furniture dressing, I feel, meets that criteria every time you use it. If you have questions, don’t hesitate to reach out to me. Be Good ~Ron
About The Craftsman Furniture Dressing
The dressing is not a polish.
It’s based on a formulation that’s over 130 years old—and created by cabinetmakers and finishers…Craftsmen.
The dressing removes the hand oils, fingerprints, trapped dust and the dirt of time…and at feeds your furniture’s finish. Like it used to look.
There’s no wax… and no silicone!
It does not make your furniture shiny like a glazed donut!
What is a “dressing?” A furniture dressing is a combination of ingredients brought together to clean your furniture and feed the finish, helping to slow the finish drying out and checking.
For 50 years we have repaired and restored the furniture made by Gustav Stickley, L&JG Stickley, Stickley Bros., Limbert, Harden, J.M. Young —and countless others, in our Eastwood, NY shop, in addition to designing and building custom furniture of many styles.
In the 60 years I’ve been involved with furniture, I’ve never seen anything that cleans furniture as well as The Craftsman Furniture Dressing.
Directions for Use
Directions for use:
Use sparingly in a well-ventilated area
1) Dust the surface to be cleaned
2) Apply a small amount of dressing to a soft, lint-free cloth. (Start with a small discreet area before applying.)
3) With that same cloth, using moderate pressure, wipe the surface, following the natural grain of the wood.
4) Wait 5 minutes
5) Using a different, soft ,100% cotton cloth, wipe the surface dry, removing any surplus dressing. No buffing necessary.
Is this meant to be used on my furniture?
And the obvious question is: “Is this meant to be used on MY furniture?
This works beautifully on any sealed wood surface, regardless of the era and the style: Modern, traditional, colonial, mid-century modern, Scandinavian, antiques, Ikea, yard sale treasures, hand-me-downs. It will work and make your furniture look better and last longer.
How do I order?
Order Form Here: https://form.jotform.com/252385842162156
$30 per pint can plus shipping (determined by weight and your address) Minimum order 2 cans.
To order: email me at: thecraftsman@thecraftsman.com or complete the order form. Include your mailing address to determine the USPS shipping cost. We’ll reply with total cost as well as the address to mail a check.
The reason we take your check but no credit cards, (or Amazon, PayPal, EBAY, ETSY)—is to reduce cost and fees. You are dealing directly with us.
A Narrative About Our Product
We’ve sold thousands of cans to people just like you—people whose furniture didn’t “show well.” Your furniture and your cabinets looked dingy. Grocery store products made it worse. Greasy. Dull. Should you replace it? No. It just needs to be cleaned properly. We’ve made this dressing for people like you and me. On our dressing label, we agree to refund purchase price if you are not satisfied.
In 50 years, we have had two people who weren’t satisfied. One was a young man who thought it was an actual finish. The second was a woman who didn’t understand that the final wiping cloth really needs to be 100% cotton.
You should clean your furniture three times a year. Spring, summer and late fall. A one pint can will last most households a year or more.
People will say “Ron, we don’t have fine furniture.”
My answer is this: my wife and I bought furniture at house sales and auctions—cleaning them 3 times a year and they still look fantastic after 48 years.
Kitchens are extraordinarily expensive. Try our dressing on a corner of a cabinet—and see the difference.
Besides you … the homeowners … we have sold to auctioneers, curators, collectors and antique dealers. They realize they get more money when the furniture is cleaned and shows well.
But our proudest achievement is with the repeat customers (sometimes multi-generational) who have returned time and time again, confident in the knowledge that The Craftsman Furniture Dressing is the only product they will use on their furniture. They are adamant that nothing else will do.
Don’t believe me? Look at the photographs of the chair that had traveled across most of the US in the back of a pickup truck.
Open bed, no cover, wind, rain, etc. The owner used The Craftsman Furniture Dressing to clean the chair. Nothing else. He was thrilled.
Look at it closely. The finish looks great!
Before & After
These additional photos may not show such dramatic changes, but our customers were impressed enough to send them.
Stickley Transformation
A few years ago, I found an early Stickley child’s chair on EBAY. It looked awful and had clearly been ignored for years. No bids. Other customers passed on it. It was a bargain. I knew that our dressing would bring out the finish that was very much still there. While cleaning, it I uncovered the trademark for Gustav Stickley. The value increased dramatically. We bought it, not as an investment, but to show what a difference the dressing would make.
YouTube Video Proof
To show you how well this dressing works, we made a couple of You Tube videos. These also shows me cleaning kitchen cabinets. Don’t laugh. I’m the taller one that seems to look older.
We are no different than the people reading this.
3 kids, 5 grandchildren, two cats, two dogs and I’m always doing something stupid in the gardens that are way too big for an 80-year-old man.
You can order our dressing, and I hope you enjoy looking at your furnishings more after they’ve been cleaned ~Ron