Introducing the new owner of Sundial Wire. Learn about how a long-time customer stepped in to preserve the tradition of handcrafted, cloth-covered wire and what's next for Sundial.

To all of our loyal customers:

Over the 25 years plus that we (Jim and Hilary) have run this company, our customers have been the best and we want to thank each and every one of you. As we pass the baton to a new owner, we thought we would leave you with a brief narrative. You might enjoy it.

I’m sure you all know the story of the cobbler’s children having no shoes.  We do have cloth-covered wire in our house, but often things go years before they are rewired. Case in point is a little fan that I have planned to mount on the wall in the bathroom to try to alleviate that just-out-of-the-shower way-way-too-hot feeling. Since the temperatures have been going up into the 90s recently, and working from home has been keeping the things I’ve been meaning to do in my face all day, every day, the little Perfex fan is finally getting a fix-up.

…seemingly, without me finding some cloth-covered wire. My latest encounter with finding it unexpectedly started in a way not associated with wire at all. It started out with ocean liners.

One of the things we realized early on was the fact that when people were replacing the electrical wire on their lamps they often needed a good socket as well. Since all sockets are not created equal we thought we’d give a short primer of the different types of sockets and their various components.

Sometimes our customers astonish us by turning something basic into the extraordinary. At Sundial Wire we sell quite a bit of black twisted pair wire, in fact it’s our number one seller. So when someone buys a spool of it we don’t always ask ourselves what they plan to do with it because hey – it’s the little black dress of electrical wire.

Well, I’ve already established that I see wire everywhere (see this blog post), but I surprised even myself when I managed to find twisted wire in the woods. OK, it’s not twisted electrical wire, but I had to investigate it anyway.

We’d like to introduce Lisa Raphael of Raphael Creations. Lisa has been a Sundial Wire customer since 2012 and we chatted with her to find out more about her work and the process she brings to creating her pieces.

What do cloth-covered wire manufacturers see when they are sightseeing? Let me tell you...

Last week we dusted off our trusty Radio Flyer cargo wagon, and set out for the great Brimfield Antique Show in Brimfield, Massachusetts.