Manufacturer, Supplier, Wholesaler of Musical Instruments and Non-Electric Scrubbing Boards and Washing Machines made in the Hocking Hills: Columbus Washboard Company

Washboard Types and Uses: Today, a washboard isn’t necessarily a washboard in the traditional sense. Washboards produced by the Columbus Washboard Company come in a variety of styles and have many purposes, beyond cleaning clothes. Most of the boards are made from Ohio-grown white pine and tulip poplar, supplied by Timber Wolf, a division of Dale Riddle Forest Products Company in Laurelville, Ohio, although some boards are assembled from teak wood imported from Costa Rica.

While the Amish, campers, soldiers, students and others still use washboards to scrub clothing, others have discovered the boards make unique decorative pieces for laundry rooms, family rooms and kitchen walls. Woodcrafters have found applications for these one-of-a-kind tools as coffee tables, cabinets, magazine racks and other types of furniture. Washboards have even caught the ears of professional musicians, who use them as percussion instruments for jazz, rhythm and blues performances.

The Columbus Washboard Company offers washboards with a variety of rubbing surfaces, including metal, galvanized steel, stainless, brass and glass. For collectors, boards may be purchased with lacy gold, lacy silver, spiral metal, brass, galvanized, glass and stainless surfaces. The company also offers chalk and cork washboards, and custom boards with mirrors. All of the boards are hand assembled one at a time.

HOW TO USE A WASHBOARD

It is okay to wash laundry in cold water
Put water in the tub until ¾ full
Put underwear into the water to soak
Rest the soap bar at the top of the board
Rub underwear (garment), over soap and then rub item vigorously on the metal (glass) rub surface
Repeat step 5 until item is clean
Put shirts in water and use step 4 to clean
Wash pants the same way
Last item to wash would be your socks. Allow them to soak and then use step 5 many times.
Do not discard water. Soak your feet for 20 minutes; it will feel sooo good!
Dry your feet; apply foot powder, clean socks and boots
Discard dirty water, refill bucket and rinse until no soap remains
Wring out clothing items and pin on clothesline to dry
We hope your laundry days are warm and breezy

ATTENTION ALL MUSIC VENDORS AND PERCUSSION INSTRUMENT BUYERS.
"We have the perfect percussion instrument for you"

Check out our products page for your genuine
“ AUTHENTIC MUSICAL WASHBOARD ”

We guarantee that our Washboards are produced “ one at a time by hand “ in Logan Ohio, USA.

Buyers beware as a CHINESE made Washboard, also named “ Authentic Musical Washboard “ is circulating among Music stores all over the country. It is made of an inferior wood and has the words “ Authentic Musical Washboard ” printed in brown ink on both sides.

The sad thing is that they are being passed off as being made by our Company.The printing process in itself should be a concern to school’s that are accustomed to buying our Washboards. I do not believe that the ink used for printing the CHINESE Washboards is a safe product.

Your genuine American made “Authentic Musical Washboard “ will have a finer finish on the wood and contact information for The Columbus Washboard Company on the reverse side. Our Web-site address is also on the reverse side.Be proud to buy American made products and help us preserve The Columbus Washboard Company for our future generations to cherish as an important part of American history.

"News Flash" Good news for all of our UK customers . . . We now have a distributor in the UK that can supply a good selection of our washboards. The name of the company is:

Carbolic Soap Company
Consumables House
199 Queens Road
Hastings, East Sussex
TN34 IRG
Phone: 0870-350-soap (0870-350-7627)
www.carbolicsoap.com

Columbus Washboard News: In response to recent emails from our servicemen and women presently deployed in various locations overseas. The Columbus Washboard Company is proud to be sending shipments of laundry supplies to help our troops as they strive to fulfill the tasks before them. God Bless all of them!

We are accepting donations for these shipments, and all donors will be sent an invoice to show where their donation has gone and whom it has been shipped to. All the other laundry supplies we purchase from a local hardware store at their cost.

We package everything here at the factory and deliver the shipments to the post office. Postage is expensive but we are only responsible for the shipping to the APO address. The troop kits containing one washboard #2033-F, one washtub, clothesline, clothespins, bar of lye soap. Total cost for these items is $25.00. Shipping in most cases can be paid by The Columbus Washboard Company from donations from our visitors, tours and the loving families of servicemen and woman.

More than scenery, it's the local color that make these worth the drive. Each year since 2002, Rand McNally editors have selected five drives along which you'll find places and faces that make a vacation more than memorable. It becomes unforgettable. In 2006 they selected the Hocking Hills and the Columbus Washboard Company. Click HERE to see the article.

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