Industry Interviews
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Quality VAKuum Products: Superior Clamps That, Well… Suck
The myriad of clamps we all own work quite nicely for most simple assembly tasks. Two jobs, though, present a consistent challenge: veneering and holding parts for machining.
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Microplane: A Sharper Way to Shape Wood
What happens when a business owner with a very fertile imagination and a penchant for woodworking starts tinkering with some dangerously sharp metal parts?
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GRR-Ripper: The ‘Ne Plus Ultra’ of Push Sticks
It’s not hard to imagine a worker deciding it was safer to push with wood scraps, and thus creating a primitive push stick.
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The Woodworking Shows: The Phoenix up from the Ashes
It’s been a bit of a rough ride lately for The Woodworking Shows, by far the largest and most well known touring show catering to hobby and small shop woodworkers.
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North House Folk School: Where Wood Meets Folkehojskole
There are dozens of woodworking schools where you can go to learn furniture making, turning and even carving, so it is quite refreshing to find one that stands out from that crowd.
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Jet Tools: Spicing up the Holidays with Great Tool Innovations
JET Tools is heading into tool gift season with a spate of new offerings and a host of improvements on their already impressive line of power tools.
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Unimat: “Honest, Honey, I Bought It for the Kids”
All parents and grandparents know this simple truth: the best toys to buy for kids are the ones you want to play with after they are asleep.
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Laguna Tools: The European Gold Standard Goes Platinum
From its inception, Laguna Tools has enjoyed the reputation of the company that brings the best of European tools to the US.
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Wood Essence: Canada’s ‘Go To’ Supplier of Hard to Find Finish Materials
Wood Essence is the ‘go to’ company for the finishing materials you can’t find elsewhere in Canada.
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Grafted Coatings, Inc.: The Guitarmaking World’s Secret Finish
In what may be the clearest example of the tail wagging the dog, a family-owned manufacturer which set out to…
