Industry Interviews
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Wood-Mizer: When You Really Want to Do It All Yourself
So the Wood-Mizer essentially created its own market by creating a tool for DIYers that didn’t really exist before. Dave…
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Incra Jig: Accurate and Confident
When Chris Taylor developed a jig to help him make more accurate cuts, he realized very quickly that it was going to change his life.
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Museum of Woodworking Tools: Lessons From the Past
Bob Mathison wears two hats: he’s the curator of the Museum of Woodworking Tools and the principal of the Museum Store, which sells hand tools for woodworkers.
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Lee Valley Tools: Connecting To Customers
A lot of companies give lip service to listening to their customers. Unfortunately, there’s so much lip service going on, companies often don’t have time to actually listen to customers. That’s not the case at Lee Valley Tools.
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Bench Dog: An Invitation to Innovate
Bench Dog has been in business for about seven years and has always looked for ways to do things in…
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Keller & Co.: 25 Years of Dovetailing
David Keller has advice for all of you woodworkers out there. “Be careful what you come up with in your…
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The International Woodworking Fair, Atlanta, Georgia, 2000
Last issue, we gave you a day-by-day description of the goings-on at the National Hardware Show in Chicago. This issue we flew Woodworker’s Journal editor, Rob Johnstone, down to Atlanta to the International Woodworking Fair.
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National Hardware Show: The Newest Tools Out There
We sent the editor of the Woodworker’s Journal, Rob Johnstone, to the National Hardware Show in Chicago with a digital camera, a list of things to do and the most comfortable shoes we could buy him. Here’s what he found.
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Tom Lie-Nielsen: Making Tools Like They Used To
If you really want to stand Tom Lie-Nielsen’s hair on end, just say “they don’t make tools like they used…
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The Shopsmith Cult
John Folkerth thought he might start a company that could supply parts for the Shopsmith Mark V. In the end, however, he finally decided to rescue the whole company.
