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Hello! This year Port Townsend is offering an intermediate CNC course called Intermediate Digital Design and Fabrication beginning July 18th. I am Andy Pitts, and I am teaching the course and thought you might like a bit more insight into my plans. My philosophy goes along the lines of teaching … Continue reading >>> Intermediate Digital Design and Fabrication at Port Townsend “If the women don’t find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.” – The Red Green Show Prior to working at ShopBot, my last excursion into woodworking was high school shop class. The fruit of my labor that semester was a horribly wobbly candleholder – which my mother still may pretend to love. … Continue reading >>> My First ShopBot Project 
I’m always on the lookout for resources for small shops doing digital fabrication – resources that will help these shops operate profitably by improving communications with customers and improving collaborations with partners working on the same project. For small shops doing CNC, 3d-printing, laser cutting, and applying other digital fab technologies, I think of … Continue reading >>> A New Design Resource for ShopBotters Doing Collaborative Work: Fusion 360 
Cheryl and Kent Wille of Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, are embarking on an exciting new chapter in their lives: taking their first steps in launching their own business together. KNC Woodcrafters offers its customers a variety of original, eye-catching home products made of quality woods, such as cheese slicers and cutting boards. They are currently working … Continue reading >>> With a dream for a “second act” business, this couple is inventing their future. Thinking about adding CNC technology into your production? ShopBot Tools has announced a special offering for attendees at this summer’s International Woodworking Fair (IWF) in Atlanta, August 20 – 23. For those who are seriously exploring CNC solutions in woodworking (or virtually any material), ShopBot will demonstrate the cutting of your design, live at the … Continue reading >>> ShopBot Will Test-Cut Your Design at IWF Atlanta 2014 If you’ve been following our previous articles you’ll know that we have been sharing all of our secrets for creating a successful product line, marketing it to a particular group of people, packaging it so people will be falling over themselves to buy it and finally, getting the product on the internet and out to … Continue reading >>> Recipe for a Successful Business Part 4 Getting the word out In the last articles we have gone from thinking about possible products all the way to fixturing your CNC equipment and then packaging and shipping. But how are your potential customers supposed to know that you sell the exact product they’ve been searching for? You’ve got to now get the … Continue reading >>> Recipe for a Successful Business Part 3 Last month we explored how to figure out what products would work best for starting your own small business. We talked about identifying your interests, and trying to come up with an item with broad appeal and a low price point. We discussed briefly the idea of using scraps, or lesser in demand … Continue reading >>> Recipe for a Sucessful Business #2 In this series of articles, I am heading in a little different direction than previous ones. In the past, I have written how I use the ShopBot to cut parts, hold them in place, and little extra gadgets, tricks, and accessories that can be added to the ShopBot. This series will give you ‘food for … Continue reading >>> Recipe for a Successful Business Part #1 |
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