By ShopBot, June 3rd, 2018 Interview from 2014 IWF in Atlanta, GA
ShopBot’s former operations manager, ‘head camp counselor,’ and the penultimate editor of American Woodworker, Randy Johnson, is out championing CNC to woodworkers across the country. As an enthusiast of traditional woodworking, Johnson caught the CNC bug and has become an inspiring proponent of digital fabrication, CNC, and …
Continue reading >>> Former ShopBot COO Takes CNC to the Woodworking World
By Tim Babiasz, February 15th, 2017
As a US Army veteran with 28 years of service, Jerry Abney has never been one to back down from a challenge. Upon return from a tour in Iraq in 2004, the vision in his right eye deteriorated to the point of blindness. The very next year, he was diagnosed with retinoschisis of the left eye, leaving …
Continue reading >>> You Don’t Need to See to Have Amazing Vision
By Michael Berliner, November 8th, 2016 Arizona Cardinals sign made with ShopBot PRSalpha CNC
Wally Quanstrom retired as a senior executive at BP awhile back, and has thoroughly enjoyed his recent years designing and making any number of creative projects with the help of his ShopBot PRSalpha CNC tool. “My friend Harry Warren worked with an early CNC tool years …
Continue reading >>> Wally Quanstrom: retired but very busy with his ShopBot
By Michael Berliner, July 8th, 2016
Buddy Warner with the hammer dulcimer he designed and built
If you’ve called ShopBot to ask about our tools, the name Buddy Warner may be familiar to you. His day job is to consult with prospective ShopBot customers, helping assess their needs and pointing them to appropriate CNC tool solutions (a fancy …
Continue reading >>> ShopBot CNC the “most profitable woodworking tool I’ve ever purchased”
By Michael Berliner, June 19th, 2015
Andrew Coholic is the owner of Joe Coholic Custom Furniture Ltd., a custom cabinetry and furniture business. The company operates out of a 6,000 square foot shop in Timmins, Canada. Andrew runs the business that was started by his father Joe back in the early 1970’s. Andrew said, “My family has worked with …
Continue reading >>> Custom furniture maker finds surprising benefits of CNC
By Michael Berliner, April 19th, 2015 This Art Nouveau building in Belgium is an inspiration for Nick Buchhholz
Nick Buchholz has been an amateur woodworker for many years, maintaining a shop in his garage while working as a computer programmer for the National Observatory in Tucson, Arizona. He retired from his programming career in 2012 after 25 years with the …
Continue reading >>> Woodworker Nick Buchholz’s ShopBot helps him explore new areas of design
By Michael Berliner, February 24th, 2015 Sarah Evans and Laura Shoemaker are the owners of ten-year old Appalachian Signs in Boone, North Carolina. Appalachian State University is where they’d both earned undergraduate degrees in 2000 — Sarah in music and business, Laura with a fine arts degree in sculpture. They loved the area and wanted to find a way to start …
Continue reading >>> Appalachian Signs’ 3D Artistry is Enhanced with ShopBot
By Renaissance Woodworkers, February 5th, 2015 My name is Lexus Pickett and I am with the Renaissance Academy Woodworkers. I am currently a senior who is interested in computer aided manufacturing.
We are currently cutting out pieces for our Adirondack chairs on our CNC (ShopBot) machine. Our CNC machine has made manufacturing these chairs much easier. We used to use templates …
Continue reading >>> Adventures of a High School CAM Class: Episode 9
Hi my name is Mary Lacer and I was first introduced to woodturning in the late 70’s while taking a cabinetmaking course and left flatwork behind to pursue turning wood on the lathe. The first item I turned was a lamp. From there I moved on to everything from tops, vases, miniatures, plates, bowls and …
Continue reading >>> Adventures Of A Community Education Class CAM Class: Episode 8
By Michael Berliner, December 7th, 2014 Teacher Mike Annetts
For almost 20 years Mike Annetts has been an Industrial Arts teacher in Manitoba, Canada, for students from grade 7 through 12, and he has been running a ShopBot tool in his classroom for over a decade. When we reached out to him to see if he’d like to talk about …
Continue reading >>> Mike Annetts’ students learn STEM subjects and gain confidence by making with a ShopBot.
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