By Michael Berliner, October 8th, 2014 Andrew Pitts of Heathsville, Virginia, is a self-taught studio furnituremaker with 38 years experience. His beautiful, detailed furniture has been featured in numerous exhibitions and garnered more than a dozen awards. He is an active member of several local Virginia artists’ associations and the national Furniture Society. With his many years of experience, Pitts only …
Continue reading >>> Andy Pitts to other fine woodworkers: “Don’t be afraid of CNC!”
By Nate Zellmer, October 8th, 2014 ShopBot Standalone Indexer Tool
ShopBot is known for making high quality CNC tools at levels of complexity and cost that are approachable to individual users. These tools perform full 3 axis CNC machining operations on a wide range of sizes and types of material. Adding an indexing head, often called an indexer or …
Continue reading >>> Introducing the Standalone Indexer Tool
By Jeanne Taylor, August 23rd, 2014
The 2014 International Woodworking Faire took over two of the buildings at the Georgia World Congress Center August 20-23rd. Building B, where our booth was located, pulsed with activity. “There was definitely more traffic than in the past few years and we’re seeing more cabinetmakers looking to automate their businesses,” Ryan Patterson said.
Cutting …
Continue reading >>> International Woodworking Faire was huge!
By Michael Berliner, July 7th, 2014 John Murray Productions of Oakland, California, is a full service event planning and production company specializing in scenery and stagecraft for corporate clients, focused on designing and producing innovative, memorable, and cost effective special events. Just a brief glance through their gallery of work and you see that John and his crew of 12 graphic …
Continue reading >>> John Murray creates dazzling environments for high-end corporate clients.
By Michael Berliner, July 5th, 2014 
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.
By Michael Berliner, June 11th, 2014 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
By Michael Berliner, May 19th, 2014 Following is a 2009 update to Cabinetmaker FDM’s article by editor Karl D. Forth, about ShopBot CNC Tools in use at Wood-Mode. The article speaks to the benefits to large-scale operations of incorporating smaller CNC routers in cell-based operations. Since its original publication, Wood-Mode has grown its stable of ShopBot Tools to 16 tools. We’ve …
Continue reading >>> ShopBot Tools in large-scale manufacturing: Wood-Mode
By Michael Berliner, May 15th, 2014 The first thing that strikes you when you step inside Dom Peralta’s garage/maker space in San Mateo isn’t necessarily the high-pitched drilling of his ShopBot Desktop’s spindle. Rather it’s the very pleasant and heady aroma of natural California cedar. That’s because the ShopBot is hard at work precision-cutting wooden dowels of cedar for the Timbrr …
Continue reading >>> A Journey from Maker to Maker PRO: The Timbrr Stylus story
By Michael Berliner, January 22nd, 2014 The Ninja Standing Desk is just like it sounds — it may well be the world’s first portable and affordable version of the permanently installed workstations you see around office and home businesses around the country.
The “Ninja” behind the Ninja Standing Desk is San Franciscan Dan McDonley, and his product has become a huge …
Continue reading >>> Hot new product “Ninja Standing Desk” produced out of TechShop San Francisco
I’ve just posted a new blog to 100kGarages that highlights the Kickstarter campaign of a design company called AtFAB. AtFAB (Anne Filson and Gary Rohrbacher) is all about digital fabrication and the way that digital fabrication enables a new kind of distributed manufacturing. It’s all about how to return competitive, small-shop manufacturing to communities with …
Continue reading >>> A Start at the “New Industrial Revolution”
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