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Features
30 WHERE THE SKIES ARE SO BLUE: In their sweet home
of Alabama, the Hubbards have grown their family business
through builder connections and customer care.

34 EDGE BANDING SOLUTIONS: From hand-held to large

production machines, manufacturers and distributors offer a
range of options for shops of all sizes.

38 CHANGE IS ALREADY HERE: New technologies, finishes

and assembly methods are affecting the future of outsourcing.

42 HARNESS THE POWER: Air tools offer many benefits to

woodworking shops, especially those with unique
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8 IWF 2018: Innovation, 12 Windswept urban tree
big crowd expected. reborn as fine furniture.

10 Two woodworking students 18 WOOD MARKETS:

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with walnut.
11 Philly show profits from
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TAKING STOCK JUNE 2018 VOL. XXXII, NO. 7

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T
o my fellow procrastinators, it’s time
to register, book a flight and find a
hotel for the International Wood-
working Fair in Atlanta. It’s only a
few months away on Aug. 22-25 at the Geor-
gia World Congress Center.
There’s a show preview story on Page 8
predicting significant increases in show square
footage, exhibitor count and attendance over
IWF 2016. With the economy humming along,
hopes are high for a bigger and better show
that promises lots of innovation.
Once again, we’re partnering with the IWF to
produce WoodTech News, a weekly e-newslet-
ter full of show and exhibitor information that
will run for approximately 15 weeks. If you
find that you’re not getting WoodTech News,
simply sign up at www.woodshopnews.com.
To begin the blitz, I want to call your attention
to a free seminar on the urban wood movement
at IWF, scheduled for Aug. 24 at 1 p.m. (EST).
“The urban wood movement is preparing to
charge into Atlanta for an encore performance
at the International Woodworking Fair,” says
Rich Christianson, the session’s moderator
and communications director for the Illinois
Wood Utilization Team.
The seminar will highlight the national mo-
mentum of the urban wood movement by
bringing together representatives of newly
formed groups in the Southeast, Midwest and
West Coast.
The urban wood movement is essentially
an effort to use city trees -felled by storms,
death or other circumstances – as a renewable
resource. It’s estimated that the U.S. could
produce nearly 4 billion bf of urban wood an-
nually to cushion local economies, reduce a
municipality’s cleanup and landfill expenses,
and provide a sustainable resource to beautify
homes and neighborhoods.
There’s a story on Page 12 that chronicles
the process. In this example, a village forester,
woodworker and sawyer teamed up to turn a
downed tree into three custom desks for the
community. It wasn’t exactly a financial suc-
cess, but more of a goodwill gesture that will
reward the participants and community for
years to come.
The seminar’s presenters will shed light on
opportunities to repurpose urban wood oth-
erwise destined for the chipper or landfill to
make high-quality lumber, slabs, furniture,
flooring and other wood products.
Specifically, attendees will learn about:
s The marketing appeal of urban
wood products.
s The environmental advantages of utiliz-
ing urban wood.
s How to find local sources of urban wood.
s How to join or start a local urban
wood network.
Panelists include Jennifer Alger, CEO of Far
West Forest Products of Sheridan, Calif., and
president of Urban Salvaged and Reclaimed
Woods Inc., the West Coast’s first urban lum-
ber trade network; Dwayne Sperber, owner
of Wudeward Urban Forest Products of Mil-
waukee, and founding partner of Wisconsin
Urban Wood, a nonprofit focused on building
networks of people and businesses that links
material streams and availability of quality
urban wood products and services across the
state, and a representative of the Virginia De-
partment of Forestry.
Attendees must register to guarantee a seat
at the program. For more, visit www.iwfat-
lanta.com.
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IWF 2018: Innovation,
big crowd expected
By Jennifer Hicks
W
ith a larger show floor, higher
exhibitor count and boost in
attendees from far and wide,
hopes are high for this year’s
International Woodworking Fair, Aug. 22-
25, at the Georgia World Congress Center
in Atlanta.
Show chairman Roberto Ghizzoni says
IWF 2018 will feature over 1 million sq. ft.
of exhibit space, north of 1,000 exhibitors,
and attendees from all 50 states and more
than 80 countries.
“IWF has increased by double digits, show-
over-show, in attendance, exhibit space,
square feet sold and exhibitors’ growth from
2012 to 2016. IWF 2018 is currently on pace for
another double-digit growth across the board,
compared to IWF 2016. We expect over 30,000
registrations for IWF 2018,” says Ghizzoni,
vice president of OMGA Industries.
Recognized as one of the largest wood-
working trade shows in the world for the
The show floor at IWF 2016.
8 WWW.WOODSHOPNEWS.COM JUNE 2018
furniture manufacturing, architectural wood-
work, custom and general woodworking in-
dustries, IWF is a biennial event held in even
years. The show is owned and sponsored by
Woodworking Machinery Manufacturers of
America and the Woodworking Machinery
Industry Association.
Roberto Ghizzoni
“Our theme is ‘Imagine’ and every attendee
will see what they can imagine and have ac-
cess to many items they likely didn’t know
existed. Everyone from the small shop to the
large and medium companies will be able to
find everything they need during their IWF
experience,” says Ghizzoni.
This year’s show will be held in Halls B and
C of the renovated Congress Center. “We will
not be using Building A for 2018. The reason
for the change is the need to fulfill the demand
for more space for new exhibitors and our pre-
vious exhibitors. What it means for attendees
is more to see. Two different shuttle bus drop
offs will be offered. The convenient B-C con-
nector is the easiest way to navigate the two
buildings, making it virtually one uninterrupt-
ed exhibit space. There will be two registration
areas,” says Ghizzoni.
IWF 2018 will feature an extensive education
program with over 70 seminars on manufac-
turing, business management, marketing, pro-
duction, design and other topics. New sympo-
siums are in the works to cover 3D printing,
powder coating, digital fabrication, lean man-
ufacturing, and business conditions.
Other show highlights include the Design
Emphasis student competition, Challenger’s
Awards for product innovation, New Product
Showcase, Decorative Surfaces Pavilion, and
Cabinet & Closets Pavilion.
For more, visit www.iwfatlanta.com.
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Two woodworking students
win Windgate awards
By Jennifer Hicks
T
wo college students pursuing wood-
working for a living have each re-
ceived a $15,000 award to further
their professional goals beyond
graduation. The students, Justin Seow of the
Rhode Island School of Design and Kiley Fri-
ese of the Minneapolis College of Art and De-
sign, are among the 2018 Windgate Fellowship
recipients from the Center for Craft, Creativity
and Design.
Now in its 13th year, the award identifies
10 graduating college seniors with exemplary
skill in craft, nominated from a national net-
work of 104 university art programs.
“The Windgate Fellowship provides critical
financial support as a bridge between college
and graduate school or life as a working art-
ist,” says Stephanie Moore, executive director
of the CCCD. “The Fellowship instills confi-
dence and fosters bravery to take risks and the
chance to seek and engage in career-enhanc-
ing opportunities.”
Seow learned about the award from a col-
league and applied by submitting images and
videos of his work and a written proposal
about how he would spend the funds. Ulti-
mately, he wants to create a body of work in-
Justin Seow and his Daedalus Cabinet.
10 WWW.WOODSHOPNEWS.COM JUNE 2018
Kiley Friese and her “Dot” table.
cluding furniture and abstract pieces, mainly
with wood, that intertwines the techniques
and traditions he will focus on this summer.
He will attend a week-long workshop with
Kagen Sound at Anderson Ranch Arts Center
in Snowmass Village, Co. to learn Japanese
puzzle making techniques using block plains
and chisels. Immediately after, he will visit
Japan to study puzzle boxes more in depth
through the Karakuri Creation Group in
Hackone and meet with a design professor at
the University of Tokyo.
“When I first found out I was in the middle
of class and they called. That whole day I was
floating on a cloud. It just came out of no-
where,” says Seow of winning the award. “I’m
just really humbled by the panelists’ decision
to choose me and support my work.”
Friese will take a wood turning class at Ar-
rowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlin-
burg, Tenn., and attend the Stockholm Furni-
ture and Light Fair in Sweden.
“I am also in the process of starting my own
custom furniture business. This fellowship
will help me purchase essential tools and sup-
plies to get started,” says Friese. “I feel very
honored and grateful to be chosen as one of
the ten 2018 Windgate fellows. I had known
about the award for a couple of years, but I
never guessed I would be receiv-
ing it when it was my time to
graduate. It’s hard to even de-
scribe how incredible it feels to
know my hard work has led to
this opportunity and that there
are people who really support
what I am doing.”
The selection panel included
Michele Cohen, chair of the Mu-
seum of Arts and Design in New
York; Fabio J. Fernández, former
executive director of the Society
of Arts + Crafts in Boston; Mia
Hall, executive director of Pen-
land School of Crafts in Penland,
N.C., and John Souter, visual art-
ist and a 2012 Windgate Fellow-
ship recipient of Philadelphia.
For more, visit www.craftcreativi-
tydesign.org.
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Booths featuring hand-made furniture and other items took up

the main floor of the 23rd St. Armory in Philadelphia.

Philly show
profits from new
partnership
By Jennifer Hicks

T
he 24th annual Philadelphia Furniture Show returned to
the 23rd St. Armory for a weekend show, Apr. 14-15, that
featured custom pieces by about 50 woodworkers from
across the country.
The juried show included craftspeople who work in wood, metal,
ceramics, lighting and fabric. More than one third were new ex-
hibitors, according to Stepha Normantis, managing partner of Green
Tree Events, owner of the show.
“Traffic was up compared to last year’s attendance count. I think
it was the quality of the exhibitors. I heard from a number of people
this was the best show they’ve seen in years, that the diversity of the
exhibitors as far as their styles was just a huge breadth, so there was
something there for everyone,” says Normantis.
This year, show manage-
ment partnered with the
city’s Center for Emerging
Visual Arts (CFEVA). The
collaboration was designed
to highlight the work of un-
discovered visual artists from
around the region.
“The CFEVA co-hosted the
show. They brought a selec-
tion of curated installations
meant to provide additional
visual interest and paired ex-
citing art with exciting furni-
ture,” says Normantis.
Other partners included
The Furniture Society, Center
for Art in Wood, Wayne Art
Center and Wharton Esher-
ick Museum. Patrons visit the booth of Evan Berd-
For more, visit www.phila- ing Custom Furniture in Wood of
delphiafurnitureshow.com. Durham, N.C.

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tered Chicago’s western suburbs
in March 2016, uprooting an 80’-
tall white oak tree. The Village of Riverside
dispatched an emergency crew to clear the
fallen tree that was blocking a roadway. A
chainsaw whirred into action slicing away
branches and dividing the tree’s trunk into
manageable chunks so a front-end loader
could lug them to the roadside.
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Eighteen months after the howling winds
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was a first responder to the downed tree. He’s
the one who quickly grabbed a chainsaw in-
tent on “getting the road cleared.”
“As I cut away most of the branches, I could
see a beautiful, clean trunk.” Collins says.
“That’s when it dawned on me that it had a
pretty nice log that could be milled and made
into something special.”
To maximize the trunk’s lumber potential,
Collins cut a 16’ log extending about 2’ from
the bottom on up. “I could see that the tree
suffered from Armillaria root rot.” Collins
says. “I could literally stick my hand up the
bottom of the tree and pull out wood fiber.
The tree was destined to fail. The winds just
put the final nail in the coffin.”
Collins later counted the rings of the 30”
diameter log and determined the oak was at
least 160 years old. That dates the tree to the
time when famed landscape architect Freder-
ick Law Olmstead was commissioned in 1869
to design what is considered the first planned
community in the nation. The Riverside Land-
scape Architecture District that Olmstead cre-
ated was designated as a National Historic
Landmark in 1970.
Developing an Urban Wood Network
The odyssey of the historic Riverside oak’s
reincarnation as fine furniture shows how cul-

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The uprooted white oak tree
yielded 700 bf of 8/4 lumber.
tivating an urban wood network can pay-off
big dividends.
A few years earlier, Collins spoke with Edith
Makra, then chairperson of the Illinois Wood
Utilization Team (IL WUT), at a regional meet-
ing of municipal managers. IL WUT consists
of arborists, sawyers, woodworkers and other
stakeholders who advocate repurposing felled
community trees to their highest potential.
After telling her about Riverside’s burgeon-
ing pile of old-growth ash logs salvaged from
trees killed by the emerald ash borer, Makra
put Collins in touch with Don Peterson, execu-
tive director of the Sustainable Resources In-
stitute. Peterson, in turn, introduced Collins to
Dan DeSerto, owner of Bull Valley Hardwood
in Woodstock, Ill., which operates a hardwood
lumber operation heavily focused on sourcing
logs from local urban and other non-commer-
cial forests.
DeSerto purchased and hauled more than
two dozen of Riverside’s ash logs for $1,600,
while sparing the village with disposal costs.
“It was not incredibly profitable,” Collins
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says, “but it gave us a new source of funds to
funnel into tree planting. We were able to turn
a little bit of that lemon into lemonade.”
The experience of working with Bull Val-
ley Hardwood was top of mind when Collins
shared his vision of having the oak log made
into furniture with Village Manager Jessica
Frances. Frances says it didn’t take much con-
vincing to gain the support of village board to
budget funds for the project. “We viewed this
as an extension of our goal to be more sustain-
able,” Frances says. “Village president Ben
Sells was very excited at the thought of having
tables made from a tree that was part of River-
side’s history.”
Getting the green light from the board of
trustees was made all the easier by the price
tag: $500 for Bull Valley Hardwood to mill the
log and $9,500 to have three pedestal desks
custom crafted by Paul Meyer of Woodstock
Woodworks & Studio, who DeSerto recom-
mended for the project. “The cost could easily
have been at least double that,” Collins says,
“but Paul and Dan donated a lot of time and
effort to this cause.”
“The Riverside oak project was my first
that involved using locally sourced wood,”
says Meyer, who quit his long-standing gig
as a high school woodworking and drafting
teacher to pursue his passion of making fine
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Meyer spent about 450 hours building the
three tables.
the wood has an historical context and decid-
ed that an Arts and Crafts style design would
be appropriate.”
Oak log meets the Dominator
With all systems go, the urban oak log was
hauled to Bull Valley Hardwood, where it
was slated for a date with a Baker Dominator
sawmill. “The Dominator has a rating of up
to 9,000 board feet a day,” DeSerto says. “It’s
probably the highest capacity mill in Illinois
right now, certainly in northern Illinois.”
Bull Valley Hardwood’s facility also features
three high-efficiency Nyle dehumidification
kilns. The bulk of logs processed into lumber
by the company are obtained from municipal
and county sources, including more than 100
semi loads of wood from the Cook County
Forest Preserve.
Where Collins saw beauty in the old-growth
oak’s trunk, DeSerto saw less grandness as he
prepared the log for milling. “This technically
was not a saw log,” DeSerto says. “A saw log
generally has two or three sides clear. In our
prep work we took a chainsaw to the log and
trimmed a lot of nubs off of it so that we could
physically get it on the mill. There were a lot
of knots.”
“Growing in an urban parkway environ-
ment, sunlight reaches all sides of the tree,”
Collins observes. “But in a forest setting, the
limbs would be shed naturally over time by
competition for light. This would reduce the
number of knots.”
The oak log yielded about 700 bf of 8/4 lum-
ber with each board measuring about 16’ long
and ranging from 8” to 26” wide.
After the boards were dried, they were de-
livered knots and all to Meyer’s shop. Non-
plussed by the woods’ many significant char-
acter flaws, Meyer forged ahead and went the
extra mile to make the wood worthy of fine
furniture.
“I’m used to adding a lot of details and mak-
ing a lot changes as I’m working,” Meyer says.
To eliminate knots in the wood, Meyer sliced
veneer to about 3/32”. “Each pedestal of the
tables probably has about 100 pieces because
the panels behind the grids are veneered,”
Meyer says. “I took a two-inch-wide board
and cut 12 to 14 pieces of veneer out with a
Laguna band saw and sanded them on a drum
sander. Then I matched them up and glued
them on Baltic birch plywood on both sides.
Each of these panels probably has five pieces
on one side and three on the other. I used lap
joints so that they would never fall apart.”
Meyer’s meticulous attention to detail, from
slicing veneer strips to the use of mortise-and-
tenon joinery, was incredibly time consuming.

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(From left) Paul Meyer, Michael Collins and Dan DeSerto with the finished tables.
But the time spent on craft operations paled in
comparison to the estimated 200 hours “sand-
ing everything to make sure it was nice and
smooth and everything fit perfectly.” All told,
he estimates that he invested about 450 hours
to produce the three tables.
Whereas Meyer employed traditional wood-
working tools – portable routers, table saw,
etc., - the logo on the front panel of the center
table was etched by a Felder CNC router at
Bull Valley’s shop. A 1/32” bit was used to
rout a mere 2/100 of an inch into the sur-
face of the wood – deep enough to create the
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out. “It was perfect,” says Meyer, who hand
painted the routed logo with black paint, a job
that took about six hours.
For the finishing touch, Meyer called on a
friend to spray the tables with a pre-catalyzed
lacquer to provide extra durability in a public
space. Before the finish was applied, though,
Meyer fumed the wood with ammonia hy-
droxide to darken it and highlight the oak
grain pattern. “I put the tables in a big sealed
plastic tent for about eight hours. As the am-
monia evaporated, it reacted with the tan-
drying rack foot-rotated turntable
NEWS DESK
nins in the white oak. The nice thing
is that when you fume something, it
doesn’t raise the grain. You don’t have
additional sanding and the color change
goes fairly deep – about 1/16”. On the
end grain it goes about 1/8” in so if you
ever scratch the table, you are not going
to go through the color,” he says.
A happy customer
“I give the Illinois Wood Utilization
Team a lot of credit for planting the
seed for this idea,” Collins says. “As
an urban forester, hearing stories about
urban and community trees being re-
purposed is inspiring. Our village got
one helluva a bargain. The finished
pieces are a testament to Paul’s and
Dan’s attention to detail. It’s amazing that
with their help we have been able to make a
connection with history.”
Frances seconds Collins’ sentiment. “What
Paul created is just phenomenal. These tables
will be utilized by our village and township
for many years to come.”
DeSerto is hopeful that Riverside’s historic oak
reclamation project sparks a trend. “I’m hoping
that this gets other municipalities thinking about
the good stuff that can come out of their fallen
trees beyond mulch and firewood.”
small footprint trimmer
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WOOD MARKETS
White oak is ‘neck and
neck’ with walnut
By Jennifer Hicks
T
hey say variety is the spice of life.
With the many varieties offered in
white oak, it’s no wonder why the
species seems to be taking the hard-
wood market by storm these days. Suppliers
interviewed by Woodshop News say the en-
tire spectrum of white oaks, from top-grade
cuts to the rustics that were once considered
low grade, are all in demand.
Jerry Anton of O’Shea Lumber in Glen Rock,
Pa., who obtains much of his white oak from Eu-
rope, says it’s a real hot seller in every way, shape
and form, particularly in the designer cuts.
“What I see with white oak is that the rift- or
quarter-sawn seems to be a little more popular
with furniture, flooring and even in cabinetry. It’s
pretty versatile for all that. People like the look
of it instead of just plain-sawn oak. That quarter-
sawn gives it a different flare,” says Anton.
“Another thing that seems to be popular is
that rustic look. People want to see the knots
and live edges. They finish it with a clear
coat to show the variation in colors and min-
eral streaks.”
Common to the eastern U.S., white oak
(Quercus alba) is a dense, rot resistant hard-
wood that is light to medium brown in color,
often with an olive cast. Untreated, it fades
over time and turns light grey and wheat-
like colors. Designers are frequently trying
to recreate the worn look of oak with paints
and stains, or by creating faux versions of it,
16 WWW.WOODSHOPNEWS.COM JUNE 2018
according to Greg Engle of Certainly Wood, a
veneer supplier in East Aurora, N.Y.
“It’s competing with walnut. It seems like
walnut and white oak are neck and neck right
now. The predominant request has been for
rift grain in white oak and in a thickness up to
1/16”, which we carry,” says Engle
“Right now, there’s nothing in oak that can’t
be sold. What I mean by that is any grade that
a mill produces has a home, whether it’s in the
form of rift, quarter-sawn, flat cut, right down
to pure rustic grades that are increasingly
popular in the interior design circles right
now. Pieces with knots, splits or cracks, those
looking like old barn beams, for example,
that’s the look in oak that’s trending above all
right at the moment.”
Rob Lamoureaux of Parkerville Wood Prod-
ucts in Manchester, Conn., also reports that
sales are up and demand is high for white oak.
“We sell a lot of quarter-sawn and rift-sawn.
Price has gone up slightly, but the demand has
been very strong. It’s always been preferred in
architectural millwork to use white oak over
red oak. A lot of our non-commercial custom-
ers are purchasing white oak. They’re doing
tabletops, furniture legs. They like that the
color is consistent,” says Lamoureaux.
Plain-sawn white oak (4/4, FAS) wholesales
for $2.75-$2.95/mbf and retails for $4.60 to
$4.70/bf. Quarter- and rift-sawn stock adds
$3-$4/bf to the retail bill.
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Bosch Power Tools announced it has sold more than 50 million
Daredevil spade bits since the products’ introduction in Novem-
ber 2013.
The Daredevil Spade Bit was created to answer the needs of
electricians, plumbers and other professional users for greater
speed, ease of use and hole quality. Since its introduction, mil-
lions of users have turned to Bosch Daredevil for a design that’s
unparalleled in its performance, according to the company.
“This is a real milestone for Bosch and a testament to our atten-
tion to smart tool design,” product manager Ana Michelini said
in a statement. “The Daredevil spade bit shows how a design
enhancement can fundamentally change the way trade pros use
power tools. These bits not only save time, but help the user re-
duce fatigue because the bit does the work.”
Bosch Daredevil spade bits are available in a range of sizes and
are sold individually or in sets.
For more, visit www.boschtools.com.

Vollmer expanding U.S. facility

Vollmer of America announced it will be moving to a new
building that is almost three times the size of its current location
in Carnegie, Pa.
“The land we will build on is also in the Pittsburgh area - a
little closer to the airport to make customer visits even more con-
venient,” the company said in a statement.
“The reason for this upcoming move is to accommodate the
rapidly growing workforce and to allow the recruitment of even
more new people in the future. Another reason is to improve and
extend the variety of machine demonstrations for you, our valued
customer, and with the new 4,200-sq.-ft. showroom your visit will
certainly be even more informative. The larger warehouse can
store more spare parts which will have a positive impact on spare
part and consumable availability.
The building is scheduled for completion by the end of 2019.
For more, visit https://vollmeramerica.com.

New double-end tenoner from SCM

SCM introduces a new double-end tenoner for the processing
of cabinet doors, drawer fronts, solid wood and MDF tables, able
to combine flexibility and productivity in the smallest possible
space, according to the company.
“Celaschi CP makes it possible to meet the increasing demand
of diversified and customized products,” the company said in a
statement. “The compact design of the new double-end tenoner
is designed to reduce as much as possible the time of emptying
the machine to maximize productivity even in presence of small
batches.
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 FIND YOUR
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TOOLS
& TECHNIQUES

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Rick Bush, Festool’s marketing
WKDQ\HDUV manager, says the new connector is based on
the concept of a larger connector introduced
last year.
Questions? “Last year we introduced a knock-down
fastener for our larger Domino joiner which is
Call 800.727.0917 for furniture, thicker stock and other materials
that will take on a dynamic load. It’s helpful
to speak with a live, because when you’re building something in
non-automated your shop for a client, it’s too big and you’ve
got to assemble it on site,” says Bush.
team member! “Now, we have a knock-down fastener for
our Domino DF 500 joiner that’s designed for
casework. That machine has been in the mar- The new Domino connector set.
www.dc-dist.com
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ket since 2011 so there’s more opportunity for
these connectors. The concept is the same as
with the other connector as it lets you build
casework in the shop as much as possible,
knock it down, and take it to the customer.”
The connectors’ large tightening distance
and long bolts make furniture assembly sig-
nificantly easier, according to the company.
The connectors are sold separately and as
part of a set, model KV-SYS D8, for $375.
Festool has also expanded its line of Granat
Net Abrasives, nylon mesh aluminum oxide
sanding pads, available in five formats and a
wide variety of grits. They can be used with
any of the company’s hand-held sanders.
“This is a net structured abrasive where
instead of having specific holes to line up for
dust collection, the dust passes through the
mesh material. You would normally see this
type of abrasive where you see high-volume,
fine-dust types of sanding. The most aggres-
sive grit we have is 80, but the options go all
the way to 400 grit,” says Bush.
Granat Net is sold in packs of 25 and 50,
starting at $39. Tool protection pads are
also available.
For more, visit www.festoolusa.com. Granat Net Abrasives are available in five formats.

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TOOLS & TECHNIQUES

KCD Software partners

with Integra Doors
By Jennifer Hicks

C
abinet manufacturers and designers using KCD software
can now place direct orders on custom, powder-coated MDF
doors from Integra Doors.
This feature allows KCD Software to save time and reduce
errors in the ordering process, says the company’s product manager,
Ken Frye. Customers can quickly select common edge profiles, colors
and sizes from drop down menus.
“You create your design, choose your doors, and then go to a section
in the program where you build a door order list,” says Frye.
KCD has other door manufacturers in its software, but this is the first

Powder-coated doors and millwork from

Integra Doors.
source for power coating. Integra says its pro-
prietary, non-VOC emitting finishing process
produces a durable coated finish that won’t
delaminate, peel or crack.
“KCD Software’s ordering system couldn’t
be any easier,” Bern Fitzgerald, founder of
Integra Doors, said in a statement. “Any
MDF cabinet door or part you can design
and make with KCD Software we can supply
because we use KCD Doors Plus manufactur-
ing software. The library includes more than
320 door styles that can be precisely custom
sized and modified because of the software’s
parametric feature.”
Integra Doors stocks its five most popular
colors – white, off white, light gray, dark gray
and black – for rapid delivery. Custom colors
are also available.
KCD customers with Version 10 can get
the feature through an online update. All
future releases of KCD software will include
this feature.
For more, visit www.kcdsoftware.com and
www.integradoors.com

Acrilex announces new

PVC foamboard product
Acrilex presents Buildboard, a micro cellular
polymer sheet, as an alternative to high density
urethane, particleboard, MDF and plywood.
“Buildboard by Acrilex is an exterior grade
Class A fire-rated material that is perfect for
cutting, routing, and engraving; producing
great edge definition, with less mess than an
HDU board, and with much greater rigidity and
strength,” the company said in a statement.
“This product is waterproof, rot and insect
proof, making it excellent for ground contact. It
will not crack or swell and is unaffected by high-
salt environments or insects.”
For more, visit www.acrilex.com.

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 TOOLS & TECHNIQUES

Jet packs features

into new router table
By Jennifer Hicks

J et’s offers a new router table with plenty

of features, including a cast iron or MDF
top, precision router lift, fence system
with feather board and flip top add-ons,
and rolling stand.
“The cast iron table is a really nice feature.
Most router tables are phenolic or some other
material. With the cast iron you have the flat-
test, most sturdy surface possible,” says Mi-
chael D’Onofrio, Jet’s product manager for
woodworking.
The cast iron table weighs 88 lbs. The lighter
MDF table has a melamine surface. Both tops
provide a working surface of 32” x 24”.
“The router lift is a four-post, chain-driven
router lift, so it’s really smooth and durable,”
D’Onofrio adds.
Jet’s router table is compatible with most
3-hp routers. It sells for about $1,400 with
the cast iron table, and about $1,100 with the
MDF top.
For more, visit www.jettools.com. The router table with optional cast iron top.

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TOOLS & TECHNIQUES
The Atlas has a single collet spindle.
The Titan offers an automatic tool changer.
Atlas and Titan join
Techo CNC’s offerings
By Jennifer Hicks
T
echno CNC Systems has introduced
the Atlas and Titan router series,
available with a 4’ x 4’, 4’ x 8’, 5’ x
10’ or custom table.
“They’re going to replace a couple of older
models that we had. We built some new engi-
neering changes and some advancements into
them,” says product manager Roy Valentine.
“They’re both geared to the woodworking
market. The Atlas is a single collet spindle ma-
chine, while the Titan has more advanced fea-
tures such as the automatic tool changer and
material pop-up pins for easy sheet alignment.”
22 WWW.WOODSHOPNEWS.COM JUNE 2018
The Atlas series features a 4-hp HSD
high-frequency collet spindle, brushless
stepper drive motors, vacuum table with
main control gate valve, and hand-held
micro stepper controller.
The Titan series has a 12-hp HSD high-
frequency automatic tool changer spindle,
eight-position tool rack, vacuum T-slot table
with main control valve, hand-held control-
ler with a PC-based option, THK linear rails
and bearings, and helical rack and pinion
with direct drives.
“One of the advancements we did on
both the Atlas and the Titan is a 7-1/2”
gantry clearance. But we also have an 11-
1/2” Z-axis stroke so you can actually pro-
cess that whole height, which works out
much better than on our previous systems,”
says Valentine.
“The solid steel framework on both series
provides a solid foundation for our linear
motion drive system and room under the
table for vacuum pump placement.”
With a 4’ x 8’ table, the Altas and Titan sell
for $23,000 and $37,000, respectively.
For more, visit www.technocnc.com.
 TOOLS & TECHNIQUES

Cabinet Pro improves

panel optimization feature
By Jennifer Hicks

C
abinet Pro has a new panel optimiz-
er in its CAD software. The update
produces a more efficient yield and
makes use of leftover materials.
“Cabinet Pro’s new optimizer completes
a job with efficient use of time and minimal
waste, using what was once considered scrap,
all of which translates into higher profits and
with virtually no extra effort on part of cabi-
netmaker or shop personnel,” says company
president Frank Jimenez.
The company’s software generates a full
cut list and the best layout prior to cutting. It
will define selected parts as “grain indepen-
dent” and rotate for the best yield. It also has
a “never rotate” function for parts made from
MDF, for example.
The software also lets the user view the pre- whether it is for a panel saw or for a CNC or to a CNC router where parts are placed
cise location of every machining operation on router, may be defined per cut list so that one wherever they may fit for optimum yield,” the
an optimized part. cut list can send parts to a panel saw with op- company explained in a statement.
“The specific method of optimization, timization along rip lines and cross-cut lines, For more, visit www.cabinetpro.com.

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PRO SHOP
with DAVID GETTS
Start calling the shots
or end up in the doghouse
A
re you a trained craftsperson? If so,
how much training do you have?
The more instruction you receive
in any occupation makes you bet-
ter at performing whatever craft it is you do.
Training is key, and those who understand it’s
precepts will find success.
Whether you are training your hands to
perform a certain task, or your brain to for-
mulate an opinion, acquiring a better response
time is only achieved through the discipline of
good education. In business we have to train
ourselves in many fields of study. It’s not just
learning how to do what it is that you create,
you must be trained in how to sell it, how to
account for profit, how to manage employees,
etc. The list for training focus is infinite, and
smart people recognize the need for it.
But just as there are two sides to every coin,
there are two sides to training. You can either
be trained for a desired behavioral response or
respond to a trained behavior. Which side are
you on?
The premise
Ivan Pavlov, the Russian physiologist, has
taught us the importance of trained behavior.
In his study with dogs, he believed that some
things do not need to be taught, such as a dog
salivating when presented with food. These
reflexes are hard-wired or instinctual in the
animal.
However, what he discovered in his study is
that the dogs would eventually begin to sali-
vate when they learned to associate an item
or event with the food. This learned behavior
was the result of the dog being exposed to
a bell, a lab assistant, or even the bowl itself
because it associated it with the food. The
food was the unconditioned stimulus, and the
neutral stimulus was the associated object or
event.
How you use this information will deter-
mine whether you are being trained or doing
the training in your business, an important
distinction for MNAP (minimizing the nega-
tive, accentuating the positive).
24 WWW.WOODSHOPNEWS.COM JUNE 2018
Reality check
We all dream of the model client, some-
one that trusts us to do the work and doesn’t
squawk about the cost. I’ve worked hard
through the years in a quest to develop the
perfect client base that fits that model. The
problem I found is you often have to take a lot
of crummy jobs just to pay the bills in-between
the good ones. But if the business model is
followed, you’ll see patterns emerge that help
guide you into developing the best fit of work
(and client) for your company. Unfortunately,
there can always be an anomaly in the pattern.
This unplanned result could be from mis-
reading the pattern, or perhaps you’re simply
not paying attention. If you forgot the first
question I asked, you need to be reminded
of it now. Are you a trained craftsperson? If
you answered yes, then you should easily
understand the concept about the importance
of training. You can’t sell a custom piece if you
have never learned the basics of Woodwork-
ing 101. Being trained in the properties and
characteristics of wood, along with the prin-
ciples of how to fashion the material into a us-
able product is of utmost importance in find-
Continued growth predicted for remodeling market
The robust pace of spending on home
renovations and repairs is expected to stay
strong over the coming quarters, accord-
ing to the Leading Indicator of Remodeling
Activity from the Remodeling Futures Pro-
gram at the Joint Center for Housing Stud-
ies of Harvard University.
The LIRA projects that annual growth in
homeowner remodeling expenditure will
remain above 7 percent throughout the year
and into the first quarter of 2019.
“Strengthening employment conditions
and rising home values are encouraging
homeowners to make greater investments
in their homes,” Chris Herbert, the cen-
ter’s managing director, said in a statement.
ing the right clients that will reward you for
your talent. Of equal regard is learning how
you have been trained by your clients to such
demands as scheduling, material, design and
cost. And, how to turn that conditioning into
the reverse positive of you training your client
to respond to your method of procedure.
You are the expert. You are being hired to
create something for them. Therefore, the cli-
ent needs to conform to your modus-operandi,
not the other way around.
Reality bites
I really didn’t care too much for school when
I was young and living at home, but once I was
out on my own I gained a whole new aware-
ness of the importance that training can pro-
vide. One of the obtuse things I learned in col-
lege was simply studying the behavior of both
professors and students alike (as it pertained
to the classroom). Through awareness and ob-
servation alone, I realized you could gauge the
topics and information the teacher believed
was most important to learn.
This documented behavioral response
helped me to focus on the things needed for
the best grades because I was able to elimi-
nate many of the unknowns I knew we would
be tested on. And because my brain wasn’t
crowded with the unknowns, there was free-
dom to learn the topic in much greater depth.
Taking this same approach in running a busi-
ness, you should become a student of client
and subcontractor behavior. When you’re a
good study of people, you learn how to give
them what they want without having to sacri-
fice yourself in the process.
Much like Pavlov’s observation of learned
behavior, it’s up to you to teach your client the
desired behavior. It’s a sound principle, but not
as easily obtained as you might think. Stub-
bornness to pay attention to the facts (the typi-
“Upward trends in retail sales of building
materials and the growing number of re-
modeling permits indicate that homeowners
are doing more and larger improvement
projects.”
“While the overall outlook is positive, one
area of concern is the slowing growth in
sales of existing homes, since sales tradition-
ally trigger significant renovation spending
by both sellers and buyers,” added associate
project director Abbe Wil. “Even with this
headwind, annual spending on residential
improvements and repairs by homeowners
is set to exceed $340 billion by early next
year.”
For more, visit www.jchs.harvard.edu.
cal way a client will act or respond to a higher
cost, scheduling delay, etc.) may allure you
to manipulate their behavioral results to fit a
model that is randomly perceived to work bet-
ter. Think of that reasoned folly this way; when
Pavlov’s dog salivated because it heard the bell,
he didn’t rewrite the reason as instinctual be-
havior, but instead stuck to the facts (results) of
what the learned behavior taught him.
Thirty-nine years in the business teaches
you something, like reading people and situ-
ations with high percentage accuracy. That
being said, I’m still learning the importance of
discipline. Let me give you an example.
I was recently contacted to build a piece of
furniture. Rather than being excited about a
new project, I felt nothing but skepticism.
Now before we go further, I need to provide
an important reminder. Whether you’re an
artist on stage or in the shop, the people pay-
ing to see you perform are always going to see
how far they can get you to jump. There’s a
perceived entitlement that occurs when pay-
ing for a service. Keep it mind that they are
only paying for your services, not your soul.
There were some fairly weird circumstance
surrounding this commission. First, the cus-
tomers were referred to me by someone
I don’t know. They have not told me their
names and want a pre-designed piece with
Now’s the time
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no clear understanding of how it will be used. to use the information I’ve learned from past
Now I love odd stuff, but the request was the client relationships and stay true to my busi-
equivalent of asking a tailor to fashion a three- ness model?
piece biped suit for a new client with four My advice is to be Pavlov, not his dog. In
legs. But they were willing to pay and front a other words, you need to be the one calling
large deposit. the shots, not the clients.
So I had to ask myself, am I going to have
a conditioned response to a client’s lure of David Getts is a certified kitchen designer and
frivolous money spending and become noth- owner of David Getts Designer Builder Inc. in
ing more than Pavlov’s dog? Or, am I going Seattle.
Homag presents new brand identity
Stiles Machinery announces the next generation of machine design and digital innovation
from Homag, which debuted at the Holz-Handwerk fair in Nuremberg, Germany.
“In the spring of 2017, Homag combined its existing brands, including Weeke, Holzma,
Butfering and Brandt, under the unified Homag name. This was the first step in their efforts
to organize the group’s wide product range clearly and efficiently for customers around the
world. The new brand identity, being revealed at the Holz-Handwerk show, will be a con-
tinuation of this corporate initiative,” Stiles said in a statement.
“Along with the new modern machine design, Homag will be incorporating a new nam-
ing structure to help customers easily navigate the wide-variety of manufacturing solutions
they offer. Using this new naming structure, each machine name will reflect the function it
performs. For example, all Homag edgebanding machines will be known as Edgeteq, while
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screw the material to a spoil board. But it’s
almost guaranteed that at least one screw will
be in the path of the cut, resulting in a dam-
aged tool.
Another option is to use T-track and edge
clamps, which doesn’t work so well when ma-
chining 4x8 panels. Some edge clamps push
into the panel and cause a hump that will rear
its head in assembly.
Vacuum clamping is the most efficient and
consistent option. It works well for sheet
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goods and small stock. Components include
a pump, distribution ducts or pipes, a perma-
nent plenum table, and spoil board.
Vacuum pumps and blowers are available in
many different types and sizes. Irrespective of
the type or size, there are two important mea-
sures to be aware of: the amount of vacuum
(inches of mercury, Hg) and air flow (specific
cubic feet per minute). The latter, SCFM, refers
to the level of air being drawn by the pump or
blower at a specific level of vacuum, usually
the optimum level of inches of Hg relative to
the type of wood machining that the CNC
router will be mostly used for.
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that moves air, otherwise the pump will have
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service, searching for leaks needs to be a part
of the preventative maintenance procedure.
The loss of vacuum is just as harmful to pro-
duction as a poorly running spindle or gantry
that will not move at its optimum speed. It is a
good idea to incorporate an inches of mercury
gauge into the system with easy view to alert
the operator when there is a leak as the read-
ings will begin to decline.
An under table ducting or piping system
allows the vacuum to be evenly spread. You
can zone with valves, shutting off the vacuum
where it is not needed. Zoning can also be ac-
complished with strategically placed rubber
flooring mats.
The permanent plenum table is often part of
the CNC machine’s structure. It may be MDF
or plywood, but more often it is some form of
plastic or aluminum, machined with plenum
channels to evenly distribute the vacuum.
The channels are often milled side-to-side and
front-to-back, and sized to fit rubber gaskets
that can be used to define vacuum zones. Even
if the CNC router is going to be used for just
4x8 sheets, a gasket should be placed all the
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way around to prevent vacuum loss between
the plenum table and spoil board.
MDF is a good material choice for the spoil
board. The vacuum can penetrate this po-
rous material, holding it tight and flat. But the
edges need to be covered with banding, two
or three coats of paint or varnish, or duct tape
to prevent vacuum loss. Next, fly cut .03” to
.05” both sides of the MDF spoil board to re-
move the less permeable hard polished surfac-
es created during the manufacturing process.
Many advocate adding a second sheet of
MDF (1/2”) to lessen airflow loss and concen-
trate the vacuum in areas where it is needed.
But in my experience, rubber flooring mats are
just as effective and easier to handle and store.
The spoil board should be kept clear of all
dust and debris for maximum vacuum.
One solution for machining small parts is to
cut at a lower inch per minute rate to lessen
the lateral forces of the router bit, while main-
taining the tool’s RPM. But be careful. If you
cut too slow, sawdust can ignite from the heat
generated. So make sure the dust removal
hood is as low as possible, have air at a high
volume blowing on the material to carry the
heat away, and keep a water bottle or fire ex-
tinguisher handy.
Adding fixtures is a good method for limit-
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of an art than a science, so a woodworker’s
creativity learned from building wood hold-
ing devices for cutting small or oddly shaped
parts on a table saw or sharper should help.
Another technique is to place rubber floor-
ing mats over areas of the material that have
been cut. This can be especially effective when
cutting very porous material like foam.
Other techniques for holding small parts
include machining tabs between parts to pre-
vent side-to-side movement or leaving a thin
piece of material, called an “onion skin”, on
the bottom side of the cut. This technique
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limits loss of vacuum though areas that have
be cut away or pocketed. To remove the onion
skin, use a smaller router bit to finish the cut.
This method takes a bit of thought, so make
a plan first and experiment with scrap mate-
rial before heading into production. A third
method is to use a pressure foot that attaches
to the spindle.
It is tempting to solve vacuum clamping is-
sues with a larger pump that has more horse-
power. But minimizing the loss of vacuum is a
better approach than just throwing money at
the problem.
add a whole new experience to the already
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Bill McGlade Sr., director of emerging busi-
ness at a2z Inc., said in a statement. “These
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In their sweet home of Alabama, the Hubbards have grown their
family business through builder connections and customer care
By Jennifer Hicks
reg Hubbard was introduced to the family cabinetry busi-
G ness as a teenager. Now that his father has retired, he’s
stepped up as president of Montgomery Cabinet and Trim
in Montgomery, Ala., and stays on his toes at least six days
a week keeping operations in order.
“I don’t get in the shop too much anymore because I don’t have time.
I deal with the salesmen. I do all the material orders, all the drafting
and layouts. When my dad used to do it, I didn’t think I’d be able to
learn all of that, but you’ve got no choice,” says Hubbard, whose moth-
er Lenora still keeps her role as bookkeeper and estimator.
Established in 1974 by Hubbard’s father and grandfather, the cen-
tral Alabama cabinet shop has 10 employees and provides custom
cabinetry for every room in the house. Through builder connections,
it produces up to 300 jobs per year in both new and remodeled homes.
The geographic focus is the residential sector of Montgomery and its
surrounding regions. Last year the company grossed $1.2 million, close
to the target.
“We’re definitely busier than last year,” Hubbard says, while his
phone rings every several minutes.
NO PLACE LIKE HOME
Born in Montgomery, Hubbard can’t imagine living anywhere else.
He’s surrounded by family and the great outdoors, and can get to the
ocean in a couple hours.. Having spent many enjoyable summers work-
ing in the shop before graduating high school in 1986, he yearned to be
a permanent part of it.
“When I started there were five employees here. I didn’t do cabinets.
I was a gofer. I painted the building and worked in the back assembling
face frames. I worked my way up.”
But there’s more to the story. Hubbard also wanted to build houses,
From left, president Greg Hubbard, found-
ers John and Lenora Hubbard, and shop
foreman Jason Beiler.
something else his father did. He went to school for drafting at Troy
University in Troy, Ala. for a year. Then he changed his mind and
showed up to help run the shop and grow the business.
“I got my builder’s license because my dad had his. I started an-
other company called Gregory Properties. I still do that just in case
my mom retires from here and I can’t keep this going. Right now, we
have to depend on employees to do our work and it’s hard to find
people to hire.
“So, I have that company too, but I don’t use it a lot basically because
the builders that I do cabinetry for now, if I start building a lot of hous-
es they will quit using me for cabinets. I would be their competition.
Plus, I don’t really have the funds to just bust out and start building a
lot of houses. I’m too cautious to start taking too many risks.”
MILESTONE MOMENTS
After starting in a rented space, the Hubbards built a 6,000-sq.-ft.
shop in the woodworking part of town.
“This area stood out to us as a good location years ago. There was
another cabinet shop for manufactured cabinets and a commercial mill-
work shop, and then us with custom cabinets. It was like a row of car
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lots where everyone offers something different,” says Hubbard.
The company added a 2,500-sq.-ft. building in the late ’90s to provide
finishing services, something it hadn’t originally offered. The building
is equipped to deal with the heat and humidity, and a great deal of at-
tention is paid when mixing finishes to prevent blushing.
About 15 years ago, the shop purchased an Omnitech CNC to in-
crease production and eliminate the need for outsourcing.
“Once we started finishing cabinets we needed to make them faster,”
says Hubbard. “We make our MDF doors instead of outsourcing them.
That machine has helped a lot, speeding everything up.”
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By adding a finishing room and CNC router, the shop
accomplished its goal of increasing production.
TARGETING NEW DEVELOPMENTS
Most of the shop’s work is fairly local. The builder connections cer-
tainly help in that regard as new subdivisions pop up. The shop has
done quite a bit of work at New Park in Montgomery, Brookwood in
Wetumpka, The Ridge on Lake Martin, and Fairhope near Mobile Bay.
“One thing I have seen is people are moving out of the city limits of
Montgomery, out to the country towns like Pike Road and Fitzpatrick.
There’s a lot of family land that’s been passed down out in the country
and houses are being built on that land now,” says Hubbard.
Most designs call for a modern look, not surprising since about three
quarters of the shop’s work goes into new homes. “Trends come and
go,” says Hubbard. “There are years when everybody seems to want
stained cabinets. Right now, everybody’s gone back to Shaker-style
doors and whites and grays, the simple, clean look.
“We offer any type of wood. People seem to like knotty alder, wal-
nut, heart pine, and barn wood is really popular. On paint grade we
use poplar and some people go with MDF doors because of cost, but
we’re trying to switch from MDF to plywood since it’s a lot lighter and
my guys are getting older.”
Keeping in touch with builders has given Hubbard an advantage
against other custom cabinet shops.
“We’ve never really done a lot of advertising,” he says. “We get a
lot of jobs by word of mouth and we have our normal builders. One of
our builders, when things were busy, was building 20 to 30 houses a
month. He’s retired now, unfortunately.”
From kitchens to bathrooms,
the shop does it all.
The company had 18 employees
in 2006. “That was one of our best
years,” says Hubbard. “We were
basically installing a set of cabinets
and finishing a house at the same
time, all the time. We had two
crews going out. About 2007, I was
building a house, and it just drasti-
cally slowed. It didn’t completely
stop, but we did some commercial
work like doctors’ offices and car
dealerships. Then people seemed
to start doing a lot of remodeling.”
A FUTURE WITH PURPOSE
Hubbard grapples with the idea
of expansion given the lack of
skilled help available.
“It’s hard to find good employees. The problem is if I say I’m looking
for a cabinetmaker and they say they’re a cabinetmaker, I don’t know
what they know. If they say they can do it, I will give them a chance.”
Family is extremely important to Hubbard. About four years ago, his
youngest stepson Dylan Bieber, a junior in high school, was killed in a
car accident. Hubbard strives to keep his memory alive by giving back
to the community.
“My plan is to start a website and call it Dylan’s Corner. It will be a
way to sell products we make and other components like hardware and
other cabinetry supplies. My wife and I want to donate a portion of the
money to Wetumpka High where Dylan went. We do a scholarship for
him every year.”
Some of the items on the site will include keepsakes like photography
boxes and picture frames, and larger items like vanities.
“The best part is working for yourself is that you have the choice of
having some freedom,” adds Hubbard, who admittedly doesn’t take
advantage this as much as he’d like.
“I went on a family trip to San Antonio two years ago, and I basically
stayed on my phone the whole time. I feel guilty when I’m not here, so
I don’t stay gone very much. I don’t want to disappoint my customers.
I need to make sure everything and everyone is taken care of.”
Contact: Montgomery Cabinet and Trim, 5658 Bell Road, Montgom-
ery, AL 36116. Tel: 334-281-6627. www.montgomerycabinetandtrim.com
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survive decades of kids climbing on counters or customers spilling
coffee. Professional-grade edge banding used to be a big-shop pro-
cess, and the little guys were left with a clothes iron and a utility knife.
Boy, how things have changed.
One of the better improvements recently was the introduction by
Festool (festoolusa.com) of its Conturo Bander, a portable edge bander
viable option for jobsites as well as woodshops. In many ways, it’s ac-
tually more versatile than a straight-line bander because it can handle
radii, circles, bevels, inside corners and small parts. The machine is
easy to hold and use, has a couple of speeds, and the glue is isolated,
so the user doesn’t get burned by hot adhesive. There’s on-board elec-
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 Castaly-Lobo EB-J7PM.
SOLUTIONS
distributors offer a range of options for shops of all sizes
supports it with brown, black, natural (yellow/tan) and white EVA ad-
hesive in 48-unit cartons.
Several suppliers including Wurth (wurthmachinery.com) and Wood-
craft (woodcraft.com) offer the Brazilian-made Maksiwa CBC.E portable
edgebander. This one has a stand with folding legs, so it can travel to
the jobsite in something as small as the trunk of an SUV. It runs on
household current, has a manual end trimmer, will run tape up to 3”
wide and comes with a two-year warranty.
Hoffmann Mobil edge banding presses.
BY JOHN ENGLISH
Woodshops with more substantial needs will want to see a range of floor
model options. Biesse (biesse.com/na) offers everything from the K60 Trim
(a compact, semi-automatic machine for both straight and shaped panels)
through the Akron series and on up to the Stream range of high production
machines. The company’s Air Force system for invisible edge banding uses
compressed hot air for superior results. And its Stream C machines allow
both squaring and edge banding operations to be carried out using a single
system on both the transverse and longitudinal sides of a panel.
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Badger 2200.
Cantek MX550AU and MX370A.
Felder G 680.
Cantek Machinery (cantekamerica.com) in Blaine, Wash., and offers
seven edge banders. The smallest unit, the MX550AU, is a hand-held
bander that works on both straight and curved edges, where the
minimum inside radius is 25mm. It can be fastened down for benchtop
work and there’s a digital temperature monitor for the glue. Cantek’s
largest machine, the MX370A, is capable of pre-milling, end trimming,
flush trimming, corner rounding, PVC scraping and buffing. It has us-
er-friendly controls and adjustments that allow for efficient tape chang-
ing (thicknesses are from 0.4 to 3mm) and there’s a touchscreen inter-
face. It’s built for durability with a Teflon-coated pot and chain drive.
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Casadei-Busellato (casadei-busellato.com/en) is an Italian manufacturer
with offices in Duluth, Ga. The company offers eight edge banders –
six mid-size automatic units, the Flexa 307 industrial model for large
shops, and a manual machine, the ALA 10, that is equipped with a glue
pot and is designed for straight and shaped panels (concave, convex
and round). It comes with a foot pedal and works with tape from 0.4 to
3mm in width. The new Flexa 47 can apply banding up to 6mm wide
on panels that are up to 60mm thick. It has a steel frame with a chain
drive and comes with options that allow a shop to work with thin, ra-
dius and wood edges.
Castaly-Lobo (cncroutergroup.com) also offers a comprehensive range
of edge banders. The smallest model, the EB-50PT, sells for just $990
and can be used as a hand-held unit, or it can be attached to a conveyor
belt or table with the optional stand. It works for straight or curved
panels, and weighs only 19 lbs. At the other end of the range is the
EB-J7PM Auto Edge Bander that offers choices in automatic feed for
pre-mill, gluing, pneumatic guillotine, double end trimming, top and
bottom fine edge trimming, and edge polishing.
The compact Badger 2200 from California-based CNC Factory (cncfac-
tory.com) is a lot of bang for the footprint – it takes up just 155 x 67 x
43 of shop space. The 2200 has digital front screen controls, a two-liter
pellet glue pot, top and bottom edge scrapers, dual 6 buffing wheels
and three independent pressure rollers. It works with tape thicknesses
from 0.4 to 3mm, and the power plant comes with both 3-phase and
single-phase options.
CNC Factory also offers the Badger 3600AT, a fully automatic ma-
chine. Features include touchscreen controls, built-in infrared heater,
and 2-liter pellet glue pot. The heating system can be changed to match
various glue requirements, and there are three rollers on this machine.
Up front, there are independent manual controls for each function. The
glue scrapers operate independently of each other and can be micro-
adjusted with a slight turn of a knob. The top and bottom buffers are
also independent.
Felder Group USA (felder-group.com) has a showroom at its headquar-
ters in New Castle, Del. It offers a large selection for both wood and
coiled edge banding materials, beginning with the ERM 1050 Corner
Rounding machine, which takes up less than 31” of workbench space
and can handle work from 3/8” to 2” thick. Expanding from there, the
company offers both Felder brand and Format4 edge banders that run
the gamut of workpiece thicknesses from 3/8” to 3-3/8”, and tapes
from 0.4 to 12mm. The largest is the Felder G 680, which occupies 157-
1/4” of real estate and has a pre-milling and corner rounding unit. It
also has an end-cutting unit with a pulling cut, and a 10-degree bevel
finish. There’s a quick changeover gluepot for EVA and PU glue, and it
will handle edge thickness from 0.4 to 6 mm, with an option for 8mm.
The workpiece height can be 8 to 60 mm. The pre-milling unit has two
diamond-tipped spiral cutters that deliver tear-free edges, and precise
corner rounding eliminates the need for any further processing, accord-
ing to the company.
Grizzly Industrial (grizzly.com) offers the G7910 hand-held edge
bander for $545 that works well on jobsites and is a good solution for a
shop that does just occasional banding. And for small shops that need
a little more machine, there’s the G0774 automatic edge bander. In be-
tween, there’s a portable unit (the G0825) that can apply edge banding
from 3/8” to 2-1/2” wide along straight runs, around bends, and even
the most difficult of all, inside corners, according to the company.
Hoffman Machine Co. in Valdese N.C. (Hoffman-usa.com) has an in-
teresting selection of Mobil edge banding presses. The machines are
made to order so they can be customized to a shop’s specific needs, and
they’re designed to quickly and precisely attach solid wood edges to
panels made of common sheet goods such as MDF, particleboard and
plywood. They come in two-, three- and four-station units.

Biesse Stream C.
Holz-Her U.S. (holzherusa.com) offers six families of edge banders to
cover virtually any production range. Holz-Her has a new laser edging
unit called Ltronic that delivers perfect invisible joints, and the com-
pany’s Glujet application system is designed for high capacity mass
production. But there are also machines for small shops in the Uno and
Streamer series.
Laguna Tools has four Bandit brand edge banders. The single-phase
model 3/2 is a compact heavyweight, designed for every-day profes-
sional use with all 2mm materials (the range is 0.4 to 2) and panels
from 0.47” to 1.77”. The entire machine is only seven feet long. The
3-phase model 2/3 runs tape up to 3mm thick on panels up to 1-9/16”,
and the two larger models (the four-station 4/3 and the new 4/8 that
can handle tape up to 8mm) are built for all-day, high volume work.
For large shops and furniture factories, Martin Woodworking Ma-
chines in Charlotte, N.C. (martin-usa.com) has a catalog of industrial-
grade machines that offer every option imaginable. New CNC in Hol-
land, Mich. (newcnc.com) has a downloadable catalog of edge banders
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mated production line, and North Carolina based Nextech (nextechma-
chinery.com) offers three models: the entry-level EB200, scalable EB300
(it grows as your needs do) and EB400 that has a standard corner-
rounding application and options for pre-milling, additional top and
bottom trimming, scraping and horizontal and/or vertical grooving.
Minnesota’s Safety Speed (safetyspeed.com) offers a couple of com-
pact models named the 60HA and the 72GP. The 60HA has electronic
variable speed and digital temperature controls, electromagnetic end
cutters and an edge trim system. The 72GP is “a dependable glue pot
machine with adjustable glue extrusion performs similar to other units
costing thousands of dollars more,” according to the company.
The Italian-manufacturer SCM (scmgroup.com) also offers a compre-
hensive range of machines. With U.S. headquarters in Duluth, Ga., the
company’s eight Minimax models can stand alone, or can be integrated
into a complete production system as SCM offers a wide range of
equipment.
SNX Technologies in Sauk Rapids, Minn., has introduced its third
generation of nVision contour edge banders that builds on the rugged
construction and reliable performance reputation of its earlier ma-
chines. There a new quick-change vacuum pod system, quick-change
glue pot system, PLC controller enhancements, and upgraded trimmer
chip extraction.
And last but certainly not least, Stiles Machinery (stilesmachinery.com)
has a very large catalog of machines that can handle the needs of every-
thing from a one-man shop to a large production facility.
For more about edge banding manufacturers and suppliers, visit our
online resource guide at www.woodshopnews.com.
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 New technologies, finishes and assembly methods are
affecting the future of outsourcing
BY JOHN ENGLISH

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N
anyang Technological University in Singapore is a research-
intensive public campus with 33,000 students in its pre- and
post-graduate classes. This is a place that exists on the
very cusp of new technologies. Take, for example, its envi-
ronmental stance: it has an impressive 57 Green Mark (equivalent to
LEED) certified buildings on campus.
So, why is a high-tech college on the other side of the planet impor-
tant to North America’s professional woodworkers? Because in April
2018, NTU scientists built a budget robot (shown at left) that can au-
tonomously assemble an IKEA chair … in less than 20 minutes.
ASSEMBLY IS CHANGING
According to the university, the robot was designed by assistant
professor Pham Quang Cuong and his team from NTU’s School of Me-
chanical and Aerospace Engineering, and it’s essentially just a 3D cam-
era and two robotic arms that are equipped with grippers to pick up
objects. The team coded algorithms using three different open-source
libraries to help the machine complete its task. It assembled IKEA’s Ste-
fan chair in 8 minutes, 55 seconds. Prior to the assembly, the robot also
took 11 minutes, 21 seconds to independently plan the motion path-
ways, and 3 seconds to locate the parts.
So, how is this the future of outsourcing?
We’re not looking at an array of huge super-computers here, or a full-
blown Detroit-style assembly line. This is just two arms and a camera.
It’s a very affordable, bare bones application of high-end technology
to complete a low-tech, but still rather complicated series of tasks. To
understand its potential impact, let’s take a quick look at the evolution
of buying in parts.
What outsourcing has done in the woodshop industry over the
past 20 years or so is to allow small shops to deliver large-shop ef-
ficiency and a hugely expanded menu of choices to end users. That
all progressed in very distinct stages. The first was the ability to order
assembled drawer boxes, beautifully dovetailed and ready to finish,
rather than building them one at a time with a router jig. Then came
drawer fronts and doors, again ready to finish. Then there were foil
and MDF advances, plus UV coatings and other choices that not only
allowed the small shop to avoid machining, but also in large part fin-
ishing. Next came ready-to-assemble (RTA) casework, which used ei-
ther metal or plastic hardware or milled elements that allowed small
shops to order entire jobs in a flat pack and have them delivered
directly to the jobsite. There, a team would undo the packaging, as-
semble the boxes, attach them to the walls and then install the doors
and drawers. At that stage, assembly and installation were the only
tasks left for the woodshop, beyond building the odd specialty item.
Even moldings could be ordered in.
Now, thanks to NTU, even assembly and installing are up for grabs.
Low-cost, fast and accurate assembly by robots is a reality. And this
means that on-site robotics, run by a simple phone app, are just around
the corner. If you’re not a specialized woodworker (a top-end turner,
carver, or maybe a design artist), this may well be a time to heed the
advice of Geena Davis’s character in the movie The Fly.
“Be afraid,” she said. “Be very afraid.”
Why?
Well, think about this …
Your average woodworker is on the clock for about 2,000 hours
a year. A robot can potentially work 24 hours a day, seven days a
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week. That’s 8,760 hours a year,
“The biggest challenge
or almost four and a half times
the hours of a typical human. If
a woodworker costs a company
$50,000 a year in wages, benefits for woodshops looking to
and related costs such as account-
ing and taxes, then a woodshop outsource is not so much
analyzing its payroll might logi-
cally decide that it can afford to
a lack of choice, but too
spend up to $200,000 a year for
a robot to replace four people.
many options.”
NTU’s solution is well under
those numbers, so it begins to
open up some interesting choices.
Do woodworkers and robots cost about the same to run?
Well, the robot eats a little electricity and requires a bit of minor
routine maintenance, plus it enjoys the occasional attention of a
programmer.
The woodworker, on the other hand, needs a heated and air-con-
ditioned shop, general and task lighting, OSHA-regulated minimum
working conditions, hiring, training, managing, shift supervisors, a
shop manager, a lunchroom, bathrooms, health insurance, unemploy-
ment taxes, payroll accounting, etc. And robots don’t call in sick.
It’s not going to happen this year, but robots on the jobsite are just
around the corner. As the technology develops (for example, one criti-
cal area that needs a lot more work is regulating the amount of force
their grip uses), the cost of these machines is going to follow a path
established by virtually all of the other high-tech gadgets in our lives.
They’re going to get cheaper. A lot cheaper.
According to a spokesperson for NTU (online at ntu.edu.sg), its robot
is being used “to explore dexterous manipulation, an area of robot-
ics that requires precise control of forces and motions with fingers or
specialized robotic hands. As a result, the robot is more human-like in
its manipulation of objects.” The team is now working to deploy that
robot to do glass bonding that could be useful in the automotive indus-
try, and to drill holes in metal components for the aircraft manufactur-
ing industry. But it began with a woodworking project.
And here’s the scariest aspect of the entire concept: NTU says that
“cost is not expected to be an issue, as all of the components in the ro-
botic setup can be bought off the shelf.”
SURFACES ARE CHANGING
Another noticeable shift in outsourcing of late is a heightened interest
in powder coating. One aspect of this solution over UV coating, paint,
stain and clear finishes is a perception that it is tougher, and therefore
should travel well. Shipped doors and drawers infrequently suffer a
little damage, including scuffs due to loose packaging, and that ap-
parently is causing some cabinetmakers to warm to the idea of a more
resilient topcoat.
A powder-coated finish won’t delaminate, peel or crack, according to
Integra Doors (integradoors.com), which supplies both raw and powered
coated MDF doors, drawer fronts, moldings and other wood compo-
nents. Woodshops looking to outsource are able to choose from more
than 320 door styles in virtually any color.
There is renewed interest in other surfaces, too. For example, in late
January ACS (atlantacabinet.com) launched a new line of contemporary
cabinet fronts that includes both Shaker style (5-piece) and slab style
door and drawer fronts, all available in high-gloss acrylics and tex-
tured TFL. According to company president Don Clements, the new
generations of these materials “are amazing, and are beginning to rival
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solid wood in appearance.” ACS
now offers more than 30 material
choices, including 10 high gloss
options. The company uses zero-
edge technology for a visually
seamless edge. Depending on the
material selection, the new prod-
ucts’ core material is either MDF
or particleboard, and all of the
substrates are Carb 2 compliant.
The biggest challenge for
woodshops looking to outsource
is not so much a lack of choice,
but too many options. As market forces drive choice, consumers have
moved more and more to a sleek, contemporary look. But many out-
sourcing suppliers are still concentrating on more traditional, solid
wood solutions. The slow pace of change is in part due to a perception
that tastes fluctuate and will soon bounce back to a more tactile, natu-
ral look. But it’s also rooted in the reality that many of those suppliers
are heavily invested in technologies, software and processes that can’t
switch gears as quickly as the whims of the kitchen-buying public.
LABELING IS CHANGING
One of the less celebrated but fundamental advances in outsourced
parts, especially as woodshops order more components, is the ability of
the factory to mark parts according to the woodshop’s instructions. The
elements of a cabinet or a piece of furniture often need to be identifiable
in such a way that the assembler can find, orient and assemble the case-
work quickly, and do so without the end-user seeing a path of clues.
That ‘printing’ is done with mechanical or laser etching or engraving,
or by printing on paper labels or directly on parts, or more and more
frequently now by non-contact laser marking. Many of the larger out-
sourcing suppliers have created custom libraries of cabinets, and these
have been available for CAD programs for a long time. So, adding an
app that allows a woodshop to include its own marking isn’t a huge
challenge. Among the advantages of being able to mark parts before
the job is handed off to an outsourced supplier is that a shop can devel-
op its own lexicon, and train people accordingly. Sometimes, industry
standards don’t work well for a custom shop. For example, a shop that
builds casework for recreational vehicles or yachts will have different
nomenclature than one that builds furniture for health providers. Being
able to mark components in a familiar language can help avoid mis-
takes and save time on assembly.
Unlike engraving, laser marking doesn’t actually create a depression
in the wood surface. What it does is heat the very specifically targeted
fibers until they change color and become visible. Many engraving sys-
tems can also do marking. And that marking can be done on the edges
of boards, on flanges or in grooves, and of course in other less noticeable
traditional areas such as cabinet backs and drawer bottoms. What’s dif-
ferent here is that laser marking is extremely precise, so it can be used on
Tab A and Slot B, even when those integrated elements are very small.
So, boxes that clip together with milled joinery elements rather than
mechanical fasteners can carry essentially invisible markings. Plus, the
markings are distinct enough in terms of print quality that they can be
read not only by a human eye, but also by devices such as the robot on
the NTU campus. The process is cleaner than it used to be, too. There
are no inks or chemicals required, and the amount of electrical power
needed, especially for fiber lasers, is fairly minimal. The technique is
very safe, and easy to include in a manufacturing process.
SOME THINGS AREN’T CHANGING
In April, Science Daily (sciencedaily.com) reported a disturbing finding
from the American Chemical Society. Recent studies by that body have
discovered the re-emergence of something evil from our past – poly-
chlorinated biphenyl compounds, also known as PCBs. According to
the Environmental Protection Agency (epa.gov), these carcinogens are a
group of man-made organic chemicals consisting of carbon, hydrogen
and chlorine atoms. The agency notes that PCBs have been shown to
cause cancer, as well as a number of serious non-cancer health effects
including: “effects on the immune system, reproductive system, ner-
vous system, endocrine system and other health effects.” Because of
that, they were banned in 1979, but prior to that they were used exten-
sively in adhesives and coatings.
According to Science Daily, Dr. Keri Hornbuckle (a professor of civil
and environmental engineering) and her team from the University of
Iowa’s College of Engineering wanted to determine how much and
what types of PCBs are present in and around the average American
home. They spent six weeks in the fall of 2017 sampling air in and out-
side 16 typical Iowa homes. The article reports that they found three
neurotoxins at much higher levels than expected. The highest presence
was in finished kitchen cabinetry.
So, what has this to do with outsourcing?
Well, beyond the fact that this chemical is still being used (the EPA
lists 79 suppliers worldwide, 51 of which are in China), it serves as a
warning sign for shops with overseas outsourcing suppliers. Not all
countries observe the ban on PCBs, or monitor and control formalde-
hyde levels, so a woodshop that is ordering casework or components
from an overseas supplier needs to really think about potential down-
sides. Remember the Chinese drywall problem in 2009? Countries
making plywood or MDF, foil, coatings and adhesives in relatively un-
regulated environments can pass along pollution problems that often
rear their ugly heads only after the products are installed in homes, or
sometimes many years later.
One of the most perplexing aspects of modern manufacturing is how
another country can buy logs in North America, saw them in Asia,
build components there and then ship them back across half a globe
– and do all that for less money than a homegrown supplier can. The
most obvious answer is, of course, labor costs. And the difference there
is indeed profound. But there can also be other troubling aspects to
outsourcing from large off-shore suppliers. And let’s preface that by
saying that these trends are not universal: not all foreign suppliers take
short cuts. But there are enough who do that a woodworker should
take note. If a cabinet shop is tempted to order low-cost completed
parts from overseas, that process should perhaps begin by learning
about local or regional rules on the manufacturing process itself, such
as the generation of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and hazard-
ous air pollutants (HAPs). But one should also do some research on the
brands and chemical components in adhesives, preservatives, coatings
and even plastics that are being used to build outsourced components.
One of the few downsides to outsourcing is the fact that a woodshop
puts its own brand on something produced elsewhere, and thereby
owns not only the cost savings but also the hidden perils. Ordering
from a producer in a highly regulated and monitored manufacturing
zone such as the U.S. or Canada can substantially reduce such risks.
JUNE 2018 WWW.WOODSHOPNEWS.COM 41
HARNESS
Air tools offer many benefits to woodworking shops,
especially those with unique circumstances and remote jobsites
A
few years ago, I was asked to make
felloes for a wagon wheel. These are
the wooden segments of a ring just
inside the iron tire. I hadn’t done it
before, so I ended up seeking the advice of a
gifted Amish craftsman in Chetek, Wis. His
shop was in a two-stall garage, and he had a
gas-powered riding lawnmower parked close
up against the building, chugging away in
high gear. That, it turns out, was his power
source. His sect doesn’t approve of electric-
ity (the rules vary among communities), so he
had rigged the lawnmower to power a shaft
that ran the entire width of the building. Then,
like an old mill running off a water wheel, he
had connected a table saw, band saw and sev-
eral other machines to the shaft with pulleys
and belts.
I ended up hiring him to make the wheel
parts. He was obviously smarter than I was.
Having seen this resourcefulness, it was no
surprise to come across the Amish air-pow-
ered router from Cottage Craft Works (cottage-
craftworks.com). It’s a DeWalt DW6182 plunge
router connected to a Sioux air motor, devel-
oped specifically for Amish woodworkers.
Connect it to your compressor and you have
a quiet, 1-1/2-hp router that runs at 20,000
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THE POWER
BY JOHN ENGLISH
RPM. There’s also a fixed-base version and a
laminate trimmer.
No screaming, no sparks. I’m tempted.
MAKING THE CASE
Using pneumatics in the woodshop is noth-
ing new. The tools aren’t as popular as elec-
tric ones, in large part because the hoses are
cumbersome. And a whole new world of
cordless convenience hasn’t changed that
perception. But there are some very good
reasons to reconsider. Pneumatics can make a
whole lot of sense both at the workbench and
on the jobsite.
In the shop, the hoses can be kept out of the
way by just suspending them from the ceil-
ing above a workbench. In fact, running an
inexpensive hose across the shop by screwing
a few hooks into the ceiling can be a whole
lot less expensive that hiring an electrician to
install new power outlets. Plus, you can move
them easily and quickly if the bench needs to
be shoved over a few feet to make way for a
new CNC, or some other shiny toy.
Batteries are getting bigger. That makes
some of the cordless tools kind of heavy by
the end of the day, especially the larger ones
that consume more juice. Pneumatic tools
don’t have a motor, so they often weigh less
than an electric counterpart that delivers
the same torque to speed ratio. They also
run a lot cooler and often quieter (as long
as you have a quiet compressor, or leave the
noisy one a hose length away, and prefer-
ably outside). That means that overload-
ing or stalling aren’t concerns. If an electric
motor stalls, it can heat up immediately. Not
so with air tools.
Compressed air as a fuel is a lot safer and
cleaner, too. There’s no fire hazard with
sparks around propane tanks, or no possi-
bility of electric shock when working in wet
conditions.
Campbell Hausfeld published an article on
its website, campbellhausfeld.com, that points
out some advantages that air tools have over
other options. The piece mentions the flex-
ibility of being able to operate in areas where
other power sources aren’t available. Air tools
can also perform tasks that electric tools can’t
and do others better – jobs such as spray coat-
ing or nailing a roof. They have a high power
to weight ratio because they lack the weight
of a motor, and that means they deliver a lot
more work per pound. Air tools are often less
expensive to own, too, because both fixing and
of air in a one-cubic foot tank), then the pres-
sure it exerts will be twice what it was. Squish
it more, and the amount of pressure rises in
direct proportion. Most tools have their pre-
ferred PSI rating stamped or printed on them.
Compressors are rated in terms of the pump
motor’s horsepower, and that’s a handy rough
guide to the power of the unit. But the real
guide is cubic feet per minute (CFM), and this
varies according to the amount of pressure
the air is under. A common rating might be 3
CFM at 90 PSI. Most of your tools are going to
be in the same PSI range (75 to 100), so to size
a compressor, add up the CFM requirements
of all the tools that you’ll use simultaneously
and then multiply by one and a half – or even
two, as you may buy a bigger nail gun soon.
Decibels are an important part of the equa-
tion, too. If it’s just you in the shop and you
wear hearing protection, then it’s not really
an issue. But if you’re taking a portable com-
pressor to a jobsite, it might be time to invest
in one of the new generation of quiet com-
pressors. There are also companies that make
sound boxes for compressors. If you decide to
make an insulated box yourself, figure out a
way to monitor heat build-up inside it. They
get mighty hot, and even if it doesn’t start a
fire, it will damage the compressor.
The tank is also something to look at. It’s
Cottage Craft Works also has an air-powered
1-hp router.
easy to outrun the pump’s ability to keep
up with tools. For example, a little pancake
compressor that’s normally just used to run
a pinner won’t do well trying to run an or-
bital sander.
Lubing can be done in the air line, but only
for tools like nail guns. You don’t want to use
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spray gun. The residue will contaminate the
finish. If you only occasionally use the com-
pressor to run a gun (and the gun requires
lubing; some don’t!), check the manual to see
if it’s OK to put a drop or two of oil in the
quick connector before you attach the hose.
It’s a good idea to attach a filter to the
compressor and blow out the residue every
morning. In dry climates, this isn’t as critical
as it is in more humid areas. The filter will
mostly trap moisture, but also some extreme
fines. And the tank needs to be drained regu-
larly, too.
Quick releases are the industry standard
for connecting and disconnecting tools and
hoses. However, the least expensive ones
(and there are a lot of imports in that category
these days) are made with base metal alloys
and they often have little tensile strength.
They can literally break and crumble when
you tighten them with a wrench, or snap in
two under very low impact. Spend a few
bucks and buy a spare, too. You’ll be glad you
did if the jobsite is several miles from a hard-
ware store. Buy a couple of ear plugs while
you’re there. The noise when you disconnect
a hose can be startling. Oh, and a roll of white
Teflon plumbing tape – it’s the best way to
seal threads on air fittings.
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sionals and storage space for fall protection
and personal protection equipment. The exte-
rior of the unit’s double doors includes spaces
for a fire extinguisher, an eye wash station and
a first aid kit. Inside the cabinet, the left side of
the unit is comprised of three shelves to store
hard hats, vests and gloves, and the top shelf
contains cubby holes for smaller safety items
such as dust masks and ear plugs. The right
side includes hooks to hang harnesses, pul-
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AT THE GALLERIES

Indiana exhibit spotlights state guild

By Jennifer Hicks

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elect work by members of the Fur-
niture Guild of Indiana Artisans is
on display at the Anderson Museum
of Art in Anderson, Ind. The exhibit
opened Apr. 22 and will run through June 10.
Participating members include George
Abiad of Anderson, Greg Adams of Lapel,
Darin Caldwell of Rome, Peter Falk of Cut-
ler, Andy Cole of Russiaville and Kent Sus-
ott of Indianapolis.
The guild formed in 2014 to represent the
history of and current work in furniture
making throughout the state. There are cur-
rently 13 members.
Earlier this year, guild members launched
a three-city tour, starting at the Arts Depot
in Union City in February. The next stop is
the Garrett Museum of Art in February 2019.
For more, visit www.andersonart.org.

Smithsonian Craft Show

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CALIFORNIA ing Fair. Biennial woodworking industry www.wmma.org
Monthly — San Fernando Valley Wood- trade show featuring the latest products
workers meetings are held on the third Thurs- from hundreds of exhibitors and dozens MISSOURI
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workers Guild meets the first Saturdays of
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