Posts Tagged ‘Woodworking’
Irwin Tools to recognize National Tradesmen Day in September
National Tradesmen Day will be recognized on Friday, Sept. 21.
Irwin Tools, a manufacturer of professional hand tools and power tool accessories, is asking Americans to recognize its skilled craftsmen for the second National Tradesmen Day on Friday, Sept. 21.
National Tradesmen Day, held each year on the third Friday in September, honors what Irwin Tools calls “the real working hands that build America and keep it running strong,” such as woodworkers, carpenters, roofers and plumbers.
Irwin is coordinating multiple activities across the country to honor the tradesmen. Irwin suggests talking to children about career opportunities in skilled trade, and supporting trade schools or programs like SkillsUSA (www.skillsusa.org) that train young craftsmen in honor of National Tradesmen Day.
“Without these hard working men and women, America’s infrastructure and our way of life would come to a screeching halt. It’s vitally important that we say thanks,” said Curt Rahilly, vice president of marketing.
For more information about National Tradesmen Day, visit www.nationaltradesmenday.com or www.facebook.com/nationaltradesmenday.
Keystone Wood Specialties launches new website
Keystone Wood Specialties launched phase one of its new website at www.keystonewood.com.
Keystone Wood designed its new website to be more accessible, more familiar and more complete for customers.
The company aimed to make the new site more accessible with better organization; more familiar, so that customers familiar with the previous site would still be able to navigate the new site; and more complete. As a result, the new site includes a news blog, a search engine, menus, online quoting of RTA cabinets, electronic payments and more.
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‘Rough Cut – Woodworking with Tommy Mac’ earns Bronze Telly Awards
Woodcraft Supply LLC-sponsored TV show, “Rough Cut – Woodworking with Tommy Mac,” was recently awarded two 2012 Bronze Telly Awards.
The awards, which recognize outstanding local, regional and cable TV commercials and programs, were given for information and videography/cinematography in the category of TV Programs, Segments or Promotional Pieces.
“This is truly an honor that Tommy and I are thrilled to share with the entire ‘Rough Cut’ team and our sponsors,” said Laurie Donnelly, executive producer of the series. “Esteemed competitions like the Telly awards are a great way of getting feedback from industry colleagues. This is the second year that we’ve been acknowledged as part of this highly competitive awards competition.”
For more information, visit www.roughcutwoodworking.com and www.woodcraft.com.
Weima America to expand South Carolina headquarters
Weima America will expand its South Carolina headquarters in order to accommodate increasing demand for shredding and briquetting.
Located just south of Charlotte, N.C., Weima’s headquarters currently houses two functional showrooms as well as the company’s parts and service department and administrative offices. Weima says the additional space will allow it to meet the growing market’s needs by stocking more shredding and briquetting machinery and providing extra room for on-site customer trials.
“Our customers are looking for immediate solutions to their size reduction problems,” says Madison Burt, Weima America’s vice president of sales. “We want to have the equipment available to meet those needs now.”
For more information or to schedule a trial, contact Weima America (www.weimaamerica.com) at +1.888.440-7170 or via email to info@weimaamerica.com.
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Bradco to design custom cabinetry for Sur La Table store kitchens
Bradco Kitchens + Baths (www.bradcokitchen.com), an architectural kitchen and bath designer, is partnering with culinary retail store Sur La Table (www.surlatable.com) to provide custom cabinets in all new professional teaching kitchens in Sur La Table stores opening in 2012 nationwide, as well as in the remodel of the kitchen in the store at Los Angeles’ Farmer’s Market.
Bradco Kitchens + Baths’ non-toxic cabinetry, made with Purebond zero urea-formaldehyde plywood and manufactured by Columbia Forest Products, is being used in all Sur La Table locations, as well as in all of Bradco Kitchens + Baths’ custom work.
“Like great cooking, our store design is all about hand-finished details. From custom made rolling pin door handles to finials, our signature storefront is one of a kind with its own special touch, just like the mark of a good chef,” said Doralece Dullaghan, director of strategic partnerships for Sur La Table. “We knew Bradco Kitchens + Baths would create the beautiful, inviting, custom look that would complement our storefront.”
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Goff’s Enterprises relocates to larger manufacturing facility
Goff's new office and manufacturing facility nearly triples the size of the old space.
Goff’s Enterprises Inc. (www.goffscurtainwalls.com), manufacturer of custom industrial space partitioning vinyl products, moved into a new facility in Pewaukee, Wis.
The new building, located at 70 Hickory Street, nearly triples the size of the old 20,000-square-foot facility by offering more than 67,000 square feet of manufacturing and office space.
“Moving to the new facility has been a work in progress for the last 14 months. We’ve been rapidly growing as a company over the last decade and we’ve outgrown the space we had at the last facility” said Tony Goff, president of Goff’s Enterprises. “The new building provides us the space and resources to accommodate our long-term growth and allows us to continue providing quality products using the leanest process flow for our customers.”
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Rockler Woodworking meets Earth Day tree-planting goal
Rockler Woodworking and Hardware (www.rockler.com) announced that the company met its Earth Day goal of raising enough money to plant 20,000 new hardwood trees.
Rockler joined efforts with the Hardwood Forestry Fund as part of an Earth Day celebration and reforestation effort, in which the company pledged to donate the price of one tree for every purchase made from April 1-22, up to a goal of 20,000 trees. The 2012 Earth Day event doubled the previous year’s goal of donating 10,000 trees.
“The event has been hugely successful and has received overwhelming customer support” said Scott Ekman, vice president of marketing at Rockler. “Hitting our goal tells us our customers really understand the importance of supporting organizations like the Hardwood Forestry Fund, and we in turn extend our support. We’re happy to increase the awareness of this unique organization to woodworkers and those who appreciate woodworking throughout the country.”
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Wood artist’s take on Earth Day
The wooden lounge chairs of the "Take A Break" collection were installed outside of the Madison Children's Museum in Wisconsin.
In honor of the 42nd anniversary of Earth Day, one woodworker completed an installation of his work, “Take A Break” in Madison Capital Square, in Madison, Wis.
Sponsored by Madison Arts Commission Blink Grant, the “Take A Break” installation by Hongtao Zhou, Ph.D., is comprised of a set of outdoor lounge chairs made with tree stump seats, carved wooden axe chair-backs and axe handle armrests.
Zhou says the installation is meant to be interactive, and is meant to inspire the public to rethink ways in which humans cut off natural connections with the rest of the world. ”The ecosystem in danger, we need to stop killing, sit down, relax a little bit and rethink our role in this planet,” says Zhou.
For more information about the Madison Arts Commission’s Blink program, please visit the website at www.cityofmadison.com/MAC/grants/Blink.cfm, or contact Karin Wolf, arts program administrator, at kwolf@cityofmadison.com. The next Blink application deadline is June 1, 2012. For more information on the artist’s work, go to www.hongtaozhou.com.
Mockett & Co. to host design showroom grand opening May 2-3
Mocket's new showroom features a variety of kitchen and bath accessories.
Doug Mockett & Co. Inc. (www.mockett.com) will host a grand opening event for the company’s new design showroom on Wednesday, May 2, and Thursday, May 3.
The two-day event will take place at the company’s new Torrance, Calif., showroom, located at 1915 Abalone Avenue, from 4-7 p.m. each day. Event visitors can meet employees at the showroom and see Mockett’s line of furniture parts and accessories. RSVP by April 30 to rsvp@mockett.com.
Grain Surfboards launches ‘Offcuts Initiative’ for sustainability
The Offcut Initiative" aims to reuse and recycle all wood scraps from Grain Surfboards' production of skateboards and surfboards.
It lies around the shop in piles, buckets and bins, just waiting for a life of its own. Most people would see it as “waste,” but a very special corner of Grain Surfboard’s catalog is made exclusively from it – wood scraps. These bits of wood, coupled with Grain’s passion for “closing the loop” have inspired the company’s latest effort, which it calls “The Offcuts Initiative.”
“The Offcuts Initiative is a recognition of our effort to waste no waste,” states Brad Anderson, Grain co-owner. “In the normal course of producing surfboards and home grown kits, we’ve simply devoted ourselves to finding ways for each off-cut to be used somewhere down the line.” Though the last stop for Grain’s shavings and splinters is as animal bedding or garden mulch, whatever wood harbors even a hint of utility gets saved in the corners of the shop to await it’s full potential.
As they previously have with Grain’s line of handplanes and body boards, these saved scraps seem almost to inspire a path to their own future. And so, when master-deck-presser Courtney Strait strolled into Grain’s shop one day with a collection of her skateboards, the way seemed clear. A plan was soon hatched to laminate a pile of beautiful, leftover cedar veneers together with SFI-certified sustainably harvested maple to create The Cedar Hill Skateboard. Finished with a “permanent grip-tape” deck of bamboo cloth laminated with Entropy Eco-resin, and with the distinctive Grain Surfboards logo burned into the deck and bottom, this first skateboard to come from The Offcuts Initiative is like no other. With all the perfectly paved roads around Grain Surfboard’s headquarters, the Research & Development department will be quite busy.
Grain Surfboards is proud to bring it’s line of handplanes, the Sea Sled body boards, and now, The Cider Hill Skateboard, into the new “Offcuts Initiative” program. With this step, surfers, skaters and people that care about thoughtful product development can know that they’re “recycling and recovering the resource” even as they combine their passion for street-surfing or body-surfing with caring for the planet. For more on The Offcuts Initiative, go to www.GrainSurfboards.com.
