Woodworking companies tell me that they get great results from their drawing packages, but they have to draw the projects before the software can estimate the job.

The estimate is one of the best pieces of machinery in any woodworking shop, believe it or not. The better you tune your machinery - we used a Monday meeting - the better it works, and that goes for your proposal as well.

"A CNC router is becoming almost as commonplace in small shops as the sliding table saw," says woodworker Jared Patchin. How to buy a CNC was also the subject of a webcast, among the week's most viewed wood industry reports.