CWB August 2010
In This Issue
Cooking Wood for an Exotic Look
Several suppliers at the IWF 2010 International Woodworking Fair will be exhibiting products related to thermally treated wood. Basically the systems use specialized kilns to treat either hardwoods or softwoods, making them insect- and water-resistant and weatherproof without the use of chemicals. In the process, wood darkens, allowing certain lighter wood colors to substitute for darker and sometimes more expensive species.
Lloyd's Custom Woodwork: Shop-First Approach
Since the day in 2005 when we opened our doors in Concord, CA, Lloyd’s Custom Woodwork Inc. has aimed to become a world-class, full interior woodworking company, while striving to greatly improve upon the speed of the typical construction process.
Woodworking Contest: Design Portfolio
Have you entered the 2011 CWB Design Portfolio Awards yet? If not, log onto woodworkingnetwork.com/designportfolio and give us your best woodworking shot! We have extended the deadline to August 31.
Lumberyard: Plywood from Plantations
Weyerhaeuser Hardwoods has introduced Lumin, a line of hardwood and softwood plywood, which it says gives contractors and other users of plywood panels a high quality environmentally responsible sourced plywood. Derived from plantation-grown eucalyptus and pine, the panels are available in a selection of grades and lay-up configurations.
Woodworking Software Applications
Software applications for woodworking systems and supply chains touch designers, retailers, and custom fabricators from large-scale manufacturers of casegoods, to custom commercial build-outs and furnishings.
Your Selling Proposition
Setting your woodworking services apart from others means differentiating your company from the competition in the three main categories: promotion, product and performance. To differentiate your company you need to first have a unique selling proposition. Something in your company name or promotion, product or performance that will grab the prospects’ attention and make them call. This unique selling proposition is based on the special strengths of your company.
Wooden Outrigger
Canadian Steve Willgoose loves a challenge, which is one of the reasons he decided to build an outrigger canoe. As a former member of the Canadian National Dragon boat team and as a custom woodworker who “believes in putting the very best quality he can into every customer’s piece” he combined his two passions to build this boat for his own personal use.
Reset Goals, Retrain For Wood Recovery
Whether woodworkers will face a double-dip downturn, or uneven growth, we’ll leave to the economic pundits. With consumer confidence and housing sales up one moment and contracting another, we’re better off taking the long view in planning woodworking business strategies.
IWF 2010: Woodworking Renewal
As professional woodworkers head to the International Woodworking Fair Aug. 25-28 in Atlanta, news arrives that over 950 exhibitors will be packing the aisles, cheering show managers as the swelling numbers of industry suppliers booked space.
WoodLINKS and You
When meeting a new peer or professor during my college days, the conversation often went like this: What is your major? “Furniture studies,” I’d reply. So is that a real major or…? And we’d transition to a conversation on how, why and what will you do with that?
Woodworkers Find New Markets Online
Woodworkers around the U.S. are reaching customers through online sites specializing in custom wood crafts, furniture and other individually produced wood specialties.