Woodworking Network Comments April 2015

IKEA’s Cabinets Are Cooking

For the second straight year, IKEA ranked highest in customer satisfaction according to the JD Power 2015 Kitchen Cabinet Satisfaction Study. Readers weighed in.

As far as I know they completely comply with AWI standards and you get what you pay for. It’s easy for DIY customers to get a decent looking kitchen on a low budget. Win-win all around for customers and for IKEA. Are they high end custom hand built? No! But like I said, you get what you pay for. Good business model. – Ian H.

There is no way RTA cabinets are better than custom built hardwood cabinets. Never! – Mickie P.

This is a joke? – Ryan M.

First Blood?

More than 4,000 saw the posting on Bosch Power Tools’ REAXX, the flesh-sensing safety device & saw that’s now competing with the SawStop. Here’s what some of them had to say.

In the early days of SawStop, they tried to contract with many of the major table saw manufacturers to supply them with their hardware. They only chose to manufacture their own line of saws after being turned down by all others. – Jay P.

Let’s keep it straight in the early days saw stop tried forcing their technology upon all the manufacturers. They wanted it mandatory on every saw through regulation. – Michael B.

Yep sure did. I wonder if it works the same way, or not? I would think they would have to be a little different than SawStop. – Willie Y. 

Time to cut up some hotdogs. – Alan H.

Copycat! – Jon D.

I have firsthand experience with SawStop. If Bosch can do it as well, that’s cool. I need proof though. – Dean W.

Hanging In

Hundreds of people liked Kristin Brown’s “hanging” beds and other unique furniture, created from salvaged exotic and reclaimed domestic lumber in her Hawaiian shop, Mae Brown Furniture. The picture of Kristin hauling slabs of lumber also got some comments.

Really - isn’t someone going to help her with that? You go girl!! – Creative Woodworking

She doesn’t need help. Rock those arms Kristin! – Jenn T.

She is a good worker. – Mohamad A.

Beautiful work. – Michael M.

Awesome for sure. – Chad L.

‘Physic’ally Possible

Thousands of people shared the article and Facebook posting of RockPaperRobot’s “floating” mappa burl cube table. The Float table is a matrix of “magnetized” wooden cubes that levitate with respect to one another, and the repelling cubes are held in equilibrium by a system of tensile steel cables. While each handcrafted table is precisely tuned to seem rigid and stable, a touch reveals the secret to Float’s dynamic character. While some quibbled about the $20,000 price tags, no one could deny it was cool.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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