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Business Briefs

Compounding advantages in labor savings

Companies that are pulling away from the pack are using the technology to re-allocate labor, because nobody likes to fire employees. There are some things that machines and algorithms just can’t do, and humans should stick to those things!
By Brady Lewis, March 17, 2016 | 5:35 pm CDT
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Project Gallery

WoodWrite builds custom wooden dashboards for classic cars

Woodworking has been a passion of mine for nine years now, but it's only now that things are looking up. I restore classic vehicles for clients of mine.
 
My first task was to reproduce a 1958 Mercedes Benz dash for a client. But instead of repairing it, I thought outside the box and came up with a solution: having a reproduction dash made in cherry. 
 
My company, WoodWrite, on Facebook and Instagram, is something I've been pulling together the past few weeks.
By Jeffrey Bütt, March 17, 2016 | 5:29 pm CDT
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Panel Processing

Heating up CNC productivity

As CNC spindle RPMs and processing speeds increase, operators must consider the importance of the link between the machine spindle and the cutting tool. Tool holding is the first point in which deflection and run-out tolerances are introduced and can be tightly controlled.
By Leitz Tooling, March 17, 2016 | 11:53 am CDT
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Show Us Your Shop

Proper woodshop attire

Woodworker style has come in style - or, perhaps, as fine woodworkers skew to the "maker" demographic, they have gone stylish, too. Now its definite, with news from Nordstrom's online men's shopping service, Trunk Club, about their image of a "shopaholic," literally a guy with a saw - and nice clothes. (There is the urban hipster lumberjack chic, but really, that was so last year.)ARTICLE
By Bill Esler, March 16, 2016 | 6:05 pm CDT