FDMC September 2020

Veneer Tech Craftsman’s Challenge honors top marquetry, furniture, cabinetry, specialty products, and student work.

What price this kitchen or chair? When you price your work, how does that number compare to other shops? Participate in the 2020 Pricing Survey and find out.

Demand for home office furniture grows as more office workers are at home.

Analyzing and changing processes with a manufacturing consultant helped achieve efficiency gains.

Q. We are a medium-sized shop and find ourselves with a little bit of extra KD lumber that we want to keep safely without a change in moisture. How can we do this?

Q. We are planing and sanding some soft maple that seems to have a lot of fuzz. Is high MC the cause?

Q. We made a table out of an 8 inch wide piece of lumber and I can guarantee that the top was flat when we shipped it, but now the customer has said that the individual pieces are cupped. Indeed, when I inspected it, he is correct. We were careful to make sure that all the pieces had the grain running the same direction (heart side down) to give a nice look. We did screw the top to the metal frame but the screws pulled out. What advice can you give?

New tool speeds process of attaching face frames, edgings; proceeds benefit charity.

Western hemlock is used for pulpwood, lumber, and plywood.

What do lean manufacturing and bodybuilding have in common? Everything.

Augmented reality and distributed manufacturing combine to meet new demands for home office furniture.