Entries open for 2022 CMA Wood Diamond Awards
CMA 2021 Wood Diamond top winner

Last year’s winner of the “Best Of/Best Overall” in the CMA's Wood Diamond Awards was Fedewa Custom Works of Steamboat Springs, Colorado.

Entries open March 1 for the Cabinet Makers Association (CMA) 12th annual Wood Diamonds Awards program.

First launched in 2010, the program allows members to honor the work of their peers and helps promote excellence in the industry, while giving winners a marketing opportunity to promote themselves through the awards.

“The Wood Diamond Awards have given us a chance to see and showcase the amazing work of our
members,” says CMA Executive Director Amanda Conger. “Our members don’t always get a chance to
see each other’s finished work, and the added bonus is that the award‐winning work can inspire other
shops.”

The Wood Diamond Awards submission period runs from March 1 through May 1, and the entry fee for each project is $75. Visit www.cabinetmakers.org/wda2022 to review submission requirements and access
the entry form.

All judging is done anonymously by non‐participating members. The winners will be announced at the
Member Appreciation Reception during the International Woodworking Fair (IWF) in Atlanta in August.  

The Cabinet Makers Association was incorporated in 1998 by a group of custom cabinetmakers who
thought the industry’s smaller shops needed to network and help each other grow profitably. Currently,
CMA membership is made up primarily of operations with 20 or fewer employees, with the vast majority of
those being 1‐5-person shops.  For more information, visit www.cabinetmakers.org

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William Sampson

William Sampson is a lifelong woodworker, and he has been an advocate for small-scale entrepreneurs and lean manufacturing since the 1980s. He was the editor of Fine Woodworking magazine in the early 1990s and founded WoodshopBusiness magazine, which he eventually sold and merged with CabinetMaker magazine. He helped found the Cabinet Makers Association in 1998 and was its first executive director. Today, as editorial director of Woodworking Network and FDMC magazine he has more than 20 years experience covering the professional woodworking industry. His popular "In the Shop" tool reviews and videos appear monthly in FDMC.