The Internet and online media audiences are rapidly morphing into social media users, offering woodworkers new ways to channel market their businesses, and grow sales, says Steve Reiss, VP Vance Publishing. Reiss spoke today at AWFS Fair in Las Vegas.

Winners for the 2011 Sequoia Awards were announced by Phil Martin, chairman of the AWFS Fair woodworking show, on Friday, July 22 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

The building of wood caskets at a Louisiana monastery was okayed by a Federal judge, who ruled that the state's funeral director association had no right to regulate sourcing caskets, wood or otherwise.

Smart Cabinetry, New Paris, IN, has donated truckloads of cabinets valued at more than $25,000 in a rebuilding effort for homeowners in two Alabama towns devastated by tornadoes during the spring.

AWFS Fair exhibitors are blending woodworking technologies, cross-pollinating software, hardware, machinery, wood and coatings to develop a new generation of offerings.

Belt sanders raced down a 75-foot track Thursday afternoon in the final leg of the Belt Sander Racing Association's National Championship Race. Watch a video of the races.

Hot weather has forced many mills to cut species most subject to stain—Hard Maple, Soft Maple, Poplar and Hickory in particular—regardless of whether the market can absorb lumber in those species, say editors of Hardwood Review.

The Cabinet Makers Assn. announced the winners of its Wood Diamond Awards in a special ceremony at AWFS.

The Bosch ROS65VC features new vibration control suspension system for superior handling.

The GTS1031 10'' portable jobsite table saw provides quick and easy tool transport. The GTA500 table saw stand attaches saw tool-free.