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A good match

Feb 10, 2025 | woodshopnews.com | Jennifer Hicks

Total revenue has doubled since Josh Sharp purchased Spectrum Woodworking & Interiors in Oregon City, Ore., five years ago. “Our sales our goal is where we should be, between $10 and $12 million in top line revenue this year,” says Sharp. "When I bought the company, I think their biggest year was $4.5 to $5 million. We’ve experienced steady growth. We’ve gone up and down a little bit; we did close to $10 million and scaled back a little bit. It’s about testing capacity in what we’re able to do.
Adaptive and dynamic

Feb 7, 2025 | woodshopnews.com | Jennifer Hicks

Tracy Schroeder, general manager of Westside Custom Cabinets in Poulsbo, Wash., knows that when the going gets tough, the tough gets going. A seasoned entrepreneur and former professional tennis player, she did an about-face with her career path in 2015 and took on her father’s cabinetry business with the goal of improving sales by focusing on the high-end residential market. Now, she and her team of seven are following through. “For the last three years, we’ve been consistent.
A recipe for success

Feb 7, 2025 | woodshopnews.com | Jennifer Hicks

Bliemeisters’ Wood Works has been a fixture in Sequim, Wash., since 1979 and the reason is simple, according to Jason Doig, the company’s president and CEO. “This company thrives 100 percent because of our help here at the shop,” he says. “We have 14 dedicated employees. A lot of them have been here over 25 years, and a couple of them have been here over 30 years.”The shop specializes in commercial and residential custom cabinets and countertops.
Cherry is ripe for picking

Feb 7, 2025 | woodshopnews.com | Jennifer Hicks

There’s not much demand for cherry (prunus serotina) at the wholesale level, since those that buy in bulk are specifying other species, according to suppliers interviewed by Woodshop News. That leaves more for the retailers. “Every time we get cherry in, it moves. It’s just not moving with the truckload and half truckload orders,” says Chad Muterspaw of C.R. Muterspaw Lumber in Xenia, Ohio. “The big kitchen manufacturers aren’t using it.
Pushing the boundaries

Feb 5, 2025 | woodshopnews.com | Jennifer Hicks |Jennifer Hicks

Wood Products Northwest of Ellensburg, Wash., is continually testing its capabilities. Founder and president Robert Hamlin started as a one-man shop in 1989 and now has 21 employees in a 10,000-sq.-ft. facility. He says the company has grown steadily by embracing technology and remaining diversified to stay ahead of competition. “We were one of the first shops around offering CNC technology. I have to say that’s what gave us a leg up.
At the finish line

Jan 21, 2025 | woodshopnews.com | John English

Innovations in the finishing spectrum are often groundbreaking in scope, but not always. Sometimes, they cater to smaller operations and help custom woodshops compete. Guffey Systems in Tennessee (guffeysystems.com) takes that to another level as it differentiates between the needs of small- and medium-sized shops by offering both single station and line systems.
Nailers, pinners & staplers

Jan 17, 2025 | woodshopnews.com | John English

Since the advent of cordless power, both battery and hose driven nailers, pinners and staplers have become more adroit and flexible. They’re also getting lighter and smaller as design engineers take advantage of advances in metallurgy, plastics, mechanics and electronics. Before we look at what’s new, just a quick word about definitions. The higher the gauge, the smaller the diameter of the nail, so a 15-gauge finish nail is fatter than a 16-gauge. Brads are 18-gauge, and pins are usually 23-gauge.
The Voice of Experience

Jan 16, 2025 | woodshopnews.com | Jennifer Hicks

Paul Downs, owner of Paul Downs Cabinetmakers in Bridgeport, Pa., started as a one-man shop in 1986 making dining tables, chairs and some office furniture. After switching to conference tables, a big change occurred in 2002 when he formed a 50/50 partnership with an acquaintance from another manufacturing business to bring things to the next level. “At that point, I was 40 and kind of stuck where I was. I was running a five-man shop and doing everything except the building.
Outfitting the cabinet

Jan 15, 2025 | woodshopnews.com | John English

Bruce Lee, John Wayne and Clint Eastwood were some of the toughest, meanest, baddest movie stars, and each of them did something extraordinary every morning at work. They put on makeup. If a Hollywood artist can transform those guys into sympathetic characters, a woodworker should have no trouble turning a well-made cabinet into a conversation piece.
Are you listening?

Dec 11, 2024 | woodshopnews.com | John English

David Bowie once noted that “tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming”. Apparently, woodshop owners have good hearing. Casework and furniture manufacturers are undergoing a transition from traditional machines to automation, and hands-on labor to robotics. Prescient shop owners have accepted technology as a viable solution to the scarcity of affordable skilled employees, and that places them in the forefront of the new Industrial Revolution.