Custom Shop
As owners of a successful california cabinet company, John and Tammy Zonneveld were in a comfort zone. Timberwood Custom Cabinets, based in West Sacramento, had been cutting panels in a traditional cell for more than 18 years, using a beam saw, table saw and horizontal boring machine. In 2005, the Zonnevelds partnered with some family members that owned another business and purchased and split an 18,000-sq.-ft. building in an industrial park.

Finish Line
Why can’t we get the color right the first time we do it? What went wrong? Who gets fired? All sensible questions so let’s get to a solution now that we recognize there is a problem. Color is seen differently by each individual. If a group of individuals were asked to imagine a red apple and then requested to select from a variety of red color swatches, not everyone would pick the same red swatch. That’s fact!
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Material Issues
An art deco desk built with ebony and pearwood veneers was chosen as the top entry in the second annual Veneer Technologies Craftsman’s competition, announced in Atlanta during the 2006 IWF® trade show. Kent Townsend of Kent Townsend Fine Furniture in Salida, CO, was awarded the $5,000 grand prize for excellence in woodwork featuring natural veneer and/or natural edgebanding application.

Production Line
Louisiana Cabinet Doors, Inc. knows firsthand the importance of its assembly department keeping pace with its production department. Having started out in 1992 struggling to make 500 doors a week, the Lake Charles, LA-based custom cabinet door manufacturer’s capacity today is 2,000 doors per week. With a philosophy of no job is too large or too small, Louisiana Cabinet Doors, owned by Billy Caldwell, sells raised panel, flat panel and frame-only doors in a variety of wood species such as birch, cherry, cypress, cedar, maple, oak and more to cabinet manufacturers, custom cabinet shops, contractors and home owners.

Proving Ground
With more than 300 employees and a global customer base, Eugene, Ore.-based Lanz Cabinets is hardly your typical custom cabinet company.

Sanding Sense
In panel processing and solid wood applications, uneven feeding of parts across the width of the machine results in uneven abrasive belt and machine component wear, making consistent finish color control very difficult to achieve.

Supply Side
When one thinks of functional hardware, glamour isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. But pretty is as pretty does in this set of functional hardware innovations that you won’t want to keep hidden.

Think Lean
When the New Year rolls around, many of us make a list of resolutions. Pundits assemble a top 10 list of resolutions every year and high on the list is fitness. Regular exercise, we have come to know, has been associated with more health benefits than anything else known to man. So we join a gym.

Trends
If you ask a Pacific Crest Cabinets employee about the Sumner, WA-based manufacturer of premier custom frameless cabinetry, you can be assured that one of the first things he or she will talk about is the company’s adopted village in El Salvador. Through AGROS (www.agros.org), an organization that has developed a very successful model for helping people actually break the cycle of poverty, Pacific Crest has adopted a village called La Esperanza where the concept is to help poor landless farmers in Central America own their own land and thereby develop a self-sustaining lifestyle.


Trends Extra
Woodworking equipment purchases cool slightly in 2005. While most categories held steady or increased, overall acquisitions of woodworking equipment decreased by 3 percent in 2005 over 2004 numbers. A healthy economy along with continuing strong housing and remodeling markets bode well for 2006 increased buying power.

Trends Wood Bits
SCM Group Spa and Delmac Spa have reached an agreement for SCM Group to acquire the majority share of Delmac. With this investment in Delmac, The SCM Group will considerably strengthen its position as one of the prime leaders of the world’s woodworking machinery sector, says the company.

Words of Wisdom
Modern Woodworking is growing, and so is our parent company, Randall-Reilly Publishing Company. With growth come opportunities and challenges. For me, the success we’ve achieved with Modern Woodworking provides an opportunity to present new challenges to those who have played an integral role in our growth.