Posts by Colonial Saw
Lamello Zeta P2: Klevr Case Study
Lamello’s 2017 contest for real-world Zeta P2 uses spurred a robust response and many pleasant surprises. “There are many standard applications the product was designed for, but the system is so innovative when creative people get ahold of it they come up with applications that the manufacturer hadn’t thought of,” said Chris Hofmann, Lamello’s eastern U.S. product manager.
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Lamello 2018 Travelogue
Last spring Lamello and Colonial Saw issued the Lamello Dealer Challenge, an unprecedented contest to grow Lamello and the Zeta P2 markets in the United States and reward top-selling dealers. The prize: an all-expense paid trip to Switzerland to tour the Lamello factory, participate in hands-on demonstrations and enjoy Switzerland’s natural beauty.
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Lamello History
Woodworkers have an innate professional curiosity, always looking for a better method, a better end result. Hermann Steiner was no different as he wrestled with the process of joining chip board panels, an interesting new material for cabinetmakers in the early fifties. Bedridden with a winter fever, he concentrated on the problem until a solution came to him as he stared at his shutters: cut small opposing grooves into the panels that wouldn’t weaken the chip board and connect them using small wooden biscuits. Simple, yet game-changing.
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Colonial Saw to Debut New Striebig Model
Colonial Saw, Inc., U.S. distributor of market-leading Striebig vertical panel saws, recently announced a new model coming to the U.S. market in 2018. The new Striebig Standard S model adds another level to their universal vertical sawing technology with integrated new elements and retained proven benefits. Chief among them, the Standard S will incorporate scoring as a standard feature and sport a sleek new operator control panel.
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Industry machines in place for MiLL training center
You could say the pieces are in place at the MiLL National Training Center.
The shop floor is filled with equipment and signs to recognize the many industry partners. Machines include a Weeke CNC router, Stiles edgebander, Timesavers sander, Altendorf table saw, SCM case clamp, Striebig panel saw, JLT clamping systems, eight TigerStops, many Kreg products, Bessey clamps and Rikon machinery.
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1000th Lamello Zeta P2 Cuts a Swath in the Industry
Lamello USA, a division of Colonial Saw, recently celebrated the sale of the one thousandth Lamello Zeta P2, a precision tool to cut the full range of slots for the P System connector series. The 1000th U.S. purchase of the revolutionary tool was made by Weber’s Cabinet and Fixture Company in Reno, Nevada
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WMIA Elects Colonial Saw VP David Rakauskas as new Chairman
At the 2017 Woodworking Industry Conference (WIC) in Rancho Mirage, CA, members of the Woodworking Machinery Industry Association (WMIA) elected a new slate of officers to lead the Association for the next two years. David Rakauskas, executive vice president of Colonial Saw Company, Inc., Kingston, MA, was elected WMIA’s new Chairman of the Board at the Association’s Annual Business Meeting on Wednesday, April 26.
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Colonial Saw Debuts the Connector of the Future
Tuesday, May 16 will see the widely anticipated worldwide debut of Cabineo, an innovative and time-saving one-piece RTA cabinet connector. Cabineo was developed by Lamello AG of Bubendorf, Switzerland, the pioneering wood joining company. Colonial Saw is the exclusive U.S. importer for Lamello and will be showcasing Cabineo in the U.S. at AWFS, woodworking’s largest tradeshow of the year in Las Vegas.
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Industry Leaders Support SkillsUSA Contest
Royal Plywood, Blum, Colonial Saw/Lamello, Hafele, ESI, Decore-ative Specialties, Grex Tools, and West Wood Products donated nearly $10,000 in supplies, tools, and giveaways for students at the 2017 SkillsUSA California State Cabinetmaking and Introductory Woodworking contest Championships, held Saturday, April 22 at the Town & Country Resort and Convention Center in San Diego.
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Introducing Revolutionary Grinding Technology
Colonial Saw, Inc., a leading distributor of advanced woodworking and tool grinding machinery, is introducing a new, hi-tech solution for sharpening a high volume of carbide saw blades.
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Dealers of the Year Honored by Colonial Saw
Colonial Saw, Inc. has named Select Machinery of NY and Florida its 2016 Lamello Dealer of the Year and Professional Machinery Group of California the 2016 Striebig Dealer of the Year.
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A Quantum Leap in Vertical Saw Technology
Following a world première in mid-2013, the first saws were commissioned at the beginning of this year. “Our new high-end saw, the Striebig 4D, has been extremely well received in the market. We’ve heard a great many positive comments here in Nuremberg too”, says Striebig Managing Director Marcel Brunner at the Holz-Handwerk trade fair.
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Cutting Through the Saw Safety Controversy
Bosch continues to defend its flesh-sensing technology against patent-infringement charges levied by SawStop, as the German-based company works to sell its Reaxx jobsite table saw in the U.S. the bosch Reaxx saw uses flesh- sensing technology to drop the blade below the table saw when contact with flesh is detected. SawStop’s saws both drop the blade and stop the blade when flesh contact is detected.
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Lamello Divario P-18 Self-Clamping Connector
The Divario P-18 clamps the components during insertion, creating clean tight joints. The clamping action only occurs at certain points making the components easier to insert and creating a strong connection between the work pieces.
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Biscuit Joiners Go Head to Head
Biscuit Joiners go Head to Head in Fine Woodworking Magazine’s recent product testing article by Tony O’Malley. “After putting the machines through a few weeks of work in my shop, it was pretty clear that the Lamello biscuit machines were the winners.”
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