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P-System for High-end Closet System Installs
Lamello On The Road with Coastal Millworks, West Palm Beach, FL Video Transcript: Hey, this is Chris from Lamello USA. We’re here in West Palm Beach, Florida, at Coastal Millworks. Coastal is a great customer of ours. We’re going to go inside and learn a little bit more about how they’ve adopted the P-System and…
How to use Lamello Zeta P2 with a CNC router
Lamello On The Road with Innovative Integration of Lunenburg, MA Video Transcript: Hey guys, how’s it going? Dan Dempsey with Lamello USA. Today we’re with Josh from Innovative Integrations. He’s showing us a really cool cash wrap project he recently completed with the Lamello Flexus. It’s our newest Clamex connector. He’s going to walk us…
Guy’s Woodshop talks P-System Connectors
“I get a ton of questions about the Lamello Zeta P2 joiner and the P System connectors that I used in my Media Console build https://youtu.be/EFp10zMzsGw and my Kitchen Cabinet build https://youtu.be/g4TaI0mH1C8 videos. Hopefully this will fully answer any questions you may have. If it doesn’t, please ask! Help support my channel and what I…
Cabineo 12 – A Study in Strength
For a few years now we’ve been telling our customers how efficient and strong Cabineo connectors are, so we decided to test it for ourselves and share the results. We built a sample base and upper cabinet unit, fastened it to a test wall and loaded it up with over half a ton of weight until we ran out…
Lamello – A Profile in Precision
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.
Cabineo Case Study: Select Millwork
A SURVIVAL AND SUCCESS STORY The Great Recession presented challenges to mostwoodworking businesses in one form or another, and SelectMillwork in Irving, Texas was no different. After foundingtheir company in 2004, business partners Paul Gause andBilly Harrington were faced with some difficult decisionswhen the project pipeline started to dry up for them in2010, including being…
Tenso Case Study: Northland Woodworks
THE SCOOP — Quality woodworkers love a new challenge. This summer, Northland Woodworks of Blaine, MN supplied Sebastian Joe’s with a faux-waffle cone wall and other interior assemblies during a remodel. The popular shop sells handcrafted ice cream and site-roasted coffee in the Lowry Hill neighborhood in Uptown Minneapolis. It also operates a store in…
Clamex Case Study: Camp Good Days
CONNECTORS WITH A HEART Camp Good Days and SpecialTimes, in Branchport, NY, gives children and adults with cancer a residential camping experience to help them forget about being a patient. It’s your typical summer camp – swimming, canoeing, archery, arts & crafts, and woodworking – except for the campers, who all have some connection with…
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.”