Will Sampson's Blog – March 2011 Archive (7)

Quote of the day: Old school typing and cabinetmaking

“One reason I type is it simply makes me feel closer to my words. It’s like being a cabinetmaker. It’s like laying down the planks. This is the way it’s supposed to feel.”

---Robert A. Caro, 75, the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Robert Moses…

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Added by Will Sampson on March 31, 2011 at 10:27am — 1 Comment

Is your furniture with $5 million?

A lot of custom furniture makers try to convince their customers that buying heirloom quality furniture is an investment, that the furniture will actually become more valuable over time and last for generations. It's not like cheap snap-together furniture that may get tossed out onto the curb in couple of years. Well, now there is a new mark to…

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Added by Will Sampson on March 29, 2011 at 7:43pm — 6 Comments

How much are wodworking jobs worth?

In the battle for economic recovery many government entities take steps to lure businesses and jobs. In Sarasota County in Florida, such an effort involves offering all sorts of incentives to convince a woodworking company to move in. According to the Herald-Tribune in Sarasota, Adams Bros. Cabinetry is already in line… Continue

Added by Will Sampson on March 22, 2011 at 3:44pm — No Comments

Japan earthquake and economic recovery in the woodworking industry

In the aftermath of all the devastation in Japan from the earthquake and tsunami there is already speculation about how this disaster will affect global economic recovery in general and the U.S. economic recovery in particular. Some economists note that some of the sectors that will be hardest hit by the disaster -- automobile manufacturing and high-tech electronics -- are exactly…

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Added by Will Sampson on March 15, 2011 at 4:08pm — 2 Comments

Too close to the truth

I saw this video about a potential customer talking to a cabinetmaker. Unfortunately it's just a bit too close to the truth. She wants the moon and the sky for nothing, and the cabinetmaker just wants to be adequately compensated. View it and weep! I suspect many people here on Sawdust Soup have had real life conversations that are frighteningly similar to this video. If so, how did you handle it? What are your strategies… Continue

Added by Will Sampson on March 14, 2011 at 7:46am — 4 Comments

Thoughts on the earthquake and tsunami

Warning: This blog entry really has nothing to do with woodworking. It's been hard to concentrate on anything to do with woodworking today with all of the news of the earthquake in Japan and the resulting tsunami. My youngest daughter is currently living in Japan and going to school there. Naturally we were quite concerned with the first news of the quake, but it was centered hundreds of miles from where my daughter lives, so she was safe from the immediate impact. But as soon as we…

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Added by Will Sampson on March 11, 2011 at 7:40pm — No Comments

Making things in America: Manufacturing's demise is greatly exaggerated

So many people have parroted the comment "we don't make anything in America anymore" that too many people just take it as fact. That includes Donald Trump, who has been making the rounds of talk shows and pundits lately in what is apparently the run-up to a presidential campaign. But serious economists who know the facts point to a different picture. For example, in 2009 (the latest year for which data is available), the value of U.S.…

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Added by Will Sampson on March 3, 2011 at 10:57am — 1 Comment

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