Back when I was in High School, I was fortunate enough to be involved in a Vocational Cabinetmaking Program that took part in Student Built Homes. These homes were designed and built with the understanding that students would gain hands on experience in their respective trades. My Cabinetmaking Instructor was, for lack of a better [...]
Recently I was researching topics to write about when I stumbled onto an old Forum Post on WoodWeb. If you aren't familiar with WoodWed, it is an online community that serves the Woodworking Industry. It has Forums for a variety of sub-sets within the business and is a wonderful resource. Outsourcing overseas The topic that [...]
Accepting New Customers Superior Shop Drawings was established in 2018 by Stephen Newett and Walt White. In the relatively short period of time that we have been in business, we have experienced rapid growth. While this is fantastic - it does come with growing pains. Being a young business, we sometimes face workflow problems. One [...]
Here at Superior Shop Drawings, we use a variety of Online Services to ensure that things run smoothly - I’m sure many of our customers do the same. Over the past couple of weeks we have been peppered with various emails from these service providers outlining how they intend to handle the current Coronavirus situation [...]
At one point in time, if someone were to walk into your Cabinet Shop and hand you a piece of one-off molding to match - it could be quite the challenge. With the advancement of technology today, Matching Custom Molding is much easier than it used to be. Today I’d like to take you through [...]
About fifteen years ago, I was working in a small Custom Cabinet Shop here in Pennsylvania. Because it was a small operation, the shop did not have any automation. You had to be versatile in order to work there. We had to be able to perform a variety of tasks from the initial lumber selection [...]
The Medicine Cabinet is a simple wall cabinet that has become a staple in every home across the country. Often times it is a shallow cabinet meant to keep personal items stowed away in a bathroom or powder room. The Superior Shop Drawings Medicine Cabinet does not deviate from the norm and presents the novice woodworker with [...]
Raise your hand if you are ready for winter to be over. Where I live, we have received so far 24 inches of rain in the past two months. That means it’s been a lot of time spent indoors looking out the windows at gray skies and squishy, wet yards. It has given some good [...]
Craftsmanship and making things is an art that I have appreciated ever since I was a kid. My dad had a woodworking shop filled with well-loved tools, soft piles of sawdust, and the instantly recognizable and comforting fragrance of freshly cut wood. My brother in law is also an incredible furniture maker. When he presented [...]
In the fields of Architectural Millwork and Custom Kitchen & Bath Design, there is one critical skill that everyone should have - being able to Read and Understand Architectural Drawings. The purpose of this article isn't to make you a Blueprint Wizard - instead, we want to teach you the basics. After you finish reading [...]
