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 [...]
In previous blogs, I have discussed the shop drawing process. I've also dived into how to go about choosing the right shop drawing company. The one thing I have yet to speak to is the importance of shop drawings. We all know that millwork shop drawings are a set of detailed plans that aid in [...]
With over 16,000 cabinet manufacturers in the United States, it is no surprise that the market continues to grow at a steady rate. The total revenue for 2019 exceeds 16.9 billion Over the past 5 years, the cabinet industry has seen a steady growth of 2.5%. Did you know that 63% of clients splurge on [...]
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 [...]
Photo Credit cubicles.com Office space has evolved substantially over the past 20 years. Think about what your office looked like 20 years ago. Millwork trends were not a thought when it came to designing an office space. You probably had some sort of enclosed cubicle. Managers and higher-ups had separate offices that had closed doors. [...]
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 [...]
