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I hope you are enjoying a wonderful Fall!  This is easily my favorite season.  Beautiful foliage.  Moderate temperatures.  All major sports on TV.  Important elections.  Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups.

And the phone keeps ringing with excellent questions and feedback from our customers like you!  We have some key updates today for both large and small tools, as well as some exciting family news!

Misty mountain view this morning from Step Falls in Newry, Maine

We hope your spring has gotten off to a productive start!  Based on the feedback we've received from our customers, this summer is gearing up to be one of the busiest in a while for timber framers and fine woodworkers.  Below are five updates you may find interesting for this 5th month of the year.  And as always, feel free to give us a call to discuss your upcoming projects and how we might be able to help.

Mafell Cordless Tools and Batteries Arrived

Customers like you continually impress us with how quickly you take a project from concept to reality.  Ray Navarro of Bjork Construction Company in Fremont, California sent us this scaled down model on January 11th for a 27-foot tall Salad Bar he was building for Facebook.  After discussing his need for 1/2" knife plate joints in 18" x 18" glulams, we Overnight-shipped him a Mafell LS 103Ec Slot Mortiser and BST 650S Drilling Station.  A month later Ray was sending us photos of the raised structure!

When selecting your next woodworking saw, it can be intimidating to see 20+ options on a website or in a catalog.  Where do you begin?  How do you whittle down your options?

I had a similar experience recently when my wife and I replaced her old 2001 Suburban SUV.  She wanted a vehicle with better fuel economy, but lots of storage space as well.  So I consulted family, checked out manufacturer/dealer websites, and read 3rd party reviews until we finally decided on a hybrid Highlander.  Then I built a large spreadsheet with graphs & trendlines and updated it every other night for several weeks with new & used vehicles that popped up in our area - comparing mileage and price to find the best value.  I spent much more time than I originally anticipated, and wished in retrospect that there was a faster way to narrow my search!

How do you go about cutting your tenons?  Some shops try to make due with a hand saw.  Other shops invest hundreds of thousands of dollars into automated CNC machines.  The rest of us are somewhere in the middle:  carpenters who prefer to take the tool to the timber, and who want their tools to offer speed, accuracy and versatility.  Today we wanted to simplify all tenon-cutting solutions down to the three best portable options.

If you haven't heard through the grapevine yet...  After more than a year's work, Timberwolf Tools finally launched its new website!  Many of you have already placed orders, created accounts, and submitted positive feedback.  THANK YOU for patiently bearing with the old site for so long!  We haven't done a complete website overhaul since the dot-com boom, so numerous improvements were needed.  At your convenience, we welcome you to brew a cup of coffee and visit https://www.timberwolftools.com/ to test-drive some of the new features.

....The President's Perspective and David's New Snow Machine....

For many years, I was involved in much of the day-to-day order taking and order fulfillment for our company.  It was a lot of fun talking with you and making sure that every one of your orders was fulfilled properly.  More recently, Jeff Powell, George Bozonelos and Andrew Powell have been leading this effort and they are every bit as diligent as I was about getting your orders right.  They also really enjoy having a chance to talk with you and learn about your tool needs.