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By Ross Gruet, Friday, February 16, 2024

Calm before the storm. Here's the ShopBot booth just before doors opened at The NAMM Show 2024

By Jen Nix, Wednesday, December 13, 2023

Nana’s, a well-established, fine-dining restaurant in Durham, North Carolina for 30 years, closed in 2020 due to the pandemic and was sitting vacant in Durham’s Rockwood Plaza, waiting for a new tenant. Fast forward to 2022: Enter new co-owners and co-chefs, Matt Kelly and Nate Garyantes, who have now updated the space and opened the new Nanas to the public on Tuesday, December 12, 2023

By Motawi Tileworks and Team ShopBot, Monday, December 4, 2023

Located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Motawi Tileworks makes handcrafted tile as art pieces, as well as for residential and commercial installations. Founder Nawal Motawi began creating historically inspired tile in her garage and selling it at the local farmer’s market

By Joe Brackett, Monday, January 9, 2023

I recently had the exciting opportunity to take my first trip to Japan for ShopBot. Although I was traveling with ShopBot’s CCO Brian Owen, who has traveled there before, I wasn’t exactly sure what to expect

By ShopBot Team, Friday, November 11, 2022

Earlier this year, ShopBot's Brian Owen visited our partners in Japan, VUILD. Soon after Brian's return home, the translator and assistant to the COO of VUILD, Coco, sent us this newspaper clipping with the translation (below)

By Jen Nix, Thursday, September 8, 2022

The first IWF show since 2018 took place last month (August 20-24) at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, GA. With the 2020 show having been canceled due to Covid, no one was quite sure what to expect from this year’s show

By Ross Gruet, Thursday, August 11, 2022

On a bright sunny day in early May, I found myself driving to the town of Fairview, just south of Asheville, North Carolina to visit Pisgah Banjos. Once off the main road, a series of winding roads led to rolling hills of farmland and the home of Patrick Sawyer, founder of Pisgah Banjos

By Jeanne Taylor, Wednesday, June 22, 2022

Once again, music enthusiasts, merchants, students, musicians and more, brought NAMM 2022 in Anaheim, CA to life. Throughout the 3 days of the event, historically hosted in January and just reinstated since the 2020 event, the energy and enthusiasm were palpable

By Sallye Coyle, Monday, June 6, 2022

Now that the basic techniques for cutting risers with the ShopBot were in place, it was necessary to turn the CNC into the primary production tool. Due to Covid-induced supply chain problems, the bandsaws had been out of blades for weeks, and it was estimated that it would be at least another 6 weeks before any arrived

By Sallye Coyle, Tuesday, May 24, 2022

One of the advantages of ShopBot’s semi-modular system is that a user can customize the ShopBot to fit their application. Cerro Pacific lumberyard created a custom hold-down technique and way to remove waste from the cutting table that fits their production use of manufacturing risers out of redwood blanks

By Sallye Coyle, Wednesday, April 6, 2022

Drive onto the lumberyard of Cerro Pacific in Redwood Valley, CA, and you will see stacks and stacks of redwood boards. A whiteboard in plant manager Roberto Carillo’s office is filled with notes for various orders for 2x4s, 2x6s, etc

By Ross Gruet, Tuesday, January 25, 2022

One never knows when a good idea will come to mind. Take Troy Turbeville as an example

By Sallye Coyle, Monday, January 3, 2022

iWORKS in Los Angeles is a custom lighting fabrication business that has made ShopBot a part of their manufacturing facility since 2009. After more than 10 years of service, when their faithful ShopBot started having problems cutting square, they contacted ShopBot for an official tune-up

By Ross Gruet, Monday, October 25, 2021

Upstate New York in October? Yes, please! ShopBot had the privilege of being a part of one of the largest gatherings of makers in the country in October at the Blackthorn Resort in East Durham, NY. The Catskill Mountain Makers Camp is hosted by Austin Handel, part of the family-owned resort, and Jimmy Diresta (who you might know from NBC’s “Making It,” or his popular social media channels)

By Ross Gruet, Friday, October 15, 2021

Skateboard design has come a long way. Surfers in the 50’s used to dismantle roller skates and bolt the wheels and axles to simple wood planks that may or may not have been cut in the shape of a surfboard for the ability to “surf the streets”

By Ross Gruet, Wednesday, October 6, 2021

Mother Nature taunted us with a little rain on the first few mornings of Merlefest 2021, but by the afternoon, skies cleared and the sound of guitars, mandolins, and sweet singing filled the air. While a few ShopBot employees have attended this famous music festival in past years, 2021 marks Shopbot’s first year as a sponsor and exhibitor in the Expo Tent

By ShopBot Tools, Monday, September 13, 2021

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By ShopBot Tools, Monday, August 30, 2021

Computer numerical control machines, or CNC machines for short, have completely changed the way people make mechanical components. New feats are possible that transcend what hand-operated machines could previously achieve because of the capabilities of computers

By Ross Gruet, Friday, July 30, 2021

View video of Bill Young’s interview with Will Holman HERE.ShopBot’s Bill Young talks with Will Holman of Open Works Baltimore about the history and current state of the Baltimore-based makerspace

By ShopBot Tools, Friday, May 29, 2020

The widespread use of computer-aided design (CAD) software and computer-aided machining (CAM) software has revolutionized industrial production. Now, prototypes and final versions of components and assemblies can be easily planned and carried out

By ShopBot Tools, Friday, March 6, 2020

Computer Numerically Controlled (CNC) machines like our ShopBot tools have undoubtedly improved the manufacturing industry by making production easier for companies to carry out. Here are some of the advantages of CNC machines when compared to their manually-operated counterparts


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