Founded in 1970, the Whiteside Machine Company was established as a general-purpose machine shop that started in the basement of Bill & Bobbie Whiteside’s home in Western North Carolina. Being located near the soaring furniture manufacturing town of Hickory, the Whiteside Machine Company had often been instrumental in the repairing and the making of special […]

The more we find ourselves moving into urban environments, the more we begin to realize the big role that factors such as space, time, efficiency, and cost can play. This is no different when we are suddenly presented with a new way of working and interacting with our tools. The decision to go cordless can […]

Carving has always been a laborious task including a lot of elbow grease and tools which consistently require sharpening after every cut. Since its inception, Kevin Inkster, the founder of Arbortech and the Inventor of the Woodcarver, prototyped the first of his commercially-produced Arbortech woodworking accessories – the Arbortech Woodcarver Blade. Sold as an angle […]

In 2018, the woodworking joinery and knockdown industry welcomed a new player into the game. Providing the user with a new, improved, secure, easy-to-install, and concealed solution that ensures that the end-user can put together his/her furniture with ease and without compromising the overall visual aesthetic of the furniture. Striplox can be mounted in a […]

By now, we all know about the benefits of going cordless especially when it comes to the use of drills and drivers which usually need to be used together for a single job. For table saws, portable circular saws, and miter saws however, the cordless option is a fairly new one. And an especially mind numbing […]

A dusty wood workshop is hardly every adequately complemented with a broom a dust-pan. It just doesn’t work. Too often the dust which we are generating when we are cutting timber on our circular, mitre and jigsaw is simply too fine to be swept up and collected in a dustpan. Our thicknessers and jointers are […]