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by Mitch Cain
Mon, Aug 21 2006, 12:00PM
Forum: Design Sharing
Topic: The next level
Replies: 66
Views: 81453

I agree with both Dan and Joe, but my issue (one of them anyway, I hear I have several :roll: ) is that when a customer rolls through the door with the thomasville or Kraftmaid catalog, they are seeing mocked up stuff from their best designers in those brochures - yeah, the cabinets are not made as ...
by Mitch Cain
Wed, Aug 16 2006, 11:05AM
Forum: Design Sharing
Topic: Poll: furniture Design specializations
Replies: 8
Views: 12849

Poll: furniture Design specializations

Taking off on Mike's post above, so far about 33% of folks specified furniture designs - but thats a pretty broad category, so I thought I'd attempt to narrow it down a bit...
by Mitch Cain
Tue, Aug 15 2006, 12:29PM
Forum: Design Sharing
Topic: OK, so...
Replies: 9
Views: 14292

I know what you mean Dan - that's what I meant by the \"virtual factory\"...Once this gets rolling there's almost nothing we can't offer a consumer. The benefit for me is that I can focus on what I'm good at (the BS part) and not have to be the ONLY Designer-engineer-sawyer-assembler-finis...
by Mitch Cain
Tue, Aug 15 2006, 11:29AM
Forum: Design Sharing
Topic: OK, so...
Replies: 9
Views: 14292

OK, so...

...I tried to get a thread going on the ecabs forum regarding the Furniture Network and the marketing of those items and the response was abysmal at best... There is, what I think, anyway, a real opportunity from a marketing perspective, especially for us one-man shops, to utilize this service to ex...
by Mitch Cain
Tue, Aug 15 2006, 11:14AM
Forum: Design Sharing
Topic: The next level
Replies: 66
Views: 81453

Congrats to Thermwood and to all of you who post designs on this program...It makes us all look much bigger...which leads me to my next post....