Bringing Furniture Business to Cabinetmakers

[Ray Jorgensen]

Most folks we are dealing with are already successfully building kitchen cabinets and we are not trying to replace that but instead expand their business into new areas.

I appreciate what you are saying here, but. I don't see adding kitchen cabinets as replacing what I'm doing, it would expand my market because I don't currenty offer knock down cabinets. Even if I did, I wouldn't have the marketing scope that this program could provide. My vote is - get a basic kitchen with slab doors on line. Expand as time goes on but get the basic up ASAP. From what I've seen in the librarys there are base and wall cabinets, already tucked here and there, just group those cabinets in a kitchen library.

To fledge out kitchens will take some work - main one I see is door styles - and how to handle that. Simplest to me is to have a check mark to say with or without doors. If it's marked not to include doors we would either make or buy them to suit the customer.

I view this program as possibly a great potiential for increased business, but I do have questions yet which I'm sure will be answered over time. I have signed up.

Just my 2 cents worth

[Ken Susnjara]

We will be adding some basic knock down cabinets that use lock dado joints fairly soon. We are also working to be able to offer five piece doors as well as slab doors. We are trying to sort out the fact that a majority of cabinets are face frame and that adds some additional problems. We are also working on a really great way to assemble cabinets at the job site but can’t get into much of that right now. Cabinets are clearly on the menu but we want to bring something new and valuable to the game. Over time we will add all kinds of things and see what works. Feedback from those using the system will also help point us in the right direction.

[Scott Marshburn]

We will be adding some basic knock down cabinets that use lock dado joints fairly soon. We are also working to be able to offer five piece doors as well as slab doors. We are trying to sort out the fact that a majority of cabinets are face frame and that adds some additional problems. We are also working on a really great way to assemble cabinets at the job site but can’t get into much of that right now. Cabinets are clearly on the menu but we want to bring something new and valuable to the game. Over time we will add all kinds of things and see what works. Feedback from those using the system will also help point us in the right direction.

Ken: Lets suppose that a company that has already developed there on library of knock down cabinets witch is very similar to you build's cabinets would this pose a problem with being accepted into the program?

[Ken Susnjara]

Existing designs that are similar to those offered in YouBuild are not a problem. These provisions are in the program to prevent gross misconduct, not to penalize a shop for building something similar to the products we offer. Common sense is the rule here.

[Michael Schwartz]

As a SB-Link user I can only hope that some of the innovative features in You Build might influence future versions of E-Cabinets

[Denis L'Heureux]

This is great news. Can't wait to sink my teeth into this so to speak.

Thanks Ken