Booth 76

Come by and see our new projects along with the unveiling of two new product lines that will make your home improvement projects much easier and less expensive.

For those in Northeastern and Eastern WA and northern ID, and those inclined to come to the Spokane Home Builders Association Premier Home Show, we will be present again this year.

Show hours:

Friday April 13,  noon – 8pm

Saturday April 14, 10am – 8pm

Sunday April 15, 10am – 5pm

Free Parking

The article points out that growing automation in manufacturing means new workers must have skills in CNC manufacturing. According to the article, a report by Deloitte for the Manufacturing Institute found that as many as 600,000 jobs are going unfilled. Several people are quoted in the article noting the demise of vocational education programs that could feed skilled workers to manufacturing jobs. One comments that it’s a “glamour issue,” and another puts it more bluntly: “A bunch of lazy Americans don’t want to get their hands dirty anymore. They want an office job.” But as the article points out, those office jobs often don’t pay as well. Interesting reading.

There is a minimum order of $25 for CC or PayPal orders.  Call us if you have any questions (509) 671-6230.

We are going to be posting a lot of new information that we wanted to get up earlier but couldn’t.

Stayed tuned.

Friday April 15 – Noon to 8pm
Saturday April 16 – 10am o 8pm
Sunday April 17 10am to 5pm

We have limited supply of $1 off admission tickets.  Please contact us for your ticket. 509-671-6230.

See you there!

Soft closing corner cabinet drawers

This officially recognizes cabinet/furniture builders as some of the very first “GREEN” builders of products for your home.  If you are concerned about our environment (as most woodworkers are) then choose a cabinet/furniture shop that specifies America grown wood products for you project.

At Diamond Lake Custom Woodworks, we use only prefinished American Maple plywood in your cabinet boxes and American hardwood in your faceframes, doors, drawer boxes, and drawer fronts.

When a customer asks for exotic woods in their project, we will use them only when we know the material has come from certified forests from around the world.

Our commitment to you is to build your project using only sustainable wood products that meet your needs and our high standards for material quality.  You won’t find low quality material in any project we do for you.  We are a “GREEN” builder.

Call us for details: 509-671-6230

New fireplace mantle

In February of this year a company called Vector Arts 3D, based in New York, wrote a wonderful case study about Diamond Lake Custom Woodworks and the unique and customized projects we create for our customers.  We really enjoyed working with James to put this great article together.

Before going to the Fairgrounds we had spent about 30 minutes at home playing with a CAD program to figure out the best way to lay out our booth.  We got it all set up according to our plan and life was good.  We finished up early enough to get some errands run in the big city before the vendor party got underway.  We did some strolling around the venue to see what the other vendors were showing.  There was some very neat stuff there.  Well we went to the party and had a good time talking with some very nice folks and finally decided it was time to go home and get some sleep before the big show began.

Friday morning rolled around and we arrived for our first day at a real builders show.  Things started out pretty slow and didn’t get much better for the entire day.  We found out that there had been a home & garden show the previous weekend and people were kinda burned out on shows.  So we hung in there and came back on Saturday morning for our 10 hours in the booth…..

One thing we did learn Friday (and luckily had time to fix) was that our booth was not really setup well.  We had it set up so that people had to come to the back of the booth to get brochures and business cards and look through the photo book.  Part way through the day we rearranged our booth and things were much better.  On Saturday and Sunday the new booth setup made a difference. It was a very busy day with lots of people coming in to talk with us about their plans for their homes.  It was a great time to chat with people.  We had another great addition on Saturday and Sunday, one of our 12 year old twin daughters spent the two days with us at the show.  When things were a little slow we had time to chat and play games.

Another great thing about having her with us was that she laid out our free pens very professionally – especially considering that we just put them in a pile.

Sunday was another VERY slow and boring day.  We had a few people that were just looking but that was it.  All our ‘business’ was done Saturday.  We blame the weather. It was sunny and 76 degrees outside.  People didn’t want to be cooped up inside at a show.  I don’t blame them at all – I would have loved to have been outside myself.  Oh well…..

All in all it was a pretty good experience.  We met some very nice people, learned a little more about how to set up a booth more efficiently for customer access and networked with some nice business people.  Nancy had a great time chatting with other scrollers when they came through the booth and saw the scroll saw work that she does.  I talked with several veterans and we had some nice chats.  I also got a chance to talk with many woodworkers and we exchanged good ideas and war stories.

We are looking forward to next year!

Show Sign

We recently had the privilege of working with VertorArt3d on putting an article together on our little company. You can read the full article here. Thank you to James at VectorArt3d for this great opportunity.

We had a good time talking with James about what we do and why we like to do it. The thrill of a customer saying WOW is what we strive for in every project we do.

We will be showing off several new products and displaying several projects we’ve done. We will also have demo’s of the design software we use for designing custom cabinets.  Register with us and receive a very nice pen.

We look forward to seeing you there!