Infographic: The Battle for Skin Sensing Technology
Click the image below to take a visual journey through the long and winding road to make skin sensing technology for table saws available to the general public.
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Infographic: Aluminum vs. Stainless Steel
There’s no question that aluminum and stainless steel are similar in form and function. But each metal has unique qualities that make it suitable for specific applications. This infographic provides an overview of the difference between aluminum and stainless steel.
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The Anatomy of Workshop Safety
If you’re a passionate woodworker, the workshop is a second home–its tools are old companions and the time you’ve spent there makes for fond memories. But accidents can still happen even with this level of familiarity. In fact, the Woodworkers Guild of America reports that over 60,000 workshop injuries occur each year. Since many of
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Monarch Metal How-To: Cleaning & Maintaining Stainless Steel
While it’s a common assumption that stainless steel can go long periods of time without a proper cleaning, this type of metal truly needs regular TLC. Although stainless steel has a higher resistance to exposure than other metals, it can become discolored and even corroded over time. This is usually due to a compromise in
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3 Questions About Wood Products and Formaldehyde Answered
If you’ve paid any attention to the media as of late, you’ve likely come across a story or two about the swift downfall of Lumber Liquidators for its resale of formaldehyde laden laminate flooring from China. Manufactured with formaldehyde based adhesives and sold en masse by Lumber Liquidators to unsuspecting American buyers, Chinese laminate poses
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5 Must-Have Mobile Apps for Woodworkers
There’s no doubt that mobile technology has changed the face of our society. Its appeal spans demographics, with everyone from computer geeks to stay-at-home moms becoming virtuosos of the digital age. And woodworkers are falling right in line with all the rest. As more DIY enthusiasts and woodworking professionals take to the internet to access
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5 Benefits of Rain Screen Systems
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Stainless Steel Mirror Polished Corner Guard
We get a lot of custom orders at Monarch, and recently we completed a job for a customer that was a bit unusual for us. The job called for a mirror polish on 11 gauge stainless steel corner guards. We typically see orders for a #4 brushed finish on 16 or 18 gauge stainless steel
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Sustainable Building: Why Wood is Our Most Valuable Resource
In some small way, each of us knows the value of wood as a resource. In fact, we use it every day–it heats our homes, makes our stationery, lines our floors. But in spite of all of its uses, wood is still a taboo material where building is concerned. Instead, we use concrete and steel
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Monarch’s MFTAPE: A New Way to Hang Glass Panels
If you’re looking for a new way to hang glass panels without having to stop and consider fastener presentation, then Monarch’s MFTAPE is the system for you. This concealed fastener system, which is among the newer glass hanging systems on the market, offers customers a clean and simple way to mount all types of glass
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