Thumbnailer professional#

Sadly, most of us are notorious cheapskates when it comes to purchasing equipment, so we end up with things like the Thumbnailer being promoted to us as a 'professional' piece of equipment. The Hoffmann joiner was built for the cabinet making industry, and that is where it is advertised and promoted, not to our trade. The bigger cut off saws, some CMC mat cutters, moulders, etc. Many tools that are manufactured are not done so with small frame shops in mind at all, but more for the factory operations. One of the biggest problems is that frame shops are reluctant to put any significant money into their equipment, so the people who furnish us our equipment do the same.

From mat cutters, wall cutters, 'V' nailers, saws, and yes Thumbnailers.

Thumbnailer professional#

Just about every tool we need can be bought from reputable suppliers as professional equipment only to turn out to be worthless junk. In my fourty five years in this business I have seen a lot of 'junk' being sold as professional quality equipment. I think what a lot of framers do not understand is that just because a machine has had a lot of advertising & promotion, or/and it comes from a reputable manufacturer or distributor, does not necessarily make it a professional quality machine.