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Tools for SME Furniture Manufacturers

This page assists SMEs in sourcing specialist hand, power, machine and cutting tools from manufacturers worldwide that have production facilities and/or suppliers in Canada and the United States. Data are provided under main headings (woodworking/metalworking) and subheadings (hand/power/machine/cutting). Click the appropriate flag icon to visit each company's website.

To view a range of tools selected by VCR and available through Amazon USA, click the appropriate link in the left-hand +TOOLS submenu.


Company

Specialty

Website

Woodworking - Hand

Adjustable Clamp Co.

Jorgesen brand: bar clamps, etc.

Bessey

bar, claw, hold-down, lever, ratchet clamps, etc.

Cape Forge

hand-forged chisels, drawknives, detailers, etc.

Crown Hand Tools

Crown brand: planes, gauges, turning chisels, etc.

E. C. Emmerich

Primus brand: planes, saws, chisels, etc.

Footprint Tools

Footprint brand: saws, bevels, planes, chisels, etc.

Lee Valley Tools

Veritas brand: planes, scrapers, jigs, etc.

Pacific Rack & Mach.

measuring gauges

Stanley Tools

planes and chisels

Thomas Finn

Pax brand: frame, mitre and cross-cut saws brands

Wetzler

bar, band, cross and quick clamps

Wilh. Schmitt & Comp.

Two Cherries brand: firmer and turning chisels

Company

Specialty

Website

Woodworking - Power

Black & Decker

drills, routers, sanders, nailers, etc.

Bosch

drills, foam cutters, routers, sanders, etc.

Bostitch (Stanley)

nailers, upholstery staplers, etc.

DeWalt

biscuit joiners, drills, routers, sanders, nailers, etc.

Festool

biscuit joiners, routers, sanders, jig saws, etc.

Freud

biscuit joiners, routers, trimmers, edgers, etc.

Hitachi Koki USA

routers, orbital sanders, saws, etc.

Mafell

dowelling joiners, routers, sanders, etc.

Makita

biscuit joiners, routers, sanders trimmers, etc.

Porter Cable

biscuit joiners, drills, routers, sanders, compressors, etc.

Sioux

drills, routers, sanders, screw drivers, etc.

Company

Specialty

Website

Woodworking - Machine

Altendorf

sliding tableaws

Biesse

cnc routers/centres, panelaws, sanders, edgers, etc.

Delta

radial arm/table saws, jointers, shapers, etc.

Diehl

veneer splicers, tenoners, moulders, etc.

General

table saws, sanders, jointers, dovetailers, etc.

Holz-her

cnc routers/centres, panel saws, sanders, edgers, etc.

Homag

edgers, cnc routers/centres, panel saws, tenoners, etc.

Martin

sliding table saws, planers, shapers, etc.

C.R. Onsrud

cnc/inverted routers

Ritter Mfg.

assembly clamps, borers, drills, shapers, etc.

SCM Group

cnc routers/centres, panel saws, sanders, edgers, etc.

ShopBot

cnc routers

Timesavers

wide belt sanders

Woodstock

Shop Fox brand: table saws, dust collectors, shapers, etc.

WMH Tool Group

Powermatic brand: panel/table saws, planers, shapers, etc.

Company

Specialty

Website

Woodworking - Cutting (blades, bits, etc.)

Dimar

saw blades, router bits, CNC tooling, etc.

Freud

saw blades, router bits, cutterheads, etc.

FS Tool

saw blades, router bits, cutterheads, knives, etc.

Gladu Tools

saw blades, router bits, cutterheads, knives, etc.

Guhdo

saw blades, router bits, cutterheads, knives, etc.

Hock Tools

hand plane blades

Lee Valley Tools

saw blades, router bits, plug and tenon cutters, etc.

Leitz

saw blades, router bits, cutterheads, knives, etc.

Olson Saw

band and scroll saw blades

Royce/Ayr

saw blades, router bits, cutterheads, knives, etc.

Whiteside Machine

router bits

Company

Specialty

Website

Metalworking - Hand

Armstrong

hacksaws, snips, wrenches, screwdrivers, etc.

Irwin Tools

taps and dies, wrenches, snips, etc.

Footprint Tools

Footprint brand: hacksaws, snips, hammers, punches, etc.

Fuller Tool

Fuller brand: hacksaws, snips, hammers, punches, etc.

Midwest Tools

snips

SK Hand Tools

files, hammers, pliers, screwdrivers, etc.

Snyder Manufacturing

Mr. Ratchet brand: screwdrivers

Stanley Tools

hammers, punches, riveters, hacksaws, snips, etc.

Vaughan

hammers

Wright Tool

wrenches, sockets, pliers, screwdrivers, snips, etc.

Company

Specialty

Website

Metalworking - Power

Bosch

drills, grinders, hammers, etc.

DeWalt

grinders, nibblers, saws, shears, etc.

Makita

grinders, nibblers, saws, shears, etc.

Milwaukee

grinders, hammers, saws, etc.

Company

Specialty

Website

Metalworking - Machine

Eagle

tube benders

Eaton Leonard

tube benders

ESAB

tig, arc, plasma, OX, friction, laser, welders

Hobart

tig, arc, plasma, OX, wire feed, spot, welders

Lincoln

tig, arc, plasma, OX, wire feed, welders

Lomar

tube benders

Lors

spot welders

Miller

mig, tig, arc, plasma, wire feed, spot, welders

Pines

tube benders

Woodstock

Shop Fox brand: lathes, drill presses, band saws, etc.

WMH Tool Group

Jet and Wilton brand: millers, band saws, lathes, etc.

Company

Specialty

Website

Metalworking - Cutting (blades, bits, etc.)

American Saw & Mfg

Lenox brand: band saw blades, fluids, hole saws, etc.

DoAll

band saw blades, coolants, etc.