Hi Owen. Ryan. Mike and Michele,

Please let me be the first to welcome you to Fabnet, the best darn fabrication / surfacing Forum in the world. Please use this great resource and dont be timid about contributing, with advice, questions,or a joke iin the Patio, or an off topic post  in the Swamp.

Best Regards,

Lenny

 

Yea, what he said.........

It is always a pleasure to see fresh meat new faces in the site. ..........

See you in the swamp!!!

my name is Jason Singer.  i currently live in Martinsburg WV.  I have 4 kids from 13 to 3 years old (2 boys and 2 girls) my oldest sons name is vijay hence the screen name "vijayson".  i have been in the construction industry all my life.  i was remodeling houses with my dad at age 6 and have always enjoyed working with my hands.  my father and i own a company called innerspace floor to ceiling that currently employs 50 hard working people.  we have design showrooms in hagerstown maryland and martinsburg west virginia.  we started out doing remodeling back in the late 80's and grew into a kitchen and bath and flooring dealer.  we pride ourselves on being a full service company that will do your entire project in house from start to finish. 

we have been fabricating solid surface and laminate countertops for about 15 years now.  in 2005 we split the top shop into another company called countertop solutions and started fabricating stone.  we moved into a 17,000 sq foot shop in hagerstown md where we currently employ 10 people fabricating stone, laminate and solid surface.  we service the washington dc / baltimore and northern virginia area and points north and west.  last fall we fabricated and installed corian and granite tops for the White House situation room (seriously we did it.  it was a very cool project but not allowed to take pictures of the finished product).  At the heart of our shop is our northwood stone cnc (that we use to cut anything we can rig it up to hold including corian and stone) park yukon bridge saw a pinske thermoforming oven and streibig panel saw.  since we only have 10 guys we cross train our employees to be able to work on all materials we fabricate.  we dont have stone guys or solid surface guys we just have workers that can do them all.  our business is constantly changing so you have to be flexible.  the home building market in our area took a crap about the same time we took the plunge into stone.  but we have found commercial millwork shops and commercial builders to be very lucrative accounts and have actually started turning a profit on the new business in just our 2nd year thanks to that market sector.  i think i said in a previous post...  we are finding ourselves less and less in the "countertop" business and more in the "thingy" business.  we are pushing hard to get people to realize that solid surface can be more than just countertops....art work, wall hangings, signs,  use your imagination.   

anyway,  thanks to andy and all who make this site available to us chumps.  see you around.  Go skins!!!!

Welcome, I thought from the name Vijay, you were some India dude. Im an old Baltimore guy, and let me be the  first to welcome you to fabnet. Its a great group here. Be sure to thank Andy and company for making this happen. BTW Im the insane member of the posse.

 Best  Regards,

Lenny

I'd agree with that but at least you like the Beattles!      Welcome  Vijay

Hi,

 

 Anyone want to have a look what we are doing down under?

 

We are small solid surface manufacturer and fabricator and just launched our new website www.arketique.com

Arkietique,

              great designs and work, Love it...I love how people show that SolidSurface is not just for countertop, cool website!

Okay kids- here goes. My name is Glenn Goehring, I'm 41 (gasp!) going on seventeen and working steadily on achieving the title of Fakir extraordinaire. I re-discovered woodworking at about 26 or so when I moved across the great state of South Dakota to be with my lady love. Proir to that my greatest achievement was Army airborne school. in the last twelve years I've worked for three different  companies all consisting of the same 30 or so employees. Kinda a funny market here. Currently Working for Classic Marble works in Piedmont , SD.  We manufacture cultured marble, laminate C-tops and solid surface. We also install LG's quartz  as well... more later, gotta get to work

Welcome Glenn.

I love your on-line name. He's one of my favorite characters from my childhood.

For your general info:  Tom M. = Bagheera and FEDSAWDAVE = Baloo. 

See ya' in the Swamp.......

When I moved back out here from the east side of the state thirteen years ago, my hair was nearly long enuff to wipe my butt with. One of my more well read co-workers started the whole mowgli thing- it stuck and I incorporated it into tne whole online thing- speaking of it- we need to grab the re-release this weekend. We lost  our original on VHS when we got robbed shortly B4 Christmas 9 years ago.....

Hey everybody,
i just found this site today and i am pretty amazed what you guys set up.
I am probably one of the youngest people on this page.
Im 21yrs old and i currently work at my uncle's business Granite and Marble Express in Northern Virginia.
All we deal with is solid surfaces.We have Granite, Marble and we are a licensed Silestone company.
About six months ago we moved into our new Office/Shop. All the machines are made by Breton in Italy. We have two CnC machines, one Combicut with the waterjet technology and one Speedycut machine. I am trained in all of them.
I signed up here, because it is so hard sometimes so get dxf files from the sink companies. Some of them send them very late, some of them put you on hold for more than hours and some of them don't even provide any templates. Luckily i found this page and the dxf library. That is a great idea and i think it is very useful because i am pretty sure that we are not the only company that hunts for templates that sink companies don't provide.
I am curious about how other granite companies work and how the organization is. Our company is really big and most of the time pretty busy. We currently employ more than 50people. Nevertheless, i think it could be even more effective with a better organization. I hope i can get advice and i am glad that i found this communication and i am sure you guys can help me out with a lot of things.
Until then,
have agreat day.

Welcome puyakasha,

I enjoy reading about other people and shops in the industry.  Feel free to ask any questions here.  Someone always answers.  It usually does not take a week for someone to welcome you to the site.  There must have been a hot debate going on that had everyone's attention.

I see there are lots of new members.  Let us hear your story. 

Linda

 

Linda, this thread doesn't show up in the "All Public Forums Section" which is aggregated to show all the new posts in one place. This is where myself, and I believe most others go to check posts. Probably the reason for the lack of welcome..

That being said, welcome puyakasha

Howzit, My name is Todd DiAntonio,I own a small shop in Kailua,Hawaii.I have 23 years experience fabricating and installing with solid surface.I prefer to fabricate unique and difficult pieces,as well as provide a refinishing and repair service.The bulk of my work is thermal formed shower pans and wall panels for walk-in showers,you could say that is my niche....Aloha,Todd

   Hey  bradda,   I gots many friends deaa in   Kona.   Worked in Wiemea  for a couple winters.   Good friends with  some artist from there.   Tia Lake (aka MR KOA), Sid Bishop of the infamous Bishops in Hawaii.   This blonde kid named  Chama who plays music in the Kona plaza there worked for me  one summer here in AK.    How do ya compete with the stone industry there?  Seemed fairly locked up.   It was hard to get work done by subs if they surfed.   Sure do miss the place around december thru march     Welcome            DG

Been meaning to say hi to all for some time now, seems by to time I’m finished reading every ones post it’s a little late, so here goes.  

Names Jeff, been living with and married  to the same farmers daughter for the last 20 years, keep thinking she’s going to wise up one of these days, but until then I’m the lucky one. We have two middle school daughters, both more into sports than boys for now thank god. Moe and Mac, hence the name of my business Moe-Mac construction, they use to follow me around the shop but not so much any more. One still likes to think she helps polish tops. We live in Chugiak Alaska and if I keep getting my way, here is where we will stay (I’m a Army brat and have lived all over, but have called Alaska home starting in the late 60’s even when we left for a while it was home) Now the farmers daughter would like to return to Northern Minnesota some day, so that’s not to bad either. Went to college at UAA and Cal State Chico (learned a lot there but no degree to show for it) Shane where you in Chico for the pioneer days riot of 86? MTV ruined a good thing.

I had the pleaser of taking the certification class in Henderson from Steve Bace (not sure if that is spelled right). Great time, great class and a bunch of great guys to meet and take the class with. Think I even met Lenny; he did an after noon on the chemistry of solid surface and the differences in acrylic and polyester. Now that was about three years or so ago and I have only been fabricating part time sents then, some day when I retire from my day job I hope to start full time.

Other things that keep me busy is coaching. I coach girl’s fast pitch softball; we are a U14 ASA travel team the Arctic Storm (State Champs this year) the only problems with coaching a summer sport in Alaska is that it interferes too much with FISHING.

Well it’s late and I’m rambling so let’s just say hi. I’m glad that I found the site, I’ve learned so much. Thank you all

 

Jeff M

MoeMac Construction

Welcome again Jeff,   do ya have an e-mail  ?  I have a new one here at the bottom of  the page.    Spring Kings! need I say more.

David G.

 

The girls and I may be spending a couple days at the cabin in Sterling after Christmas. Could be persuaded to drive to the end of the road for a cup of coffee if you have a job in the shop you’d like to show off? E-mails mattjeff@earthling.net.

 

Jeff

OK Jeff,   got the address now,  I'll be poppin into your computer some time soon, we'll make a plan      DG