Highland Woodworking
Hardware
Highland
Woodworking Hardware began as a
little, simple hardware store Inside business
district of Atlanta Within 1978. It was
created by means of young couples who meet at Georgia Tech,
and after graduate and marry, go to function jointly for an
old Atlanta company notorious because King
Hardware.
Posterior
to a 4 year bootstrap learning inside the instrument and
hardware business at King Hardware, the couple took out an
SBA credit, rented a storefront next to their home and cast
their bread upon entrepreneurial waters.
Good look within the
type of dedicated clients and brilliant, hardworking dealers
initiated a profiting company which soon detected itself as
a consultant within woodworking tools and presents. Always
determined to quality, Highland Woodworking built a
reputation as a source of trustworthy counsel about the
purchase and employ of the tools, woodcraft and furniture it
sold.
Component
of Highland Woodworking's mission over the years has been to
fan the flames of interest and excitement inside the craft
of woodworking, and contribute to its development all
through the country.
In 1980, the firm began a
weekend woodworking seminar program for woodworkers,
bringing to Atlanta various experts to educate apprentices
attracted from the Atlanta area and handy the country.

The major
class was held in the basement of the original store. Once
Highland Hardware modernized a bigger store making across
the street in 1984, the seminars moved into an old warehouse
behind the supplemental store.
Inside 2000, Highland
Woodworking took woodworking schooling to an exciting more
level with arrangement of its Demo Shop surrounding to the
store. Inside this well-equipped example shop, applicant
woodworkers receive rigorous, hands-on teaching ranging from
primary woodworking talents to the blueprint and arrangement
of central projects from popular trainers.
Before ever issuing a
woodworking device catalog, Highland Woodworking began
sending out to its customers a manufactured good
clients-oriented newsletter entitled "Wood News." Available
two or three times a year, it in a little while grew into a
small woodworking magazine, actually one of the early
illustrations of what came to be notorious for the reason
that it is a "magalog."
In 1992,
the magazine format was combined into the store's
comprehensive device directory, which now becomes visible in
three editions each year. Its Inside-depth analysis of the
tools we sell has won consistent praise during years from
customers, journalists and device makers.
In 1996, Highland Hardware
Woodworking took the plunge into cyber world technology as
one of the earliest woodworking instrument and companies to
create a main web site. Within the last few years,
HighlandHardware.com also called HighlandWoodworking.com has
evolved into a central interface with our customers. The
internet also brought concerning the rebirth of Wood
News.
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