People Take Warning

Your favorite toolmaker can disappear.

A pour at the Lemfco foundry, where we make our holdfasts and planing stops. It’s still possible to make things in this country.

When I started working at Popular Woodworking Magazine in 1996, Powermatic still made everything in the United States. It had a foundry in McMinnville, Tennessee, and its employees Blanchard ground¹ all the cast iron tops for th…