#160: Live from the Builders’ Show: Doors, Tool Belts, and American Manufacturing

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4.6 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The Fine Homebuilding editors chat with Jim Edgeworth of The Bilco Company and Connor Crook of Diamondback Toolbelts about what it takes to build high quality tools and materials in the US.

Patrick and Rob talk with a couple of manufacturers attending the International Builders’ Show about how keeping in touch with folks in the trades plays a major role in producing gear and construction materials that perform well and are in demand. The guys also compare notes on the builder-show experience, and touch on the current state of skilled trades in our country.

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0:00.0	commercial sewing machine as opposed to a table sawing.
0:08.7	When you push something into a table saw, it pushes back against you, right?
0:12.5	When you push something into a commercial sewing machine, it sucks you right in.
0:15.8	Keep your fingers out of the way.
0:17.0	Yeah.
0:17.3	Have you sewed your finger?
0:18.3	Not yet.
0:19.0	Okay.
0:20.2	I have.
0:21.6	Welcome to the second installment from the International Builders Show.
0:30.6	This is the Fine Home Building Podcast.
0:32.6	I'm Patrick McComb.
0:33.6	I am joined by Rob Wadsack, Digital Brain Manager.
0:36.6	Connor Crook, the founder and El Hefe of Diamondback Tool Belt, and Jim Edgeworth, who is the director of sales and marketing for the Billco Corporation.
0:48.9	Hey.
0:49.3	Thanks for being here, guys.
0:50.3	Appreciate it.
0:51.4	So what are you guys doing here at the show?
0:53.3	Go ahead there.
0:54.7	Jam, you'd start.
0:56.4	I'm currently amazed at the traffic.
1:00.0	Yeah, so you guys, a lot of people?
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