Straight line ripping reduces waste by removing only the material needed to create a true edge, instead of over-trimming or pre-jointing a crooked board, and by letting laser or automatic guide positioning place the cut around defects. That recovers usable width from warped and lower-grade boards that conventional ripping would downgrade or scrap. Customers moving […]
Straight line ripping reduces waste by removing only the material needed to create a true edge, instead of over-trimming or pre-jointing a crooked board, and by letting laser or automatic guide positioning place the cut around defects. That recovers usable width from warped and lower-grade boards that conventional ripping would downgrade or scrap. Customers moving […]
Warped lumber rips inaccurately because a conventional fence references off an edge that is already crooked, and carries that error straight into the cut. A straight line rip saw fixes this by gripping the board in a powered chain feed with pressure rolls and hold-downs, then cutting a true reference edge on the machine’s own […]
A straight line rip saw creates one true, straight reference edge on a board, even when the board is crooked or warped, then rips to width from that edge. A powered chain feed with pressure rolls and hold-downs carries the board along the machine’s own straight path, not the board’s, so it straightens and rips […]
Mereen-Johnson has entered into a distribution agreement with Stiles Machinery. Under the agreement, Stiles will offer Mereen-Johnson’s American-made industrial rip saws to manufacturers across North America, expanding the ripping options available to Stiles customers and giving more shops a direct path to Mereen-Johnson equipment through Stiles’ sales, service and parts organization. The announcement was made […]
Manual dovetailing — by router jig or hand — is flexible and cheap to start but slow, skill-dependent, and inconsistent at volume. A CNC dovetailer cuts precise, repeatable joints fast from stored programs, with quick changeover between sizes. CNC wins on throughput, consistency, and labor; manual still fits very low-volume, one-off, or artisan work. Before […]
You automate drawer box production by linking the steps into a cell: sizing the parts, cutting the dovetails on a CNC dovetailer, machining the bottom groove, and gluing/clamping/squaring the box on an automated clamp — with material handling between stages. This replaces a labor-heavy, skill-dependent bench process with a fast, consistent line that handles mixed […]
A CNC dovetailer automatically machines dovetail joints in drawer box parts — cutting precise, repeatable through or half-blind dovetails across varied stock sizes from a stored program. Integrated into a cell with sizing, grooving, and automated clamping, it turns labor-intensive, skill-dependent drawer box production into a fast, consistent, low-labor process. Here’s the sentence that reframes […]
Manual ripping relies on an operator to set widths and judge defects; automated systems scan each board and optimize the cut automatically. Automation typically improves yield by 3–8 percentage points, raises throughput 1.5–3×, and cuts a 2–4 operator line down to 1–2 — paying back in 12–36 months for higher-volume plants. Manual can still fit […]
A gang rip saw runs multiple blades to rip boards to width at high volume. A straight-line rip saw makes a single, true reference edge — ideal for crooked or warped stock and glue-line quality. Choose gang for throughput on sound stock, straight-line for edge quality and difficult lumber. Many plants run both. Here’s the […]
Rip saw automation means handing off the manual stages — destacking and infeed, defect scanning, cut optimization, blade positioning, and outfeed/sorting — to integrated equipment so a line runs faster, more consistently, and with fewer operators. Plants usually start by automating optimization and infeed, then build toward a fully integrated cell. The reason plants are […]
The fastest ways to cut waste at the rip saw are: place cuts around defects with optimization, run thinner kerf where the saw allows, recover narrow rips instead of scrapping them, and eliminate mis-cuts with consistent automated setup. Lumber is often 50–70% of the finished part cost, so even small gains pay back quickly. Ask […]