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CLASSICAL MACHINERY & EQUIPMENT
Tudorwood Joinery selects Lamont
TUDORWOOD Joinery Ltd offers
a complete service for bespoke
kitchens, including design,
manufacture and fitting.
Nothing is bought in: everything
is manufactured to order.
The kitchens are created to a
high standard: “We pride ourselves
on being at the top of the range,
although our lower overheads
allow us to offer competitive
prices,” company owner, Rodney
Lander, told PW&SS.
Rodney finds that many of his
customers come through personal
recommendation: they have seen
one of his kitchens in a friend’s
home, and decide they would like
one as well.
In order to speed up the glue
drying process, Tudorwood Joinery
Ltd has recently invested in a
refurbished gluesetter, purchased
from Lamont.
The need for the investment
arose because it was taking half a
day for the glue to dry, once the
frames had been cramped onto
the carcasses.
“We had units sitting around in
the workshop full of sash cramps!”
Rodney said.
With the gluesetter, a job which
used to take three days per kitchen
has been cut to one day per
kitchen. “With the Lamont gluing
system, we still cramp the frames
onto the carcass, but the machine
sets the glue very quickly: because
Above, the gluesetter in use in the manufacture of the larder unit with gull wing doors, which can
be seen installed in the finished kitchen (below).
of this, we can take the cramps
straight off and the frame has adhered
to the carcass.”
While attending W8 in Birmingham
last October, Rodney saw two
systems on two different stands.
The system he selected was the
more expensive one, for two principal
reasons: first, Lamont, like Tudorwood
Joinery Ltd, is a Scottish
company, and secondly, Alan Lamont
was willing to visit his workshop
to carry out a full demonstration
of the equipment, in a
way that had not been possible at
the show.
As Rodney said, “If the service is
there, you don’t mind paying a little
extra for it.”
Rodney visited Alan’s stand at
W8 on Sunday 26th October: six
days later, on Saturday 1st November,
during the demonstration
at the Tudorwood Joinery workshop,
the purchase decision was
made.
“Alan offered an excellent level
of service. He spent a good half
day here, explaining how the machine
works: he was quite a patient
guy, actually!”
Rodney also found Alan to be
responsive to the needs of small
businesses, particularly in the current
economic climate.
The gluesetter has worked
faultlessly since it was installed,
but the promise of quality back-up
service was important to Rodney.
“For a small business, when a
machine goes down, we need
some sort of back-up straight
away.
“We have bought machines before
from companies a distance
away who don’t always want to
send someone up to Scotland: if
we had a problem, we are confident
that he would be straight
over to help out.”
When asked, Rodney confirmed
he would definitely recommend
the Lamont refurbished gluesetter
to others.
Lamont
Tel 01461 40017
Email aalamont@hotmail.com
www.lamontclamping.co.uk
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