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Top Quality Furniture at Discount Prices!<br />
Oak • Maple<br />
Cherry • Pine<br />
Dinette Sets - Desks<br />
Rockers - Painted Furniture<br />
Counter Stools –Bookcases<br />
Occasional Tables -Table Lamps<br />
Tiffanys - Chandeliers<br />
Since 1925<br />
R E E D ’S C O U N T R Y S T O R E<br />
Rts. 202 & 73 • Center Square, PA. 610.275.9426<br />
Hours: Mon.,Tues.,Sat. 9-8 / Wed.-Fri. 9-9, Sun 12-5<br />
Handmade<br />
Quilts<br />
OVER 100 NEW QUILTS,<br />
50 ANTIQUE QUILTS IN STOCK<br />
OVER 50 YEARS IN BUSINESS<br />
MANY OF EMMA’S OWN DESIGNS<br />
Open Mon.& Fri. 8-8,Tues,Thurs & Sat 8-6<br />
Closed on Wed.<br />
Witmer Quilt Shop<br />
1076 WEST MAIN STREET<br />
NEW HOLLAND, PA<br />
(717) 656-9526<br />
WE SHIP TO YOU<br />
is 4,000 square feet. When he had it built<br />
10 years ago, he had the heat put in the<br />
cement floor. “That leads to more comfortable<br />
working conditions. We also have<br />
a woodburning stove that helps us heat<br />
with wood scraps,“ he said. His finishing<br />
shop and warehouse is 3,000 square feet.<br />
The workshop is well laid out, with<br />
many interesting special tools. Brad has a<br />
12-inch jointer and an 18-inch thickness<br />
planer, plus a standard drill press and a<br />
few lathes. His table saw set-up is clever.<br />
He has two of the same size together. One<br />
has a standard saw blade, while the other<br />
has dado blades.<br />
Another tool is a small table saw that<br />
has half of the top moveable. “This lets us<br />
make very accurate cuts.” The right half<br />
of the top is stable and has a gauge that is<br />
set for length, while the left half moves.<br />
The wood is set to the gauge and then cut<br />
as the bed is moved. Brad also has a large<br />
horizontal drill, used to bore holes in the<br />
ends of bed posts to insert connectors.<br />
Among Brad’s lathes is an ax handle<br />
lathe. Since he uses ax handles for the legs<br />
in his stools and chairs, this tool is used a<br />
lot. Basically, it’s a duplicating lathe. A<br />
blank is put in one side. The operator sets<br />
the size and cutters and then starts the<br />
tool. As the cutter slowly removes wood,<br />
it follows the sample being felt by an arm<br />
that controls the cutter. When it’s finished,<br />
he has an ax handle the same shape<br />
and size as the sample. Next to this lathe<br />
is a sander. Another of the lathes has a<br />
bed long enough to create the seven-foot<br />
long end posts for the beds they make.<br />
Bradford Woodworking has four parttime<br />
employees: Colin Wurtz, Dennis Allenbach,<br />
Charlie Sharp and Sandy who<br />
does the bookwork. “I’m not a paper person,”<br />
he said. “All of us together make a<br />
good team. We turn out a lot of furniture<br />
without sacrificing quality. Keeping our<br />
standards high is very important.”<br />
Everything Bradford Woodworking<br />
makes has a farm theme. There are stools<br />
with tractor seats and ax handle legs, others<br />
with round cherry seats and ax handle<br />
legs. The stools are 25 inches for counter<br />
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