On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 14:44:49 -0500
Leon lcb11211@swbelldotnet wrote:


In the older days they were at most the woodworking shows. Kiti,
Laguna, Minimax, Felder, Hammer... etc

I went to exactly 1 woodworking show and subscribed to exactly 0
woodworking magazines
the show was ok, a guy was scared and turning a 5 foot bowl
maybe from the club local to the venue and picked the short straw
or better yet came up with the idea and volunteered simultaneously

and now you mention kiti another I haven't heard of.



Later on they dropped off of the Houston shows but became more
prominent in the commercial trades magazines and regular ww
magazines. Laguna is not new but relative new compared to most of

I make choices quickly some times and not others. I think jet
get out there in front of people


the brands that I have mentioned. The Owner of Laguna Is from the
northern Europe area and came to live in California. He loved
surfing at Laguna beach and apparently named the company
accordingly. He wanted to introduce European machines to the USA
lower end consumers, not just at comercial applications.

Seems to have been a good idea.


Well they probably would do better if they offered lowered quality in
different categories. Laguna was not really well known to the
general public until they started offering through retailers and
offering Asian versions.

laguna has some high-end CNC stuff and I don't even remember how I
heard about laguna, may have been amazon