IN THE FORGE
1,100 Miles to Maine — What We're Bringing, and Why We Drive It
FORG3D is at the Maine Woodworking Event, Aug 8–9 in Scarborough. See the rebuilt site and The Foundry, the debut of the FORG3D Edition Manus and SYS-RLZ S 76, and enter the booth giveaway.
Built for You — The System That Knows Your Bench
Log in and FORG3D becomes your system. Faber answers on every page, the knowledge base knows your gear, and Built for You keys off your bench, never ‘people also bought.’
The System, Made Navigable — Inside the New FORG3D Site
The rebuilt FORG3D site is organized around the system, not the SKU. Enter through your work with Built for ___, see how the families relate, and start where your bench lives.
Spotlight: SYS-ORG Favorites
Spotlight on three SYS-ORG products: half-height bins solve the chopstick-fingers retrieval problem, Bit Channel bins keep the driver with the fastener so an empty channel tells you before you leave the shop, and Bit Cassette bins bring Festool cassette mobility...
One Drawer Was Never Quite Enough: The Limited-Run Systainer³ Combi/2 M 379
The limited-run Systainer³ Combi/2 M 379 puts open storage over two pull-out drawers instead of one — and both SYS-ORG bin heights drop straight into them, so the open top takes a fitout while the drawers carry smalls sorted by...
Shaper Origin Workholding: The Option Most Owners Miss
The Shaper Workstation is the right answer for work you can bring to a bench — but not for the inlay in a finished top or the panel too big to clamp. SYS-GRP Shaper Plate Vacuum Pods hold the Plate...
Customizing Your SYS-GRP Setup for Any Jobsite
SYS-GRP runs in three deployment contexts — bench-anchored, rail-staged, and mobile jobsite — each built from the same modular pod and vacuum ecosystem, so the configuration adapts to the work rather than the other way around.
Behind the Build — The Making of AnchorPod
The origin story of AnchorPod: from a CNC purchase for B2B work to the Great VAC-SYS pilgrimage, a back-room dealer find, and why BenchGrip shipped before the product that was always the original idea.
Grabo / Dewalt Grabo Baseplate Engineering Challenges
The engineering story behind Nexus: how ACM + stiffener solved a deformation problem no one anticipated, why three distinct Grabo footprints led to purpose-built plates instead of a universal adapter, and what that means for mode switching between lifting and...