From Single Phase to Three Phase: Do You Even Know?

Most career woodworkers can identify with this question: “Do you have single phase or three phase?” It’s a phrase I use from time to time in conversations with fellow business owners. Most seasoned woodworkers have experience designing their shop with machines with varying capacities. In our world of tooling, we ride a hard line of […]

Meet IWF Network News Contributing Columnist Dan Wellens

For more than a decade, I—like many of you—have been sanding and creating, turning a passion into a profession. Some of us are producing cabinets, others fabricating custom furniture pieces. We all mostly have the same objective: to survive in this ever-expanding world. In the early days of my business we were without a single […]

HGTV’s Dan Wellens Wins Silver in Minnesota’s Best Furniture Awards

Dan Wellens, owner of Country Tables & Furniture, has shipped more than 5,500 tables from his Cologne, MN shop. A unique combination of artisan and highly focused businessman, Wellens added a new accolade recently as he was voted a Silver Award in the 2022 Minnesota’s Best Furniture Store competition held by the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. Wellens […]