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Hall of Fame 2005
Marshall Burns may be one of the last bridges still spanning the historic past and boundless future of the tool industry. Certainly few people have witnessed firsthand the changes in tools and technology that he's seen in his lifetime. And even fewer have taken part in shaping that change.
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Cutting Edge: "The Old Saw Man"
Tools of the Trade magazine presented its first Lifetime Achievement Award to living legend Marshall Burns at the JLC Live Show in Providence, R.I., in March. Burns started working with his father in 1937 making saw blades, often traveling to remote sawmills in the Maine woods to set up the 5-foot-diameter circular blades used to rip huge logs into lumber. Even at 80 years of age he was still making the same trips to hammer those huge blades flat so they'd spin true, and he remains an outspoken advocate of hammer-tempered saw blades today.
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Sites to See
Today just a handful of home improvement companies are generating 25% or more of their leads from the Web, in some cases, strictly from the company Web site. But the fact that they do makes it clear that the Web holds huge promise for home improvement companies seeking a fertile (and low-cost) lead source.
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