The Empire of Cookies

by Andrew Davis

Come and get 'em, while they're hot!

The proliferation of the bench cookie and its accessories have dominated the woodworking ads and emails.  Woodworkers have always used something to protect the working surface.  It doesn't take much brain power to consider lifting your work piece to protect an expensive workbench. So what's the deal, that is, the innovation that makes the bench cookie ubiquitous in woodworking?  The friction surface?  Being the first woodworker on your street to have one?  A nice size as a stocking stuffer?  A substitute for a missing hockey puck?  The revenue margins?  We may never know the answer but Andrew's article The Empire of Cookies gets us a little closer to understand the cookie phenomenon.

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