Providence Woodcraft?

[JohnT Fitzgerald]

Anyone here frequent the Providence Woodcraft?

[Maik Tobin]

Anyone here frequent the Providence Woodcraft?

Not really in Providence. It's in East Greenwich. I am not a frequent visitor, but I have been there.

[JohnT Fitzgerald]

Close enough I guess - same store. The WC site listed it as East Greenwich, but I saw another page listing it as "providence".

any feedback? thoughts? Can't say I've ever been to a Woodcraft. I plan on just going and "browsing", but with all the posts lately that indicated these stores are only as good as the people there (makes sense), I thought I'd ask.

[Jason White]

Have been there once. It's in a strip mall, as I recall.

Why, what about it?

Jason


Anyone here frequent the Providence Woodcraft?

[JohnT Fitzgerald]

Why, what about it?

Um - nothing specific. just wondering what experience has been with it. feedback on size, selection, organization, people, advice, etc etc etc.

[Michael Poller]

John,

Not sure where in SE Mass you are but I have been to the Woburn location a few times and the staff have always been helpful.

There is also a Rockler in Cambridge on Mass Ave that is nice. Again, the staff there have always been helpful.

- Mike

[Jason White]

Decent selection of larger woodworking machines (tablesaws, bandsaws, etc.).

Other than that, it's like any other Woodcraft store.

JASON


Um - nothing specific. just wondering what experience has been with it. feedback on size, selection, organization, people, advice, etc etc etc.

[Jason White]

Ditto on the Woburn store. Nice, knowledgeable people. Not much in the way of larger-sized machines. They do have a pretty decent selection of Festool stuff and hand tools.

Jason


John,

Not sure where in SE Mass you are but I have been to the Woburn location a few times and the staff have always been helpful.

There is also a Rockler in Cambridge on Mass Ave that is nice. Again, the staff there have always been helpful.

- Mike

[JohnT Fitzgerald]

thanks everyone. I did hit the Providence store yesterday - it was good. not as big a selection of machinery as I'd hoped, but a good inventory of supplies and "accessories" and such. Maybe I'll trek to Woburn next weekend...

[Ron Knapp]

Woburn store is a lot smaller.

Have you tries Burns in Fall River?

[JohnT Fitzgerald]

No, I haven't - that's on my "list" though. Problem is there aren't many places "close" to me (Burns, Woodcraft/Prov and Woodcraft/Woburn all are about the same distance). Beaver Woodworking in Brockton is pretty close (maybe 15 mins), but isn't open Sundays and closes at 1 on Saturdays, so I wanted to scope out other places.

[Ron Knapp]

I had some bad experiences at Beaver so I tend to stay away from there if I can. There is a Rockler in Cambridge and one further north in Danvers. There is Woodcraft just over the border in Newington, NH. I believe they also own the Providence store. Both Woodcraft Newington and Providence stores have treated me very well. There is a store called Black Bear Tool & Supply in Canton Ma. They are a little more contractor oriented and I haven’t been there in awhile but you may find what you’re looking for there.

[JohnT Fitzgerald]

Thanks for the tips. unfortunately, NH and even Cambridge would just take too long to get to.

I've been to Beaver a couple times just to browse - never really dealt with the people there.