Whiteside Machine Company was founded in 1970 as a general purpose machine shop in the basement of Bill & Bobbie Whiteside’s home. Located in Western North Carolina near the furniture manufacturing town of Hickory, the company was often involved in making repairs or special parts for the furniture and woodworking field. A strong commitment to customer problem solving, a can-do attitude, and innovative ideas, along with a growing core of dedicated employees, helped the business evolve into a manufacturer of woodworking equipment and tooling. Primarily through repeat business and referrals, the tooling business continued to grow to meet a demand for quality production router bits as well as custom application tooling.
Today, Whiteside Machine occupies a 40,000 sq. ft. manufacturing facility and produces a complete line of solid carbide and carbide tipped router bits. Whiteside’s quality, innovation, and customer commitment are still present in our superb product line, in the design of custom tooling to fill special customer requirements, and in the development of special machinery and tooling for our own manufacturing use.
In an independent study performed by the editors of Fine Woodworking Magazine, the best bits were put to the test. In this side-by-side test, Whiteside router bits proved the best performer of the most widely used brand names. Included in the router bits test were such names as CMT, Freud, Oldham Viper, Porter-Cable, and Bosch. In the test, all the router bits were run under the same conditions, through the same material, at the same feed-rate and RPM. Whiteside router bits out-performed all other router bits. In addition to out-performing all other router bits, Whiteside router bits are more affordable than the other router bits tested.
Whiteside specializes in the following router bits:
- CNC
- Raised panel
- Dovetail
- Stile and rail
- Tongue and groove
- Solid carbide spiral
- Straight
- Solid surface
- Cabinet making
- Router bit sets
- Custom made router bits tooling
As always, Whiteside Machine is continuously striving to improve their products through new technology, improved production techniques, and ongoing research and development efforts; along with rigid quality control, vital customer feedback and extensive field-testing.
Whiteside Machine Company…Made in America, Family Owned and Operated, and Committed to Quality.