ShopBot Appears On "Extreme Makeover Home Edition - How'd They Do That?"

Ty Pennington went to the hospital with appendicitis and it was a ShopBot CNC that helped keep his “secret room” project on “Extreme Makeover Home Edition” on schedule.

A ShopBot CNC router made another television appearance on “Extreme Makeover Home Edition – How’d They Do That?” in February. The episode featured a segment on how CNC routers are used in furniture making. The ShopBot CNC was used to cut key parts of a piece of furniture for Pennington’s “secret room” – a ribbed bench called “the sternum.”

The ShopBot woodworking machine is not an official product of the ABC show, but is owned by Pennington who purchased it in the fall of 2003. Rob Williams, Pennington’s shop manager, operated the ShopBot on the episode when the filming took place in his workshop in Atlanta, Georgia earlier in February.

For more information, contact Diane Reynolds, ShopBot Tools, 3333 B Industrial Drive, Durham, NC 27704, 888-680-4466 / 919-680-4800, Fax: 919- 680- 4900, E-mail: info@shopbottools.com, Web: www. shopbottools.com