HubbardJointers.com
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Description
My father, Dick Hubbard, started laying brick in Sioux Falls, South Dakota in 1924. He continued as a bricklayer and masonry contractor until 1965. During the latter years of his bricklaying career Dick began to develop tools for his own use that were better than anything then commercially available. His friends began asking for them. Then people from further and further away asked for them. In 1960 Dick began commercial production of the Hubbard Jointer. In 1965 he quit laying brick to devote all of his time to the Hubbard Jointer Company. I bought the company from my father in 1986. Dad was 79 years old and thought he might like to do something else for a while. Dad is now 98 years old, fit and able and still enjoying life.
The Hubbard Jointer Company is a small company located in rural Washington State near Cheney, Washington. The Company provides a livable income to it's full-time employees and takes pride in providing part-time work for students from Eastern Washington University. We pay well enough to enable the students to remain in school without developing debt. We adapt the work schedule to their school schedule and in this way have enabled a number of students to remain in college, complete their degree work and move on to fruitful careers elsewhere.
Several years ago one of the largest trowel trade tool distributors in the United States contacted me. They are a company whose name we have all heard. They said they wanted to distribute my tools. I was flattered. I provided them with the engineering data on my tools so they would know what a great product they were buying. They took the information to a company in China and contracted with them to copy The Hubbard Jointer. The company in China immediately sent a sales force back to this country and started selling the imitation tool to other distributors.
