![]() ![]() The maple is still the finest quality produced in Maine’s western mountains each piece is still hand selected and inspected. We have not, however, relaxed any of the standards that made E.T. We have completely rebuilt and refined the rule manufacturing process. Since 1999 we have been able to re-employ some of the skilled local workers who had spent generations crafting these products. Inc., was formed to promote and market these products. We decided to gradually rebuild rule manufacturing and the Skowhegan Wooden Rule Co. They asked that we continue to manufacture flatwood rules, lip rules, and “L” squares. On the day the sale was finalized and in the weeks that followed, a number of distributors and industrial customers contacted us. Included in the sale was all of the equipment and the process instructions required to produce the discontinued Lufkin products. We, the Meisner family, purchased the Anson plant from Cooper Industries in 1999, primarily to obtain the sawmill and kilns to produce wood for other manufacturing facilities in Maine. At that point, Cooper sold the Anson plant and discontinued Lufkin’s original lines. Lack of broad market exposure and industry shifts gradually reduced the demand for flatwood rules, lip rules, and “L” squares. ![]() Lufkin product line of flatwood rules, lip rules, and “L” squares as industrial items and offered them through their catalogue only to industrial distributors and users.īy 1998, Cooper had moved the printing, assembly and packaging of folding rules to its main facility in Apex, North Carolina. Cooper sold folding wooden rules as mass market items but viewed the original E.T. ![]() In 1967, Cooper Industries purchased the Lufkin Company and added it to the Cooper Hand Tools Division. The hard maple harvested in Maine’s northern forests was considered superior and by the mid-1960s, Lufkin had consolidated all wooden rule manufacturing operations there. So they purchased the Anson Stick Company in North Anson, Maine. In 1951, Lufkin decided to locate operations near the best sources of raw materials for their products. ![]()
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