The WoodAnchor™ system is now the Hornbeam™ system

Our original line of fixturing products has a new name. The WoodAnchor™ system is now the Hornbeam™ system.

Nothing about the product changes. Same slot profile, same nuts, same router bit, same ¼"-20 threads. If you have WoodAnchor™ slots milled into a bench, a spoilboard, or a jig, those are Hornbeam™ slots now, and every piece of hardware you already own still fits them. Nothing you've built is obsolete and nothing you've bought needs replacing.

So why change it?

Hornbeam is a tree — Carpinus, known in some places as ironwood or musclewood. It is among the hardest woods growing in North America and Europe, and for centuries it was what people reached for when wood had to do a metal's job: mill gears, plane bodies, mallet heads, and the yokes that harnessed working oxen. A hornbeam yoke carried two animals pulling against a load, day after day, and didn't give.

That describes this system better than "anchor" ever did — a wooden joint that holds like hardware.

One clarification, since the name invites the question: you don't need hornbeam wood. Hornbeam™ T-slots are milled into ordinary shop material — MDF, plywood, hardwood — using a Hornbeam router bit. The name describes what the joint does, not what you cut it in.

You'll see the new name roll out across the site over the coming weeks. Older documents, drawings, and videos still say WoodAnchor™; it's the same system, and we'll bring them current as we revise them.

More to come shortly on what these slots do when paired with our EdgeHugger® clamps.

— Dennis Pugh, President, ToolQuest LLC