It's been a busy month here at Superscrews HQ shipping out a record number of orders, meeting with potential suppliers from Europe and building a new macrocarpa deck on the end of our shed.

This month also tested us with our courier company losing a record number of parcels, ARRHHGGG. We'd like to apologise for this to anyone effected, it seemed to be mainly the center of the North Island. We will have a new courier company by the years end. If you have one you prefer please let us know!

We will be closed 23rd Dec - 7th January, we will be looking for some surfing and finishing our deck project.

We'd like to thank everybody who has purchased from us this year, and wish you all a happy holiday season with great weather and maybe even a highly rewarding building projects on the side.

We've been turning to our 6 gauge screws a lot lately for a variety of projects. They're brilliant for edge joining ply and pretty much anywhere that the screw splitting timber might be an issue. In this photo Gwilym was using them to make a jig for the kids to make rubber band guns.

Our 6 gauge screws have a head diameter of 6.8mm so while not true 'finishing' screws they are a little less obvious visually. We have them in lengths of 15, 20, 25, 30 and 35mm and you get 400 screws in a bag.

For the month of July we'll be sending out free driver bits with every purchase of these wee wonders.

We had an amazing response to the last newsletter which kept us busy over June sending out a record number of orders for a winter month.

White that was happening, Toby also went gang busters on organising our stock room and getting our new coding system operating properly. Freaking brilliant! We can now pack orders twice as fast! We just need to start thinking about a heater.

Our washer head screws for pocket hole work have been flying out the door, especially since we added coated ones. For those not quite sure of the benefits of pocket hole jigs here a short video that sums it up well:

We are now fully stocked with all sizes of our purlin/batten screws and other ranges.

One of the best parts of this business is bringing new, high quality, products to our customers and in our summer shipment we introduced the following:

• Coated #8 washer head screws for pocket hole work
• More sizes of our popular #8 washer head yellow zinc pocket holing screws
• Coated CSK countersinking #12, #10 and #8 square drive screws
• A new size, 40mm, in our #8 stainless A2 range

Our shed is now jam packed with pallets of screws

After selling out faster than we ever imagined at the end of 2017 our re-stocking shipment is finally here. We'll be unpacking it over the next few days and getting our website shipshape.

This order is pretty exciting as it adds a number of product lines including coated #8 gauge standard screws and coated #8 washerhead screws for pocket hole jigs.

Well, we thought we were being so clever with the auto address lookup when you place an order. It seems that it's not as clever as it needs to be to handle some rural addresses. So with that in mind we have, today, added a manual address entry to the order screen so you can manually type in problem shipping addresses.

The spring shipment is almost in the ship and on its way. We've been busy improving the labelling for the great new products we'll have in stock and automating our specification system. You can see this working on our new category pages on this website.

Our new website has been up and running now for over a month, we're constantly making changes as we gear up for a busy spring and summer 2017/18.

We now have a small number of Kreg pocket hole jigs to go with our 8 gauge washer head screws.