Kelley Bagby

I grew up around woodworking tools (see picture, age 4-5ish) but only recently started doing some of my own woodworking.

Check out the March Wood News!

Mar 092012
 

Hello Woodworkers!

The March edition of Wood News Online is out!

This month we’ve launched our new woodworking web tv show, The Highland Woodworker, hosted by Chuck Brock and featuring a tour of the Whiteside router bit factory as well as some quality time with Roy Underhill and much more!

We’ve also got an impressive mammoth carving done by Elizabeth Anderson, Christopher Perryman’s award-winning “Chest de los Muertos“, and Greg Little’s Louisiana workshop in our regular “Show Us” monthly columns.

Morton offers a new video product tour of the Lie-Nielsen #7 Jointer Plane, and Steven Johnson considers the art and science of countersinking as well as how to approach woodworking with minimal drawing skills, then builds a corner cabinet in this month’s Down to Earth Woodworker column.

Take a look at all this and more in this month’s Wood News Online. You won’t be disappointed!

Winter 2011 catalog NOW AVAILABLE!

Nov 212011
 

It’s either in your mailboxes or on its way, but if you haven’t seen it yet, now you can take a look at the Winter 2011 HIghland Woodworking catalog ONLINE. Browse the pages, start making your gift list, and leave it conspicuously up on the screen of every computer in your house so your loved ones will get the message!

If you prefer the paper version but are not on our mailing list, you can sign up here.

 

The Rikon Bandsaw Giveaway: Interview with the Winner!

Nov 182011
 

Congratulations to Matt Mills of Fort Wayne, Indiana on winning Highland Woodworking’s Rikon Bandsaw Giveaway! His name was drawn from over 300,000 entries.

Matt won a Rikon model 10-325 14″ Bandsaw, a Rikon model 60-100 1HP Dust Collector, and a Wood Slicer Resawing Blade so he can put his bandsaw to work right away! We got to have a quick chat with him about winning the contest and what he plans to do with these great prizes:

HW: How did you get into woodworking and what sorts of woodworking do you do?

Matt: I had been fiddling around with woodworking for about 5 years before I got serious about a year ago, building furniture for the house. I do a lot of hand tool work, and really like to incorporate hand plane use into my work. I enjoy the feeling of manually working the wood with a hand tool. I have built a couple of tables for our house, a train table for my son, a hobby table for my wife. Right now I only get to put in about 5-6 hours a week of woodworking, but my favorite time is working in my shop.

I inherited a bunch of hand tools from my wife’s grandfather, and have been refurbishing them for awhile now. My next big purchase was going to be a bandsaw, but now I’m excited to be able to use the money I would have spent on that to purchase a bunch of new hand tools instead!

HW: What was your reaction on finding out that you won?

Matt: I did the bandsaw dance! had my 3 year old and my 18 month old with me, and I was checking email down in the basement when I got the notice. I couldn’t help it – I jumped up and danced around in a circle with my kids singing “we won a bandsaw” when I found out.

HW: What is the first project you have slated for your new bandsaw?

Matt: I’ve actually got a project lined up already: I’m going to to resaw some cherry boards to make a small toybox for my boys for christmas. The toybox will feature handcut dovetails, so I’ll have a little bit of hand tool work in there as well!

HW: That sounds great! Thanks for chatting with us…any final words?

Matt: I’m just really excited! I think the bandsaw and dust collector will make a great addition to the shop.

Congratulations again to Matt for winning the Rikon Bandsaw Giveaway!

You can be a Highland Woodworking giveaway winner too! Enter to win our Lie-Nielsen Hand Tool Giveaway today to win more than $1000 of Lie-Nielsen Hand Tools! Click the image to the right for more details.

 

Curtis Turner: Turning a Chisel Handle

Nov 172011
 

For our November issue, Curtis walks us through the steps of turning a custom chisel handle. If you’ve got a favorite chisel that you want to make even better, this is a great solution and a fun turning project for just about any level of woodturner.


Check out The Highland Woodturner November Issue

Nov 152011
 

Hello Woodturners!

The November issue of Highland Woodworking’s monthly woodturning newsletter, The Highland Woodturner, is out!

Curtis Turner has a new column on turning a chisel handle – so if you’ve got some great old chisels but are not particularly fond of the attached handle, turn your own! Curtis will show you how.

We’ve also got a great pen-turning video demonstration from Morton, showing us just how easy it is to turn a pen. A great gift for the holidays!

Top it all off with some great woodturnings by John Beaver in our Show Us Your Woodturning column, a new turning tip from Phil Colson and a couple of great deals on woodturning products!

Happy Woodturning everyone – enjoy!

November’s New Product Tours: Festool T18 Cordless Drill, Woodman Concept Toy Kits & A Pen-Turning Kit Demonstration

Nov 112011
 

Not even a snowstorm in October can keep Morton from his shop, and this month he offers some great product tours, including a powerful new Festool drill, a toy kit to share with the kids in your life and a pen-kit turning demonstration, just in time for the holidays!

First Morton takes a look at the new Festool T18 cordless drill, and runs through the long list of impressive features this great new drill offers:

Next, Morton takes a fun break and invites his son Liam into the shop to assemble one of the Woodman Concept toy kits. These toy kits are a great value and a great opportunity to teach your kids a little about woodworking, with a fun toy at the end! Could be a perfect gift for the holidays. Watch the video here:

And speaking of the holidays, if you are a woodturner or want to become one, you might have considered starting off with a couple of pen kits to learn the basic techniques of turning – and you can kill two birds with one stone by turning a couple of great holiday gifts in the process! Morton walks through all the steps of turning a pen using one of Highland’s basic pen turning kits. Learn how to do it yourself by watching the video here!

The Down to Earth Woodworker: A Horizontal Pipe Clamp Rack

Nov 092011
 

This Down to Earth Woodworker column first appeared in the November 2011 issue of Wood News. To see the rest of the issue, CLICK HERE.

by Steven D. Johnson,
Racine, Wisconsin

Now that the Down to Earth Woodworker has moved into his new workshop, he is contemplating some improvements from his previous shop configuration. The first item he sets his sights on is an ingenious clamp rack that holds the clamps horizontally, saving space and allowing for a lot more flexibility in storage options.

CLICK HERE to read more and learn how to assemble a horizontal pipe clamp rack in your own shop!