Kelley Bagby

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

SawStop Contractor Saw Now Available for shipment from Highland!

Oct 182011
 

We are excited to announce that we can now sell and ship the SawStop Contractor Saw to our customers nationwide within the lower 48 states.

Sawstop’s brake design is well known for its unique ability to instantly stop and retract the blade upon any contact between the sawblade and your skin.

You can see a good Southern SawStop demonstration below from Roy Underhill’s last visit to Highland:

And check out this video that explains SawStop’s unique technology in more depth:

More information about the SawStop Contractor Saw, available at Highland Woodworking.

New Woodworking Video: Charles Brock interviews Michel Auriou

Oct 122011
 

Charles Brock and Michel Auriou both enjoyed the marketplace at Woodworking in America this year and Matt Vanderlist caught them on video talking about the origins of Auriou Rasps and how Chuck uses the rasps and rifflers in the building of his sculptured rockers. The video even includes a demonstration from Michel actually creating a rasp by hand as well as Chuck using one to round the legs of one of his chairs. Take a look at it here!

The Down to Earth Woodworker: Evolution of a Workshop Conversion, all on video!

Oct 112011
 

The Down to Earth Woodworker, Steve Johnson, has been busy this year. Back in January he gave us a video tour of his current shop, and then shared the news that he would soon be vacating the temporary space and building a new workshop by converting the garage of the house he recently purchased. Steve documented the process with this great series of videos, starting with his ideas about how to improve a workspace and make it most optimal for him and finishing with a brand new video, showing Steve actually moving into the new Down to Earth Workshop after the conversion is completed and giving us a personal tour! Sit back and enjoy watching Steve create his dream shop, and maybe even pick up an idea or two for your own current or future shop conversion!

And if you still can’t get enough Down to Earth Woodworker, or you prefer written word to videos, you can check out Steve’s column for this month here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some Thoughts on How to Make Your Wood Slicer Even Better

Oct 102011
 

This article appeared in the October 2011 issue of Wood News. To see the rest of the issue, CLICK HERE.

by Andrew A. Sawyer

My name is Andrew Sawyer. Since I picked up the hobby of woodworking about 7 years ago, I have begun (as many of us have) filling my house with furniture.

The wood slicer is the finest blade I have ever put on my bandsaw, but none of that matters if the machine it is on is dirty and out of whack!

Here’s a step-by-step tutorial on cleaning, tuning up and maintaining your bandsaw, so your Wood Slicer will be able to do its best work.

CLICK HERE to learn how to make your Wood Slicer blade do its best work for you!

 

New Product Tours for October: Rikon Bandsaw Comparison, Sharpening Card Scrapers and the ALL NEW R9plus Leigh Joinery System!

Oct 072011
 

Morton has been busy in his shop this month, producing three all new product tours for us.

First we have a comparison of the Rikon 10″, 14″ and 18″ bandsaws, highlighting the features of each one and offering some ideas for how best to use each one in your shop, and which one might be best for you. Check it out:

Next, Morton provides instructions for one way to sharpen your card scrapers, invaluable tools for every woodworking shop. Take a look at it here:

And finally, we are very excited to have the ALL NEW R9plus Leigh Joinery system in stock at Highland Woodworking. Morton takes it through its paces in the following video. Enjoy!

The New issue of Wood News is Now Available!

Oct 062011
 

Hello Woodworkers Everywhere!

The October edition of Wood News is out and ready to read. This month we’ve got an exciting announcement about our one day sale and our special guest – if you’ve ever wanted to see hand cut dovetails demonstrated in person by the master, our fall one day sale is the place you’ll want to be!

And for those of you who can’t make it to Atlanta this month, we’ll miss you, but we hope you enjoy all the great things this month’s Wood News has to offer. Steve Johnson, our Down to Earth Woodworker, has finally finished his garage-to-workshop conversion. He has a new column this month as well as a new video with an excellent workshop tour that will inspire all of us to go look at our shops and figure out what we want to improve next.

We’ve got all new Show Us Your Shop, Show Us Your Stuff and Show Us Your Woodcarving columns as well as a feature from Andrew Sawyer about making your Wood Slicer bandsaw blade work even better! And speaking of the Wood Slicer, one of our customers sent in these amazing photographs of his first experience using the Wood Slicer bandsaw blade – we are impressed!

Add to all that three new product tours from Morton, including one on the ALL-NEW Leigh R9plus joinery system, and you are sure to find something you’ll like in this issue. So take a look at the October Wood News, and enjoy!

The Stanley Sweetheart Hand Tool Giveaway: Interview with the Winner!

Sep 232011
 

We had a chance to sit down with the winner of our Stanley Sweetheart Hand Tool Sweepstakes, Jan Tankersley, and ask her a few questions. In our recent giveaway, Jan won three Stanley Sweetheart planes: the No. 60-1/2 Low Angle Block Plane, the No. 4 Smooth Plane and the No. 62 Low Angle Jack Plane, as well as a Set of 8 of the new edition Stanley Sweetheart Socket Chisels AND Highland’s own European Workbench. Here’s what she had to say:

On entering the Stanley Sweetheart Giveaway, and her own woodworking:

“I have always wanted to get into woodworking. However, I do not have a shop of my own. Last year I bought a couple of chisels for my brother, who is a woodworker, and I signed up for your newsletter. Earlier this year I saw you had this contest. I figured I was dreaming, but I thought about how great it would be if I could win that prize.”

“My ultimate dream is to have a shop of my own where I can do woodworking and pottery.”

On winning the giveaway, and her plans for the prize:

“I was very, very excited when I won. I’ve been trying to make up my mind if I’m going to keep the prize completely for myself or let my brother have it. For now since I don’t have my own shop, I’ll let my brother use the tools, but if I ever get my own shop going, I may want them back. Who knows what that might bring about!”

Russ Williams opening the new tools given to him by his sister, Jan Tankersley

Russ Williams with all of his new tools

Jan Tankersley and Russ Williams

Thanks to everyone who entered the Stanley Sweetheart Giveaway, and to Jan Tankersley for the interview and pictures.

Our next tool sweepstakes is already underway – ENTER TO WIN a Rikon 14″ bandsaw, Rikon 1HP dust collector and Wood Slicer resaw bandsaw blade today!

Rikon Bandsaw Giveaway