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Follow Friday: Our July “Show Us” Contributors

Aug 012014
 

In our July issues of Wood News and The Highland Woodturner, we featured the shops and projects of several woodworkers.

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Show Us Your Shop: Pat Lemley retired almost 20 years ago and has since built a brand new shop in order to have a better dust collection system than what was in his basement shop. Pat built 95% of the shop himself and the design was based off of a 2-car garage, which he modified to make the perfect shop. The shop is 2 stories and features a dust collection system and lumber storage on the second floor, while the rest of the shop equipment is downstairs on the first floor. CLICK HERE to find out more about Pat’s shop.

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Show Us Your Woodworking: Jim Mossoney, a woodworker from Defiance, OH, has been woodworking for 25 years and is an avid user of hand tools. He has recently addd veneering to his woodworking skills because he says that “good figured wood is getting harder to find.” His favorite project to make is a small nightstand, which he gives to family members as wedding presents. The nightstand featured above is made up of a combination of veneer tiger maple and regular boards of tiger maple. CLICK HERE to see more of Jim’s projects.

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Show Us Your Carving: Pierre Vigneux has been an on and off carver for most of his life, having completed an average of 1 to 2 carvings per year. He has made some beautiful, realistic carvings, including the Trapeur Indiens carving seen above. You can see more of his carvings HERE.  

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Show Us Your Woodturning Shop: Dennis Purcell has a collection of “old” iron tools that were all made between the 1930’s to the 1970’s, some of which he has been able to rebuild so that they can be used today. His most recent acquisition was an old lathe that is believed to have been made as a student project over 50 years ago. CLICK HERE to read more about this “old” lathe and tool rebuilds.

Fridays on the Highland Woodworking Blog are dedicated to #FollowFriday, where we use this space to further highlight a woodworker or turner who we have featured in our monthly e-publications Wood News and The Highland Woodturner. Would you like for your shop or woodworking to appear in our publications? We invite you to SEND US PHOTOS of your shop or work along with captions and a brief history and description of your woodworking (Email photos at 800×600 resolution.) Receive a $50 store credit redeemable towards merchandise if we show your shop in a future issue.

The July 2014 issue of The Highland Woodturner

Jul 242014
 

JulyHWT2014Ah, the middle of Summer, usually the hottest time of the year but also the usual time for vacations and relaxing. If you’re currently on vacation right now we invite you to sit back in your hammock or adirondack chair and enjoy our July issue of The Highland Woodturner. If you’re not on vacation and sitting at your office desk right now, we still invite you to CLICK HERE and maybe keep the browser covered so the boss doesn’t see you checking out some new woodturning project ideas and tips.

This month’s Woodturning stories and tips include:

Vacuum Chucking: Initial Impressions– Curtis Turner shares his experience in Vacuum Chucking, a system used to help “reverse mount a bowl or platter to provide total access to the bottom of the item.” Curtis goes over his process and the advantages and disadvantages he found when using this system.

Turning with Temple: Long, Thin-Stem Goblets: Temple Blackwood shares his step-by-step process of turning long, thin-stemmed goblets, which make great wedding presents!

Show Us Your Woodturning Shop: This month we take you on a tour of Dennis Purcell’s woodturning shop in Austin, Texas where he has a variety of turning and woodworking tools, including a new “old” lathe.

Popular Woodworking Presents: Woodturning with Tim Yoder: In this 30 minute episode brought to you by Popular Woodworking, Tim Yoder demonstrates the process of turning a Roman Canteen.

Improve Your Turning with the Oneway Woodworm Screw: Phil’s July turning tip gives you a recommendation on how to use the woodworm, the funny-looking screw that comes with chucks.

All of this and more in our July issue of The Highland Woodturner.

Video: Jeff Miller’s Designing and Building Chairs Class

Jul 212014
 

We’re excited to share this video of the Jeff Miller Designing and Building Chairs class, which was shot and produced by one of our Product Tour guides, Chris Adkins.

Jeff Miller came down to our store in Atlanta last November to teach a 2-day demonstration seminar on designing and building the perfect wooden chair. You can read more about the class in contributor, Dyami Plotke’s blog entries about his feelings before the class as well as the unique experience he got to have when taking the class.

Our July 2014 Issue of Wood News Online

Jul 102014
 

julywnNow available for reading is our July 2014 issue of Wood News Online!

Special articles this month include:

Make Your Own Saw Bench: After reading about Saw Benches in a Christopher Schwarz article, Scott Stahl decided to transform the piece of Douglas Fir 4×4 that he had laying around into a beginners Sawbench project. Scott gives a step by step overview of how he completed the project.

Creating a Curly Maple Handle for a Custom Japanese Hammer Head: Lee Laird took a family trip to Japan where he purchased a hand-made Japanese hammer head. He brought it back home with him and made the perfect curly maple handle to go with it, and in this article he describes the process of making it.

Our Show Us Series includes:

Show Us Your Shop: We’re featuring the converted garage shop of Pat Lemley who lives in Salisbury, MD. Not only does he share pictures of the current shop, but we’ve also got pictures of the building process (that Pat did 95% of himself!).

Show Us Your Woodworking: Jim Mossoney has been woodworking for over 25 years and this month he is sharing several of the projects that he has made in that time including a tool cabinet, slant top desk, entertainment center, and a few nightstands. He also shares several pictures of his workshop.

Show Us Your Carving: Pierre Vigneux has been carving off and on for over 40 years and now does about 1-2 projects per year. Check out his beautiful animal and human carvings.

Each month we have several contributors who offer tips in several different woodworking categories. This month’s tips include:

The Down to Earth Woodworker: Steve provides a variety of tips and advice including a SawStop recommendation, clamp storage ideas, advances in technology involving woodworking, and lastly, he comes up with some ideas on future woodworking products that the market should make available.

And don’t forget this month’s Down to Earth Woodworking video featuring Steve’s SawStop Outfeed Table project.

This month we had a Q/A about Radial Arm Saws and if they are still made.

Tips from Sticks in the Mud: This month’s tips include using Post-It notes as label making devices in your workshop, as well as hanging washers in order to have an easy place to find and access them.

Alan Noel has a finishing tip on 3D finishing, which can be done on highly figured woods including satin, mahogany, and maple and gives them a shimmering 3D effect.

Our reader contributed safety tip comes from William Douglas Lewis who created a Foot-Switch, which he can use to easily power off his router table and drill press so as to not get in the way of them.

We’ve also got reviews on Taunton’s Complete Illustrated Guide to Shaping Wood, as well as a tool review of the Veritas Bench Hold Down.

All of this plus some great sales and deals on Fox Chapel Books, Woodcarving Instruction with Chris Pye, WEB TV with The Highland Woodworker, and much more!

And remember, we are always taking for articles in future editions of Wood News Online. CLICK HERE to find out how to submit an article!

 

 

 

A look at our ‘Beginning Turning’ class with Hal Simmons

Jun 272014
 

beginturn10Each week, Highland Woodworking holds a variety of woodworking classes including offerings in turning, carving, finishing, woodworking basics, and many more in our Tage Frid Seminar room. We have been offering these classes for more than 35 years and have hosted some of the greatest woodworking masters around, including Roy Underhill, Tage Frid, Sam Maloof, and Dale Nish.

With our ‘Hands-On’ workshops, students are able to get one-on-one time with the instructor who helps them begin to master the skills they need to start or continue working in their own shop.

This past month, woodturner Hal Simmons taught a Beginning Woodturning class, which consisted of morning instruction followed by hands-on practice by the students. Students learned the basics of the different woodturning tools and construction methods and were then able to to turn a variety of items including spinning tops, a carver’s mallet, honey dippers, and other small projects.

CLICK HERE to see the photo gallery from our Beginning Turning class.

CLICK HERE to see our current class listings and to sign up!

Follow Friday woodworkers for June

Jun 202014
 

This month we featured 4 different woodworkers in both Wood News Online and The Highland Woodturner, all of whom submitted their shops and projects, and were chosen to be featured in our online publications.

Show Us Your Shop: Howard Boehm shared his garage workshop, which he built up around his tablesaw, the center point of his shop. Some of the conveniences of Howard’s shop include having most of his heavy machinery on wheels, as well as having his electrical and dust collection underground, which gives him more space to work within the shop. Below is a panoramic picture of Howard’s shop as well as a few small thumbnails of his projects. You can view more detailed photos of his shop and projects HERE.

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Show Us Your Woodworking: Mike DeCarlo has been building stuff since he was a kid, using whatever tools were available at the time. In college he was able to take a Furniture Making class, which was outfitted with many different hand and power tools that he got to test and use for his different projects. Below is an Oak Corner Cabinet that he built for a friend after seeing the project featured in a magazine. CLICK HERE to see more of Mike’s projects.

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Show Us Your Woodcarving: Phillip Malenfant lives in North Pole, Alaska. He has done several plane and fish carvings, which reflect his former occupation of working for an airline, as well as one of his current hobbies, fishing. He is not a trained carver and instead picked up the hobby by just experimenting with a few chisels one day. CLICK HERE to see more of his carvings.

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Show Us Your Woodturning: After having learned woodturning in middle school shop class, Robert Wallace took a 20 year “hiatus” from the hobby and spent more time doing regular woodworking. After his daughter was born and slept in the room near his shop, he decided he needed a quieter method of woodworking and switched back to woodturning. For the past 22 years he has been making some beautiful projects, which have been featured in several galleries and competitions, as well as his local woodturning club in Ames, Iowa. CLICK HERE to read more about Robert’s woodturning and to see more of his projects.

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Fridays on the Highland Woodworking Blog are dedicated to #FollowFriday, where we use this space to further highlight a woodworker or turner who we have featured in our monthly e-publications Wood News and The Highland Woodturner. Would you like for your shop or woodworking to appear in our publications? We invite you to SEND US PHOTOS of your shop or work along with captions and a brief history and description of your woodworking (Email photos at 800×600 resolution.) Receive a $50 store credit redeemable towards merchandise if we show your shop in a future issue.

Our June issue of The Highland Woodturner

Jun 182014
 

junehwtphotoTake a look at our June issue of The Highland Woodturner full of some great reviews and deals of woodturning tools.

In this month’s issue:

Oneway Mastercut Tools: Curtis Turner recently bought and tested some Oneway Mastercut tools. In this month’s article he reviews the three different tools he got, including: 1) 17 1?2″ Sure Grip Handle, 2) Mastercut 1/2″ Double-Ended Spindle Gouge, and 3) Mastercut 5/8″ Double-Ended Bowl Gouge.

My Pile of Woodturning Tools: In this classic Terry Chapman blog article, Terry shows off his “pile” of 22 different woodturning tools and gives some tips for the best ones for beginners to use.

Show Us Your Woodturning: This month we have the beautiful woodturnings created by Robert Wallace from Ames, Iowa. Robert began woodturning when he needed a “quieter” way to do woodworking when his daughter was born.

Woodturning with Tim Yoder, Episode 6: Turning Birdhouses: In Episode 6 of this Popular Woodworking sponsored web TV show, Tim has some spare wood around his house that he decides to turn into birdhouses.

Phil’s Tip-Drive Configurations: Phil is looking for a way to put almost any configuration onto the drive, and with this month’s tip he figures out how.

This month’s featured products include:

NEW- Easy Wood Tools 1/8 inch Easy Parting Tool

Package Deal- Steel City 15430 8″ Industrial Low-Speed Bench Grinder

All of this and more in this month’s issue of The Highland Woodturner!