Almost every time I go to Highland, my first stop is the book section. I love the books for a couple of reasons, one of which is budgetary. I have almost all the moderately priced tools in the store, so the books offer a chance for a little vicarious woodworking at a moderate price. Last […]
Have you read the new issue of The Highland Woodturner yet? Our August issue contains several great articles, projects, and tips that can be used in the woodturning realm. This month, Curtis Turner focuses on the use of Liming Wax and Sandblasting to help embellish and enhance the surfaces of your turned projects. He goes over […]
Every month in our Wood News Online publication, we feature Steve Johnson, the Down to Earth Woodworker, who provides a variety of woodworking project ideas, tips, and stories from his own recent experiences in the shop. In this month’s DTEW column, Steve discusses his illegible handwriting, which started as a child and has never seemed to […]
Got a new toy in the shop and no, it’s not Festool. Let me tell you about it. Twenty five years or so ago, I designed sewage lift stations for land developers. One day a salesperson came by with a demonstration pump on a small trailer behind his truck. All the trailer sides rolled up so […]
We just published the August issue of Wood News Online, which contains a lot of great project ideas, safety tips, and woodworking community stories. One of our community stories, Woodturning with a Cause, written by Aaron Cooley, talks about Aaron’s work with the organization We Ride to Provide, an organization dedicated to “honoring, serving, and supporting […]
In our July issues of Wood News and The Highland Woodturner, we featured the shops and projects of several woodworkers. 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. […]
Ah, 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 […]