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 […]
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 […]
This article appeared in the November 2011 issue of Wood News. To see the rest of the issue, CLICK HERE. by Dick Rank, Atlanta, GA If you are a wood collector or woodworker, pull over next time you see a large pile of sawdust and smell wood smoke. Some time ago while driving up in Western […]
Hello Woodworking World! We’ve got another great monthly edition of the Wood News Online available for you to read, and we’re pretty excited about this one. This month we’ve got a great article about a sawyer and woodworker from Western North Carolina who works with a portable bandsaw lumber mill that allows extremely large cuts […]
The Lie-Nielsen Large Router Plane is nicely upgraded from its Stanley roots. This plane comes with a cutting iron, fence, finely adjustable depth control, a very useful depth stop and some comfy handles. As with just about any other plane, even though the #71 may not immediately trigger its plane heritage, sharpening is the first step to setting up […]
Let me announce a new display at Highland featuring the Sculptured Rocking Chair in kit form as presented by Charles Brock. If you recall, last fall and winter I started putting one of these kits together and began shaping the chair. Unfortunately (with apologies to Charles and his suppliers) I got sidetracked with some heavy Habitat activity and […]
Congratulations to Highland Woodworking’s own chip carving instructor, Mickey Hudspeth, who just got back from the Smoky Mountain Woodcarving Festival, where he took 1st and 2nd places in the chip carving category. Mickey’s chip carving work has already been awarded numerous times, including the same festival in 2010, where he received first, second and third places in the […]