Editor’s Note: This week, March 20-26, 2016, is Get Woodworking Week, a chance to promote our craft to the online community at large and encourage everyone to get some time in their shop, or create a shop! The purpose of the week is to get people off their couches and into their shops to try their […]
Highland Woodworking and our WEB TV show, The Highland Woodworker were recently featured on Fine Woodworking’s Shop Talk Live, where both organizations were introduced as new partners with Fine Woodworking. In this episode, Charles Brock, host of The Highland Woodworker, discusses his woodworking background and how both Highland Woodworking and Fine Woodworking had an influence on his woodworking beginnings in […]
I recently received my new Lie-Nielsen Honing Guide and a couple of their available accessory jaws, which I discussed in my The Plane Facts: The Lie-Nielsen Honing Guide article posted last week. If you, like many of us, have previously been using one of the inexpensive guides with a honing board, you will need to make another […]
No Southern-fried Southern boy wants to be called a Yankee, but we share the characteristics of shrewdness and thrift. Thus, each month we include a money-saving tip. It’s OK if you call me “cheap.” We’re always needing to write things down in the shop. When you need a measurement (or two, or three) to take to […]
Welcome to “Tips From Sticks-In-The-Mud Woodshop.” I am a hobbyist, not a professional, someone who loves woodworking, just like you do. I have found some better ways to accomplish tasks in the workshop and look forward to sharing those with you each month, as well as hearing your problem-solving ideas. Sometimes you need to draw […]
Do you like working on your shop more than making things that come out of your shop? Whether you call it “making shop furniture” or building cabinets for the shop, do you enjoy simply improving your shop? To me, there’s something special in making the workspace better. Of course, I think we all enjoy buying a […]
Open Invitation to Fellow Online Woodworkers — Tom Iovino and I (Morton) are very excited to invite everyone to participate in this year’s Get Woodworking Week. It’s a chance to promote our craft to the online community at large and encourage everyone to get some time in their shop, or create a shop! The purpose […]