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 […]
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 […]
Now 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 […]
Father’s Day is just past and I have thoroughly enjoyed my gift from Highland. I was cruising around on the web site and I came across a set of DVDs called “Hands”. Hands have always been a topic of interest to me. My family had a dairy farm when I was growing up and we […]