This month’s Wood News is a shopful of some great woodworking tips, tools, and project ideas. Our monthly Show Us columns include: Show Us Your Shop– Robert Schweiger from Satellite Beach, Florida shows us his “retirement shop” that he moved from a larger 2500 square foot shop in Atlanta, and is now 850 square feet. […]
Regular readers of Tips From The Sticks-In-The-Mud Woodshop know that my wife and I live on a bayou in south Mississippi and my woodshop is in the lower level of our home. One doesn’t live on a watershed waterway for very long before he learns that, in addition to the blessings, there are challenges. For one, don’t […]
This week, our #FollowFriday woodworker is Charlie Bridges, our April Show Us Your Shop contributor from Hartsville, TN. He created his shop about 6 years ago in order to further his woodworking hobby. It is located in a 24×24 garage, which he uses half for his shop and the other to work on his car. […]
We’re giving away some tools! Since we love the craft of fine woodworking, we want to share the love with our customers. To do this, Highland Woodworking is giving away 3 of our most popular Lie-Nielsen tools, plus the highly-rated Tormek T-7 Wet Grinder Sharpening System to one lucky customer. Lie Nielsen – Tormek Giveaway […]
Today, April 22nd, 2014, is Earth Day, a globally recognized day of support for environmental protection. As woodworkers, there are many ways in which we can help contribute to environmental awareness, and one of these ways is how we use and recycle wood finishes. Alan Noel shares his environment-saving (and money-saving) finishing tips in this […]
About 30 years ago, I was very new to woodturning. A friend was moving out of town and wanted to leave his old 12″ Delta lathe in my garage. I had an extra few feet of space between the front of the cars. He gave me a one hour lesson on how to use it, […]
Our newest issue of Wood News is now online! Our April 2014 issue (#104) is filled with some great shop tours, project ideas, and tools. Special features this month include: An “off-the-grid” woodworking shop in Hawaii amongst a whole bunch of avocado trees and other crops. John App shares how he maintains his woodworking shop […]