As the New Year quickly approaches (i.e. tomorrow), a few of our blog contributors have come up with their 2014 New Years Resolutions with regards to their woodworking (and some personal ones as well). First up, we’ve got Lee Laird: While I’m sure most of you don’t know, I had major back surgery in March, 2012. […]
This week’s #FollowFriday is George Brown, whose “manshed” was featured in the Show Us Your Shop column in our December 2013 Issue of Wood News. One of George’s favorite things to do is to build things for his friends and family. He sent us pictures of several of these projects, which are featured below: The first three pictures […]
Highland Woodworking has two monthly online publications, Wood News Online, which encompasses all things woodworking, as well as The Highland Woodturner, which focuses solely on woodturning. Today, we released Issue #33 of The Highland Woodturner with the following stories: A Coffee Tragedy: Our regular Highland Woodturner contributor, Curtis Turner, focuses this month’s column on turning […]
For the past few weeks, our bloggers have been hard at work in their woodworking shops. Not only are they working on their gifts for friends and family this holiday season, but they have also been working on their 2013 Holiday Woodworking Tool Wish Lists. In case you are still working on yours (or haven’t […]
December 2013 commemorates our 100th issue of Wood News Online. Before we started our online publication in 2005, we had several different printed publications with similar content, including the original Wood News, published between 1977 and 1978, before Highland Hardware (our old name) even came into existence! Be sure to check out our full Wood […]
For the past few weeks, our bloggers have been hard at work in their woodworking shops. Not only are they working on their gifts for friends and family this holiday season, but they have also been working on their 2013 Holiday Woodworking Tool Wish Lists. In case you are still working on yours (or haven’t […]
This month we’ll take a look at Lie-Nielsen’s Large Shoulder Plane (073). This is the largest of their shoulder planes and weighs in at 4 lbs. The body of the 073 is made from durable Ductile Iron and measures 8-¼” long by 1-¼” wide. The body is ground very precisely so that each of the two reference sides is […]