Come read your copy of our October 2013 issue of Wood News, filled with all kinds of shop and project ideas, as well as several deals and sale items sure to get you back into woodworking season! This month’s highlights include: Woodworking Without a Shop: A new monthly column where we highlight woodworkers who manage […]
In the Down to Earth Woodworker’s most recent October 2013 Wood News column, he discussed the Dado Depth Torture Test, and in this follow-up blog entry, he has the results of his testing. The Down To Earth Woodworker responds to a reader’s question, “Why do you make your dados 1/4” deep in 3/4” plywood?” Pursuant […]
This month, moving somewhat incrementally up the bench plane scale relative to my previous bench plane article, we’ll talk about the Lie-Nielsen No. 6 Fore Plane. Even though it’s somewhat obvious that this is the next larger plane, compared to the article on the No. 5 (in the standard 1 – 8 nomenclature), personally I find the changes […]
Today’s #FollowFriday is Neil Yeager, who we featured in our popular Show Us Your Shop column in our September issue of Wood News. Neil has a rather unique shop in the fact that his is located in Chiang Mai, Thailand, one of only a few international shops we have seen in our series. While he originally had […]
This week we are following Andreas Zenker, who we featured this month in our Show Us Your Stuff column in our monthly edition of Wood News. Andreas is relatively new to woodworking, having just caught the woodworking bug about 4 months ago. Like many woodworkers he has a day job, specifically as a computer programmer, […]
Hot off the presses, a new issue of The Highland Woodturner is out! Fall is a great time for bird watching, and Curtis Turner’s column will teach you how to turn a Bird Seed Scoop. We’ve also got a special new column from previous contributor, Temple Blackwood, who discusses his woodturning classes and teaching philosophy. […]
This week’s #FollowFriday is woodworker, John Eugster from Las Vegas, Nevada, who was featured in our September 2013 Wood News with his article on Making Your Own Marking Gauge. John retired from teaching Industrial Arts and Wood Shop classes in 2008, and in his retirement he has focused on creating custom, one of a kind furniture […]