Today’s Follow Friday is Simon Levy, a woodturner from Ashland City, TN, who we featured in the Show Us Your Woodturning Stuff column in the August 2013 issue of The Highland Woodturner. Simon received his initial artistic training from The Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles, CA, where he majored in Graphic Design, but […]
This weeks #FollowFriday is Stew Hagerty from Fort Wayne, IN. Stew was recently featured with his rocking horse project that he made for his granddaughter in the Show Us Your Stuff column in our August 2013 issue of Wood News. Stew is a former General Contractor who got very sick 4 years ago with an […]
Last week we published Part 1 of my visit to RE-CO BKLYN, a Sawmill and Lumber Yard located in Brooklyn, New York. In this week’s blog we’ll get a history behind RE-CO BKLYN and its development into New York City’s only sawmill. RE-CO BKLYN came about in 2009 with “the first tree fall.” RE-CO owner, […]
OK, Luddites, how many blogs do you follow, besides this one of course? What’s a blog anyway? Blog is a contraction of “web log” and it is a way to post things on a regular basis on the internet so others can follow what you have to say or see what you are making. I […]
Today’s #FollowFriday is Roger Moore from Aiken, SC, whose shop we featured in our August 2013 issue of Wood News. Roger is a retired nuclear engineer who left engineering in 2003 and built an entirely new two-story workshop right after retirement. He put a lot of thought and detail into the structure and specifications of […]
You may be familiar with the fact that New York City is a “concrete jungle”, where there are very few trees, lots of buildings, and even more people. Nestled between several warehouses and lofts in an industrious Brooklyn neighborhood known as Williamsburg, sits RE-CO BKLYN, a sawmill and lumber yard dedicated to sourcing locally downed […]
This month I’ll talk about the Lie-Nielsen Small Shoulder Plane (also known as the 041), which is the smallest of the three Shoulder Planes offered by Lie-Nielsen, based on the Record design. The 041 has a body cast from durable Ductile Iron with an adjustable mouth opening, a stylish cap made from beautiful Manganese Bronze and an A-2 […]