Today’s Follow Friday is Henry Parslow, a retired carpenter from Poughkeepsie, NY. We featured Henry’s “productive but small” workshop in the Show Us Your Shop Column for the July 2013 issue of Wood News. Henry built his shop over his garage in 1987 and despite the shop being on the second floor, it has never […]
A few weeks ago 22 woodworkers, master craftsmen, and hobbyists gathered together at the shop of Wyatt (Bo) Childs in Barnesville, GA to spend a week building 16 Roubo workbenches. Among the likes of Chris Schwarz, Jameel Abraham, and Bo Childs himself, these guys got the opportunity of a lifetime to learn from the best […]
Today’s Follow Friday is woodturner Temple Blackwood, who was featured in the Show Us Your Shop section of our July 2013 Highland Woodturner. Temple started his own woodturning company, Highlands Woodturning, over 40 years ago, and it has been going strong ever since. At Highlands Woodturning, Temple offers custom turning in addition to teaching classes and hosting open […]
I always get really excited when two of my favorite things get combined into one. In this case I’m talking about Woodworking and Mythbusters. Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, the hosts of Mythbusters, have a website all about testing the latest scientific and technological gadgets out there, and in one of their more recent episodes […]
A few weeks ago we began blogging about Highland Woodworking owner Chris Bagby and his wife Sanne’s progress with the installation of a Little Free Library in their front yard in Atlanta, GA. The Little Free Library is a nationwide community movement project that involves the creation of a birdhouse-sized structure that is placed in […]
This week’s Follow Friday is Mary May, woodcarver extraordinaire and founder of Mary May’s Online School of Woodcarving. We previously featured her in our January 2012 Show Us Your Woodcarving section of Wood News, and she will be teaching a Fundamentals of Woodcarving class this December in our Atlanta store, which you can find more […]
This past weekend, several staff members from Highland Woodworking had the opportunity to attend the Lie-Nielsen Toolworks Open House at their factory showroom in Warren, Maine. The week prior to the Open House was dedicated to the Lie-Nielsen “dealer training”, where the expert staff at Lie-Nielsen taught attendees all about the use and creation of […]