By his own admission a ‘power tool junkie’, this month our Down to Earth Woodworker waxes poetic about one of the things he loves about woodworking – the opportunity to decide between many options along the way: Choices are one of the most alluring aspects of woodworking. Highways or byways. The journey, the side trips, […]
Take a look at the latest issue of The Highland Woodturner! This month we’ve got a great new column by Curtis Turner on turning a tool handle – a great find for anyone who collects older tools or if you just would like a better fitting handle on a tool you use frequently. We also […]
For long glue-ups or complicated ones, I like to use the Festool Domino to help align the edges. This leaves me to concentrate on other things during that critical 5 minutes. I simply use a pencil to mark lines across the two boards, although I could use the Cross Stops to space them. The first […]
I am always looking for pretty little turning projects. I like fairly small projects and something which will turn out to be delicate and beautiful. My friends Tom and Sue traveled to Wales recently to get out of the Georgia heat and came back with a beautiful and elegant turning project. Tom and Sue toured […]
I constantly use my card scrapers to cleanup wood – from tearout, layout lines, glue drops, etc – the humble scraper does a fantastic job. It has to be tuned up well: you can check out my video on how I do that. I love the shavings that come off it! Morton is a furniture […]
Travis Smith’s impressive carving, ‘Tu es le vent dans mes voiles’ was featured in the woodcarving column of the October, 2011 issue of Wood News. He has since updated us that the carving won First Place in the Fine Arts division at the National Fair! Travis says the carving is now in the fourth floor […]
In the September issue of Wood News Online, J. Norman Reid reviews the book Traditional Box Projects by Strother Purdy. Here’s what he had to say: Recently, Strother Purdy’s fine book, Traditional Box Projects, arrived in my mailbox. As is my custom, I immediately flipped through its pages to see what would catch my eye. […]