The July issue of Wood News Online is now available. If you are suffering from woodworking daydreams while you are stuck at work, this may be just the distraction you need. Or it may just make your daydreams worse! Steven Johnson, our Down to Earth Woodworker, has been experimenting this month to try to settle […]
The Progressive Pitch version of Lie-Nielsen’s dovetail saw has some features that make it unique and also a fan favorite. Most production made handsaws have saw teeth that are the same pitch all across the saw plate. For example, if a saw has a pitch of 15ppi, then each inch will have 15 points. In this Progressive Pitch dovetail […]
Have you read the June issue of Wood News yet? Steven Johnson has a great story in his Down to Earth Woodworker column this month about a topic many of us can identify with – that friend or family member who wreaks havoc on your tools when he or she borrows them, also known as […]
I have been tied up pretty good the last few weeks coordinating a large project for my Habitat Chapter. We are building five town home condominiums just south of Atlanta, all sponsored by a major corporate donor who sends many volunteers to the site to help with construction. We sub-contract all the trades and use […]
The Lie-Nielsen #1 and #2 are the smallest of the bench planes, with the lower number being smaller in size. As bench planes, the iron rests on a frog (45 degrees in these two sizes) and is used in a bevel down configuration. Both the #1 and #2 are only offered in Bronze, which is heavier than the same […]
We were happy to get a visit from the Modern Woodworker’s Association a few weeks ago. Our WebTV woodworking teacher Morton is a member, and when he was the special guest at our one day sale earlier in the month, a large group from the MWA took the opportunity to pay him a visit. Always […]
Congratulations to Jacob Coulter of Waukee, Iowa on winning Highland Woodworking’s 2012 Lie-Nielsen Hand Tool Giveaway! Jacob won a #60-1/2 Low Angle Adjustable Mouth Block Plane, a #4 Ductile Cast Iron Smooth Plane, a #62 Low Angle Jack Plane and a set of 5 Bevel Edged Socket Chisels! He took a few minutes out of […]