For our November issue, Curtis walks us through the steps of turning a custom chisel handle. If you’ve got a favorite chisel that you want to make even better, this is a great solution and a fun turning project for just about any level of woodturner. Want to turn your own custom chisel handles? Take […]
Hello Woodturners! The November issue of Highland Woodworking’s monthly woodturning newsletter, The Highland Woodturner, is out! Curtis Turner has a new column on turning a chisel handle – so if you’ve got some great old chisels but are not particularly fond of the attached handle, turn your own! Curtis will show you how. We’ve also […]
Not even a snowstorm in October can keep Morton from his shop, and this month he offers some great product tours, including a powerful new Festool drill, a toy kit to share with the kids in your life and a pen-kit turning demonstration, just in time for the holidays! First Morton takes a look at […]
This Down to Earth Woodworker column first appeared in the November 2011 issue of Wood News. To see the rest of the issue, CLICK HERE. by Steven D. Johnson, Racine, Wisconsin Now that the Down to Earth Woodworker has moved into his new workshop, he is contemplating some improvements from his previous shop configuration. The first […]
This article appeared in the November 2011 issue of Wood News. To see the rest of the issue, CLICK HERE. by Dick Rank, Atlanta, GA If you are a wood collector or woodworker, pull over next time you see a large pile of sawdust and smell wood smoke. Some time ago while driving up in Western […]
Hello Woodworking World! We’ve got another great monthly edition of the Wood News Online available for you to read, and we’re pretty excited about this one. This month we’ve got a great article about a sawyer and woodworker from Western North Carolina who works with a portable bandsaw lumber mill that allows extremely large cuts […]
The Lie-Nielsen Large Router Plane is nicely upgraded from its Stanley roots. This plane comes with a cutting iron, fence, finely adjustable depth control, a very useful depth stop and some comfy handles. As with just about any other plane, even though the #71 may not immediately trigger its plane heritage, sharpening is the first step to setting up […]