For Woodworkers Safety Week 2011, we are posting a daily safety tip from our online newsletter, Wood News. Safety isn’t something we are always focused on when we are working away in our shops. But these readers have reminded us that it is important to pay attention to safety, from when you walk into your […]
Amazingly enough it is already May, which means it is already time for another Woodworker’s Safety Week. For the 2011 edition, we wanted to post some of the excellent two-minute safety tips we have featured in our online woodworking newsletter, Wood News. Today’s tip was a favorite of all of us at Highland Woodworking, not […]
Beginning woodworkers can take the flat smooth surfaces on our hand planes and other metal tools for granted. And sometimes the seasoned woodworker can as well. Even with the highly accurate grinding and surfacing that occurs at our factory, it can still seem like a bit of a battle pushing some planes across the wood. […]
Highland Woodworking is offering this great promotion for just a few more days: If you purchase a Super 18 or Super 24 Dovetail Jig before April 30, you get a Vacuum and Router Support system for FREE. The VRS is estimated to be a $99 value, and a great addition to the Dovetail Jigs. If […]
We’ve been cooking up something good in the back offices of Highland Woodworking, and now it is ready for you to see: our new WOODTURNING-SPECIFIC newsletter, The Highland Woodturner! This will be a monthly publication devoted to all things woodturning, including useful tips, woodturning-specific shops, the latest woodturning tools and more! This month we feature […]
So what is it about Lie-Nielsen planes that ISN’T Earth “shattering”? Many of you know the designs we pattern our Lie-Nielsen planes after are primarily the Stanley Bedrock series. The originals were made well and were easier to adjust than most others at the time. When customers either stop by our showroom or one of […]
I hesitate to say I have tamed the skew, but at least I can live in the same house with it now. I went to the “Taming of the Skew” class at Highland last week and we spent three good hours with Hal Simmons, a professional turner, to try to solve some of the problems […]