For Woodworker’s Safety Week 2011, Highland Woodworking is bringing you a safety tip every day. Today’s tip comes from Tom O’Brien of San Antonio, Texas. Tom actually has a couple pieces of advice to help safeguard us from the sharp blades in our shops. When cleaning on and around your table saw, it is a […]
For Woodworker’s Safety Week 2011, we are offering daily tips all week for staying more safe in the workshop. Today’s tip comes from Jim Mullen of Wichita, Kansas. His idea is so simple, and yet something that many of us don’t think of when we are working all day in the shop. As a hobbyist […]
Many of my customers have come to me, wanting advice on which of our many block planes they should buy. Often this is prefaced by the fact they want to know this plane will provide a great deal of functionality, as this may be the only plane they purchase. With that in mind, I often […]
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. […]
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 […]