No Southern-fried Southern boy wants to be called a Yankee, but we share the characteristics of shrewdness and thrift. Thus, each month we include a money-saving tip. It’s OK if you call me “cheap.” We’re always needing to write things down in the shop. When you need a measurement (or two, or three) to take to […]
Welcome to “Tips From Sticks-In-The-Mud Woodshop.” I am a hobbyist, not a professional, someone who loves woodworking, just like you do. I have found some better ways to accomplish tasks in the workshop and look forward to sharing those with you each month, as well as hearing your problem-solving ideas. Sometimes you need to draw […]
Do you like working on your shop more than making things that come out of your shop? Whether you call it “making shop furniture” or building cabinets for the shop, do you enjoy simply improving your shop? To me, there’s something special in making the workspace better. Of course, I think we all enjoy buying a […]
Open Invitation to Fellow Online Woodworkers — Tom Iovino and I (Morton) are very excited to invite everyone to participate in this year’s Get Woodworking Week. It’s a chance to promote our craft to the online community at large and encourage everyone to get some time in their shop, or create a shop! The purpose […]
I recently bought the new Lie-Nielsen Honing Guide. Along with the Honing Guide I also bought two of the seven additional sets of jaws designed for this guide. These jaws increase its functionality, beyond the included “main” jaw set, for Lie-Nielsen’s blades and chisels. There is a disclaimer that lets one know that if it isn’t a Lie-Nielsen tool then they […]
Working at Highland Woodworking, I’m often asked to assist customers with their band sawing questions, of which resawing is a frequent topic. Fortunately for woodworkers, there are plenty of articles, books and videos for use as reference guides to help one navigate the tricky waters of resawing. Suffice it to say most standard two-wheeled shop […]
A lot of our customers like to send us pictures of what they’ve made with the tools they’ve purchased from Highland Woodworking and so we’ve decided to make a new column in Wood News Online called Show Us What You’ve Made With Your Highland Woodworking Tools. Our first column feature was a Homemade Dog Sled made by Bruce Wollison […]