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French Polish Workshop
September 11,
2010
French polish has long been regarded as the most beautiful finish for fine wood furniture and,
because it imparts a finer sound to stringed instruments, is overwhelmingly preferred by luthiers.
This finish actually does not involve polish at all but is simply a method of applying shellac. Alan
will demonstrate his method for achieving this finish that's as easy as riding a bike. He will show
you how to apply, maintain, repair and restore this classic finish.
Highland's Upcoming Woodworking Class
Schedule in Atlanta
Many classes fill up quickly. Register now to make sure we
hold a spot for you.
September 11
French Polish Workshop
September 12
Beginning Turning
September 15
Sharpening for Turners
September 18
Hand Cut Dovetails
September 19
Natural Edge Bowl Turning
September 20-23
Cabinetmaking Basics: Build a Base Cabinet with Drawer
September 25
Basic Bowl Turning
September 26
Basic Bowl Turning
October 1 & 2
Creative Furniture Design
October 3
Introduction to Marquetry
October 5
Hand Tool Sharpening
October 6
Finishing the Finish
October 9
Turning Pens
October 9
Antiques Show and Tell
October 10
Turn a Peppermill
October 11
Timber Framing
October 13
French Polish Workshop
October 17
Dovetail Variations with Roy Underhill
October 19
Using Hand Planes
October 20
Taming of the Skew
October 23 & 24
Antique Restoration
October 23 & 24
Windsor Chair Making Seminar with Peter Galbert
October 23-29
Build a Child's Windsor Balloon Back Chair with Peter Galbert
October 30
Basic Bowl Turning
October 31
Basic Bowl Turning
November 1-4
Cabinetmaking Basics: Build a Base Cabinet with Drawer
November 5-7
Relief Carving for Beginners
November 6
Spray Finishing
November 10
Sharpening for Turners
November 13
Chip Carving
November 13
Antiques Show and Tell
November 14
Introduction to Turning for Furniture
November 17
French Polish Workshop
November 20
Tablesaw Basics
November 21
Basic Bowl Turning
Classes Suitable for Teens
Check Out our YouTube Channel
The Highland Woodworking YouTube channel is chock-full of
fascinating and instructive woodworking videos for your enjoyment. From monthly offerings by our
Down to Earth Woodworker, Steven Johnson, to demos of new tools shot onsite at our retail store to
instructional videos from our many vendors, there is something for everyone at the Highland
Woodworking YouTube Channel.
This month, we have a couple of new videos from The Down to Earth Woodworker, who demonstrates
cutting
tenons by hand
with his Lie-Nielsen shoulder plane as well as providing the viewer with a
'Cheap
Trick'
for creating an air filter for your shop.
CLICK HERE to check it
out!
Save $120 on our Rikon 12" Lathe Package Deal
Our woodturner's turnkey package deal is a great way to get
started in the world of woodturning. We've supplemented Rikon's highly popular 12" x 16" 6-speed
mini-lathe with our signature set of 6 Bodger HSS turning tools plus added the world's most popular
turning video, the New Turning Wood DVD with world-renowned turner and teacher, Richard Raffan.
Includes set of 6 HSS turning tools, instructional DVD, live center,
12-position indexed headstock, 6 speeds - 430-3900rpm, 3" faceplate, 1/2 HP motor and 2 year warranty. Weighs 89 lb.
CLICK HERE for more info:
Turn the Rikon Mini-Lathe into a 12" x 40" Lathe for an additional $99.99
This heavy cast iron bed extension turns the Rikon Mini-Lathe into a full-size lathe with 40" capacity between centers. Easily bolts onto the
cast iron bed of the lathe. You can even add multiple extensions to create a solid lathe with practically unlimited length capacity.
CLICK HERE for more info:
NOW SAVE EVEN MORE
on our Deluxe Steel City14" Granite Bandsaw!
Purchase the 50100G bandsaw for $599.99 and get
the 12" Height Adjustment Riser Kit for just $49.99 (reg. $89.99). Total cost of this package deal (our item 50100GR) is $649.98 plus shipping.
If you're in the market for a powerful, full-featured bandsaw capable of any challenge from
heavy-duty resawing to fine, delicate fretwork, look no further.
We believe the Steel City model 50100G is one of
the best 14" bandsaws available at any price, anywhere.
Quantity purchasing has kept our cost low, and we're passing the savings along to you.
More Info and How to
Order
NEW Steel City 8" Granite Jointer with Quick Change
Knives Is a Terrific Value,
only $899.99
This great value in a longbed 8" jointer is finally in stock and available for immediate shipment!
You can enjoy the benefits of 77" long solid straight granite jointer beds, cutterhead with 3 quick-change knives, 2 HP
230 volt motor, solid 48" long center-mounted granite fence that tilts in and out for bevels or
chamfers, integral mobile base, and a depth of cut up to 1/2". All this plus a 5-year
warranty at a very affordable price! Net weight 460 lbs.
Steel City 8" Granite Jointer
with quick change knives
Other Steel City Granite Jointers
40635 6" with quick change knives
40640 6" with helical cutterhead
40660 8" with helical cutterhead
You'll Love our Mail-In Blade Sharpening Service
"Recently I used your saw sharpening service and I wanted to let you know that they did a super job on my
blade. I not only needed the blade sharpened, but one tip was missing and they replaced it as well. Turn around time was only about a week from my
home in Tennessee. The blade cuts as good as a new one. You can bet that I will be using you again when needed."
Thanks,
Charles Arkon
CLICK HERE for Details
Leather Shop Apron
Now on Sale for $49.99
You'll love this handsome and practical workshop accessory. Made of top grain leather, it gives much greater protection
than canvas or nylon aprons. Convenient pockets have flaps to keep out sawdust.
More Info and How to Order
Visit our Retail Store
for a Delightful Highland Woodworking Experience!
When passing through Atlanta, be sure to stop and browse our amazing retail store, featuring over TEN THOUSAND woodworking tools, books, supplies and accessories.
Our knowledgeable and experienced staff will be glad to discuss your shop needs and answer all your woodworking questions.
1045 N. Highland Ave NE
Atlanta, Georgia
Map to Highland Woodworking
Highland Woodworking Gift Certificates
An awesome present that's always appreciated by just about any woodworker anywhere.
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Show Your Shop!
For this popular monthly column, we invite you to
SEND
US PHOTOS
of your woodworking shop along with captions and a brief history and
description of your woodworking. (Email photos at 800x600 resolution.)
Receive a $50 store gift card if we show your shop in a future issue.
TURNING PRO:
An Alternate Perspective
By Steven D. Johnson
Racine, Wisconsin
In this month's
Down To Earth Woodworker
, Steven Johnson offers a thought-provoking new
perspective on the subject of turning professional in woodworking. He also reviews a great rust
prevention tool as well as a classic book on the history of wood and its uses. And finally, Steven
waxes poetic about his Lie-Nielsen Medium Shoulder Plane, and even offers up
a video of one of the tool's many uses.
CLICK HERE to see what it's like to get DOWN TO EARTH:
Ask the Staff
Question:
My Porter Cable model 690-2 router with 2 collets 1/2″ & 1/4″ worked fine with either collet, but
now the 1/4″ collet runs out about .0030″ and I cannot seem to correct that. Can you help me with
this problem?
Check
out the answer HERE
E-mail us
with your woodworking questions.
If yours is selected for publication,
we'll send you a free Highland Woodworking hat.
The Family Furniture
Wish List
By Dick Rank
Atlanta, GA
For better or for worse, members of my family know that I am
a reasonably good woodworker, and my wife and four daughters have developed a rather long furniture
wish list.
CLICK HERE to see the first item I checked off the wish list:
The New Galbert Caliper
This superb invention will enhance your spindle turning experience. Peter Galbert's
direct reading caliper is a "tape rule for woodturners."
CHECK IT
OUT:
Build a Windsor Chair with Peter Galbert, October 23-29, 2010
Build your own Windsor chair during this 7-day event, plus take home the skills to build many more. Professional chairmaker
Peter Galbert will show you all you need to know, plus coach you from start to finish. Space is limited, so sign up early.
In Peter's class, you will learn:
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Sharpening and tool tuning
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Splitting
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Shaving
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Bending
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Turning
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Joinery
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Design Considerations
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Wood Technology
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and lots more...
FIND OUT
MORE inside
,
or sign up for the class
HERE
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Great Buy on a Premium Sheffield Back Saw
A special purchase allows us to offer this premium quality
14" 12tpi tenon saw for a spectacular low price. Manufactured in Sheffield, England under the
Footprint brand, this saw features the finest Sheffield steel, a heavy solid brass back, a strong
and straight blade with hand-sharpened teeth and a traditional beechwood handle. Supply is
limited.
CLICK HERE for more info:
Finishing
Wood
with Alan Noel
Stains, Dyes and Glazes
By Alan Noel
Atlanta, GA
Woodworker's Guide to Google Sketchup 7 is
now available from Highland Woodworking
Bob Lang's excellent instructional eBook for learning Google's free design program is now
available for purchase at Highland Woodworking. If you've ever been frustrated trying to learn the
ins and outs of Google Sketchup and how you can use it for your own woodworking, this eBook is the
thing you've been looking for.
A great tool to have if you love Sean Headrick's Sketchup column (due to return next month)!
CLICK HERE for more info:
NOW ON SALE! Exactly What You Need to Start Bending Green Wood
This small electric-powered steam generator made by Earlex is ideal to
use as the steam engine for a small home-made steam box. A special purchase allows us to offer it
to you for only $49.99, a 28% discount off our regular price. Quantity limited.
Bending green wood to form chair parts or other curved elements is not rocket science, but it
does take a little know-how. Our short illustrated tutorial on how to build one using simple
materials has helped many a woodworker get started.
New Lower-Priced SawStop Cabinet Saw
The award-winning SawStop Professional Cabinet Saw has just become more affordable. Now being offered
for August delivery with 120 volt 1.75 HP motor, the SawStop PCS175 is priced at only $2299.
(The 3 HP model requires that your shop be wired for 220 volts.) Now more shops than ever will have access to SawStop's
safety performance, quality, and innovative engineering.
CLICK HERE for more
info:
SawStop's New High Efficiency Dust Collection System Leads Industry
In addition to their new 1.75 HP 110V Professional Cabinet
Saw, Sawstop has just introduced a new overarm guard and dust collection system that is available
for any Sawstop model.
CLICK HERE for more info:
WOODWORKING
TIPS MAP
An easy way to navigate our entire highly-informative woodworking website.
Quantity Discounts on Hardwood Lumber
10% discount on 50 BF (assorted). 20% discount on 100 board feet.
Available for in-store purchase only, premium hand-selected Walnut,
Cherry, Mahogany, Red Oak, quartersawn White Oak, Maple, Poplar, European steamed Beech, Purple Heart and
others. Random widths and lengths, planed 2 sides, one straight edge. Stop in and check it out!
Hardwood Lumber Price List
Try our new Woodworking Article Search Feature
on the Highland Website
We've been writing and publishing articles on woodworking
techniques and the use of woodworking tools for over 30 years! Many of these are archived on our
website, but until now there was no easy way to search the entire collection for specific
info.
We're now pleased to present a new search engine designed just for this purpose.
(Please continue to search
for our products using our original website product search engine.)
CLICK HERE to search for woodworking information:
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New Rikon 10-600VS 16" Var. Speed Scroll Saw, Only $149.99
One of the best values we found at the recent IWF woodworking show in Atlanta was this full-featured
16" variable speed scrollsaw from Rikon, the first scrollsaw we could recommend in this price range
for many years. A highly useful bonus on this saw is its variable high speed power take-off. An
optional and very affordable flexible shaft accessory can turn the saw into a reciprocal power
carving machine.
While not a professional scrollsaw like our
20" Dewalt DW788
, the Rikon 10-600VS is an
outstanding value in a quality saw that will nicely serve the needs of any homeshop woodworker. We consider
it a price breakthrough that lets any shop afford a dedicated saw for intricate
scrollsaw work.
LIGHTS OUT DEAL
on our Triton 10" Sliding Compound Miter Saw
Only $199.99 (Save $90!)
The same company that developed our best-selling innovative Triton plunge routers has delivered again with this outstanding
value in a full-size sliding compound miter saw that features a single laser cutting guide.
An overlooked misprint on the saw's
packaging prompted the manufacturer to offer them to us at a significant savings off our regular cost, enabling us to pass along
great savings to you. This saw will handle all your cutoff needs up to 11-5/8" wide at 90 degrees and more than 8" wide at 45 degrees.
Ideal for beveled miter cuts on large crown molding. Weighs only 37 lbs, so transports easily.
Sale quantity is limited,
order now!
CLICK HERE for more info:
NEW Earlex 3500 USER FRIENDLY HVLP Sprayer
NOW ON SALE
$129.99
The Earlex 3500 Spray Station (made in England) has made smooth and efficient spray finishing both user friendly and highly
affordable. Discover how fast and easy finishing can be without having to apply using a brush. Comes equipped to flawlessly spray stains, lacquer,
shellac, polyurethane, and water-based finishes, as well as thinned latex paint.
CLICK HERE for more info:
What's the Secret to Achieving Repeatably Consistent Turnings?
By Peter Galbert
Bethel, NY
When I started turning parts for chairs, the first hurdles that I faced were creating the shapes
that made up the balusters. The bead and the cove are the basic elements, and learning to make them
is challenging. I spent countless hours making rows of useless bead and rows of useless coves.
Show Your Stuff!
For this new column, we invite you to
SEND
US PHOTOS
of your favorite woodworking projects along with captions and a brief history and
description of your woodworking. (Email photos at 800x600 resolution.)
Receive a $50 store gift card if we show your stuff in a future issue.
No
woodworking book or DVD we've ever sold before has generated the response we've received from customers to Charles Brock's excellent plan bundle that
provides everything you need to know to build your own Maloof-inspired rocking chair.
Now Chuck has singled out the specific tools he uses when
building the chair and listed them in one place for easy selection by woodworkers undertaking this challenging project.
Check Out the Tools of the Trade:
Narex Bench Chisels
Named Best Value Bench Chisel by FWW magazine, boxed set of 6 rugged chisels, only $59.99.
Why Not Write
Your Own Article
for Wood
News?
We actively
solicit contributions of editorial material (articles, photos and videos) from our customers and readership, and for every one we accept and publish
in
Wood News Online
, we will compensate the contributor. We typically pay up to $100 (in the form of a store gift certificate) for a
thousand-word-plus article with photos. The amount of the gift certificate may be prorated for shorter articles. Articles submitted may be edited by
us at our discretion, and compensation may vary depending on the published length.
Recent WOOD SLICER Testimonial
I recently purchased three band saw blades for my 10 inch Inca 260, included in the purchase was a Wood Slicer
Bandsaw Blade. When I unwrapped it, I realized this was something special. I immediately installed the Wood Slicer, fired up the machine and started
cutting 6 " X 6" White Oak rough stock. Results? WOW, is all I could say to myself. The cuts were so good I had to look twice to see the cut side from
the machine planed face! What a blade, I have never been more pleased with a bandsaw blade and its performance! — R. Simon
CHECK OUT our phenomenal
Wood Slicer resawing
blade:
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