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Drawknife

The Drawknife
By Andy Glenn

Of all the hand tools, Andy Glenn thinks the drawknife can be the most intimidating - especially if you've never picked one up before. There's something about the simplicity of the tool that makes it appear so challenging. It's just a blade with two handles that make it work and in this article Andy explains best practices when using the drawknife.

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Inside This Issue

Show Us Your Workshop
The Drawknife
Show Us Your Woodcarving
Stories from Grandpa's Workshop
Finishing: Aging Hardwoods
Woodturning Pens with Children
Taunton Press Book Specials
Quick Tip: Makeshift Moxon
Women in Woodworking
Show Us Your Woodworking
Video: Chisel Sharpening
Book Review: Hammer Head


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Video: Chisel Sharpening

Video: Chisel Sharpening

It is a universal truth that sharp tools work better. But many woodworkers still don't sharpen their hand tools enough, or know how to do it well. In this short video, Jim Dillon walks through the step by step process for maintaining sharp edges and getting the best results from your chisels.

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Show Us Your Shop

Show Us Your Shop

Our finishing expert and instructor, Alan Noel, shares his story of moving from shop to shop throughout his antique restoration and finishing career as well as photos of his current "retirement" shop.

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Show Us Your Woodworking

Show Us Your Woodworking

We're sharing a variety of Dennis Nowak's woodworking projects which he enjoys making out of wood that has been discarded as waste or firewood.

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Show Us Your Woodcarving

Show Us Your Woodcarving

We're sharing Dan Katz's woodcarving projects including several monograms from the beginnings of what Dan hopes will become a full set.

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Hammer Head

Book Review:
Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter

The majority of books we sell at Highland are "how-to project books", but we just recently started carrying Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter by Nina McLaughlin, which tells the story of perseverance in the face of frustrations and adversity for a woman in an almost wholly male-dominated profession.

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Women in Woodworking

Women in Woodworking:
Meet Hannah Rogal

This month's feature, Hannah Rogal, works as the Design Lead at Boulder Furniture Arts, a modern contemporary furniture studio that specializes in made to order shaker style furniture in Boulder, Colorado.

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Paint Finish

Stories from
Grandpa's Workshop:
The Big World of Mr. Small
By Bob Rummer

After struggling to decide who would inherit each piece of antique furniture, Bob's grandfather ended up making intricate dollhouse-sized copies of the different pieces for each family member.

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Aging Hardwoods

Finishing: Aging Hardwoods with Uric Acid and Ammonia

Alan shares a story of how he found out the "recipe" to a mixture that would age various hardwoods...though part of the recipe was quite surprising and unexpected...

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Makeshift Moxon

Quick Tip: Makeshift Moxon

Randy Cordle recently needed a last minute Moxon vise for work-holding but hasn't had the time to make a more permanent solution. In the meantime, he has come up with this "makeshift moxon" which has proven very useful.

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Woodturning Pens with Children

Woodturning Pens
with Children

Temple is always trying to encourage more children to get into woodworking and woodturning and a good way to do this is with a project that kids will find easy and rewarding....turning pens and pencils.

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