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NEW
Knew Concept Saws
Lee Marshall has expanded his line of innovative premium saws to include a new 6-1/2" Coping Saw as well as the new Titanium Birdcage Fretsaw which comes in 3 sizes. Still extremely popular are his original 5" and 8" premium aluminum fretsaws. Incredibly stiff and strong, all these saws have featherweight balance for the utmost control. CLICK HERE for more info:
SawStop Tablesaw
An easy way to make your shop SAFER
Show Your Stuff!
This
month we are featuring rocking horses made by two different woodworkers - Kenneth Sternberg of Mauldin, NC and Jack Masten of North Creek, NY.
CLICK HERE to take a closer look at Kenneth's rocking horses: and CLICK HERE to see more of Jack's rocking horses:
Show Us Your Wood
Carving!
Greg Little has always been fascinated with sculpting and carving solid wood furniture, keepsake and jewelry boxes. This month we are featuring some of his beautiful jewelry boxes, each one made from a single continuous board.
CLICK HERE to take a closer look at these meticulously carved pieces:
James Randolph discovered recently in his shop that overconfidence can be a dangerous enemy of the power tool-user.
CLICK HERE to read his story:
This Month on
The Highland Blog Hammers I Have Known and Loved by Terry Chapman
When I am on a job site in a supervisory role and not doing a lot of actual work, I carry a small trim hammer. The little hammer makes me the butt of many jokes as some people call it a girlie hammer or think it is just a toy. I can assure you it is not a toy and it will flat move a nail. Something about the size of the fight in the dog.
How many hammers do you have in your shop? Read more about Terry's collection on the Highland Blog:
Charles Brock has singled out the specific tools he uses when building his sculptured
chairs and listed them in one place for easy selection by woodworkers
undertaking this challenging project.
Check Out the Tools of the Trade:
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Inside This Issue
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 credit if we show your shop in a future issue. 
This month we are featuring Jeff Street's Livonia, MI shop, a 'dream building' in his backyard that allowed him to move his workshop, along with all the dust and noise, out of his basement.
CLICK HERE for a look inside:
Our December Lie-Nielsen
Tool of the Month: The Dowel Plate
This simple, old-fashioned tool lets you make your own dowels in any kind of wood you please, in 7 common and useful sizes. Operation is quite simple: split, whittle or shave a dowel or tenon blank to rough size, then drive it through the target hole in the dowel plate to produce an accurately dimensioned dowel. Also available in metric.
Read Lee Laird's
blog post about the Lie-Nielsen Dowel Plate to learn more:
Take a closer look at the Lie-Nielsen Dowel Plate: Watch a video product tour to see how the Dowel Plate works:
By Steven D. Johnson,
Racine, Wisconsin
Holiday Season Time-Saving Tips
The Language of Numbers More on the Beard/Mask Interface A Dusty Yuletide Tale
In his December column, The Down to Earth Woodworker offers a host of time-saving tips to use in your shop right now, which couldn't come at a better time for most of us! Steve also reflects on 'the language of numbers' and implores our community of typically very-precise woodworkers to use that precision in our language. And then things get a little dusty in the Down to Earth workshop, as Steve addresses the beard-in-the-dusty-workshop conundrum further and tells the tale of his dustiest-day-ever.
Short on time this holiday season? If so CLICK HERE to check out Steve's time-saving tips:
Ask the Staff
Question: I would like to make wooden trains as holiday gifts. My woodworking skills are limited and I can't figure out how I can make the cow catcher for the front on the train engine as I envision it: two 30 degree angles coming into a point. Can you give me any suggestions?
Finishing Wood
with Alan Noel 
Steaming Mars During the coarse of building a project it is very hard to avoid those pesky dents and dings along the way. These have to be addressed before the finishing process can begin or else you will just find these flaws staring back at you. Here are ELEVEN tips for removing a mar from your project before you start finishing:
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Exquisite Lie-Nielsen Bronze 101 Block Plane Makes a Great Gift
This extremely beautiful and conveniently pocket-sized block plane will find uses on practically any project. It's the ideal stocking stuffer for any woodworker who loves and appreciates fine tools. CLICK HERE for more info:
Woodworkers Dial Caliper
One of our all-time best-selling tools, our stainless steel woodworker's dial caliper is calibrated in fractions the way woodworkers are accustomed to measuring thicknesses. An excellent gift, it includes a protective case. CLICK HERE for more info:
The 4th episode of
The
Highland Woodworker
Web TV
features a tour of Woodworking in America and a visit to Craig Nutt's Tennessee shop.
CLICK HERE for the episode:
The Show Stopper
By Dick Rank
Atlanta, GA For some time now, a number of talented woodworkers have been 'turning out' a variety of beautiful bottle stoppers. I decided that I would improve on the stopper design, produce a number of them, and then give these brilliantly-designed stoppers to all of my friends and family as Christmas gifts. CLICK HERE to find out if Dick's brilliant design was a success:
Finishing my Stout Work Bench
By John Bonin Upland, CA I just recently finished my stout work bench and began the carcase to hold four large drawers underneath. I wanted to make the drawer fronts fancy, so I went and bought a 8 foot 4x4 Redwood stick with a great looking end grain pattern. CLICK HERE to see how John came up with this great design:
My Woodworking Bucket List
By Howard Van Valzah Roscoe, IL
This year I was finally able to cross a trip to the International Woodworking Fair off of my bucket list. Do you have such a list? If not, perhaps now is the time to think about making one before it is too late. I'll show you my list which I have partially completed, and maybe it will provide some ideas for your list and you can suggest some things to me that I have overlooked.
CLICK HERE to see Howard's Woodworking Bucket List:
WOOD SLICER
Testimonial
Well my 5/8" resaw bandsaw blade finally broke after three or four years, and it was time to try your Wood Slicer bandsaw blade. As you already know it does everything that you said and more. Everything I saw with it comes out the same, perfect. One light pass through the planer or drum sander is all that's needed to make it smooth. And it is so smooth that on some things it could pass without sanding. It takes less power and is very quiet. Keep up the good work! — Robert P. Get Yourself a Wood Slicer:CLICK HERE to watch a video tour of the Wood Slicer:
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