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Show Your Stuff!
This month we are featuring this boat built by Lance Chase, a legally-blind woodworker from Amsterdam, NY.
CLICK HERE to take a closer look at Lance's Adirondack-built boat:
Show Us Your Wood
Carving!
Tom Fink always wanted to get involved in a creative craft which would involve some form of three dimensional work, so he started woodcarving. This month we are featuring four of his intricately carved pieces.
CLICK HERE to take a closer look at his work:
Roubo's Folding Bookstand
By Eduardo Acosta Cordoba, Argentina
I first saw Roubo's folding bookstand at a workshop given by Roy Underhill. Roy showed us the bookstand but he didn't teach us how to make it in the workshop.
CLICK HERE to read Eduardo's story of how he came to build TWO Roubo Folding Bookstands:
Maurice Clabaugh has a good idea that can help improve your bandsaw safety.
CLICK HERE to read his tip:
HIGHLAND VIDEO:
Product Tours Available on our YouTube Channel! Check out the great product tour videos on our Youtube Channel. Our good friend Morton demonstrates some of our most popular products for your benefit in these tours. Click below to watch one of Morton's recent videos, the product tour for the Lie-Nielsen #62 Low Angle Jack Plane:
Are there any products you'd like to see a tour of? If so, we invite you to EMAIL US and let us know what YOU would like to see!
This Month on
The Highland Blog Woodworking Resolutions for 2013
It's time again to think about what we want to accomplish in the coming year in our workshops. What do you want to do differently? What can be improved? What new tools do you need to help the process?? All this week on the Highland blog we've got posts from some of our favorite woodworkers on their own woodworking resolutions for 2013.
First up we've got some Down to Earth Woodworking Resolutions. Read what Steve has in store for his year on the Highland Blog:
Ask the Staff
Question: I sometimes have difficulty removing the router bit from my router. When I loosen the collet nut, sometimes the router bit shank cannot be removed without exerting a lot of pulling force. What am I missing?
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 Gary Porter's Fairbanks, Alaska shop, where he builds boats and custom furniture.
CLICK HERE for a look inside:
Our January Lie-Nielsen
Tool of the Month: The Boggs Flat Spokeshave
Lie-Nielsen collaborated with Kentucky master chairmaker, Brian Boggs, and the results are physically beautiful tools with outstanding performance. The blade's thickness and the fact that it is held in place between a fully-machined bed and a flat cap iron (rather than pivoting bars) make it much less prone to chatter or tearout than other shaves we've used.
Read Lee Laird's
blog post about the Boggs Flat Spokeshave to learn more:
Take a closer look at the Boggs Flat Spokeshave:
By Steven D. Johnson,
Racine, Wisconsin
This month, The Down to Earth Woodworker offers a thorough review of the Trend Airshield Pro, an attempt to resolve the problem of the beard and dust mask conflict. Once he's got the new dust shield figured out, it's time to turn his attention to building some new coffee tables, but first Steve makes the rounds to all of his local woodworking friends and brings us along for the ride.
CLICK HERE to learn what Steve thought of the Trend Airshield Pro:
Finishing Wood
with Alan Noel 
Smashing Repairs I have experienced much frustration trying to patch little chips of missing veneer around the edges of tops and drawers where it is apt to come loose over time and therefore chip away. Recently a friend gave me some tips for an easy and fast fix for these issues. Here are the ten steps he gave me for easy chip repair:
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Fri-Sat, Feb 1-2, 2013 Highland hosts the
Atlanta Lie-Nielsen
Our 2013 Winter Open House will again host Lie-Nielsen's Atlanta Hand Tool event. Factory reps from Lie-Nielsen will be on hand to demonstrate sharpening and using hand tools, and will offer everyone an opportunity to try out many of our Lie-Nielsen hand tools for themselves.
Hand Tool Event Meet Christopher Schwarz on Saturday, February 2
All day Saturday of the event, the notorious author and former Popular Woodworking editor Christopher Schwarz will entertain us with free educational demonstrations of woodworking hand tool skills and techniques.
In addition, Michel Auriou, maker of our incomparable Auriou rasps and other hand tools, is scheduled to be on hand on Friday and Saturday, working at his anvil actually demonstrating the manufacture of Auriou rasps. A number of other vendors will be on hand as well, giving entertaining and informative live demonstrations. 
The latest 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 new episode:
My Last Shop: A Workshop Series
By Michael Smith
Mountain Park, GA In this month's segment of Mike Smith's My Last Shop Series, Mike tells the sometimes-epic tale of getting a permit to build his new shop. CLICK HERE to learn if Mike ended up successfully getting the permit for his workshop:
A Tale of
Two Boxes By Rod Scott Hayden, ID I have seen other articles on how to make dovetail boxes and would like to show my method of making them quickly and easily. I will show the basic method of building these boxes either with a top or open. I have used this technique for making drawer boxes, furniture carcasses with stile and rail fronts, baby cradles, and presentation boxes. Dovetails don’t need to be intimidating. CLICK HERE to read Rod's method for making dovetailed boxes:
WOOD SLICER
Testimonial
Hey Guys, just a note to let you know how thrilled I am with the new wood slicer blade you sent. Cuts straighter and smoother than anything I've ever used. Only one problem, I can't tell my jointed edge from the cut edge! Thanks again for another quality tool. — Doug C. Get Yourself a Wood Slicer:CLICK HERE to watch a video tour of the Wood Slicer:
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