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Show Your Stuff!
This month we are featuring the work of Phil Rasmussen, who says he likes to make mission and shaker style furniture with a twist.
CLICK HERE to take a closer look at this beautiful coffee table by Phil as well as several of his other pieces:
Show Us Your Wood
Carving!
In this month's column, we've got the work of self-taught carver Hugh Parks, who really enjoys the challenge of carving decoys and life-sized birds.
CLICK HERE to take a closer look at a few of his impressive carved birds:
Tips From
Sticks-In-The-Mud Woodshop By Jim Randolph Long Beach, MS
Welcome to a new feature in Wood News Online, "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.
CLICK HERE to read the first two tips from Sticks-In-The-Mud Woodshop!
Lindsay Frost has a very simple safety tip that could make a difference in a lot of shops.
CLICK HERE to read it:
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, offering tips for folding and storing your bandsaw blades:
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 Carving with Mary May at The Woodwright's School by Terry Chapman
In February Terry Chapman took a road trip up to Roy Underhill's The Woodwright School in Pittsboro to attend a carving class taught by master woodcarver Mary May. Read about Terry's experience in the class, and then keep your eye out for a Mary May class on the Highland class schedule later this year!
CLICK HERE to read Terry's post about the first day of carving class at The Woodwright's School:
New Downloadable Project Plan:
My Menagerie
Kevin McGuire, author of the popular book "The All-New Woodworking For Kids" provides a new project plan in each issue of Wood News. This vintage-inspired take-apart toy encourages children to assemble their own menagerie of pets and wildlife, sea creatures, plants or whatever they like! Order your plan online by adding it to your shopping cart. After it has been processed by our staff, you will receive an email with a link to download your plan set in PDF form. Check back next month for another great new downloadable plan from Kevin!
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 Glen Bond's Eureka, Missouri shop. Even though Glen says that unfortunately his shop isn't self-cleaning, he enjoys sharing it with his wife Pat, who is also a woodworker.
CLICK HERE to take a closer look at Glen & Pat's shop:
Click image below to see the 15 winners in our Woodworking Jig Contest
By Steven D. Johnson,
Racine, Wisconsin
Full Immersion Learning - A Woodworker's "Metrification"
An Inspiring Woodworker My Local Woodworking Store...Killing Our Hobby One Customer At A Time Fun At My Neighbor's Expense
Steve starts off this month's column with the most convincing argument for a woodworker to go metric that we've ever heard. If you weren't already considering it, you likely will by the time you finish reading! Steve also profiles an inspiring woodworker he met recently, takes a quick visit to his local woodworking store with disappointing results, and has a little fun at his neighbor's expense, all in this month's The Down To Earth Woodworker.
Have you ever considered going metric? CLICK HERE to read why Steve thinks that is a GREAT IDEA:
Super-Tune Your Hand Plane: DVD Review
By J. Norman Reid Delaplane, VA
I teach a class on restoring old handplanes. I've read all the books and articles I could find on the subject. And, I've built up my own base of expertise by restoring a number of planes in my own shop. I thought I knew all there was to know about restoring and setting up planes. I was wrong, and this excellent DVD proved it.
CLICK HERE to read the rest of the review:
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Another New Episode of our Web TV show
Experience the excitement of the big Lie-Nielsen Hand Tool Event held recently at Highland Woodworking; hear Christopher Schwarz tell about the Dutch tool chest he just built; watch chairmaker Jeff Miller demonstrate the machine he uses to make short work cutting compound tenons; let Matthew Teague show his tricks for keeping a sharp edge on your bench chisels; and hear how master craftsman Alf Sharp got hooked on 18th century furniture making. Watch the all-new FIFTH EPISODE of The Highland Woodworker, the free TV show we created ESPECIALLY for the woodworkers we serve. CLICK HERE to see Episode 5:
My Last Shop: A Workshop Series
By Michael Smith
Mountain Park, GA In the fourth installment of Mike Smith's My Last Shop Series, Mike has to take down an existing shed that is in the place where he wants to build his new shop. He walks us through the steps he took to do it. CLICK HERE to get the details:
Ask the Staff
Question: Hello, I was wondering if any company out there has a portable frame type thing to set up a small radial arm saw using a circular saw? It could possibly be made using a slide rail system like on router tables and table saws, perhaps?
E-mail us with your woodworking questions. If yours is selected for publication, we'll send you a free Highland Woodworking hat.
Finishing Wood
with Alan Noel 
Wipe On Finishes Wipe on finishes are the easiest to apply and maintain. Traditionally, oil and spirit varnishes are brushed or wiped on, with oil being by far the easiest because of the slow dry time. Here are TEN steps to using wipe on finishes in your own projects:
WOOD SLICER
Testimonial
Today my life changed for the better, I received my new Wood Slicer bandsaw blade. A year ago a friend did some resawing for me on his saw. I saw the avenues that were opened by the ability to resaw. I purchased a riser block and have experimented with mixed results in resawing. This blade makes it possible for even a guy like me to resaw in my shop.
— Loren W. Get Yourself a Wood Slicer:CLICK HERE to watch a video tour of the Wood Slicer:
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