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Show Your Stuff!
This month we are featuring the exquisitely detailed scaled furniture works of Ramon Gibbs.
CLICK HERE to take a closer look at this scaled desk/jewelry box along with several other amazing pieces:
Show Us Your Wood
Carving!
In this month's column, we've got carvings and other shaped work by Chris Adkins, who was involved in woodworking at a very early age since his father and grandfather were woodworkers as well.
CLICK HERE to take a closer look at Chris's 'Tree Box' as well as a few of his other pieces:
Tips From
Sticks-In-The-Mud Woodshop
By Jim Randolph
Long Beach, MS In this month's "Tips From Sticks-In-The-Mud Woodshop", Jim Randolph shares a couple tips for making the dull sanding experience a little more enjoyable. CLICK HERE to read this month's tips from Sticks-In-The-Mud Woodshop!
Brian Howe has a great safety tip this month that will help you to avoid being startled in your shop and causing an accident.
CLICK HERE to read it:
This Month on
The Highland Blog Build Your Own Little Free Library
Find out more about this nationwide community movement! The Little Free Library was founded in 2009 by Todd Bol and Rick Brooks, and since its inception, these little libraries have been popping up in front yards and public spaces throughout the country and even the world!
Read more about how to build your own on The Highland Blog:
Finishing Wood
with Alan Noel 
Using Milk Paint Milk paint has been around for many, many years and is a good choice of finish when reproducing windsor style chairs, shaker style furniture and many other types of projects. Here are EIGHT tips to help you with using Milk Paint: 
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 Bruce Herndon's Malo, Washington shop, where he builds split cane bamboo fly rods.
CLICK HERE to take a closer look at Bruce's shop:
By Steven D. Johnson,
Racine, Wisconsin
"Finishing" The Metric Conversion
And Speaking Of "Mixing"... Mobile Sanding Center – Design Criteria Legendary Sharpening - No Skill Or Effort Required Update...The Natural-Edge Coffee Table Project
Steve continues his metric conversion this month, or should we say he 'finishes' it? Turns out converting shellac quantities to metric is much easier than he expected! Steve also provides a great video for a homemade magnetic stirring device, talks out the details for the new sanding center he's planning, and gives us an update on his natural edge coffee tables. But we are most excited to read Steve's breakthrough on sharpening, researched from ancient times and explained in thorough detail in this month's column. We hope you will find it extremely useful as well.
But first, finish your own metric conversion! CLICK HERE to read how simple it really is:
Shop Drawings for Craftsman Furniture: Book Review
By J. Norman Reid Delaplane, VA
Craftsman furniture is a style I've loved and admired all my life. Lang's collection of shop plans is a marvelous resource, whether your intention is to faithfully copy Arts & Crafts original classics or set out on your own to create anew by emulating the style and borrowing details.
CLICK HERE to read the rest of the review:
Ask the Staff
Question: I have a lot of natural, clear satin Varathane-coated Poplar wood trim in my house. I made the mistake of filling the finish nail holes with Elmers Carpenter's Wood Filler. The filler was supposed to be stainable, but I cannot find a stain that will penetrate or cover all the light colored "spots" throughout the trim. Short of digging the filler out of each hole, or painting the trim which I do not want to do, do you have any suggestions for how to fix this?
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Meet our special guest
ROY UNDERHILL during our 35th Anniversary Celebration & Sale Sat., April 27, 2013 
Come meet one of TV's biggest crowd pleasers,
Woodwright's Shop
host Roy Underhill, our special guest during our 35th
Anniversary Celebration and big One Day Sale in Atlanta on Saturday, April 27, 2013.
Roy will be giving FREE traditional woodworking demos all day long. Also on Sunday, April 28, he will teach a 1-day
class,
How to Build a Standing Desk.
CLICK HERE for more info: 
CLICK HERE to see a SNEAK PREVIEW from our next episode coming mid-April:
WOOD SLICER
Testimonial
So it’s been 20 plus years since I bought my 9" Delta band saw. I was really looking forward to having a saw to do shapes and just take a nick off a block of wood. So for 20 years it sat on my bench and I NEVER EVER was able to make the slightest bit of a straight cut with it. I tightened, loosened, searched the web. You name it I tried it. Mostly it just sat there taking up space. I saw your demo for the wood slicer blade and thought that might be the trick but you only go down to 70.5". THEN I saw the Rikon 10" bandsaw on sale, watched the video demo and I bought it as well as the wood slicer blade. It arrived today. I set her up and made the prettiest STRAIGHT cut with it. Yippee! I showed it to the old Delta, and told it THIS IS THE WAY TO CUT WOOD, but it wasn’t impressed. Finally I’m going to be able to use a band saw! Thank You! — Bob M. Get Yourself a Wood Slicer:CLICK HERE to watch a video tour of the Wood Slicer:
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