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For decades our monthly Wood News publication has been a fun way for
us to share interesting woodworking articles, tips and techniques with
our customers, with the constant goal of helping you become a better
woodworker. Many of the articles we publish are written by customers
like you. If you're interested, I invite you to submit an article
about a woodworking technique, a review of a tool that you like,
photos of projects you've built, or a photo tour of your workshop. If
your submittal is accepted for publication, we will compensate you
with a store credit that you can use towards purchase of our tools! Thank you for reading Wood News Online!
-Chris Bagby, Highland Woodworking owner
Find out more information about submitting articles
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Best of The Down to Earth Woodworker
Steve Johnson's column, "The Down to Earth Woodworker," has been one of our most popular features in Wood News for the last 6 years. This month Steve is taking a hiatus from his regular column and wanted us to share his "Best of" woodworking articles and videos.
Read the Best of
The Down to Earth Woodworker
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Converting Your Workshop
to Metric
Jeff Fleisher has been woodworking for over 25 years and has gotten very comfortable with using a ruler. But recently, he decided to switch his shop to a metric measurement system and it has changed the way he works in the shop!
Metric Shop Conversion
Find out more!
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Class: Designing and
Building Chairs
with Jeff Miller
Nov. 5-6, 2016
We are very excited to host a weekend with noted chair builder Jeff Miller. Employing over 30 years of experience as a chair designer, cabinetmaker,
author
and instructor, Jeff will demonstrate the steps of designing and building a beautiful chair, considered by many to be the pinnacle of woodworking challenges. The techniques he will cover will also enrich your non-chair woodworking as well. Don't miss this rare opportunity to spend a weekend with a master woodworker who is also well known as a gifted teacher.
Designing and Building Chairs
with Jeff Miller - Sign Up!
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Show Us Your Shop
This month we're sharing the "minimalist" woodworking shop of Randy Cordle, who specializes in building musical instruments.
View More of Randy's Shop
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Show Us Your Woodworking
This month we're sharing the woodworking projects of Barry Hock, who enjoys making artistic wooden boxes after he retired from a 38 year career as a jewelry designer.
View More of Barry's
Woodworking Projects
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Show Us Your Woodcarving
This month we are featuring the wooden burl bowl carvings of Marty Derksema, who once saw signs for "burl wood" off an Oregon highway and has been carving bowls out of burls ever since!
View more of Marty's
Carving Projects
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Poll: Allergy Precautions
in the Workshop
In this month's poll, Jim Randolph asks "Do you have allergies, COPD or other conditions that require you to take extra precautions with dust in your shop?"
Answer the poll
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Tips from Sticks in the Mud
This month Jim has a tip on storing tissues in your shop so they don't collect dust, as well as a money saving tip on getting a tarp condensed to its original storage size.
Read this month's
Woodworking Tips
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Project Idea: Building a Hall Table, Part 3 - Finishing
In Part 3 of this 3-part Hall Table project series, Forrest Bonner finishes up the installation of the drawers and drawer pulls, and adds finish to the hall table.
Read Part 3 - Finishing
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2016 Summer Woodworking Reading Lists
Just like in school, our bloggers have prepared their own must-read Summer Woodworking Reading Lists filled with both new and old woodworking titles that are sure to inspire you to get into your shop!
Find out what's on our Summer Woodworking Reading Lists!
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HIGHLAND VIDEO:
Instructional Videos and Demonstrations available on our YouTube Channel!
Kell Honing Guide
Sharpening chisels and plane blades is a necessary part of maintaining a workshop. A honing guide can make the process simple and repeatable. Matt Cremona gives an overview of the No. 1 and No. 2 Kell Honing Guides, then puts them to the test making a couple of dull chisels razor sharp.
Watch the video and find out more!
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Festool Heaven
Our most recent issue of Festool Heaven, Highland's new Festool online newsletter, features the new Festool VAC SYS, a Domino comparison featuring the Festool DF500 and the Festool XL DF 700, as well as a comparison of the different vacuums offered by Festool.
We invite you to
submit an article
for a future issue about how having Festool in your shop has impacted your woodworking.
Read Issue #2 of Festool Heaven
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Fox Chapel Summer Book Specials
Save 33% on these 4 titles
through August 31, 2016
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Wood Slicer Resaw
Bandsaw Blade
Just got my Wood Slicer Bandsaw Blade, put it on my
Rikon Bandsaw
and wow!!! I have had a bandsaw in my shop for about 50 years and this is the first time I remember getting shavings and not saw dust. The blade does live up to its name. It is a wood slicer. — Bill
Get your own Wood Slicer now!
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Krenov Foundation Professional Development Award
The Krenov Foundation is delighted to initiate a new award in 2016, for emerging professional woodworkers.
The award is for $2500 to an emerging fine woodworking professional to assist them as an artist in residence or visiting scholar at a nationally recognized woodworking school or craft center. Applications for the award will be accepted until August 31, 2016.
Find out more and fill out your application by clicking here
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Great Books and Tools for your Workshop
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Woodpeckers OneTime Tool Bevel Gauge
Back by popular demand, the Woodpeckers Bevel Gauge is the newest Woodpeckers OneTime Tool, only available to order for a limited time! Precision Bevel Gauges have a beautiful, satin-finish, stainless spring steel blade. Internal blade lock mechanism parts are all stainless steel, and the anodized aluminum handle provides just the right "heft" and is extremely durable.
Last Day to Order is
July 18, 2016!
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Fine Woodworking
Magazine Archive
1975-2015
This 2015 edition of this DVD archive contains every article published in the 250 issues of Fine Woodworking magazine over the past 40 years. Easily search and view an entire generation's worth of woodworking wisdom.
Just $49.99 while limited quantities last!
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Universal Mobile Base
Find more space in your workshop by mounting some of your big tools onto these handy steel mobile bases. After moving a machine into position, you can lock it firmly in place by flipping the mobile base's two quick-action levers.
$20 OFF while limited quantities last!
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Micro Jig GRR-Ripper Advanced GR-200 System
The Micro Jig GRR-Ripper lets you grip, hold and feed both sides of small workpieces, ripping strips as narrow as 1/4 inch (down to 1/8 inch with an optional leg). Grooved non-slip pads on the bottom of the jigs adjustable legs grab and hold your work securely.
Micro Jig GRR-Ripper - Keep your hands safe!
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