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Tormek Promo

Save when you buy a Tormek T-8 Sharpener until the end of the year! Get a free knife jig and tool rest when you purchase a Tormek T-8 Sharpener.

Offer ends 12/31/18

Inside This Issue

Show Us Your Workshop
The Down to Earth Woodworker
The Highland Woodworker Winter Episode
Poll: Paint on Fine Furniture
Show Us Your Woodcarving
Project: Double Bass Build
Acer-Ferrous Toolworks Moxon Vise Kit
Finishing: Water-Based Grain Filler
Tool Review: Stanley Tape
Book Review: Mechanic's Companion
Show Us Your Woodworking
Tips From Sticks-In-The-Mud

Festool Roadshow

Attend the Festool Roadshow
Friday, 12/7/18 at Highland

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Sjobergs

SAVE on Sjöbergs Elite 2000 & 2500C Package Deals

For a limited time you can save up to $720 on a new workbench! This package deal offer includes the Sjöbergs Elite 2000 or 2500C Workbench with deluxe 6-drawer cabinet, plus an accessory kit that includes an adjustable bench holdfast, a set of self-adhering rubberized cork jaw liners, and an all-purpose anvil for metal working at your bench.

Offer ends 12/31/18
 
Stanley 175th Anniversary Tape Measure

Tool Review: Stanley 175th Anniversary Tape Measure

Jeff Fleisher reviews the Stanley 175th Anniversary Tape Measure, the perfect gift for the holidays. Not only is it a functional tool for your shop, it will give you the sense of that 'old time woodworker' every time you take it out.

Click here to read more

Upcoming Woodworking Classes in Atlanta

12/15 Beginning Character Carving
12/15 Finishing 101
12/18 French Polish Workshop
12/19 Intro to Pen Turning
12/20 Milling and Jointing Lumber
12/29 Intro to Spoon Carving
1/2 Sharpening for Turners
1/5 Beginning Turning
1/6 Turn a Peppermill
1/8 Hand Tool Sharpening
1/10 Table Saw Orientation
1/12 Intro to Marquetry
1/13 Bandsaw Basics
1/16 Finishing the Finish
1/17 Milling and Jointing Lumber
1/19 Build a Tool Storage Box
1/23 Taming of the Skew
1/24 Intro to Pen Turning
1/26 Beginning Turning
1/26 Finishing 101
1/27 Basic Bowl Turning
1/29-30 Build a Bookcase
1/31 Hand Cut Mortise and Tenon

Beginning Character Carving

Featured Class:
Beginning Character Carving
December 15, 2018

This beginner's class will jumpstart you on the skills needed to carve small 3-dimensional figurines. The instructor will guide you through a comprehensive, step-by-step focus for carving characters so you can successfully bring forth a figurine from a block of wood. Throughout the day you'll also pick up some tips on maintaining a honed edge on your tools.

Click here to sign up
 
Show Us Your Shop

Show Us Your Shop

We're sharing Eddie Howard's garage workshop in Apex, NC, which he just recently built after having wanted his own shop for several years.

View Eddie's Shop
Show Us Your Woodworking

Show Us Your Woodworking

We've got a variety of woodworking projects made by Jim Mayer who was inspired to get back into woodworking after visiting an Amish lumberyard.

View Jim's Projects
Show Us Your Woodcarving

Show Us Your Woodcarving

We're featuring several carvings made by Gina French who works as a Pediatrician and uses carving as a way to destress from work.

View Gina's Carvings
 
Down to Earth Woodworker

The Down to Earth Woodworker

This month, Steve dreams of the day Festool will offer an impact driver, shares his Round-up Round-down imperial fraction conversion calculator and makes a big announcement.

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Finishing Tip

Finishing: Behlen Water-Based
Grain Filler

Alan veers away from his "old-school" finishing methods and tries a water-based grain filler to finish a wooden vanity, as opposed to an oil-based filler he would normally use.

Click here to read about his results
Sticks in the Mud

Tips from Sticks
in the Mud

Jim discusses how he organizes his dust extractor hoses when cleaning up from sanding, and he also offers a money-saving tip on how he reuses the "anti-corrosion" paper packaging that comes from Festool, Lie-Nielsen and other tool packing materials.

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Poll: Plywood in Fine Furniture

Poll: Does Paint Belong on Fine Furniture?

This month's poll asks "Does paint belong on fine furniture?"

Click here to answer
 
Mechanic's Companion'

Book Review:
Mechanic's Companion
By Peter Nicholson

This first publication from Megan Fitzpatrick's new Rude Mechanicals Press, this title, Mechanic's Companion is a reprint of the 1845 edition of the book and will make a great addition to your woodworking library.

Click here to read more
Acer-Ferrous Toolworks Moxon Vise Kit

How I Built a Moxon Vise for Only $99.99

Our blogger, Terry Chapman, and videographer, Justin Moon, both just put together two separate Acer-Ferrous Toolworks Moxon Vise Kits and they both discuss the building process and how it works on their benches in our blog and on our YouTube channel.

Click here to find out more
Double Bass

Project: Double
Bass Build

Steve Erling's son wanted to buy a double bass, but the cost for a good one was in the tens of thousands. He asked his Dad if he could build him one...The following article highlights the building process.

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The Highland Woodworker

The Highland Woodworker
Winter 2018 Episode

On this episode, Christopher Schwarz shows us around the Lost Art Press shop, PopWood's David Thiel shows us ways to use random washers we find in our shops, Chuck takes a closer look at the Morakniv Spoon Carving Set, and much more!

Check out other videos and product tour demos on our YouTube Channel.

Click here to watch
Tools and Deals for Your Workshop
Kreg Accu-Cut

NEW Kreg Accu-Cut Accu-Cut XL and Accu-Cut Expansion Pack

The Kreg Accu-Cut™ Circular Saw Guide Track System makes it extremely fast and easy to crosscut, rip, and make angle cuts in plywood and MDF panels into smaller sections with absolute accuracy.

With the NEW Accu-Cut XL and Accu-Cut Expansion Pack you can expand the cutting capacity of your circular saw and make cuts up to 100" in length.

Pre-Order Now for January 2019

Online Flip Catalog

Flip Through Our NEW Winter Woodworking Catalog

Flip through some great woodworking gift ideas in our new Winter catalog. You can click on any product number in our online flip catalog to go straight to our web page for that item.

Click here to flip through

Tormek T-4 Sharpening System

Tormek T-4
Bushcraft Limited Edition

Get unsurpassed quality, versatility, edge positioning accuracy and repeatability when grinding, sharpening and honing just about every tool in your shop and home.

While supplies last, get a free SVM-45 Knife Jig, and an SVA-170 Axe Jig with your Tormek T-4!

Only $439
while supplies last


Woodpeckers Slab Flattening Mill

Woodpeckers Slab Flattening Mill (along with your router) lets you accurately and easily flatten oddly shaped and oversized slabs right in your own shop.

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Workbench

Micro Jig GRR-Ripper Advanced GR-200 System

Save $10 through
Dec. 21st!

Workbench

Save 33% on the Portamate 6-Shelf Lumber Rack

Order now while sale quantities last


Save $20 on the
Flex Arm Magnetic
LED Worklight

Order now while sale quantities last


Save 50% on the Starrett EXACT Measuring Tape

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Woodworking Tool Kit for Kids

Woodworking Tool Kit for Kids

Get your child into woodworking!

Roberts and
Lee Parkstone
Musical Saw Kit

Very limited quantity available!

Earlex

Norton 9" x 11" ProSand Sanding Sheet Assortment

Save on this assortment!

Gransfors Bruks

Limited Edition Gransfors Bruks Wildlife Hatchet
Gift Box

A great gift idea for everyone
 

The New Best of Fine Woodworking Volume 2

OVER 70% off while sale quantities last

Why and How of Woodworking

NEW The Intelligent Hand

NEW from Lost Art Press

Cut and Dried

Ingenious Mechanicks

Christopher Schwarz's newest title
Hands Employed Aright

Hands Employed Aright

From Founder and Editor of Mortise & Tenon Magazine, Joshua A. Klein
 
Wood Slicer

Wood Slicer Resaw Bandsaw Blade

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for more info


David Barron Magnetic Dovetail Saw Guide

Makes it easy to hand cut perfect dovetails


Leigh B975 Box Joint and Beehive Jig

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for more info

Workbench

Save on a New Workbench!

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