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Inside This Issue

Show Us Your Workshop
Woodworking with Kids
A Job That Can't Be Lost
Women in Woodworking
Using Backsaws for Accurate Sawing
Finishing: MGM Finishes
Tool Review: MicroJig MatchFit Dovetail Clamp Pro and ZeroPlay 360 Sled Kit
Turning Support Rollers for a Planer
Poll: Shop Improvements
Show Us Your Woodworking
Show Us Your Woodcarving
Book Review: Mortise & Tenon: Issue 8


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Women in Woodworking

Women in Woodworking:
Meet Silvana Ralphs
By Char Miller-King

Blending a unique style of modern and rustic furniture with geometric design at the forefront, Silvana Ralphs adds a humble artistic touch to the world of simplistic creativity with wood. Born and raised in Brazil, Silvana relocated to the states four years ago, where she currently lives in California and works as a full-time maker of Sil Ralphs Designs.

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Show Us Your Shop

Show Us Your Shop

We're sharing Federico Holgado's shop which is attached to his garage and just a few blocks away from Highland Woodworking.

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Show Us Your Woodworking

Show Us Your Woodworking

Eddie Howard loves making all sorts of woodworking projects including fine furniture, shop storage, and small gifts on the scroll saw.

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Show Us Your Woodcarving

Show Us Your Woodcarving

Chris is a mathematician and he combined his love of geometric figures with woodcarving and has since produced several intricate knot carvings.

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Mortise and Tenon Magazine, Issue 8

Book Review:
Mortise & Tenon Magazine: Issue 8
By J. Norman Reid

As always in Mortise & Tenon Magazine, emphasis is on hand tool woodworking, with a strong sub-emphasis on living close to nature. In the latest issue, the result is a refreshing diversion from the overwhelmingly high technology world so far divergent from the earth from which life springs.

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Poll: Shop Time

Poll: What Shop Improvements Have You Been Making?

In our April poll we asked "How are you spending your time at home?" and the most popular answer was working on shop improvements. This month we're wondering, what those shop improvements are? Whether it's as simple as sweeping all of the dust you've created or as intricate as applying The Down to Earth Woodworker's 5S program to your shop, whatever it is, we hope you're enjoying your shop and making projects that will last a lifetime!

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A Job That
Can't Be Lost
By Bob Rummer

Because we freely choose to spend our time in the woodshop, it is "a job that can't be lost" according to Steven Gelber. This month Bob discusses how the 1930s were a boom for home crafts and leisure activity, which might just be similar to what we are currently experiencing in today's times.

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Hand Saws

Using Backsaws for Accurate Sawing
By Samuel Colchamiro

In the modern world of precise woodworking machines, handsaws are often discarded as obsolete and inaccurate. Samuel Colchamiro discusses how if you learn to track a line with a standard backsaw, the world of woodworking is no longer limited to the accessories of your power tools.

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woodworking with kids

Woodworking
with Kids
By Doug Stowe

Since kids have been spending more time learning from home, it is important to still be able to emphasize a hands-on learning approach, and what better way to do that than have your kids join you in your workshop!

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MGM Finishes

Finishing: MGM Finishes
By Alan Noel

"MGM" finishes were very popular in the art deco period. Fast forward some 85 years and these "two toned" finishes are now all the rage on open pour woods such as oak or ash.

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Woodturning Donut Hooks

Turning Support Rollers for a Planer
By Temple Blackwood

Temple's friend Kenny was recently making significant plank repairs to a beautiful, old, wooden sailboat and needed Temple's help in turning the in-feed and out-feed support rollers for his planer to accommodate the new, heavy, 18’ long, rough-sawn planks.

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