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Rikon

Rikon Power Tool SALE

Due to tariff-related manufacturing price increases, almost all of our Rikon Power Tools will soon be significantly increasing in price. For a limited time we will not be raising prices on our line of Rikon Power Tools, so act now and update your workshop at cheap prices while they last!

Act Now - Limited Sale Quantity!

Inside This Issue

Show Us Your Workshop
The Down to Earth Woodworker
Poll: Financing Your Woodworking
Project: Building a Step Stool
Tool Review: Festool SysRock and SysLite
Video: Narex Hand Cut Rasps & Rifflers
Blog: Tormek T-8 Giveaway Winner
Book Review: Hands Employed Aright
Online Flip Catalog
Show Us Your Woodworking
Show Us Your Woodcarving
Tips From Sticks-In-The-Mud
Finishing: Classes with Alan

The Highland Woodworker

The Highland Woodworker

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Best of FWW

ON SALE! The "New" Best of Fine Woodworking
Volume 2

From the editors of America's leading woodworking magazine, these classic woodworking references are available in a six-book set with slipcase and offered at a huge discount off the list price. The New Best of Fine Woodworking - Volume 2 is a six book-set containing articles collected from Fine Woodworking magazine and offering a wealth of material from top woodworking authorities.

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Stepstool Project

Project: Building a
Step Stool

Here in Atlanta, there is a great makerspace called Freeside Atlanta where David Alvarez teaches a basic woodworking class. He is sharing his step stool project with a step-by-step tutorial on how to make your own.

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Upcoming Woodworking Classes

9/8 Hand Cut Dovetails
9/9 Whittle a Horse
9/10-13 Cabinetmaking Basics
9/15 Finishing 101
9/19 Finishing the Finish
9/20 Intro to Pen Turning
9/22 Beginning Turning
9/22-23 Antique Restoration
9/25 Using Hand Planes
9/26 Taming the Skew
9/27 Milling & Jointing Lumber
9/29 Carve a Wooden Spoon
9/30 Intro to Chip Carving
10/2 Hand Tool Sharpening
10/3 Table Saw Orientation
10/6 Beginning Character Carving
10/7 Intro to Marquetry
10/9 Build a Krenov-Style Plane
10/10 French Polish Workshop
10/13 Basic Bowl Turning
10/14 Beginning Turning
10/16 Using Hand Planes
10/17 Sharpening for Turners
10/18 Milling & Jointing Lumber
10/20 Strip Canoe Building
10/20 Finishing 101
10/21 Bandsaw Basics
10/23-24 Build a Bookcase
10/25 Intro to Pen Turning
10/27-28 Spoon Carving Expanded
10/30 Basic Bowl Turning

Strip Canoe Building with Carley Abner

Featured Class:
Strip Canoe Building with Carley Abner
October 20, 2018

In this seminar, master canoe and kayak builder Carley Abner, will share his building insights, including pitfalls to avoid along the way, so you can more confidently begin (and finish successfully) your first strip canoe project. You'll get a stem to stern overview of the complete build processSo bring pen, paper, camera phone (and) a brown bag lunch) so you can capture the wealth of information Carley will share for helping you jump-start building (and paddling) a canoe you can truly call your own!

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Show Us Your Shop

Show Us Your Shop

We're sharing Jim Randolph's unique "garage" workshop in Long Beach, MS. You may recognize Jim and his shop from the monthly polls and Tips from Sticks in the Mud columns he writes for Wood News.

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Show Us Your Woodworking

Show Us Your Woodworking/Woodcarving

We've got a variety of woodcarving and woodworking projects made by Ken Vickets from Canada. We're looking for more Show Us Your Woodworking submissions. Submit pictures of your own woodworking to woodnews@highlandwoodworking.com.

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Show Us Your Woodcarving

Show Us Your Woodcarving

We're featuring several wood carving projects made by Gary Assarian who just recently began carving and who we last featured in our July 2017 issue of Wood News Online.

View Gary's Carvings
 
Down to Earth Woodworker

The Down to Earth Woodworker

In this month's column, Steve discusses the longlasting power of Festool batteries, a story of murder by a circular saw, and the timely comeback of lumber yards.

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Dusting

Finishing Tip:
Classes

Alan discusses his popular finishing classes and workshops he teaches here at Highland Woodworking.

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Sticks in the Mud

Tips from Sticks
in the Mud

Jim shares a few examples of floating shelves he has recently built using dominos.

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Woodworking Poll

Poll: Financing Your Woodworking

Let’s face it: Almost no one is giving away free tools, free wood and free fasteners. You need money to feed your woodworking obsession. This month's poll asks "How do you finance your woodworking?"

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Hands Employed Aright

Book Review:
Hands Employed Aright by Joshua A. Klein

From the Founder and Editor of Mortise & Tenon Magazine, Joshua A. Klein, comes the documentation of Jonathan Fisher's life as an early 19th century woodworker. Little similar material exists elsewhere, making this book a valuable contribution to the history of woodworking.

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Festool Accessories

Tool Review:
Festool SysRock and SysLite II

Festool is known for their power tools but they have recently introduced 2 great jobsite tools including the Festool SysRock Jobsite Radio and the Festool SysLite LED Worklamp, two rugged and durable accessories that would be great additions to any shop.

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Narex Rasps and Rifflers

Video: Narex Hand Cut Rasps & Rifflers

Justin Moon takes a closer look at the Narex Hand Stitched Cabinet Rasps and Rifflers. These indispensable stock removal tools will make your woodworking preparation more efficient and precise.

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

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Tormek T-8

Blog: Greg Williams, Winner of Our Tormek T-8 Giveaway

Last month, we announced Greg Williams as the winner of our Tormek T-8 Sharpening System Giveaway Contest. In this blog, Greg discusses his new tool and how it is fitting into his shop.

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Great Tools and Deals for Your Workshop

NEW Acer-Ferrous Toolworks Moxon Vise Kit

We just started carrying this Acer-Ferrous Toolworks Moxon Vise Kit and at $99.99 it is a steal for the benefits of a Moxon Vise on your workbench. Moxon-style vises are especially useful for raising a workpiece to a comfortable height above your workbench to help facilitate precision sawing of joinery.

Only $99.99


Woodpeckers OneTIME Tool
Radius Quick-Jigs

Projects look fully finished with the corners softened. Sharp corners are an invitation to chipped edges for the project and painful encounters when you bump into a piece. With this latest Woodpeckers OneTime Tool you can forget your jig saw and belt sander routine and accurately create clean, precise radiused corners in seconds using your router table.

Last Day to Order is Monday, September 17


Morakniv Wooden Spoon Carving Set

Just featured in the August 2018 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine, this wood carving set includes the Morakniv 120 Straight Carving knife and the Morakniv 164 Hook Knife. These two Swedish knives will let you begin carving wooden spoons, small bowls, shallow surface carvings and other general whittling and carving pursuits.

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at Sale Price of $59.99

Online Flip Catalog

Flip Through Our Early Fall 2018 Woodworking Catalog

Explore the universe of #HighlandClamps in our brand new Early Fall 2018 tool catalog. You can click on any product number in our online flip catalog to go straight to our web page for that item.

Flip Through Our
New Fall Catalog

 
Workbench

Save 33% on the Portamate 6-Shelf Lumber Rack

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Sale Quantities Are Limited


Save $10 on the
Flex Arm Magnetic
LED Worklight

Order now while sale quantities last


Save 15% on our
NEW Improved
Non-Slip Parallel Clamps

Order now while sale quantities last


Save 50% on the Starrett EXACT Measuring Tape

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Festool ETSC 125 Cordless Random Orbit Sander

Featured in the October 2018 issue of Fine Woodworking Magazine


Narex Dovetail Chisels - Set of 3

Featured in the October 2018 issue of Fine Woodworking Magazine

Workbench

Save on a New Workbench!

Order now while sale quantities last

Wood Slicer

Wood Slicer Resaw Bandsaw Blade

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for more info

 
Why and How of Woodworking

NEW The Why & How of Woodworking

From Fine Woodworking's Mike Pekovich


NEW The Mechanic's Companion

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Mortise & Tenon Magazine

Pre-Order Issue 5 for Late September Shipment

Cut and Dried

Cut & Dried


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for more info

 
Dust Mask

NEW Elipse OV/P100 Organic Vapor
& Dust Mask

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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

Lie Nielsen

Lie Nielsen
Hand Tools

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for more info

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