Highland Woodworking Blog

The May Issue of The Highland Woodturner is out!

Featured Products, Links, Tool Tips, Woodworking Tips

May 182012

Take a look at the May issue of The Highland Woodturner – it’s got some great stuff!

Curtis Turner is helping his friend Pete turn a large oak bowl. And we mean LARGE! Read about their stumbling blocks and successes in Curtis’ monthly column.

We’ve also got a piece of history this month – a 1987 article from Wood News about a Holtzapffel Lathe. Tom Frazer met Ed Hernandez, a Metairie, LA woodturner who owned one of the few active Holtzapffel lathes in the world.

Add to that a useful tip from Phil Colson on how to improvise a lathe-powered sanding drum and a beautiful series of woodturnings by Dean Griffith in our Show Us Your Woodturning column, and you’ve got a great issue of The Highland Woodturner! And don’t forget about our great deals on woodturning tools!

Check out the Highland Woodturner here!

The Highland Woodworker: A New Episode Featuring Brian Boggs and Ron Brese!

Woodworking Tips

May 172012

Click below to take a look at the second episode of The Highland Woodworker! Charles Brock takes you to visit woodworking shops of well-known woodworkers including chairmaker Brian Boggs and planemaker Ron Brese as well as Popular Woodworking editor Matthew Teague.

And keep your eye out for Episode 3 of The Highland Woodworker – coming early September 2012!

Take a Look at the May Wood News Online Magazine!

Featured Products, Links, News & Events, Tool Tips, Woodworking Tips, Woodworking Videos, Workshops & Instructors

May 112012

Take a Look at the May Wood News Online Magazine!

Having a slow Friday afternoon? If so, you should make the time pass by reading the May issue of Wood News! This month we’ve got some great entries in our Show Us Your Shop, Show Us Your Woodworking and Show Us Your Carving columns. Matthew Curry’s Bainbridge Island workshop will inspire you to start checking the [...]

The Plane Facts: A couple of great scraper planes

Woodworking Tips

May 082012

The Plane Facts: A couple of great scraper planes

Recently, I wrote an article primarily focusing on using free-hand scrapers. In this article I’ll talk about the other main scraper category, Scraper Planes, where the scraper rides in a plane body. In the Scraper Plane category, there are multiple types, but the commonality rests with most excelling at retaining a flat surface. The free-handed style scrapers require more focus [...]

The Wood Slicer: A Great Bandsaw Blade

Woodworking Tips

May 042012

Over the years, I’ve owned a couple of band saws, but getting the saws to work at their best was always questionable. I started with a Delta 14” from the around 1990, new in the box. It worked ok, but it didn’t quite do what I’d both expected nor truly wanted. I started out going through all of the [...]

Spring In-Store One Day Sale – THIS SATURDAY!

News & Events, Woodworking Tips, Woodworking Videos

May 032012

Spring In-Store One Day Sale - THIS SATURDAY!

If you are in the Atlanta area this weekend, we’d love to see you at our Spring One Day Sale! This time we’ve got Mike Morton, our video product tour specialist, on hand to provide demos of his favorite hand and power tools as well as offering woodworking tips and techniques throughout the day. We’ll [...]

Shaker Candle Stand

Woodworking Tips

Apr 272012

Some things don’t need fixing. Witness “New Coke” in Atlanta about 25 years ago — somebody thought they could fix Coca-Cola. Duh!! How would you improve a ’57 Chevy? Did anybody give Elvis singing lessons? Who would have stopped Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers and said “Wait, you’re doing that all wrong: you dance backwards [...]