The weekend before last I headed down to Highland Woodworking and attended Jeff Miller’s Designing and Building Chairs class. It was a two day class covering Jeff’s three pillars of chair making: Comfort, Structure & Appearance. For a successful chair, you have to balance all three. In the class we discussed what makes up comfort, structure and […]
We always enjoy getting updates from our past “Show Us” contributors. In September 2012, we featured the woodturning of Blair Swing in that month’s issue of The Highland Woodturner. After receiving a store credit from the article, Blair used it to order a few books on Segmented Wood Turning from Ray Allen and Malcom Tibbets, and quickly put the […]
Our November 2013 Wood News Issue #99 has just been published and this month it has an added bonus of even more contributor articles with lots of great projects and tips submitted by our customers! This month includes: The Art of Carved Doors– Arnim Rodeck shares his beautifully crafted front doors, all of which have […]
Well, dern!! It is obvious I cannot live without one of these Galbert Drawsharps. I am a big fan of Peter Galbert and the man is just amazing to me both with his Windsor Chair skills, and his mechanical inventiveness. I took his chair making class at Highland a few years ago and he is […]
The holdfast is a tool that has historically been around for a very long time, but until the late 70’s/early 80’s (if not later) it had fallen off the scope of all but the most devout hand tool woodworker. Luckily, the resurgence of hand tools has helped to bring about this wonderful version from Lie-Nielsen. […]
In our most recent issue of The Highland Woodturner, we featured Jim Brown’s beautiful woodturning of the recreation of a Cessna C195, which was built in honor of his love of flying as a child. He took his first flight in a Cessna Seaplane over 45 years ago with his parents and sister, and ever since […]
Ever since I managed to cut a circle on a piece of thin plywood several months ago, I have been thinking I need to get the splitter back on my table saw. I have a 10 inch Delta Unisaw in my shop and after watching Mr. Norm use the same saw for years and years […]