I always get really excited when two of my favorite things get combined into one. In this case I’m talking about Woodworking and Mythbusters. Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, the hosts of Mythbusters, have a website all about testing the latest scientific and technological gadgets out there, and in one of their more recent episodes […]
A few weeks ago we began blogging about Highland Woodworking owner Chris Bagby and his wife Sanne’s progress with the installation of a Little Free Library in their front yard in Atlanta, GA. The Little Free Library is a nationwide community movement project that involves the creation of a birdhouse-sized structure that is placed in […]
This week’s Follow Friday is Mary May, woodcarver extraordinaire and founder of Mary May’s Online School of Woodcarving. We previously featured her in our January 2012 Show Us Your Woodcarving section of Wood News, and she will be teaching a Fundamentals of Woodcarving class this December in our Atlanta store, which you can find more […]
This past weekend, several staff members from Highland Woodworking had the opportunity to attend the Lie-Nielsen Toolworks Open House at their factory showroom in Warren, Maine. The week prior to the Open House was dedicated to the Lie-Nielsen “dealer training”, where the expert staff at Lie-Nielsen taught attendees all about the use and creation of […]
Today’s Follow Friday is woodcarver Alexander Grabovetskiy, who was featured in the Show Us Your Woodcarving section of our July 2013 Wood News. Alexander first discovered woodworking when he happened to find his grandfather working on a project in his workshop. His grandfather got Alexander doing his own woodworking right away by giving him his own chisel and […]
In this month’s issue of Wood News, David Brearley of Austin, TX shows us the method he has used to restore and refinish a number of vintage coffee mills he has found. Given the often inseparable relationship between woodworkers and their coffee, we can see how these two topics might go together so well! Take […]
Today’s Follow Friday is woodworker David Picciuto, who was featured in the Show Us Your Woodworking section of our July 2013 Wood News. David has always been into art and design with a photography background, which is actually what got him into woodworking in the first place. He was looking into frames for his photography […]