Nov 052010
 
Personalizing your mallets
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For many years, I worked with mallets that I’d either made or purchased. I had a tendency to use them just as they were when they were first made. After a while, I decided I might be able to make slight alterations that would positively affect the comfort and potentially the usefulness of the mallet. […]

Nov 042010
 
November Wood News is now available
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Hi there Woodworkers! Just wanted to let you know that the November edition of the Highland Wood News is out and ready for you to read. We have an exciting issue this month, with contributions from a few regulars and a couple new items for you as well! Customer Richard Rank gives us his take […]

Oct 282010
 
Building a Windsor Chair with Peter Galbert, Day 6: Legs and Stretchers
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We are almost there. It is the end of Day Six at the Galbert Windsor Chair Class and today we legged ‘em up. All of us have been looking forward to this day all week. The way these chairs are made is with a “box” configuration in the stretchers and if you get an angle […]

Oct 272010
 
Building a Windsor Chair with Peter Galbert, Day 5: Fortune Favors the Bold
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Why would we talk about “Fortune Favors the Bold” in a chairmaking class? Next time you spend three days working on a piece of soft pine trying to make a Windsor chair seat out of it and the instructor tells you to take a drawknife and make big honking cuts on the edge of the […]

Oct 262010
 
Building a Windsor Chair with Peter Galbert, Day 4: Chair Seats and Legs
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Day Four is done.  I think we may have figured out who is Grumpy and who is Sleepy today.  I don’t believe you have met our crew.  There is Corey from Kentucky, Dana from Virginia, Daniel from Israel (that’s right, all the way from Israel), and Jim and I are from Atlanta.  Peter and his […]