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Show Us Your Woodworking!
This month we're featuring the woodworking of Mike Stafford, who is showing off his bedroom furniture projects. CLICK HERE to see more of Mike's projects: Show Us Your Woodcarving! 
This month we're featuring the carvings of Don Schneider, a self-taught veteran, who first started out carving with an exacto knife and two wood files. CLICK HERE to see more of Don's woodcarvings: Tips From Sticks-In-The-Mud Woodshop 
By Jim Randolph
Long Beach, MS This month, Jim offers a tip on dust safety and the best household product he has found to help him clear the dust from his sinuses. He also offers a tip on dust collecting filters and how to make them last longer! CLICK HERE to read this month's tips from Sticks-In-The-Mud Woodshop! 
This month, Bruce Umbarger has a tip on cutting plywood on the table saw, and making sure you rehearse the cut. CLICK HERE to read Bruce's Tip: 
TOOL REVIEW:
Bessey Auto-Adjust Toggle Clamps By Jeffrey Fleisher Ever need a third hand? Fingers getting too close to a moving blade when using a jig? Those dovetail boards moving around on your bench as you try to clean out the waste? Well, Bessey's Auto-adjust Toggle clamps are the thing you need to solve those problems....and many more! CLICK HERE to read the review: 
This Month on
The Highland Blog Get Woodworking Week – Tips for Getting Started , by Lee Laird. February 2-8, 2014 has been dubbed Get Woodworking Week by fellow blogger and woodworker, Tom Iovino of Tom's Workbench . Highland blogger, Lee Laird, gives some tips to the beginning woodworker in this classic blog entry, for an important week of woodworking! CLICK HERE: To see what you need to get started! 
Charles Brock has singled out the specific tools he uses when building his sculptured chairs and listed them in one place for easy selection by woodworkers undertaking this challenging project. Check Out the Tools of the Trade:
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Inside This Issue
Book Review: Woodwright's Guide Tips from Sticks-in-the-Mud Woodshop Show Us Your Shop Pennsylvania Step-Back Cupboard Lie-Nielsen Tool of the Month: Dowel Plate The Down to Earth Woodworker Q&A: Can I Sharpen a Wood Slicer? Build a Thickness Sander and Resaw Jig Review: Bessey Auto-Adjust Toggle Clamps Create Your Own Wooden Plane Show Us Your Woodworking Show Us Your Woodcarving India Ink in Wood Finishing SAFETY: Table Saw Safety Show Us Your Shop! For this popular monthly column, we invite you to SEND US PHOTOS of your woodworking shop along with captions and a brief history and description of your woodworking. (Email photos at 800x600 resolution.) Receive a $50 store credit if we show your shop in a future issue. 
This month we are featuring Jim Brown's shop in Old Forge, New York. CLICK HERE to take a look inside Jim's shop: Our February Lie-Nielsen Tool of the Month: Lie-Nielsen Dowel Plate 
Read Lee Laird's blog post about The Lie-Nielsen Dowel Plate to learn more: Take a closer look at the Lie-Nielsen Dowel Plate: Check out Morton's Video Product Tour of the Lie-Nielsen Dowel Plate: 
CLICK HERE to see the latest episode: 
By Steven D. Johnson, Racine, Wisconsin The Dust Collection Series – Part 2 Knock On Wood… The Last Surviving Artists Next Month In The Down To Earth Woodworking Shop 
This month, Steve discusses the preparations he needed to make for the installation of his new dust collection system, discusses the mentality of the "superstitious" woodworker, ponders the fact that woodworkers may be the last surviving true artists, and gives us something to look forward to in March.
CLICK HERE to read more: Finishing Wood with Alan Noel 
India Ink
India ink has been around for thousands of years dating back to the 3rd Millennium BC in China. Somewhere along the way China began importing the materials from India to make india ink thus the term "india ink" was coined. India ink has been used to decorate furniture, especially inlays for quite sometime. Here are NINE helpful tips for using India Ink: Browse dozens of home workshops Browse our woodworking tips How to submit an article to Wood News Order a Highland Gift Card Map to our Atlanta store |
How I Built a Wooden Smoothing Plane By Lee Laird Many woodworkers I’ve met have at least a couple of hand planes, and while most of them seem to be iron-bodied planes, there are quite a few that also have some wood-bodied planes. I equally fit into this scenario, and while my iron-bodied planes work wonderfully, I also enjoy the feel and results of using wood-bodied planes and set out to build one myself. CLICK HERE for how he built it: Building a Pennsylvania Step-Back Cupboard 
By Kerry Lancaster Jonesboro, GA My high school wood shop teacher, who was in his late 80s, passed away in June 2012. Before he died I had the privilege of reconnecting with him. I was able to thank him many times for the knowledge he imparted to his students during the many years he taught, and I promised him that I would try and build a piece of furniture that would make him be proud to say that I was his student. CLICK HERE to see how Kerry built the Pennsylvania Step-Back Cupboard 
Building a Thickness Sander and Re-Saw Jig 
By Linda Master Dexter City, Ohio As a miniaturist, Linda Master needs really thin wood, so she ended up building a Re-Saw Jig for her bandsaw, and a Thickness Sander all by herself. CLICK HERE to see how she did it: BOOK REVIEW: The Woodwright's Guide by Roy Underhill Reviewed by J. Norman Reid, Delaplane, Virginia 
It is my privilege to review this most recent book by Roy Underhill, the popularly denoted saint of the woodworking profession. And what a joy to absorb some of the wisdom this master has imparted in this comprehensive and eminently readable volume.
CLICK to read the review: Ask the Staff Question: I have a standard 14" bandsaw blade, I think it is Woodslicer, 3tp x 3/4" wide. Can this blade be sharpened? For more details and the answer, CLICK HERE: E-mail us with your woodworking questions. If yours is selected for publication, we'll send you a free Highland Woodworking hat. WOOD SLICER Testimonial 
I recently purchased a 3/4 inch blade. It certainly is everything you claimed it to be. My 18 inch bandsaw always frustrated me. I was never sure if it was the blade, the fence, or the guides. The saw now performs as it should, at a much lower decibel than before. The blade set-up instructions are informative and well written in layman's terms. Thank you for a quality product. — Dennis
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