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Show Us Your Woodworking!
This month we are featuring the custom furniture of Zack Schaffer who incorporates several different design styles in his furniture, including several Chaffin-inspired and Bombé pieces. CLICK HERE to see more of Zack's projects: Show Us Your Woodcarving! 
This month we are featuring a variety of carving projects by Peter Burrowes, who began carving by whittling chains after being taught by his father. CLICK HERE to see more of Peter's woodcarvings: Tips From Sticks-In-The-Mud Woodshop 
By Jim Randolph
Long Beach, MS In this month's "Tips From Sticks-In-The-Mud Woodshop", Jim Randolph offers a tip on a "local neighborhood spot" to get your wood pressure-washed. He also has a tip on how to not waste any leftover paint you may have from a project. CLICK HERE to read this month's tips from Sticks-In-The-Mud Woodshop! 
This month we have a tip on how to leave your stress outside the shop so you don't let it cause dangerous mistakes. CLICK HERE to read the tip: Ask the Staff Question: I am finishing a highly carved clock case. It was suggested that I use stain conditioner, but once I had applied the conditioner, the wood became much darker than expected. I do not wish to add further stain, which will only darken the wood. My question is, can I apply a clear finish directly on the conditioner? 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. Finishing Wood with Alan Noel 
Gilding Powders
Gilding powders or "bronzing powders" are very useful for decorating furniture and objects of art and they come in many colors. The most common techniques in finishing where you would use gilding powders include pin striping and stenciling. Here are SIX helpful tips to remember when using gilding powders: 
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Inside This Issue
Wood Pallet Projects Book Review Tips from Sticks-in-the-Mud Woodshop Show Us Your Shop Building an Electric Bass Guitar The Down to Earth Woodworker Q&A: Stain Conditioner Finishing Tool Review: Kreg Rip-Cut Woodturning with a Cause Show Us Your Stuff Show Us Your Carving FINISHING: Gilding Powders SAFETY: Stress-Free Workshop Show 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 the newly constructed shop of Lyn Baker in Yellville, Arkansas, which he shares with his wife, and features a back deck! CLICK HERE to take a closer look at Lyn's shop: 
By Steven D. Johnson Racine, Wisconsin This Year's Biggest Woodworking Mistake (So Far) The Runner-Up Screw-Up 5S In The Woodworking Shop – A Learning Opportunity Healthy Egos Insightful, Controversial, and Funny Reader Feedback 
This month, Steve talks about the illegible mistake he made when writing dimensions, builds a too-small "winter" cover for his second floor exhaust fan, promotes his next class for Popular Woodworking University, explains the need for a healthy ego, and catches up on some reader questions and comments.
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Our 2014 Summer Episode
This Month on The Highland Blog 
Take a look at our Beginning Turning Class with Hal Simmons Woodworking education is very important to us and we teach a variety of classes and seminars on different woodworking subject matter. We recently sat-in on Hal Miller's Beginning Turning class to take some pictures and be able to show our blog readers what goes on in our classes. CLICK HERE to read more about the turning class: |
Building an Electric Bass Guitar: Part 1 - Design Considerations By Lee Laird Austin, TX Lee Laird has been playing musical instruments for most of his life and has already designed and built his own Les Paul. Now he has begun to build an Electric Bass Guitar and gives us all of the details in his new build series. Check out his design plans HERE: Woodturning with a Cause 
By Aaron "Cujo" Cooley Aaron "Cujo" Cooley is a Georgia woodturner who has turned several different urns and other projects for "We Ride To Provide", a non-profit organization dedicated to honoring, serving, and supporting K-9 teams in GA. CLICK HERE to read more about Aaron's turning and the cause he is helping: 
TOOL REVIEW: Kreg Rip-Cut By Jeffrey Fleisher New Market, VA After woodworking for almost 25 years there are not many tools that I get excited about, but I really had a smile on my face as I used this new rip-cut jig from Kreg. If you need to 'break-down' large sheets of plywood into manageable sizes this is the jig for you. CLICK HERE to find out more: BOOK REVIEW: Wood Pallet Projects 
Review by
J. Norman Reid Delaplane, VA Are you looking for fresh ideas for some fun woodworking? Would you like to build things with free lumber? Do you favor the "shabby chic" look you get from rough-surfaced wood? Then this may be just the book you need to get you started on your way. READ the rest of the review here: 
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: WOOD SLICER Testimonial 
I just received your 3/4" resawing blade. Wow that thing is awesome!!
I think I'll throw away all my other blades.
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