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Show Us Your Woodworking!
This month we are featuring the woodworking projects of Steven Durkee who has a variety of inlay and jewelry box projects. CLICK HERE to see more of Steven's work: Show Us Your Woodcarving! We invite you to SEND US PHOTOS of your carving along with captions and a brief history and description of your carvings. (Email photos at 800x600 resolution.) Receive a $50 store credit if we show your carving in a future issue. 
This month we are featuring the carvings of Timothy Brennan, painter turned carver from New Paltz, NY. Timothy learned his carving skills from master carver Dimitrios Klitsas of Hampden, Massachusetts. CLICK HERE to see more of Timothy's woodcarvings: Tips From Sticks-In-The-Mud Woodshop 
By Jim Randolph
Long Beach, MS What do nail polish and electrical plugs have to do with each other? Find out in this month's tips along with a tip on the helpful use of coat hangers in your woodworking shop. CLICK HERE to read this month's tips from Sticks-In-The-Mud Woodshop! 
This month we have an alternative option to the Unwanted Shop Guests tip from our August 2013 issue of Wood News Online. CLICK HERE to read the alternative: Ask the Staff Question: I recently acquired a Pfeil bowl adze, which needs sharpening. I am at a loss in figuring out how to accomplish this and what type of honing stones, etc. to use. With the size, inside bevel and the angle of the adze head vis-a-vis the handle, I can't quite figure out the best way to do this. I've not seen slip stones large enough. How should I go about sharpening? 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. Woodworking in America 2014 - A Review 
We had a great time attending Woodworking in America 2014 this past September in Winston-Salem, NC. We met a lot of our vendors in the Marketplace and participated in several classes with woodworking greats like Frank Klausz and Roy Underhill. We documented a lot of our experience in photos, videos, and blog entries and have combined them all for your viewing pleasure.
CLICK HERE to see the highlights of WIA 2014: The Fred West Commemorative Tool Chest 
While at WIA 2014 a few weeks ago, we came across the Fred West Commemorative Tool Chest made by Andrew Gore of Andrew Gore Woodworks. We caught up with Andrew at WIA and he discussed the significance behind the chest and what was included inside of it.
CLICK HERE to find out more: 
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: |
Inside This Issue
Book Review: Weekend Woodturning Projects Tips from Sticks-in-the-Mud Woodshop Show Us Your Shop WIA 2014 Highlights Building an Electric Bass Guitar, Part 3 The Down to Earth Woodworker Q&A: Sharpening a Pfeil Bowl Adze Tool Review: Klemmsia Cam-Action Clamp The Great Sawbo - Part 1 Flexibility on the Design-Build Curve Show Us Your Stuff Show Us Your Carving FINISHING: Blotching SAFETY: Unwanted Guests - An Alternative 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 David Lane's workshop in Old Lyme, CT. CLICK HERE to take a closer look at David's shop: 
By Steven D. Johnson Racine, Wisconsin Plugging The Holes End-Of-Day Strategies For Greater Workshop Efficiency Killin' Time Off The Cutting Room Floor 
This month, Steve discusses a way to keep dust out of the holes, short-term woodworking project storage strategies, engaging the woodworking mind, and an update on his SawStop Outfeed Table Project.
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This Month on The Highland Blog 
Homemade Bowl Blanks
A few months ago a friend asked if I wanted some chunks of walnut. I said does a bear brush his teeth in the woods? Some people he knew took down some walnut trees and were cutting them up into firewood. He got it and brought it to me. Most of them were so big that we could not pick them up, and so instead we just backed his truck up to my gate and slid them off on the walkway. I have been walking around them to get to the shop for about four months, so today I decided it was time to do something with them. CLICK HERE to read Terry's method of creating his bowl blanks: 
The Great Sawbo By Scott Stahl Kankakee, Illinois Most people have heard of the Roubo Workbench, patterned after Andre Roubo's plate 11 from the masterwork To Make As Perfectly As Possible. The simplicity of form and dominating mass are ideal combinations for most hand tool woodworking. But did you know that Roubo had a lesser known scion (descendent, not car)? Ladies and Gentlemen, it is my distinct pleasure to introduce you to the Sawbo workbench... CLICK HERE to read more: 
Flexibility on the Design Build Curve Tom Leroy Brunswick, ME Using the inspiration of Japanese architecture, Tom Leroy shares the evolution of his design and building process of creating a new bed for him and his wife. Read more about the evolution of Tom's bed design HERE: 
Building an Electric Bass Guitar: Part 3 - Making the Fretboard and Neck from Scratch By Lee Laird Austin, TX In Part 3 of his Electric Bass Guitar build, Lee takes advantage of the Festool Domino to aid him in continuing to build the neck and start on the fretboard portion of his guitar. Read more about the build HERE: 
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Fri-Sat, Oct. 17-18, 2014 Attend our OPEN HOUSE featuring our reps from the Lie-Nielsen factory At our Fall 2014 Open House, factory reps from Lie-Nielsen will be on hand at our store in Atlanta demonstrating sharpening and using hand tools, and will offer everyone an opportunity to try out many of our Lie-Nielsen hand tools for themselves. Meet Frank Klausz on Saturday, October 18 
All day Saturday of the event, world-renowned hand tool joinery master Frank Klausz will also be giving free live joinery demos.
CLICK HERE for more details: 
CLICK ABOVE to watch our most recent episode of The Highland Woodworker Web TV show 
TOOL REVIEW: Klemmsia Cam-Action Clamp By Jeffrey Fleisher New Market, VA I'm sure everyone has heard the saying, "You can't have too many clamps". I'll add that you can't have too big a variety of clamps as well. The Klemmsia Cam-Action Clamp provides a unique clamping action that is both surprisingly strong as well as easy. CLICK HERE to see why Klemmsia should be a part of your clamp collection: BOOK REVIEW: Weekend Woodturning Projects 
Review by
J. Norman Reid Delaplane, VA If you are looking for a way to get started in turning wood or want some guidance on developing your skills, Weekend Woodturning Projects is a book you should definitely consider. The author, Mark Baker, editor of Woodturning magazine, draws on the kinds of projects that helped him develop into a master turner. The result is a guide to building your own skills as you work through the 25 projects in the book. READ the rest of the review here: Finishing Wood with Alan Noel 
Blotching
It's always scary to stain a piece that one has put a lot of time and effort into just to have a big blotchy mess when you are done. Here are EIGHT tips to achieve a more even color in your finishing: WOOD SLICER Testimonial 
Probably most of us think of the Wood Slicer bandsaw blade in terms of re-sawing fine lumber for things like furniture or musical instruments, but I gave one a new life over the weekend: I was building a rustic outdoor staircase using halved utility pole sections for treads. I mounted up a Wood Slicer that I'd previously "retired", and it went through those 10 inch diameter sections like gas through a funnel! What a great blade!
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