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Christopher Schwarz Sharpening

Sharpen Up or Shut Up-
the Hand Tool Backlash
By Christopher Schwarz

Christopher Schwarz has noticed a trend in some sections of the woodworking world: otherwise capable woodworkers struggle when it comes to using their hand tools, even when their tools are of the highest quality. Chris thinks he knows why that might be the case.

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Inside This Issue

Show Us Your Workshop
Sharpen Up or Shut Up - The Hand Tool Backlash
Video: Bessey GearKlamp Bar Clamp
Poll: Are You a Packrat?
The Highland Woodworker Archive
Show Us Your Woodcarving
Milling Wood the Hard Way
Finishing: Primitive Finish
Tool Review: Miter Trimmer Show Us Your Woodworking
Tips From Sticks-In-The-Mud
The Highland Woodworker Archives

The Highland Woodworker Archives

You can watch 8 years worth of episodes (and more still coming) of The Highland Woodworker on our Highland Woodworker archives page!

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Show Us Your Shop

Show Us Your Shop

We're sharing Jim Mayer's garage workshop in Long Beach, CA.

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Show Us Your Woodworking

Show Us Your Woodworking

We've got a variety of woodworking projects made by Bud Brook, who emphasizes simple but strong joinery, quality woods and durable finishes.

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Show Us Your Woodcarving

Show Us Your Woodcarving

We're featuring several of William Brown's 'Bellamy Eagles', an iconic style of eagle carving developed by John Halley Bellamy in the early to mid-1800's.

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Finishing Tip

Finishing: Primitive Wood Finish

Alan discusses his way of making a "primitive" wood finish to make your pieces look like they're from an older time period.

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Sticks in the Mud

Tips from Sticks
in the Mud

Jim shares his quick and simple tray in a box woodworking project and discusses how he reuses 5 gallon buckets to clean his saw blades.

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Poll: Are You a Packrat?

Poll: Are You a Packrat?

This month's poll asks "Are you a packrat?"

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Miter Trimmer

Tool Review:
Miter Trimmer

A Miter Trimmer shaves the end of a board to a glass-smooth surface giving you a perfect miter joint. The obvious use is for making picture frames but it can also be used to trim molding to size. Once you buy one and use it, it becomes one of those shop tools that you wonder "how did I ever work without this?"

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Milling Wood

Milling Wood the Hard Way in
West Cobb

How often do you see wood being chopped down in your neighborhood, preparing to go into the chipper, and you feel the urge to stop the workers in order to salvage the wood for yourself? This is exactly what Bram Gallagher recently did, but for him it was a learning experience about exactly how "hard" hard woods can be to mill.

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Bessey GearKlamp Bar Clamp

Video: Bessey GearKlamp
Bar Clamp

Justin Moon takes a look at the new Bessey GearKlamp Bar Clamp. This clamp has redefined the “F” style, quick-action bar clamp, giving the ability to place the jaws into tighter quarters and offering a great deal of knuckle clearance for gripping and tightening the handle when positioned in front of a closed surface.

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