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Efficient Woodworking

Efficient Woodworking with a Little Imagination
By Jeff Fleisher

A well thought out design and skilled craftsmanship are the hallmarks to a quality piece of woodworking. As a custom woodworker you normally have as much time as you need to design and create your 'masterpiece'. However, if you are in a situtation where you need to mass produce a large quantity of a wooden item then there is a third element that factors into the equation...efficiency.

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Inside This Issue

Show Us Your Workshop
Threaded-Handle Ceremonial Gavel
Women in Woodworking
Sharpen This, Part 7
Show Us Your Woodworking
Poll: Farming the Work
Show Us Your Woodcarving
Tool Review Archive
Efficient Woodworking
Book Review: Chairmaker's Workshop
The Highland Woodworker
Tips From Sticks-In-The-Mud
Threaded-Handle Ceremonial Gavel

Turning the Corner: Woodturning a Threaded-Handle Ceremonial Gavel

Occasionally, Temple is asked to create a ceremonial gavel for an incoming or outgoing chairperson of an organization, and he find's that one of the ways to make this especially notable is to thread the handle into the gavel head.

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how he does it
Show Us Your Shop

Show Us Your Shop

We're sharing Steven Krause's 850 square foot garage workshop in Wisconsin.

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Show Us Your Woodworking

Show Us Your Woodworking

We're sharing John Moore's mesquite desktop project as well as a variety of guitars, both "cigar box" style guitars as well as "real" ones.

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Show Us Your Woodcarving

Show Us Your Woodcarving

We're sharing Donald Straka's nature carvings which are mostly realistic but still show the original grain or figure of the wood they are carved from.

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Women in Woodworking

Women in Woodworking
Meet Anika Gandhi

This month, Char introduces us to Anika Gandhi, a physicist who discovered woodworking in 2008 and has since created her own following at Anika's DIY Life.

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Sticks in the Mud

Tips from Sticks
in the Mud

Jim discusses how he creates a safe working environment in his shop and also shares a money-saving tip on how he reuses the zippered plastic bags that blankets and comforters are sold in.

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Poll: Farming the Work

Poll: Farming Out the Hard Work

These days, you can avoid just about any woodworking job you don't like, yet still have a beautiful end product. This month's poll asks if you tend to farm out the parts of the project you don't like to other woodworkers or if you're a purist who has to do every single part of the project?

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our poll
Woodworking Tool Reviews

Woodworking Tool Review Archive

Every month, Jeff Fleisher reviews a different tool that we sell here at Highland Woodworking. If you have been having trouble deciding whether to pick up the latest tool, check out our archive of thoughtfully considered reviews by Jeff to see if they can help you make a decision.

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Jeff's tool reviews

The Highland Woodworker

Watch our latest episode of The Highland Woodworker featuring Phil Colson, a talented woodturner and an employee of Highland for over 30 years! Plus tool tips from Popular Woodworking and more!

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Chris Schwarz

Sharpen This, Part 7
The Burr
in the Saddle
By Christopher Schwarz

In Part 7 of his sharpening series, Chris Schwarz discusses the importance of the burr as well as how to remove it.

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