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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 gift card if we show your shop in a future issue.
Justifying Your
New Tool Purchase
By Steven P. Johnson
Racine, Wisconsin
In order to buy anything of significance (translation: new tools), you must first justify the
purchase. To whom you must justify the purchase is the enemy. Every purchase is a battle. You want
to buy, and they want to stop you. You may never win the war, but if you win enough battles you
will eventually obtain your dream shop! If you intend to win your fair share of these battles, you
need a good plan.
Here is an extremely good plan:
Finishing
Wood
with Alan Noel
What You Might Not Know About Sandpaper
By Alan Noel
Atlanta, GA
Way, way back, when I was in college working part time in a restoration shop so I could afford to keep eating, a lot of grief was
heaped upon me for throwing out what I thought was some very useless sandpaper. After I was instructed
to sort through a trash can retrieving that old sandpaper, I was made to understand the error of my ways.
After much hard work, I was eventually initiated into the knowledge of an even deeper realm of sandpaper esoterica.
Here are 8 important things that I learned about sandpaper:
How I Got a Pick-up Load of Lumber
from a Walnut Tree
By George T. (Terry) Chapman
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If you live near Atlanta, or are just passing through, we invite you to visit and leisurely browse our amazing retail store. The
thousands of woodworking tools on display here await your personal examination.
1045 N. Highland Ave NE
Atlanta, Georgia
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What Tools Would I Buy
If I Were Starting Over Equipping My Workshop?
By Bruce Lamo
Minneapolis, Minnesota
The old saying "If only I knew then what I know now" certainly applies to buying woodworking tools.
Like nearly every woodworker, I would love a large shop equipped with all the best tools. Like most
woodworkers however, I have had to make choices due to finances, space, and what was available at the time of
need. As I look back at the purchases I made over the last 30 years, I have few true regrets, but there
are many things I would have done differently.
How would I approach equipment selection today?
Discover the
Joy of Hand Tools
Join us Friday or Saturday, May 7-8, as Highland Woodworking participates in the Atlanta Lie-Nielsen Hand Tool Event
held at Peach State Lumber in Kennesaw. You can use this event as a great learning opportunity that will expand your perspective and
help hone your skills for getting the most from using hand tools in your workshop.
CLICK HERE for more info
No
woodworking book or DVD we've ever sold before has generated the response we've received from customers to Charles Brock's excellent plan bundle that
provides everything you need to know to build your own Maloof-inspired rocking chair.
Now Chuck has singled out the specific tools he uses when
building the chair and listed them in one place for easy selection by woodworkers undertaking this challenging project.
Check Out the Tools of the Trade:
Hand Tool Woodworker Featured on Television
Last month in
Wood News
we featured a video of a 5 minute telecast showing the amazing work of hand tool woodworker Dilo Fernandino.
Unfortunately for those many of us who are mono-linguistic, the audio was in Portuguese.
We now have an English translation of the interview, which is certainly worth reading to get the full impact of the telecast, which links Dilo's works with some other sculptural
treasures from antiquity.
CLICK HERE to see the translation and video:
Repairing Rotten Wood with LiquidWood and WoodEpox
Spring! It's time to get out and repair all your rotted
window sills, door frames, wooden siding and indoor or outdoor furniture. The best product for
handling this chore: Abatron's Wood Restoration System, LiquidWood and WoodExpox.
Here's some good info on how to:
Personalized Shop Sign
Hang a shingle outside your Olde Shoppe with our two-sided custom cast sign. Makes a handsome Fathers Day gift.
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The SawStop PCS is a world class precision piece of woodworking machinery based just on its own merits as a tablesaw. However it's indisputably the
SAFEST tablesaw in the world as well. The good news is it's available for a price that's competitive with other professional tablesaws (all of which
LACK SawStop's patented blade braking system). DROP BY OUR STORE at your first opportunity and see why the SawStop is the professional tablesaw that
makes the most sense to buy.
YOU can own a SawStop tablesaw. (WHY WAIT FOR AN ACCIDENT?)
FIND OUT how to
purchase:
Recent WOOD SLICER Testimonial
I just
recently purchased a Wood Slicer band saw blade for my Grizzly 14" G0555 band saw and I have to say
that this blade is absolutely unreal. I have never in my life seen a blade to equal this one and I
first used a band saw approximately 50 years ago. I am cutting hardwood to a thickness of 1/16" with
no saw marks and no additional sanding or finishing of any kind required prior to gluing. Very
little finishing is necessary prior to applying a final finish. The speed of cut with this bandsaw
blade on either soft or hard wood has probably doubled, I have not timed it. I would hate to change
back to an ordinary bandsaw blade but I certainly won't risk hurting this blade on ordinary work.
Again, this bandsaw blade is incredible! — T.G.
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