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Welcome to The Highland Woodturner's First Issue!
Welcome to Highland Woodworking's new monthly online publication,
The Highland Woodturner
. Woodworkers everywhere are
discovering the almost instant gratification that woodturning provides. A beautiful woodturning project can often
be finished in an hour or so, and the creative possibilities are endless.
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us in sharing information with others about the craft of woodturning. Each monthly online issue
will contain useful woodturning tips; photos and descriptions of turning shops from around the
world; the latest innovations in woodturning tools; and information about woodturning educational
opportunities.
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The Highland
Woodturner:
Woodturning Class: Taming of the Skew
By George T. (Terry) Chapman
I hesitate to say I have tamed the skew, but at least I can live in
the same house with it now.
I went to the "Taming of the Skew" class at Highland last week and we spent three good hours with
Hal Simmons, a professional turner, to try to solve some of the problems many people have trying to
use a skew chisel.
CLICK HERE to read about Terry's attempts at taming that terrifying skew chisel!
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NEW Serious Toolworks Turning Tools NOW AVAILABLE at Highland!
Serious Toolworks turning tools are designed for
serious turners seeking the absolute highest quality top-of-the-line tools for enhancing and refining their turning experience.
See what we mean by SERIOUS:
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Hardware Parts Kit for building a homemade mini-texturing tool
It's simple to make a mini-texturing tool for adding decorative
details to woodturning projects.
CLICK HERE for more info:
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For this monthly column, we invite you to
SEND US PHOTOS
of your woodturning shop along with captions and a brief history and description
of your woodturning. (Email photos at 800x600 resolution.) Receive a $50 store gift card if we show
your shop in a future issue.
A Time-Saving Turning Tip
If necessity is the mother of invention, laziness is most likely the father.
I was in my shop one evening roughing out bowls. After roughing out the first bowl, with the chuck
still on the lathe, I thought "Why not just put the #2 drive center in the chuck and tighten it up
and save some time?"
I did it and turned the lathe on to see how well it centered.
How did it all work out?
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