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Timber Framing Class with Mike Goldberg, Feb. 12
During this popular 3-hour class, Mike Goldberg will cover every aspect of timber framing from understanding wood, joinery layout, cutting and raising, to recycling storm damage into building materials and hybrids. It's an excellent opportunity for woodworkers, homeowners, contractors, architects, designers and engineers (as well as anyone else interested in the subject) to draw on Mike Goldberg's 30 years experience in the timber framing world. Timber Framing Class, Feb. 12 Highland's Upcoming Woodworking Class Schedule in Atlanta Many classes fill up quickly, so please register now to make sure we hold a spot for you. Feb 11 Finishing the Finish Feb 12 Timber Framing Feb 14 Beginning Turning Feb 21-22 Marquetry in Depth Feb 24-25 Build a Bookcase Feb 28 Build a Tool Storage Box Mar 3 Router Basics Mar 7-8 Build a Shaker Candle Box Mar 10 Hand Tool Sharpening Mar 11 French Polish Workshop Mar 14 Basic Bowl Turning Mar 15 Natural Edge Bowl Turning Mar 17-19 Build a Shaker End Table Mar 26 Hand Cut Mortise and Tenon Mar 28 Intro to Chip Carving Mar 28 Finishing 101 Mar 29 Turn a Peppermill Classes Suitable for Teens View Slideshows of Classes Show Us Your Woodworking! 
This month we are featuring a variety of woodworking projects made by Michael Oliver, who has a very unique design philosophy that he describes in detail from the design process to the actual build. CLICK HERE to see Michael's projects: 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 a beautiful carved mirror frame made by Gary Herlinger, who was inspired by the carvings of Grinling Gibbons at Windsor Castle. CLICK HERE to see the mirror frame: 
Thinking of getting a SawStop
for your workshop? Your fingers are worth it! 
In the U.S., a tablesaw accident happens EVERY 9 MINUTES! 
BIG SAVINGS on Rikon Bandsaws and Planers CLICK HERE for more info: Tips From Sticks-In-The-Mud Woodshop 
By Jim Randolph
Long Beach, MS This month Jim has a tip on replacing hole punches with drill holes as well as a money-saving tip involving trash diving for goose lamps. CLICK HERE to read this month's tips from Sticks-In-The-Mud Woodshop! Ask the Staff Question: I have a Wood Slicer blade on my Delta bandsaw. I love the blade, but I use it so often that it is getting dull. Can I sharpen this myself? If so what should I use? I am having a hard time finding anything to match the hook shape of the teeth. I look foward to your advice. 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. 
TOOL REVIEW: MicroDial Tapering Jig By Jeffrey Fleisher New Market, VA The MicroDial Tapering Jig by Micro Jig has several different uses including tapering, jointing, and straightening the edges of boards. Jeff Fleisher explains the set-up of the jig as well as some of its uses and why it is a great addition to your workshop! CLICK HERE to read more: HIGHLAND VIDEO: Product Tours and Tool Demonstrations available on our YouTube Channel! Check out the great product tour videos and demonstrations on our YouTube Channel . Our good friends Morton, David, Matt & Steve demonstrate some of our most popular products for your benefit in these tours. Click below to watch Morton discuss the MicroDial Tapering Jig by Micro Jig . Are there any products you'd like to see in a product tour? If so, we invite you to EMAIL US and let us know what YOU would like to see! 
This month we've got a safety tip and story on why you shouldn't wear gloves while using a table saw. CLICK HERE to read the tip: 
Our latest
Woodworking Catalog is available to browse online! CLICK THE IMAGE TO BEGIN
FREE SHIPPING on Leigh Jigs in lower 48 states 
Our Leigh Dovetail Jigs and Frame Mortise and Tenon Jigs will turn your shop into a cabinet factory.
CLICK HERE for more info: 
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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: 
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Inside This Issue
Book Review: Working Wood 1 & 2 Tips from Sticks-in-the-Mud Woodshop Show Us Your Shop Repurposing a Hock Spokeshave Blade The Down to Earth Woodworker Q&A: Sharpening Wood Slicers Tool Review: MicroDial Tapering Jig How To Convert a Smoothing Plane Into a Scrub Plane Blog: Pinterest at Last! Show Us Your Stuff Show Us Your Carving SAFETY: No Gloves on the Table Saw Economical Wood Choices for Boat Projects Artisan Toolmakers Corner: Shenandoah Tool Works 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 Rob Austin's 30' x 60' man cave/shop in Lawrenceville, GA, complete with a 55" LCD TV and kitchenette. CLICK HERE to take a closer look at Rob's shop: 
By Steven D. Johnson Racine, Wisconsin Tool Tune-Up Squad Building The New 5S Compliant Clamp Rack My Visit To Highland Woodworking 
This month, Steve discusses his wish for a Tool Tune-Up squad that would be on call for when you need your tools fixed (think Geek Squad). Steve has also completed his 5S Compliant Clamp Rack project and discusses its design and benefits. Lastly, Steve discusses his recent visit to Highland Woodworking this past January where he hung out at our Open House and taught a 5S Shop Organization class.
CLICK HERE to read more: 
This Month on The Highland Blog 
Pinterest at Last
Our blogger, Terry Chapman, just discovered Pinterest and how it is a great online tool for organizing future projects, wish lists, and more. CLICK HERE to read more: BOOK REVIEW: Working Wood 1 & 2 The Artisan Course with Paul Sellers 
Review by
J. Norman Reid Delaplane, VA In Working Wood 1 & 2 , Paul Sellers has produced an excellent guide to woodworking with hand tools. A master craftsman with 40 years' experience in working with wood and two decades teaching his methods to thousands of students, Sellers shares his knowledge about the techniques of hand tool woodworking and the skills needed to succeed at it CLICK HERE to read the review:How To Convert a Smoothing Plane into a Scrub Plane 
By Chris Black Rolesville, NC Scrub planes with their open throats and convex blades are designed to remove a lot of stock quickly. Think of them as muscle powered thickness planers. Today, with renewed interest in hand tool woodworking, folks are using scrub planes to add surface quality to cabinet panels, distress tabletops and even thickness boards. With some sweat equity and a flea market smoothing plane, you can create a very inexpensive scrub plane and enjoy a rewarding project. CLICK HERE to read how: 
Repurposing a Hock Spokeshave Blade
By Lee Laird Austin, TX This month, Lee has a new project repurposing a Hock Spokeshave Blade into a drawknife. In this article he discusses the processes he went through and the tools that helped him along the way. Click here to read more: 
This month, we are introducing a brand new column, the "Artisan Toolmakers Corner". At Highland Woodworking, we have a variety of vendors who put a lot of time and effort in handcrafting each of their tools that might one day end up in your workshop. We wanted to give our readers and customers a little background about where their tools are coming from and the toolmakers who are making them. 
First up, we are featuring Shenandoah Tool Works based out of Delaplane, Virginia and owned by Jeff Fleisher and Norm Reid. Shenandoah Tool Works currently specializes in mallets and awls, both of which you can find for sale at Highland Woodworking.
CLICK HERE to read more about Shenandoah Tool Works: 
Woodworking Mallet These exquisite Shenandoah Mallets feature steel heads in your choice of either 1 lb. or 1.5 lb. weights. The handcrafted Padauk hardwood handle is designed to be held in one of two positions: "choked up" with the hand at the edge of the steel head when maximum control is required, or near the end of the mallet for chopping out large sections (for example when reducing a background or creating a mortise). The concentrated weight of the mallet head provides a focused force that will make you feel as if the mallet head is doing all the work, not you! Head is made from oil hardened steel, Rockwell 28-32 rating. CLICK HERE for more info: 
Shenandoah Birdcage Awl
This beautiful tool with Padauk handle crafted by the artisan toolmakers at Shenandoah Tool Works is as beautiful as it is functional. Ideal for starting and drilling holes, the awl's shaft is hand forged and twisted from 01 steel hardened to R62. The tip is sharpened for starting and boring holes which the square shank then widens through repeated twisting. CLICK HERE for more info: 
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Order any of the above 4 books from us during January/February 2015 for 33% off list price. Click here for more details and to LOOK INSIDE each of the books: 
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KAPEX SALE: Save 10% during February on a Festool Kapex Miter Saw for your workshop
Now's a great time to upgrade your workshop to include a Festool Kapex Miter Saw. Purchase a Kapex from us during February 2015 and we will deduct 10% from its regular price. We're also extending the 10% discount to select accessories related to the Kapex. CLICK HERE for more info: 
Woodpeckers New 641 and 851 Precision Woodworking Squares Woodpeckers has just introduced brand new 6" and 8" Precision Woodworking Squares to augment their already extremely popular model 1281 12" square. Built to Woodpeckers' exacting standards, the two new squares each feature squareness accuracy to less than one thousandth of an inch over the length of the square. CLICK HERE for more info: Woodpeckers OneTime Tool – MFT Square 
Woodpeckers newest OneTIME Tool is the ideal solution for squaring the Festool MFT guide rail and fence. It is purposely designed with features that make it uniquely effective.
The Woodpeckers MFT Square has even more uses around the shop. It's perfect to square miter gauges and table saw sleds, sliding miter saws and even for checking assembled casework parts, frames and cabinetry.
DEADLINE to order is Feb. 16: 
VIDEO RECAP of Chris Schwarz' January Class on Staked Furniture 
Last month Chris Schwarz coached 8 woodworkers through the process of building
a pair of staked sawbenches in the Highland Woodworking classroom. Here's his blog entry
that includes a cool video that captures the energy of the weekend.
CLICK HERE to see the video: 
Economical Wood Choices for Boat Projects By Bob Kinsman Newport, RI With so much to do in the shop, and so little of the structure that guides professionals, it is difficult to chose and complete projects with good economic inputs or results. Likewise, owning boats can be expensive on the best of days, and downright prohibitive when things go wrong. But with a bit of creativity, research, and adventure, an otherwise fiscally doomed shop project might produce good yield for the boat without stinging the wallet! CLICK HERE to read how: NEW SawStop Jobsite Saw 
The new SawStop Jobsite Saw lets you bring incredible portability, innovative timesaving features and signature SawStop safety anywhere you need it. We expect to have a limited number of saws available to ship beginning in March 2015. Please get your order in now for earliest delivery. CLICK HERE for more info: SawStop Industrial Saw Now Available Online 
Highland has just become one of a small number of stocking dealers authorized to sell SawStop's Industrial Cabinet Saw online nationwide within the 48 states. This is the original SawStop model designed for continuous heavy duty operation in an industrial environment. CLICK HERE for more info: NEW Leigh Router Table Jig 
Leigh's latest new joinery jig is designed specifically for use on router tables. Able to produce through dovetails, half-blind dovetails and box joints quickly and easily, the RTJ400 offers instant adjustment of joint tightness down to a thousandth of an inch. CLICK HERE for more info: NEW Festool Vecturo Oscillating Tool System 
Festool has evolved the oscillating tool concept to a whole new standard. The Festool Vecturo will become the installer and renovator's best friend,
and can provide any woodworker with capabilities, accuracy and efficiency never before experienced with an oscillating tool.
CLICK HERE for more info:
Exquisite 4" Marking Gauge
Besides becoming one of the most beautiful tools in your entire shop, this marking gauge handmade in cherry by Jeff Hamilton will outperform any other
marking gauge you've ever used. Its cryogenically heat treated blade has been honed to 8000X, and its fingernail grind shape will excel in marking
in both grain directions while helping pull the fence tight against your workpiece.
CLICK HERE for more info: Sterling Plane Hammer 
At a recent Woodworking in America show we were extremely impressed with these exquisitely-made
hammers for adjusting wooden planes, offered by artisan toolmaker Chris Kuehn.
CLICK HERE for more info: TESTIMONIAL: Our Elipse Dust Mask 
I just spent about 3 hours wearing it while turning perfectly good wood into sanding dust. It is the most comfortable respirator I've worn (and I've used many). There aren't many products where the advertisement seems to understate the quality of the product, but this mask is one of them. Please keep reminding people that prevention is much better than treating the health problem afterwards! Thanks for carrying a great line of products including the Elipse Dust Mask. -John Wolf, Athens, OH Buy your Elipse Dust Mask today: Flexible Arm Magnetic LED Work Light 
Here's an excellent way to cast a powerful light wherever you need it in your shop. Switch-operated
magnet mounts to any ferrous surface. 28" flexible arm allows easy aim.
CLICK HERE for more info: Instantly access any article ever published in Fine Woodworking, now for only $69.99 
This new DVD archive contains every article in the
244 issues of Fine Woodworking magazine published in the past 39 years. Easily
search and view an entire generation's worth of woodworking wisdom. While
supplies last, save $30 off the $99.95 list price.
CLICK HERE for more info: WORKBENCH SALE Save up to $200 
Several models of our ever-popular European and German workbenches are now on sale. Choose the model that fits your shop and budget.
CLICK HERE for more info: WOOD SLICER Testimonial 
Ordered one of your Wood Slicer Bandsaw Blades last week for my 14" Delta. It arrived in 2 days. Got a chance to resaw a bunch of red oak today and it cut through the 7in red oak like butter.
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