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CLASS: Build a Backsaw with Tom Calisto, April 23-24
Building your own backsaw is not as difficult as you would think. In 2 days Tom will guide you through crafting your own saw that will slice through wood as well as any on the market. Beginning with a rough tote, precision milled brass back, brass saw nuts and a blank spring steel saw plate you will transform these components into a high end saw.
Build a Backsaw with Tom Calisto, April 23-24 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. Apr 6 Sharpening for Turners Apr 7 Hand Cut Mortise and Tenon Apr 9 Hand Cut Dovetails Apr 12 Hand Tool Sharpening Apr 14 Milling and Jointing Apr 17 Tablesaw Basics Apr 18-21 Cabinetmaking Basics Apr 23-24 Build a Backsaw Apr 26 Handplanes Apr 30 Spray Finishing May 4 Finishing the Finish May 7 Beginning Character Carving May 11 French Polish Workshop May 17 Intro to Chip Carving Classes Suitable for Teens View Slideshows of Classes Show Us Your Woodworking! 
This month we are featuring 2 beautiful projects by Rachel Curray, a Studio Art major at Cal State Long Beach who has been featured on the
The Offerman Woodshop
blog.
View more of Rachel's Woodworking: 
Show Us Your Woodcarving! This month we are featuring the carvings created by Doug Sullivan, who has taught himself a lot of carving techniques by watching YouTube videos. View more of Doug's Carvings: What Have You Made With Your Highland Woodworking Tools? 
We love to hear about the projects and fixes you make with the tools you've purchased from Highland Woodworking! This month we're featuring several hardwood projects made by our customer, David Ziff, with the help of his
Carter Magfence
, available at Highland Woodworking.
Read more and submit for this column: 
TOOL REVIEW: Sturdy Brothers Apron and Chisel Roll By Jeffrey Fleisher New Market, VA 
Sturdy Brothers is a Georgia-based small-business making beautifully hand-crafted waxed canvas and leather goods. Highland recently started carrying a line of their products including their shop aprons and chisel rolls, which Jeff reviews in this month's column.
Read Jeff's review: Find out more info on Sturdy Brothers: Tips From Sticks-In-The-Mud Woodshop 
By Jim Randolph
Long Beach, MS This month Jim shares a tip on building a mechanism to help loosen thumbscrews on his blade-holding devices, as well as a money-saving woodworking tip involving the recycling of old socks. Read this month's tips from Sticks-In-The-Mud Woodshop! 
This month, Doug Lewis shares his "safety first" practices that he uses every time he enters his shop. What are Doug's "Safety-First" Practices? Do you have a 2 Minute Safety Tip you would like us to share? If so, we invite you to EMAIL US and if we use your tip, you'll get a $25 store credit! 
Each month we're featuring a video highlighting the benefits of different Festool Power Tools. 
This month we're featuring a Festool USA video of Kayleen McCabe from DIY network's Rescue Renovation , who discusses the merits of using Festool power tools on her show. Watch The Merits of Using Festool Power Tools: Ask the Staff From our Ask the Staff October 2007 archives: Question: I had a mahogany front door installed on my house about 8 months ago, and the finish is already peeling off. The installer said they used an exterior finish purchased at a home center. Why didn't the finish last longer, and how should I go about fixing it? Here's the answer: E-mail us with your woodworking questions. If yours is selected for publication, we'll send you a free Highland Woodworking hat. 
Order any of the above 4 Taunton Press books from us during Spring 2016 for 30% off list price. Taunton Press Spring Specials: 
Order any of the above 4 Fox Chapel Publishing books from us during April 2016 for 33% off list price. LOOK INSIDE each of the books: Leigh Router Table Jig 
Leigh's 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. Leigh Router Table Jig - Buy Now: 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.
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Inside This Issue
MagSwitch Video Product Tour Women in Woodworking-Julia Harrison Tool Review: Sturdy Brothers Aprons/Rolls Tips From Sticks-In-The-Mud Spring 2016 Book Specials Poll: What's On Your "Workshop Playlist?" Blog: Get Woodworking Week Round-Up Book Review: Mortise & Tenon Magazine The Unfinished Symphony Tool Making for the Woodshop Browse Our Online Catalog 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're featuring the workshop of James Huggett in Earlysville, VA. See more of James's shop: 
By Steven D. Johnson Racine, Wisconsin Of Yourself, By Yourself… Making A YouTube Video Cheese Plate Technology Update For Woodworkers Spring Shop Organization Time 
This month, Steve shares some tips and ideas for those who want to start their own woodworking YouTube channel, provides a "spare time" cheese plate project idea, addresses some new technology gadgets for woodworkers, and discusses his newest online class, "More Space & Time In Your Workshop."
The Down to Earth Woodworker - read more: HIGHLAND VIDEO: Product Tours and Demonstrations available on our YouTube Channel! Check out the great product tour videos and demonstrations on our YouTube Channel . Our video product tour woodworkers demonstrate some of our most popular products for your benefit in these tours. Click below to watch Steve Johnson take us on a product tour of the Magswitch Workholding System. There's much more than initially meets the eye on this superb workholding system for your tablesaw and other shop tools. Are there any products or demos you'd like to see in a YouTube video? If so, we invite you to EMAIL US and let us know what YOU would like to see! Women in Woodworking Julia Harrison By Andrea Ramsay Seattle, WA 
This month, Andrea interviews Julia Harrison, a wood carver in the Pacific Northwest, who is often traveling. She uses her small traveling carving set and wood found in each area to carve different pieces that are meaningful to each local community.
Read Julia's story: BOOK REVIEW: Mortise & Tenon Magazine 
Review by
J. Norman Reid Delaplane, VA When I opened Mortise & Tenon and handled its richly-illustrated pages, I was in no way disappointed. The many photos—both color and black and white—drew me into its stories and created an immediate desire to read it cover to cover, something I did in very short order. What I discovered, when I did, was a magazine that plows ground not currently cultivated by any other single publication on furniture or furniture-making. Read the Mortise & Tenon Magazine Review:Purchase Mortise & Tenon Magazine: 
This Month on The Highland Blog 
Thanks to everyone who submitted their tips, projects, and photos for #GetWoodworking Week. In case you missed any of the tips or projects discussed, we've got a full round-up on our blog! Now you can #GetWoodworking anytime! Read the round-up: The Unfinished Symphony 
By Bob Rummer
Lawrence, KS In his most recent article, popular Wood News contibutor, Bob Rummer, discusses how a woodworker's unfinished woodworking projects can be compared to a famous composers "unfinished symphony", and offers tips on how you can get back into working on your projects so they'll be "finished." What is the Unfinished Symphony?: Tool Making for the Wood Shop 
By Kerry Lambertson
Finland, MN The clever woodworker, with a few basic tools, many of which are probably already on hand, can become a metalworker, and make or modify many simple tools. This approach offers all kinds of advantages. Shopmade tools are sometimes more affordable than their hardwarestore counterparts, and often of equal or better quality, not to mention being customized to the job at hand. Read more about shop-made tools: 
The Highland Woodworker 
VIDEO INTERVIEW:
Moment With a Master - Warren May Enjoy Charles Brock's recent video interview with master dulcimer maker Warren May of Berea, Kentucky, part of our Web TV show, The Highland Woodworker. Moment With a Master is sponsored by Woodpeckers . Watch the video interview: 
Woodworking Poll 
What's On Your "Workshop Playlist?"
In this month's poll, Jim Randolph asks "What's On Your 'Workshop Playlist?'" What music "gets you going?" What music "gets you in the mood for woodworking?" Answer our poll: 
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Sign-up to receive The Highland Woodturner every month! Want to join in? We invite you to SEND US PHOTOS AND STORIES of your favorite current turning topic. BOOK REVIEW: False Graining Techniques 
Review by
J. Norman Reid Delaplane, VA This book, well-illustrated in full color, is filled with ideas and inspiration. It's a quick, fun read that will leave you full of ideas about ways you can simulate wood grain or, if you choose, apply riotous colors and patterns to your projects. False Graining Techniques - Read the Review:Purchase for 33% off: 
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SAWSTOP FREE UPGRADE offer ends APRIL 30, 2016 Tormek T-7 Sharpener SALE, only $599 
Now's a great time to save on the purchase of
this legendary smooth-running, water-cooled sharpening system.
The Tormek T-7 is unsurpassed for quality, versatility, edge
positioning accuracy and repeatability when grinding, sharpening
and honing just about every tool in your shop and home.
Tormek T-7 - Quantity is LIMITED! Get yours today! 
Sjobergs Elite Workbench
with SM08 Shelf Cabinet Package Deal The Sjobergs Elite is among the finest workbenches made anywhere. For a limited time, our package deal offer includes the Elite 2500 workbench plus an attractive storage cabinet that mounts beneath the benchtop providing 2 shelves and 2 cabinets with doors. Sjobergs Workbench Package Deal: David Barron Magnetic Dovetail Saw Guide 
Highland Woodworking is the Exclusive
US Dealer These bestselling guides make it easier than ever to achieve perfect dovetails with your handsaw. The guides feature powerful magnets that secure your handsaw's blade at the proper angle while you are executing the cut. They work for cutting both pins and tails on both through and half-blind dovetails. David Barron Magnetic Dovetail Saw Guide - EXCLUSIVELY at Highland Woodworking: Pre-Order Now! Festool Systainer Dust Extractor 
The CT SYS is Festool's most compact, portable dust extractor. The Dust Extractor fits inside a Systainer 2 and comes with a hose garage the size of a Systainer 1. It's small enough to carry around with the included shoulder strap. When you're using the CT SYS, you can remove the hose garage to maximize portablility.
Festool CT SYS HEPA Systainer Dust Extractor - Pre-Order NOW for shipment on May 1, 2016: NEW - Rikon 14" Deluxe Bandsaw 10-326 
Rikon's new model 10-326 14" bandsaw has been upgraded from the 10-325 and now offers spring-loaded, tool-less blade guides, as well as quick-lock table trunnion and a quick-adjust fence system with 6" tall rip fence.
Rikon 14" Deluxe Bandsaw - Find Out More: 
Universal Mobile Base
Just $39.99 - Save $20 Find more space in your workshop by mounting some of your big tools onto these handy steel mobile bases. After moving a machine into position, you can lock it firmly in place by flipping the mobile base's two quick-action levers, allowing the tool to rest securely on adjustable leveling feet. Universal Mobile Base - Limited supply available: Rikon 18 inch Bandsaw Now Only $999.99 
Limited Quantity Available at This Extraordinary Price
Rikon's model 10-341 18" bandsaw offers much greater cutting capacity than other bandsaws in this price range, up to 17-1/2" width and resawing up to 13" high. Rikon 18 inch Bandsaw- Find out More: The Woodworker - The Charles Hayward Years 
After 8 years in the making, these select articles from
The Woodworker Magazine
have been bound together in 2 volumes by Christopher Schwarz and the Lost Art Press staff. The articles showcase Charles H. Hayward (1898-1998) as the most important workshop writer and editor of the 20th century during a time where hand tools and machinery were in strong competition with one another.
The Woodworker - Order Now: The Anarchist's Design Book by Christopher Schwarz 
The Anarchist's Design Book , the latest book by Christopher Schwarz once again breaks new ground in the field of woodworking literature. It is, as its title states, a design book. But Schwarz delivers far more than a selection of designs. He introduces us in a structured way to vernacular furniture (the stuff common folks made and used daily) as an alternative to the more ornate and stylized pieces that populate museums and adorn the homes of the wealthy. Along the way, he seizes many opportunities to teach alternative methods of building the designs he presents, bringing them within reach of woodworkers at practically all levels of experience. Read J. Norman Reid's review of The Anarchist's Design Book:The Anarchist's Design Book - Purchase Now: 
Woodpeckers OneTime Tool
Blade Gauge Set a precise saw blade angle in seconds. Woodpeckers latest OneTime Tool takes all the guesswork out of setting your table saw or miter saw to the angles you use all the time. Pick the size you want for either 10" or 12" blades, or get both sizes and save. Woodpeckers OneTime Tool - Deadline to order is Apr. 25, 2016 NEW - Wooden Rules 
These outstanding American-made wooden rules will remind you of the tool your grandfather used in his shop. Each rule is made from a single piece of select hard maple and bound with inlaid brass caps. The numbers and graduations are engraved and filled with with a blackening slurry. (They are not stamped on.) They are coated in a tough clear coat to protect against wear and grime.
Wooden Rules - Order Now: NEW - Heirloom Timeline Growth Rule 
Many parents record the growth of their children with marks on a wall. The heirloom growth rule is a more elegant and beautiful way do that, plus you can take it with if you ever move. All graduations and markings are engraved, then hand-filled with black pigment - not printed on the surface.
Heirloom Timeline Growth Rule - Order Now: WORKBENCH SALE Save up to $300 
Several models of our ever-popular European and German workbenches are now on sale. Choose the model that fits your shop and budget.
Workbenches- Save Now: Our Elipse Dust Mask is great for woodworkers 
Elipse Dust Mask Now Available in Two Sizes: 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. 25" flexible arm allows easy aim.
Flexible Arm Magnetic LED Work Light - Find out more: WOOD SLICER Testimonial 
The Wood Slicer is a dream and certainly lives up to its reputation!! WishI had been using it earlier in life. Thanks,
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