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Show Us Your Shop
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Show Us Your Woodworking
This month we're sharing the woodworking projects of Jon Lehman, a woodworker who lives on 75 acres of wooded land and is always finding downed wood that he can salvage into his beautiful projects.
View More of Jon's
Woodworking Projects
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Show Us Your Woodcarving
This month we are featuring the carvings of Milton Florest, who started carving after picking up a chip carving book and then made the featured fireplace carving in this column.
View more of Milton's
Carving Projects
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Tools You Should Buy First:
Veritas Dual Marking Gauge
New contributor, Justin Moon, discusses why the Veritas Dual Marking Gauge is one of the Top 5 tools you should have when you are starting out your tool collection.
Read the review
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Women in Woodworking:
Meet Andrea Cortés
This month Andrea interviews Andrea Cortés, a woman she recently met when taking a week-long woodworking course at The College of the Redwoods Fine Furniture program. In her native country of Colombia, manual labor is "unthinkable for a woman as a career", but she proved that wrong when she discovered her love and talent for woodworking.
Read Andrea's Journey in Woodworking
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Safety Tip: Clear the Floor
Our Wood News reader, Ray, shares his helpful tip on making sure you have a floor clear of excess wood and debris when working in your shop.
Read the Clear Floor
Shop Safety Tip
Visit Highland Woodworking's
Safety Archive
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Poll: Do You Ever
Miss Your Shop?
In this month's poll, Jim Randolph gets a little sentimental and asks "When it's days between visits to your shop, do you pass through, longingly, touching your active project(s) just to get a momentary thrill?"
Answer the poll
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Tips from Sticks in the Mud
This month Jim has a tip on repurposing milk crates to use at step stools in your shop, as well as a money saving tip on reusing "abandoned" wood that you might find on the street.
Read this month's
Woodworking Tips
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How to Control Rust in your Woodworking Shop
The absolute best way to eliminate rust from the surfaces of machines and other tools in your shop is to stop it from ever really getting started in the first place. We'll show you some good ways to do that, as well as how to completely remove it once it's already formed.
Eliminate Rust in your Shop!
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Blog: Lie-Nielsen
2016 Open House
A few of us went up to Lie-Nielsen Toolworks in Warren, ME last month for their annual Open House. We got to go on a tour of their updated factory, sit in on several "tool talk" discussions, and much more.
Read more about our visit to
Lie-Nielsen Toolworks
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HIGHLAND VIDEO:
Instructional Videos and Demonstrations available on our YouTube Channel!
Tormek T-8
Sharpening System
In this video product tour, Michael Morton gives an overview of the features of the T-8 Sharpening System and shows how the sharpening machine is used to sharpen a chisel.
Watch the video and find out more!
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Finishing Tip: Removing Pet Stains from Wooden Floors
One question that I am asked very often by my clients is how to remove pet stains from hardwood floors. The answer to this question is determined by variables in the flooring itself.
Find out Alan's tips on
Removing Pet Stains
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Fox Chapel Summer Book Specials
Save 33% on these 4 titles
through August 31, 2016
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Wood Slicer Resaw
Bandsaw Blade
I got my two Wood Slicer blades last week and put one on last night. I have a 15" bandsaw. I turned in my "guy card" and actually read all the how-to information you sent with the blades. Set everything up; marked my line, did my test cut, clamped a board to the table since my fence doesn't adjust and made three cuts on a 6-1/2" wide white oak board. Put them on the tablesaw top and could barely feel the difference in thickness. Smooth! Quiet! Heck, it really is everything you said! -Warren
Get your own Wood Slicer now!
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Festool Heaven
Our most recent issue of Festool Heaven, Highland's new Festool online newsletter, features the new Festool VAC SYS, a Domino comparison featuring the Festool DF500 and the Festool XL DF 700, as well as a comparison of the different vacuums offered by Festool.
We invite you to
submit an article
for a future issue about how having Festool in your shop has impacted your woodworking.
Read Issue #2 of Festool Heaven
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Great Books and Tools for your Workshop
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Earlex 6000
HVLP Professional SprayPort
The compact Earlex SprayPort 6000 turbine is driven by a 1200 watt motor, providing plenty of power that makes it ideal for the small professional shop or serious amateur woodworker. Equipped with the exceptional Pro-8 non-bleeder spray gun and super lightweight flexible HyperFlex™ HVLP hose, this system makes spray application a pleasure.
Price reduced!
Now just $499.99
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Woodworking in Estonia
It's one of Roy Underhill’s three favorite woodworking books, but you can’t buy a copy of it for love or money. Translated into English without the author’s permission in the late 1960s, "Woodworking in Estonia" has been a cult classic ever since it first surfaced.
Newly available from Lost Art Press!
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Mortise & Tenon Magazine
One of our most popular new magazines, Mortise & Tenon is an exciting new annual publication celebrating the preservation, research, and authentic recreation of historic furniture. Far more like a book than the term "magazine" would typically imply, Mortise & Tenon is the brainchild of professional furniture conservator Joshua Klein, who lives and works in mid-coast Maine.
A must-have for woodworkers!
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Universal Mobile Base
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.
$20 OFF while limited quantities last!
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