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Highland Woodworking Updated COVID-19 Response
During this unprecedented time, we are continuing to ship all tool orders received online and via phone, and we are providing curbside pickup for our local customers. Due to the new wave of virus infections, our retail storefront will remain closed until at least January 6, 2021. At that time, we will reassess the situation and consider reopening our storefront for walk-in business and resuming in-person classes.
Our main concern is the health and safety of our employees and our customers. More than half our employees have worked here for over 20 years, so perhaps it is not surprising that the majority of us are also over 60 years old, unfortunately putting us in the vulnerable high risk category for COVID-19. We want to keep them healthy so they can continue to help fill orders and answer questions for all of our customers.
We look forward to the time when it will feel safe for us to reopen the retail store. In the meantime we are especially grateful for your patience and understanding.
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Show Us Your Shop
Tai Sines shares their tiny 112 square foot shop space in Woodland, CA.
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Show Us Your Woodworking
Like many woodworkers, Ray Pugh got his start in high school shop class and credits his shop teacher, Mr. Fleisher, for his love of woodworking.
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Show Us Your Woodcarving
Courtney Devonish shares several of his carvings and tells the story of how he got into woodcarving after he was made the "substitute" art teacher having had no art experience.
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Another Return of
Tips from Sticks
in the Mud!
Jim Randolph returns again with another quick woodworking tip. This month he explains how having the
Festool Vecturo
in the back of his truck helped him quickly cut a rabbet while installing a new window unit at his office.
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Rip Saw Sharpening Techniques
By Samuel Colchamiro
By learning about tooth geometry, and how different angles of sharpening affect your work, this article will help you to customize your sharpening process to suit the work that you do and to manipulate saw teeth for the optimal speed and aggression of your cuts.
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Poll: Making Wooden Toys for the Holidays
Bob Rummer's toy making story inspired us for this month’s poll. We want to know what kind of toys you have made for your own children and grandchildren as holiday gifts? If what you typically make isn’t listed, feel free to add it in as an answer to inspire other woodworkers this holiday season.
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Inspirational Burl Art
By Temple Blackwood
Temple recently had some customers send over two pine burls and gave him free reign of what to do to them. Temple discusses what he turned them into and how the transformation of a burl is one of the greatest joys of woodturning.
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Book Review:
Mortise & Tenon Magazine, Issue Nine
Review by J. Norman Reid
Mortise & Tenon Magazine
has evolved into a semi-annual feast of words and images that inform and inspire. This latest issue follows the proud tradition of its predecessors...If you revel in the diversity of ways to approach woodworking, its history and its practices, I think you'll like it too.
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Women in Woodworking:
Meet Annette Amadin
By Char Miller-King
This month's Women in Woodworking column features Annette Amadin who believes that "being a woodworker basically involves reorganizing your workspace until you die" which has played a big part in her woodworking processes and project progression.
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