Highland Woodworking Wood News Online, No. 131, July 2016 Welcome to Highland Woodworking - Fine Tools & Education Learn more about Highland Woodworking View our current woodworking classes and seminars Woodworking articles and solutions Subscribe to Wood News
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For decades our monthly Wood News publication has been a fun way for us to share interesting woodworking articles, tips and techniques with our customers, with the constant goal of helping you become a better woodworker. Many of the articles we publish are written by customers like you. If you're interested, I invite you to submit an article about a woodworking technique, a review of a tool that you like, photos of projects you've built, or a photo tour of your workshop. If your submittal is accepted for publication, we will compensate you with a store credit that you can use towards purchase of our tools! Thank you for reading Wood News Online!

-Chris Bagby, Highland Woodworking owner

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The Down to Earth Woodworker

Best of The Down to Earth Woodworker

Steve Johnson's column, "The Down to Earth Woodworker," has been one of our most popular features in Wood News for the last 6 years. This month Steve is taking a hiatus from his regular column and wanted us to share his "Best of" woodworking articles and videos.

Read the Best of
The Down to Earth Woodworker
Inside This Issue

Show Us Your Shop
The Best of The Down to Earth Woodworker
Summer 2016 Book Specials
Show Us Your Woodworking
Show Us Your Carving
Tool Review: David Barron Dovetail Guide
Tips From Sticks-In-The-Mud
Safety Tip: Bandsaw Blades
Project: Hall Table Part 3 - Finish
Blog: Woodworking Reading Lists
Metric Shop Conversion
Poll: Workshop Allergy Precautions
Metric Shop Conversion

Converting Your Workshop
to Metric

Jeff Fleisher has been woodworking for over 25 years and has gotten very comfortable with using a ruler. But recently, he decided to switch his shop to a metric measurement system and it has changed the way he works in the shop!

Metric Shop Conversion
Find out more!
Show Us Your Shop - Randy Cordle

Show Us Your Shop

This month we're sharing the "minimalist" woodworking shop of Randy Cordle, who specializes in building musical instruments.

View More of Randy's Shop


Show Us Your Woodworking - Barry Hock

Show Us Your Woodworking

This month we're sharing the woodworking projects of Barry Hock, who enjoys making artistic wooden boxes after he retired from a 38 year career as a jewelry designer.

View More of Barry's
Woodworking Projects


Show Us Your Woodcarving

Show Us Your Woodcarving

This month we are featuring the wooden burl bowl carvings of Marty Derksema, who once saw signs for "burl wood" off an Oregon highway and has been carving bowls out of burls ever since!

View more of Marty's
Carving Projects
David Barron Dovetail Saw Guide Tool Review

Tool Review: David Barron Magnetic Dovetail Saw Guide

The David Barron Magnetic Dovetail Saw Guide will improve your hand cut dovetails by helping you create dead-on square saw cuts. You can hand cut both your tails and pins and end up with a perfectly fit set of dovetails.

Read the Tool Review

Purchase the David Barron Magnetic Dovetail Saw Guide
Bandsaw Blade Safety Tip

Safety Tip: Bandsaw Blades

James Yarbrough shares his helpful tip and signage that he uses to alert shop visitors (and remind himself) about bandsaw blade safety.

Read the Bandsaw Blade
Safety Tip


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Safety Archive
Poll: Allergy Precautions in Workshop

Poll: Allergy Precautions
in the Workshop

In this month's poll, Jim Randolph asks "Do you have allergies, COPD or other conditions that require you to take extra precautions with dust in your shop?"

Answer the poll
Tips from Sticks in the Mud

Tips from Sticks in the Mud

This month Jim has a tip on storing tissues in your shop so they don't collect dust, as well as a money saving tip on getting a tarp condensed to its original storage size.

Read this month's
Woodworking Tips
Hall Table Project

Project Idea: Building a Hall Table, Part 3 - Finishing

In Part 3 of this 3-part Hall Table project series, Forrest Bonner finishes up the installation of the drawers and drawer pulls, and adds finish to the hall table.

Read Part 3 - Finishing
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