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The Highland
Woodturner:
Making a Turned Stool
By Curtis Turner
Round Rock, Texas
I decided to kick off the new year by building a stool for my shop. I have dragged my current
shop stool around my shop for years and always disliked having to interrupt my work flow to go retrieve
it from the other end of the shop.
It's a project that turned out to be more challenging than most. A turned stool with four legs requires
multiple parts and involves fitting angled mortises and tenons. It's a fun project to build over the
course of a weekend.
Sound interesting? CLICK HERE to read how I built it:
TOOL REVIEW: The New Kelton Multi-Axis Scraper
Reviewed by Keith Fenton
Woodturning Magazine
Lately there's been a lot of buzz about the new Kelton Multi-Axis Scraper.
Woodturning
magazine
just did a performance test on this new scraper and featured a full page review in their
latest issue.
Read Keith's review
(and a short second opinion):
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My Way of Sharpening
a Skew
It goes without saying that if you are using a skew, it needs to be sharp. A dull skew might as well be used
as a hammer (though I would not recommend it).
Preferring not to invest in a stand-alone machine to do the job, I came up with my own method for sharpening a skew.
Here's what works for me:
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