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Show Your Stuff!
This month we are featuring a beautiful rocking horse built by Stew Hagerty, an inspiring woodworker who shows us that you don't need to let physical limitations stop you from creating beautiful woodworking.
CLICK HERE to hear Stew's story and take a closer look at his rocking horse:
Show Us Your Wood
Carving!
This month we've got some creative carvings done by Carl Lehman, who incorporates some unusual techniques into his 'rocking cycles'.
CLICK HERE to take a closer look at Carl's woodcarvings:
Tips From
Sticks-In-The-Mud Woodshop
By Jim Randolph
Long Beach, MS In this month's "Tips From Sticks-In-The-Mud Woodshop", Jim Randolph offers some tips on hearing protection in the shop that would seem to contradict his typically frugal ways on the surface, but that long term likely will save you money (and also your eardrums!) CLICK HERE to read this month's tips from Sticks-In-The-Mud Woodshop! 
This month, Ron Conrad has a tip to help improve safety for when guests stop by your workshop.
CLICK HERE to read Ron's Tip:
This Month on
The Highland Blog A Visit to Lie-Nielsen Toolworks
This past month a few of us got to take a trip up to Warren, Maine to visit the Lie-Nielsen Toolworks factory and showroom for their dealer training and open house. We enjoyed a tour of the factory as well as numerous demonstrations by Lie-Nielsen show staff and several other master woodworkers.
CLICK HERE to read more about our weekend at Lie-Nielsen Toolworks on the Highland Blog:
My Last Shop: A Workshop Series
By Michael Smith Mountain Park, GA
In the sixth installment of Mike Smith's My Last Shop Series, Mike enjoys the visible proress of framing and building the roof of his shop-to-be.
CLICK HERE to get the details:
Finishing Wood
with Alan Noel 
How Many Coats is Enough? Over the years I have been asked many times, "How many coats of finish is enough"? Well, that is a good question, to which there is no definitive answer. It all depends... and I say that a lot. This month we'll narrow the question a bit to just oil-based finishes. Here are SIX tips for knowing when you might be done using an oil-based finish:
Charles Brock has singled out the specific tools he uses when building his sculptured
chairs and listed them in one place for easy selection by woodworkers
undertaking this challenging project.
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Inside This Issue
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 are featuring the beautiful Aiken, SC shop of Roger Moore.
CLICK HERE to take a closer look at Roger's shop:
By Steven D. Johnson,
Racine, Wisconsin
Bits & Pieces & Reverse Designing
More Bits & Pieces – Charging Off Even More Bits & Pieces – On The Block Still More Bits & Pieces – Prototyping a New Year’s Promise Mobile Sanding Center – Drawer Fronts & Trim
This month, Steve completes the drawer fronts and trim on his mobile sanding center. But first, he describes several 'bits and pieces' projects he is doing in between his time spent outside in the summer sun.
CLICK HERE to take a look at some of the summer projects Steve has got going on:
Chip Carving Workshop:
Book Review
By J. Norman Reid
Delaplane, VA For those who—like me—aspire to be chip carvers, Lora Irish has created a valuable resource. She begins with a brief review of basic chip carving techniques, including the choice of wood, transferring patterns, sharpening and hand positions. CLICK HERE to read the rest of the review:
The Auriou Rasps:
Tool Review
By Jeffrey Fleisher
New market, VA I always shied away from using rasps in my woodworking because they always seemed to gouge the surface or leave it rough with long linear scrapes. That was until I took a class on building a Sam Maloof-style rocking chair and was introduced to Auriou rasps. CLICK HERE to read the rest of the review:
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Report on the French Oak Roubo Workbench Project
A group of woodworkers gathered in Barnesville, Georgia recently to build 16 Roubo workbenches using massive oak timbers that came with a very unusual pedigree. Read more about it:
NEW - With the Grain
A Craftsman’s Guide to Understanding Wood by Christian Becksvoort
Recently at a Lie-Nielsen hand tool event, we asked Chris Becksvoort what distinguished his new Lost Art Press book from
Bruce Hoadley's best-selling "Understanding Wood" (first published by Taunton back in 1980). His answer: "That is a great book.
He knows a lot about wood. However he's not a woodworker." Well that pretty much answered the question. A student of the subject
all his life, Becksvoort for sure knows a lot about trees and wood, and as one of the most accomplished craftsmen of our time,
he is especially knowledgeable about the science of wood as it applies to building furniture.
See why every woodworker should own this book: 
CLICK HERE to see the latest episode:
Thunder Valley Drums: Building a Drum
By Bob Teets Elizabethtown, KY
I've loved drums since childhood, and after retiring, I set about following my dreams of being a drum maker.
CLICK HERE to read Bob's process for building his lightning-struck drums:
Ask the Staff
Question: Can you tell me what Japanese waterstones are made of? Do they have any lead in them?
E-mail us with your woodworking questions. If yours is selected for publication, we'll send you a free Highland Woodworking hat.
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