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Show Your Stuff!
This month we are featuring David Picciuto's small boxes that display the startling contrast between exposed plywood edges and exotic woods.
CLICK HERE to take a closer look at these unique pieces:
Show Us Your Wood
Carving!
In this month's column, we have some amazingly intricate carvings and an incredible story from Alexander Grabovetskiy.
CLICK HERE to read Alexander's story and see more of his work:
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 shares a few tips on avoiding bending over too much in the workshop. As he says - there is usually a cheap alternative to Advil and chiropractors! CLICK HERE to read this month's tips from Sticks-In-The-Mud Woodshop!
This month, Jon Murphy shares his safety philosophy for power tool usage.
CLICK HERE to read Jon's Tip:
This Month on
The Highland Blog Master Chair Maker: Terry Chapman visits Mike Dunbar
This month Terry Chapman took a trip up to The Windsor Institute in Hampton, NH where he attended a class taught by the great Mike Dunbar.
CLICK HERE to read more about Terry's new status of "Master Chair Maker" on the Highland Blog:
Refinishing and Restoring Vintage Coffee Mills
By David Brearley Austin, TX
Coffee and Woodworking often go together like peas and carrots. David Brearley has restored and found homes for roughly 20 coffee mills and has a small collection of original mills at his house.
CLICK HERE to read how he restores a vintage coffee mill:
Ask the Staff
Question: I just received a Kunz bench plane, and am not sure how to adjust the iron blade. Can you help me?
E-mail us with your woodworking questions. If yours is selected for publication, we'll send you a free Highland Woodworking hat. 
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 "productive but small" Poughkeepsie, NY shop that Henry Parslow built over his garage in 1987.
CLICK HERE to take a closer look at Henry's shop:
Our July Lie-Nielsen
Tool of the Month: The Dowel Plate
This simple, old-fashioned tool lets you make your own dowels in any kind of wood you please, in 7 common and useful sizes. Operation is quite simple: split, whittle or shave a dowel or tenon blank to rough size, then drive it through the target hole in the dowel plate to produce an accurately dimensioned dowel. Also available in metric.
Read Lee Laird's
blog post about the Lie-Nielsen Dowel Plate to learn more:
Take a closer look at the Lie-Nielsen Dowel Plate: Watch a video product tour to see how the Dowel Plate works:
By Steven D. Johnson,
Racine, Wisconsin
Speedy Building - Time Saving Tactics
Mobile Sanding Center - Box Joint Drawers out of Plywood! (Really?) Some Follow-Up Notes
Steve is still working towards finishing his mobile sanding center this month, building the drawers with box joints and using a very efficient 'ganging' method to accomplish all the cuts he needs to make. We've also got some responses and feedback to several of your comments on Steve's past columns and videos. But first, a last-minute Mother's Day project sidetracks him for a couple of days and Steve offers us several of the time-saving tips he used to get the project done on time.
Could you use some time-saving tips in your own shop? CLICK HERE to read Steve's ideas:
How to Make Picture Frames: Book Review
By J. Norman Reid Delaplane, VA
A compilation of brief but punchy articles by the editors of American Woodworker, this slender (117 page) volume promises 12 picture frame projects ranging from simple to stylish. In spite of this modest claim, in fact the book delivers more—indeed, much more.
CLICK HERE to read the rest of the review:
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Benchcrafted Vises Now Available from Highland
We are excited to introduce to the Highland Woodworking community some of the finest workbench hardware ever made. Benchcrafted Vises are manufactured in the midwestern U.S. by a small family business. Designed and built to impeccable standards, they are primarily intended for use in massive benches such as those inspired by 18th century cabinetmaker Andre Roubo. In addition to hardware for the leg vise and tail vise, we also offer Benchcrafted's superbly detailed set of plans for building a classic Roubo split-top bench. Going one step further, we also offer premium hard maple 4"-thick laminations for workbench tops designed specifically to make it easier for a woodworker to construct his own Roubo workbench. Take a look at our new Benchcrafted product offering: 
CLICK HERE to see the latest episode:
My Last Shop: A Workshop Series
By Michael Smith
Mountain Park, GA In the fifth installment of Mike Smith's My Last Shop Series, Mike is finally getting construction started, and he couldn't be more ready! CLICK HERE to get the details:
Finishing Wood
with Alan Noel 
Selecting the Right Finish Material In my classes there is always a lot of confusion about the words "enamel" and "latex". Also, "varnish" and "spar varnish" are confusing as well. In the world of finishing materials, varnish and spar varnish are the same material with one very important exception between the two. And for those of us that have been around for lets say "a while", we see enamel and latex on the same label which quite frankly, doesn't make sense. Here are FIVE tips to help clear up the confusion:
WOOD SLICER
Testimonial
Probably most of us think of the Wood Slicer band saw blade in terms of re-sawing fine lumber for things like furniture or musical instruments, but I gave one a new life over the weekend: I was building a rustic outdoor staircase using halved utility pole sections for treads. I mounted up a Wood Slicer I'd previously "retired", and it went through those 10 inch diameter sections like gas through a funnel! What a great blade! — Peter B. Get Yourself a Wood Slicer:
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