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On Tue, 10 Jan 2017 17:56:45 -0500, Bill
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Bill wrote:
Leon wrote:
On 1/10/2017 12:35 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 8 Jan 2017 22:36:56 -0500, Bill
wrote:

Ed Pawlowski wrote:

OTOH, the internet has made many thousands of products available that
cannot be found locally at any price. Lowe's is 7 miles,
Woodcraft is
about 30 miles, but even they don't have everything.


I had a chance to visit Highland Woodworking while in Atlanta last
week.
I can easily recommend them to anyone here as a nice place to visit if
in Atlanta. I controlled myself and limited myself to a new "Lost Arts
Press" book (on mouldings) which I had been eyeing before my visit,
but
I feel like I have more interest in their web site now than I did
before. Being apparently impartial, they have some tools from both Lie
Nielsen and Veritas, for instance. I tried to step around the "green
tool" section, without getting anything on me. : )

I get there once a month or so. If I get out of there dropping less
than a Franklin, SWMBO is happy. Then there are the green days. ;-)



Sounds like a trip to Sam's Club, we never get out without spending
$100.



The only thing they have in common with Sam's Club is that they accept
the same currency.
They don't even remind me of my local Woodcraft or Rockler--they
actually have a variety of tenon saws (for instance). And though I
didn't look closely at any green tools, the space allocated for them
is substantial enough that they must have "the whole set".


Here's is a link to a video tour (I only watched the top one).

http://www.highlandwoodworking.com/b...storetour.html


BTW, if anyone makes a roadtrip to visit Highland, there are a lot of
very good restaurants in the area. It's in the middle of a rather
upscale section of Atlanta (The Virginia Highlands).

http://virginiahighland.com/