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   RANGERP75R | Apr 17, 2003 04:20pm | #1

   mikkimel

      If possible, allow at least 3 to 4 hours if you want to catch it all. My first visit was about 3 weeks after they opened back in the 70's in the building directly across the street. The teaching room was the old dirt basement back then with a bleacher in the side of the dirt wall. Didn't stop Frid, Maloof or Kresnov from performing magic though.

      Be sure to look for the store cat. He'll probaly find you or carefully watch from a perch somewhere. If you don't  sense nostalga (sp), you probaly need another cup of coffee. Great ones have lectured and demonstrated and the aura remains.

      When you go home, you will take the spirit of WW with you if I'm not mistaken. You have been to the mecca of southern WoodWorking...

   Enjoy...

   sarge..jt Atlanta

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   mikkimel | Apr 17, 2003 04:57pm | #2

   What's the cat's name?

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   RANGERP75R | Apr 17, 2003 06:33pm | #3

   mikkimel

     Have never heard anyone call the cat by name. Just the store cat taken care of by Zach Etheridge, a resident teacher and long time employee. I'm sure the cat has one, but "the store cat" has always seemed more appropriate to me. ha...

   sarge..jt

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   lostarrow | Apr 18, 2003 04:50am | #4

   If you do any resawing on the bandsaw you should check out their resaw blades while you're there. They are amazing. Everthing they advertise them to be. Very thin kerf,extremely sharp and hold their edge, track beautiful,an increditable smooth cut (same as having a Forrest blade on your bandsaw),but the biggie is the reduction in the decibles. It makes resawing a pleasureable task. They have a winner here and I highly recommend them. Well worth the 35 bucks.

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   mrles | Apr 18, 2003 07:50am | #5

   Where is Highland Hardware?

   Gods Peace this Holy Week

   les

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   TerreHooks | Apr 18, 2003 05:22pm | #6

   Downtown Atlanta.

   It is truely a neat place.  Like no other woodworking store I have ever seen.  This is not a Woodcraft or Rockler copy.

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   RANGERP75R | Apr 18, 2003 06:41pm | #7

   Highland Hardware

     A teaching and learning center in mid-town Atlanta in the heart of the old Virginia-Highlands neighborhood. Originally a hardware store till 1978 when it was transformed into a WW tool and teaching center. The original store was directly across the street from the present one. As they out-grew the small building, the two story brick across the street became available.

    The neighborhood has a bohemian flare and the store is surrounded by shops and resturants. Blind Willie's Blues bar is just up the street and open air cafes abound. The whole area is abound with nostalgia from Atlanta's past and Highland caters to the WW. If you want it, have heard of it or have seen it; they probably have it.

     I went to my first seminar there in the late 70's. They were having some "hot-shot" WW for the week-end. I had never heard of this Tage Frid fella, but as it turned out he had a pretty good idea of what he was doing. <G>.. Since I have seen Maloof, Kresnov, Odate, Klaus and many others. There are hands-on work-shops every week-end. Roy Underhill will be in seminar May 4. He's a funny guy in person.

      http://www.highlandhardware.com or 1-800-241-6748 and you can get on their mailing list. Nope, I don't work there. I have spent many a week-end there though. As someone said, this ain't WoodCraft or Rockler; this is a piece of southern WW'ing history. Caution: "The spirit of wood" attacks as soon as you open the big wooden and glass door. Prepare to droll...And for God's sake, don't step on the "resident store cat". That's a no-no. ha..ha..

   sarge..jt

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   mrles | Apr 19, 2003 08:06am | #8

   Thanks Terre and also Sarge, they have a neat website, they stock some tools the catalogs don't have. We have a couple of places in Texas I shop at, in Dallas Elliots, in Houston Bearings. Neither has the classes like Highland has. Roy Underhill will be there next month I would like to sit in on that class. I've watched Roy and enjoyed his slam bam get it done in a hurry method for several years. Did you ever notice how beat up his fingers and nails get on some of the shows. I get a ding every now and then myself.

   Gods Peace this Good Friday

   les