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July IAugust 1985, No. 53

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Paul Bertorelli

Associ_Ie Arl Diredor

Roland Wolf

Associ_Ie Elilors

Jim Cummins

Roger Holmes

Dick Burrows

David Sloan

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EI;'ori_' Secrel_ry

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Senior Elitor

John Kelsey

Conlribuling Elilors

Tage Frid

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Metbols of Work

Jim Richey

Cover: The Reid Classics shop in

Mobile, Ala., specializes in mak

ing period beds. Their post turn·

ing methods will work in any

small shop, as shown beginning

on p.

28. Photo: Alex Thipen.

Letters

Methods of Work

Hidden shelf hinges; octagon marking gauge; lumber dollie

Answers

Drilling a saw table; finish repair; disposing of toxic solvents

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Comment

White knuckle joinery; product review; artisanry program

jaws, too? Exactly, but these are

padded with leather so as not to

mangle the work. Other ingen

ious features of Frank Klausz's

workbench are shown in the

plans beginnin ? on p.

28 Making Period Bedposts by Asher Carmichael

62.

34 Perspective in Marquetry by Silas Kopf

Methods fr om the Deep South

38 A Simple Banjo by Richard Starr

41 Drill-Chuck Reconditioning by Richard B. Walker

Renaissance work inspires contempo rary maker

44 Variable-Arm Milling Machine by Stephen Hogbin

Making a wooden-top 5-string

47 Ted Hunter's router mimic by Mary Hui

Overhaul cures lockjaw

48 Shop-Built Moisture Meter by Rick Liftig

Exploring the router's sculptural poten tial

sa te publisher; ale Brown, t or

, publisher; Janice A. Ro n ,

50 Gauging wood movement by Tom Liebl

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51 Two Dovetail Layout Tools by Jim Richey

Printed circuit guides you through electro nic maze

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52 Measuring Antiques by Dick Burrows

of marketing; Tom Luxeder, business

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55 Compiling a materials list by Jeff O'Hean

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Innovative woodturner Stephen

Hogbin has pushed the lathe just

about to its limits. Lately he's

been 'turning' giant-scale tex·

tured sculptures not on the lathe,

but with a router mounted on a

long swinging arm, as explained

on p.

56 From Cedar to Sea by Douglas C. Granum

Educated guesses fi ll in the gaps

ll: o le . Ando, su i

a ger; T ry Thomas, assistant

Hather Bine

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58 Antebellum Shutters by Ben Erickson

el, Patriia Rice, Nancy hh;

n Wner, Ul cs clerk. Roert

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62 A Classic Bench by Frank Klausz

Carving and steaming a dugo ut canoe

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Movable louvers fr om simple jigs

Fo, codinator; Oaudia Blake

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Re the backcover of your May issue. The staircase is attractive,

fun and ingenious, but very dangerous. Considering the de

gree to which building codes go to dictate safe, legal standards

for stairs (the cause of many household accidents) this flight

of fancy belongs in a curio musuem, not a house. Besides lack

ing a handrail, it lacks a barrier at the top to prevent someone

from descending, unaware that the stairs have been left in its

whimsical state. I'll wager a year's subscription to Fine Wood

working that no building inspector ever approved that stair

case. If it's art, move it over to the other wall of the hallway

and play with it there. Put a safe staircase in the hole, one

that'll be there when you take that first step at the top.

-. Felix Marti, Monroe, Ore.

them it dawned on me that anyone can do this. Here's how:

With a good metal-cutting countersink bit, countersink the

holes half way through the blade from each side leaving a

wedge-shaped or flared hole to help hold the plug in. Clean

any oil from the blade and press a piece of masking tape across

each hole on one side of the blade. Using two-part steel filler

epoxy (gray in color, not clear-available in small tubes at most

hardware stores), work a small amount into each hole from op

posite sides with a screwdriver ensuring that it fills the bevel

next to the tape. Leave a small mound of epoxy on the blade

and allow to harden overnight. Slice the excess off with a chisel

held at a low angle and tapped with a hammer. Slicing the ep

oxy off just before it dries seems to pull it out of the hole slight

ly or loosen it. The epoxy withstands any cleaning solutions

your blade will encounter at a saw shop, and we have never had

a plug come out. Give it a try. It may be what your nOisy blades

have always needed. -Douglas McAdoo, Concord, Cal.

TOM L U

With several thousand books at home and several thousand

more in my antiquarian bookshop, I've had occasion to build

quite a few bookcases, and to look hard at the bookcases of

others. There are some flaws in the bookcase design in your

Jan./Feb. 1985 issue.

It has no roof. The top books on the top shelf will gather a

remarkable amount of dust, especially as infrequently read

books tend to be put there. Thirty-six inches is too long a span

for a shelf of o-in. pine. Filled with moderately heavy books, it

could develop a noticeable sag. I never span more than 30 in.,

and prefer a 48-in. wide case with vertical supports at 24 in.

You get more shelf-feet for your money that way.

The rows of holes for the adjustable shelf supports are not

well positioned. If, as is likely, the books are shelved flush

with the leading edge of the moveable shelf, and then one

book is pulled forward, the whole shelf could tip forward and

spill the books. The article does, however, avoid some other

common bookcase-design flaws, such as using cornices and

wide edge-molding that trap and sometimes damage books.

- Wa yne Somers, Schenectad y, NY

With reference toJohn Kelsey's interview with Tage Frid in FWW

#52: How refreshing it is to hear "the old craftsman" bring up

the profit motive when discussing woodworking. Somehow the

word craft, when associated with wood, has come to mean "the

giving of one's time for the propagation of the art."

This definition [suggests) that the craftsman has nothing else

to do but create exotic and expenSive-looking pieces of art

woodwork. The craftperson doesn't eat, sleep or have bills to

pay. He just creates, using old techniques and old equipment.

The old craftsmen were experts at "mothering the necessity of

invention." They made do in order to make it. Figure out how

to build that stuff fast enough, in order to make enough, in

order to feed the family.

Frid's comments confirm that our challenge today is still the

same: Produce quality work using whatever techniques pro

duce a profit.

Thanks Mr. Frid, I guess now I know that I live in the same

world that you do.

( WW

-Roger King, Wendell, Idaho

are

exercises in the hard way to do things, often to the detriment

of the product and its function. The Adirondack chair

As a recorder of the German handiwork in Renfrew County,

eastern Ontario, Canada, I was delighted to read Jon W. Arno's

article on ash

#51). We have no native walnut, chestnut

or cherry here, and black ash-which most outsiders mistake

for oak-appears to have been the favorite furniture wood of

the immigrant German settlers and their descendants. In pre

paring a book about the early days (Harvest of Stones, to be

published by Toronto Press in 1985), I often asked why black

ash was so frequently used. The puzzling answer that I heard

was "Black ash didn't burn!" Further questioning eventually

got me the whole answer: The other native hardwoods, such as

oak, maple, blue ash, green ash and white ash were burned as

settlers cleared their land for farms. But black ash and cedar

grew in the swampy lowlands, which were seldom drained. So

these two trees reached their maximum heights and girths un

disturbed. -Brenda B. Lee-Whiting, Deep River, Onto

#52) is an example. It's "everybody to his own taste," as the

old lady said when she kissed the cow, but to me the simplest

practical construction and maximum utility usually results in a

better, more attractive product. Here, two [Adirondack chairs)

were cut out and assembled on a Saturday afternoon using a

handsaw and mostly nails for fastenings. They weathered haif

a-century on the waterfront and a continuous Siege of children.

The broad, flat arms served as writing desks, motorcycles, saw

horses, bucking broncos, story telling-benches for wide-eyed

elves and yes, occasionally as side tables for a mint julep.

Also, I was pleased

I learned that the author had not interviewed a sam

issue until

pling of owners of each machine. He managed to meander for

seven pages with the tact of a bureaucrat before bestowing his

unsustained, preformed opinion. Fine Woodworking did its

readers no service with that piece and may have done Grizzly

and Belsaw a disservice. The writer'S assumptions about the

American-made Belsaw are in total contradiction to the thirty

year experience of a friend and the twenty-year experience of

C.E. Banister of Workbench magazine. The worst disservice

you did was to your own credibility.

-D.B. Gonzalez, Jr., Pensacola, Fla.

"My carbide-tipped saw blade whistles so loudly it's ear pierc

ing. Is there anything you can do to quiet it down?" Having

worked in a saw shop for nearly eight years, I have heard this

complaint literally hundreds of times. There are many rea

sons why a carbide blade rings or whistles...the unplugged

holes in the blade are commonly the culprit. The holes are

drilled at the ends of expansion slots to keep cracks from de

veloping. The slots keep the blade from warping in heavy use

by allowing the rim of the saw to expand. We now plug all

blades that come into the shop, and after doing hundreds of

4 Fine Wo odworking

A few points in your recent planer test article need to be clari

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C K E Y REPLIES: You're right, the staircase would not be

passed by a building inspector. When I built it in 1970, code

didn't apply and even if I could build another, I'm not sure I

would. Yes, the staircase is a hazard but not an unreasonable

one, providing those who use it are made aware of its exis

tence and exercise care and common sense in using it.

My impression is that a preponderance of artitles in WW

o see the planer test article in the same

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