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The Shape ofa Violin

MARCH/ApRIL 1979, No. 15 $2.50

The easy chair

on the eyes,

the bo dy an d

the pocketbook,

an d it's easier

to make

than you think

-when you know

the secrets.

That's what you'll find when you read Make a Chair from a Tree: An Introduction to Working Green Wood, by John D.

Alexander, Jr. It will ease you into a chair you'l) be proud of-a chair to be cherished for more than a lifetime. This highly

illustrated instructional guide tells you exactly how to start with the felling of a tree, splitting and fashioning the parts,

and constructing the chair with interlocking mortise-and-tenon joints that tighten as

the wood seasons. You'll also learn how to strip and weave a bark seat that's as strong

and pliable to work as leather. And you'll need relatively few hand tools to make this

elegantly rugged chair. Author John Alexander lucidly details each step with a rarely

found compassion for the beginning woodworker, yet with new information profes

sionals will find enlightening. All will benefit from the author's years of research and

experimentation with this almost-forgotten lore. And after reading it, you too will be

able to "bust chairs out of trees and build 'em better than they used to." Get a copy and

illustrations, soft cover,

x 9 inches, 128 pages, over 200 photos and

$8.00 postpaid.

make a chair this spring.

Box 355Al, 52 Church Hill Road, Newtown CT 06470.

Connecticut residents add 7 % sales tax. Satisfaction guaranteed.

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Send order with payment to The Taunton Press,

Publisher

Paul Roman

Editor

John Kelsey

Art Director

Roger Barnes

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Contributing Editors

Tage Frid

R. Bruce Hoadley

Consulting Editors

George Frank, A. W. Marlow

Lelon Traylor

Assistant Editors

Laura Cehanowicz

Ruth Dobsevage

Editorial Asistant

Joanne Lasher

Corespondents

Carol Bohdan, John Makepeace

Alan Marks, Jim Richey

Roseanne Somerson, Richard Starr

Colin Tipping, Stanley N. Wellborn

Production

JoAnn Muir, Manager

Deborah Fillion, Art Assistant

Batbara Hannah, Darkroom

Nancy Knapp, Typesetting

Associate Publisher

Janice A. Roman

Advertising Manager

Vivian Dorman

Advertising Representative

Granville M. Fillmore

Marketing Representative

John Grudzien

. Subscnptions

Carole E. Ando, Manager

Gloria Carson, Marie Johnson

Cathy Kach, Nancy Schoch

Kathy Springer

M ARCHI A PRIL 1979, N UMBER 15

DEPARTMENTS

4 Letters

16 Methods of Work

24 Books

28 Questions & Answers

34 Adventures in Woodworking by Kenny Fisher: Making the big time

36 The Woodcraft Scene by David Habercom: College dropouts

39 Events

82 Editor's Notebook: Mortising machines, tree surgeons, carving duplicators

83 Sources of Supply: Summer Woodworking Courses

ARICLES

40 The Shape of a Violin by Harry S. Wake

44 Stalking Mesquite by Stanley T. Horn

46 Th� Mortise and Tenon Joint by Ian J. Kirby

52 Portfolio: W.A. Keyser

56 Router Tables by Wallace M. Kunkel

60 Treadle Lathe by Jim Richey

Ma/room

Viney Merrill, Manager

Robert Bruschi

Business Manager

Irene Arfaras

Secretay to the Publisher

Lois Beck

65 Freewheel Lathe Drive by Richard Starr

67 Milk Paint by Jon W. Arno

68 Flying Woodwork by Leonard E. Opdycke

72 Routed Signs by Frederick Wilbur

74 Staved Containers by Daniel Levy

76 Carved Shells by R.E. Bushnell

Tage Frid: Restoration calls fo r all the tricks in the book

Gilding by Merlin Szosz

Flight of Fancy

62, made

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by Hary Sebastian Wake of San Diego,

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which the violin body is made on page 40.

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Letters __ _____________ ______ __ _

I read with interest the critique "Five Chairs" in yourJan. '79

issue. I realize that commercial designers such as Robert

DeFuccio have to appeal to the lowest common denominator

and that their attitude is heavily influenced by this require

ment as well as by the limitations of commercial manufac

ture. I am surprised, however, that you chose to publish this

review without comments since it would tend to discourage

the commission of custom-designed fu rniture .

Both chairs illustrated on p. 60 were made fo r me. Con

trary to comments by DeFuccio, they admirably ill the pur

pose fo r which they were designed. Richard Kagan's chair was

developed to be used in conjunction with a backgammon

table and is extremely comfortable even when games go on

fo r many hours. Alphonse Mattia's chair is a companion piece

to a sofa previously made by him and : a Victorian period

piece. It is made to my personal measurements, and the up

holstery is firm at my specific request. I can sit in this chair

and read and be more comfortable than I have ever been ....

-Walter Rich, Phtladelphia, Pa.

priate fo r the curve of the letters.

Carving parallel to the grain is not more difficult than carv

ing across if a center stop cut is made and the chisel is em

ployed with a slicing action, rocking side to side. Also, I find

that when carving curved letters, the inside face is much bet

ter performed using a small firmer or skew chisel. Unless one

has gouges that correspond exactly to the curves of a letter,

the edges of the gouge will score unwanted lines into the side

of the letter. Furthermore, using gouges, the inside face of a

curved letter will be convex, which is undesirable....

-Chstian W. Albrecht, Allentown, Pa.

Lest any readers of Fine Woodworking should panic at the

benzene hazard as described by ]. Kelsey in quotes from the

U.S. Department of Labor, they should also know that the

emergency regulation proposed by OSHA of the Department

of Labor was turned down by the courts, which qualified its

supporting data as unscientific and inadequate. Specifically,

OSHA presented a bulging collection of cases, most of which

were irrelevant to the fo cal point: cancer. Benzene, as any

other hydrocarbons fo r that matter, can be harmful. But, if

the OSHA "national emergency" arguments which the courts

rejected had been true, people should have been dying like

lies, and yet only six documented cancer cases were un

covered in the U.S., and these involved exposures 20 to 40

times as great as OSHA had declared, and fo r periods of 12 to

17 years, every working day... .

The woodworking amateur can be exposed to benzene by

two sources: paint and varnish remover, and less likely, lac

quers. Most fl ammable paint and varnish removers contain

benzene as a main ingredient. These removers have no excuse

fo r their existence, since nonflammable removers, based on

As Sam Bush points out "Incised Lettering," Jan. '79) , let

tering is a fo rm of chip carving....The breakout problems he

mentions can be avoided by the proper stop cuts. Before carv

ing begins, a center stop cut must be made. This is accom

plished by tapping a vertically held firmer chisel so as to score

a straight line down the center of the particular letter bar.

This cut, though it need not be deep, will invariably prevent

breakout on the side opposite to that which is first carved, as

the chips will break away along the line and will not extend to

the other side causing damage and necessitating glue. The

same end can be achieved when carving curved letters by

making the center stop cut using gouges with a sweep appro-

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