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PUBLISBER Donald B. Peschke

EDlmR Tim Robertson

ASSOCIATE EDITOR PhilTotten

ASSISTANT EDITOR Bryan Nelson

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powered the huge (55") circular

saw blade, Randy Johnson yelled over

his shoulder, "You just never know

what you'll find when you cut into a

log." And the two walnut logs that his

father, I.D. Johnson, ran through the

sawmill proved his point, see photo.

CROTCHWOOD. AS the blade sliced a

thick slab of wood off the first log, it

revealed exactly what they were

looking for - the striking feathery

grain that sometimes forms in the

crotch of a tree.

BARK. But the

second log. was an

ciate the small-scale portable thick-

ness planers we tested for this issue.

Weighing only 50 to 70 lbs., these

planers are reasonably easy to move

around. So you get the benefit of a big

planer without creating a permanent

fixture in your shop.

Okay, so they're portable. But can

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team of testers wanted to find out.

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growing around a nut that a squirrel

had stashed in the crotch of the tree.

Why all this talk about crotchwood?

One reason is a number of readers

have asked about the walnut crotch-

wood we used for the scraper plane in

the last issue. So we decided to take a

closer look at what it is, and where to

get it, refer to the article beginning on

on page 30.

It's followed by a series of photos

taken at the sawmill we visited. (If you

like poking around sawmills as much

as I do, these photos are the next best

thing to being there.)

One thing we came across at the

sawmill was an old, industrial planer. A

cast iron monster that looks like you'd

need a boom crane to move it.

THICICNESS PLANERS. The sheer

mass of that planer made me appre-

all this talk about

"throwaway" blades?

COST. One other question that came

up was the cost. After all, these

planers aren't exactly inexpensive

(prices range from $375 to $500).

But the money you save by planing

your own rough lumber (or just the

convenience of planing stock quickly

and accurately to the exact thick-

ness you need) may make it worth

the investment.

NEW FACE. Recently, Bryan Nelson

has joined our staff here at ShopNotes

as Assistant Editor. He's been a sub-

scriber since Issue No. 1 (no kidding)

and is an experienced woodworker.

Bryan will be writing articles and

coordinating our upcoming tool tests.

Since he's spent the last 13 years as

a flight test engineer, he's bound to

be a "natural."

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Contents

Projects and Techniques

Vertical Glue-Up Station

Glue-UpStation

Pal7

Gluing up solid wood panels is easy with this shop-built

jig. And it doubles as a storage rack for your pipe clamps.

Shop Stool 8

Comfort and strength. Two reasons why this may be the

only stool you'll ever build for your shop.

Routing Tenons on Dowels 11

A core box bit and a simple jig. That's all you need to

rout tenons on the dowels used for the legs of the stool.

Gluing Up Panels 12

Tips and techniques for gluing up an attractive solid

wood panel that's perfectly flat - and stays flat.

Drilling Guide

Building a cabinet with adjustable shelves? A unique

indexing system on this drilling guide lets you drill

identically-spacedholes for both rows of shelf pins.

Departments

GreatTips

Sharpening Tips 14

A roundup of our best sharpening tips that will keep

your chisels and plane irons in top shape.

Small Shop

Small shop Layout

small shop work "big" by planning for work flow,

tool groups, and infeed/outfeed requirements.

SelectingTools

Portable Thickness Planers 22

Our team tests six populac portable thickness planers

and offers practical suggestions on the best one to buy.

Readers' Tips

Shop Solutions 28

ShopNotes' readers offer their own solutions to some of

the most common woodworkingproblems.

Lumberyard

Crotchwood 30

The dramatic grain patterns in crotchwood can turn an

ordinary project into something special.

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Drilling Guide

page 16

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Glue-Up Station

Vertical

Thisfolding

station makes

it easy to

glue upsolid

wood panels.

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panel %p

it. Gluing

with pipe

up a

tion doubles as SAVES SPACE. Finally, to save

a storage rack, see spave, the glue-up station hinge

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dries, just remove the panels

and fold the station for storage,

see photo C. Note: If floor space

is limited, there's even a wall-

mounted version, see page 7.

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standine on end looks a bit uhoto A below.

in the middle. So when the clue

unorihodox. ~;t

it works pat.

And with this vertical glue-up

station to support the clamps, the

whole glue-up process is simpli-

fied considerably.

CLAMP STORAGE. For example,

there's no need to drag heavy

pipe clamps around the shop.

That's because the glue-up sta-

WORKSURFACES. With a row of

clamps on each side of the sta-

tion, there are two flat work sur-

faces for gluing up panels, see

photo B. So besides the fact you

don't have to clear off a work

surface somewhere else in the

shop, you can glue up several

panels at a time.

Basically, the station consists of

two wood frames that are hinged

broom clip helps sec;re each station is designed to hold pipe clamps. So

for sto;age, the glue-up station

pipe clamp for storage.

can glue up several panels at once.

requires very little floor space.

ShopNotes

No. 28

"two-by" Douglas fir.) Note:

These frames are designed to

hold 36"-long pipe clamps.

LEGS. Each frame starts off

with a pair of legs (A), see Fig. 1.

To tilt the frame at an angle so a

workpiece sits flat against the

pipe clamps, a 20" miter is cut on

both ends of each leg, see Fig. lc.

TOP RAIL. The legs are held

together with a top rail (B)

that's ripped at an angle on both

edges, see End View.

The front edges are angled so

when you attach broom clips

(later) they'll be able to grab the

pipe clamps. And the angle on

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NOE: RIP TO? RAIL FROM 2 x 6

the back edge keeps the top rails

on each frame from binding

when you fold up the station.

STRETCKER. After attaching

the top rail to the legs with lag

screws, I added a stretcher (C) to

prevent the frame from racking.

It's cut to fit between the legs

end

is screwed to the top rail, see

MAKE TWO FRAMES

Fig. la. Here again, I used lag

screws to fasten the stretcher to

the legs, see Fig. lb. To make it easy to remove the clips to the top rail. To keep the

BOTTOM RAIL. All that's left to clamps and set them back in pipe clamps aligned, the clips are

complete the basic frame is to place, these holes are slightly centered over the holes in the

add a bottom rail (D) to the legs, larger than the outside diameter bottom rail, see Figs. 2 and 3.

see Fig. 2. Holes drilled in the of the black pipe. (I drilled 1'18"-

top edge of this rail act as a dia. holes for 3/4" black pipe.)

Finally, tacking a pair of nylon

glides to each bottom corner

"pocket" for the bottom end of

BROOM CLIPS. Now it's just a makes it easy to open and close

each pipe clamp.

matter of screwing metal broom the glue-up station, see Fig. 2.

9 together in the middle. (I used

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