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Marquetry Today
Spring, 1976, $2.50
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Spring 1976, Volume 1, Number 2
CONTENTS
4
News
5
Letters
10
Teaching Woodworking
by Thomas Dewey: Craftsman's shop becomes
school after hours
11
Books
13
Authos
13
To Dig Deeper
14
Marquetry Today
by Reivan Zeleznik: Thoughts on the state of the art
20
Split Turnings
by John Kelsey: Using green logs to turn a camel
24
Eagle Cavings
by Allan S. Woodle: A carver's view of our heritage
28
Hand Dovetails
by Alphonse Mattia: They're really not that hard to do
33
Mechanical Desks
by Alastair A. Stair: There's more than meets the eye
3
7
Textbook Mistakes
by Tage Frid: Somebody forgot that wood moves
3
9
Antique Tools
by Robert Sutter: A buyer's guide to many you can use
42
Spial Steps
by Edward G. Livingston: The trick is to make them strong
and graceful
4
Gustav Stickley
by Carol
1.
Bohdan and Todd M. Volpe: The rebel
craftsman of his time
6
Oil/Vanish Mix
by Jere Osgood : Making oil more durable
48
Shaker Lap Desk
by Brian Considine: A challenging exercise in hand
dovetailing
50
Chair Woods
by Robert C. Whitley: Lessons from the past on choosing
the right woods
52
Back to School
by Christopher Murray: When being the 'Village Wood-
worker' is not enough
5
3
Gallery
54
Micro Bevels
by R. Bruce Hoadley: 'Dulling' the edge to make it better
55
Sources of Supply
56
Telephone Chest:
A new art form?
Editor and Publisher
Paul Roman
Contributing Editors
Tage Frid
R. Bruce Hoadley
Alastair A. Stair
Robert Sutter
Associate Publisher
Janice A. Roman
Advertising Consultant
Granville M. Fillmore
Cover: "In marquetry the
trees are the real artists and
they have to die be/ore their
art can be app reciated, " says
C. Weed whose 12- by
22-inch picture, "A Man and
a Boy," was made /rom
Kelobra crotch veneer in an
attempt to express the
"Spirit 0/ '76. "
Fine Woodworking is published quarterly, March, June, Septemer and Decemer, by The
Taunton Press, Inc., Taunton Lake Road, Newtown, CT
06470,
Telephone
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Copyright
1976
by
The Taunton Press, Inc. No reproduction without ermission of The Taunton Press, Inc.
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correspondence to The Taunton Press, PO Box 355, Newtown, CT 06470.
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NEWS
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Wood Collectors
To Meet in Oregon
National Carvers Museum
To Celebrate Second Anniversary
The annual meeting of the International Wood Collectors
Society will be held in Portland, Oregon August 13 to 15.
Some 200 members are expected to attend, according to the
group's president, James P. Langdon.
The wood collectors organized themselves back in 1947,
and most members then were mainly interested in the
collecting of wood. Since then, the membership has gradual
ly evolved beyond collecting into the using of wood. Thus,
the majority of the close to 900 members are carvers, turners,
marquetarians and cabinetmakers, according to Langdon.
The sociery has made no great efort to recruit members;
membership is open to anyone. First-year dues are $10, and
thereafter $8 a year.
The society puts out a monthly bulletin dealing with
membership news, articles, and wood exchange lists.
The society's membership is worldwide, but concentrated
in the United States. There are regional groupings, but only
on an informal basis. Meetings are inanced by wood
auctions, with wood donated by the members. In fact,
according to Langdon, these auctions seem to be one of the
most popular activities of the society.
Anyone wishing to join or looking for more information
should write Langdon at 7200
W
Mountain Lake Way,
Vancouver, Wash. 98665.
The National Carvers Museum will have a second anniver
sary celebration July 9 to 11 at its new building outside of
Colorado Springs. The museum moved there from Chicago
where it had been since its founding in 1969.
Membership in the museum is now at the 10,000 level,
according to Lawrence F. Martin, a co-founder and its execu
tive director. Membership dues are $5 to $15 a year, depend
ing on the rype. All members receive the museum's quarterly
36-page National Carvers Review.
The museum itself has some 4000 American carvings on
display, as well as exhibits in turning and marquetry. Some of
the exhibits are permanent, some are continually changing.
Members are encouraged to exhibit their own work.
Anyone wishing more information on the museum should
write to it at 14960 Woodcarver Road, Monument, Colo.
80132, enclosing a self-addressed stamped envelope.
News Notes: Flowering Winterthur;
The Shakers and the Danes
Winterthur in Spring
will be a special showing of 30 rooms
and the gardens of the famed du Pont mansion and museum
near Wilmington that houses the most extensive collection of
American-made furniture in the world. The exhibition will
last from April 13 to May 23 and will be open every day
except Mondays from 10 to 4.
For more information write the
Public Relations Office at Winterthur, Del. 19735.
An American Inspiation: Danish Modern and Shaker
Style
will be the theme of a 30-piece furniture exhibition
being brought to this country from Denmark later this year by
the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service. The
show will tour the U.S. for a year or more, and anyone
wishing it to be booked at their local museum should have
museum oficials contact Ann Gosset at the Smithsonian,
Washington, D.C. 20560.
Tool and Wood Exchange
Begins With Next Issue
2000
TOOL CATALOG
This new color catalog represents the finest collection of top
quality imported and domestic woodworking tools and ac
cessories. Over
100
hard-to-find tools are pictured. Each
tool is completely described and where necessary its use
explained. Our bok section is noted for the special care taken
to find books by leading woodcraft authorities. No wood
working shop is complete without a copy of this catalog.
Catalog 50¢. Free to istructors.
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Beginning with the Summer 1976 Issue,
Fine
Woodworking
will include a tool and wood exchange as a
regular feature. The exchange will be open only to individ
uals (commercial establishments should use classiied or
display ads). Insertion costs will be $1 a line, with a minimum
of three lines.
Those wishing to use the exchange should allow 45 letters
or spaces per line, include name and address as part of line
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Buy," or "Will Swap" so we know where to put it. Print your
copy clearly and send it along with remittance to
Fine Wood
working,
Box 355, Newtown, CT 06470. The closing date for
the Summer issue is April 15; for the Fall issue it's July 15.
4
ETTERS
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straight-edge tools like plane blades and chisels. On the other
hand, my India (aluminum oxide) stone is as lat today, when
checked with a steel straight-edge, as it was more than twenty
years ago when I trst purchased it.
S. W. Hathaway, Sudbury, Mass.
I want to congratulate you on the Volume I, Number
1
issue of
Fine Woodworking.
Although it is long overdue, it
certainly is worth waiting for.
I have a couple of technical comments. The ftrst relates to
Mr. Ellsworth's article on hand planes. In conditioning a new
metal plane, Mr. Ellsworth does not mention a trick which I
find seems to be very little known. It is not original with me
as I came across it in one of Constantine's publications,
"Better Woodworking - what the textbooks didn't teach,"
which seems to have disappeared from their catalog. The back
edge of the bottom of any metal plane I have ever seen is
curved, never straight across. (Compare with a wooden
plane.) As a consequence, the back edge of the plane can
easily rock from side to side as it tends to rest on a single
point. The cure is simple. Using a square, scribe a line
straight across the bottom where the edge begins to curve.
Then grind off, at a small bevel angle, the plane bottom
beyond the scribed line. You will ftnd that now the plane
bottom at the back edge rests on a straight line the full width
of the bottom. There is no longer a tendency to rock. As the
advertising slogan says, "Try it - you'll like it."
The second relates to the article on bench stones. No way
can I agree that the choice between silicon carbide and
aluminum oxide is like "tweedledum and tweedledee."
Although a silicon carbide stone cuts very fast, it also wears, if
possible, even faster. My experience has been that after a very
few sharpenings a very detnite hollow begins to develop.
Once this happens it is impossible to properly sharpen
Editor's Note:
"Bench Stones" author Jack Heath sticks by
his statement. He attributes the difference in wear between
the two stones not to the difference in grit materials, but to a
difference in the materials that hold the grit together-the
bonding strength. Ideally, there should be just enough
bonding strength to allow the grit to erode as it loses its
sharpness, thereby exposing the sharp new grit underneath.
....Mr. Fischman's article was interesting and well writ
ten, however I ftnd that I disagree with some of the
particulars in his technique. Therefore I am writing to suggest
alternatives to persons who wish to try this form of turning for
the trst time.
Mr. Fischman's bowls have a beautiful form, but I question
the method of lamination. The top and bottom layers, which
are solid, the grain running in one direction, will adapt to
varying humidities by movement across the grain whereas the
center, "checkered" layer forms a continuous circle and
movement will occur evenly in all directions. In theory, these
layers may, in time, cause distortion in the shape or delam
ination due to this uneven movement. I have had success with
three checkered layers having 12 or 16 pieces in each layer. A
veneered plywood base is rebated into the bottom after the
Here's a completely revised
82
page catalog with everything for
the craftsman. Displayed in colo.'
are beautiful veneer's, inlays, pic
ture framing, furniture trim, stains,
and a selection of books ranging in
topics fr'om upholstering and wood
carvmg to cabinetmaking and
marquetry.
Ther'e are also complete sections
of specialty hardware, craftplans,
mouldings, upholstery supplies,
lamp parts, veneer and laminating
tools, carring supplies, and firush
ing materials. For the convenience
of our customers, all merchandise
is shipped postpaid. Send
$.50
(to cover postage and handling) to:
Minnesota Woodworkers SIII.I.ly Co.
Dept. 7
-
Rogers, Minnesota 55374
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