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DEPARTMENTS

4 Letters

14 Methods of Work

Storing router bits; using headlamps; dovetail jig

& Answers

24 Questions

Finishing canisters; repairing an antique; bandsaw vibration

34 Folow-up

More on designing computer furniture

122 Evens

62. Cover: Easy chairs highlight the

N., cabinet

74).

128 Books

130 Notes and Comment

The New Yankee Workshop; product reviews; furniture fair

living room set by Long Island,

ARTICLES

maker Ray McCarthy (see article on p.

48 Building a Roll-Top Desk by Kenneth Baumert

Interlocking slats form an all-wood tambour

Editor Dick Burrows

Art Diredor Roland Wolf

Associ"te Editor Sandor Nagyszalanczy

Assst"nt Editors Jim Boesel, Charley Robinson

Copy Editor Carolyn Kovachik

Associ"te Art Diredor Kathleen Rushton

Editori"' Secret"y Claire Warner

Contributing Editors Tage Frid, R. Bruce Hoadley,

Christian Becksvoort, Michael Dresdner

Consulting Editors George Frank, Richard

54 Cutting Sliding Dovetails by William Thomas

Guide blocks aid hand tool precision

55 Building a dovetail plane

E. Preiss,

57 Routing sliding dovetails by Pat Warner

58 Building an Ahrens-Fox Fire Engine by Doug Kenney

A colorful classic in

Norman Vandal

Methods of Work Jim Richey

Indexer Harriet Hodges

66 Jointing beyond the basics

68 Edge Gluing Boards by Christian Becksvoort

Making flat panels with nearly invisible joints

Publisher John Lively

M"rketing M"n"ger James P. Chiavelli

Circul"tion Assst"nt Lynn Mefert

CopylProdudion Editor Christy McCormick

71 Eficient Spindle Tuning by Steve Gellman

Tricks for speed and consisteny

i ng C d i o r Ka n Mo n Simonds

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d itional approach with horse-hair padding

80 High-density foam: a convenient alternative

82 Creating a Limed Finish by Michael M. Dresdner

An old look for new wood

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78 Upholstering a Slip Seat by Don Taylor

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84 Metalworking in the Woodshop by Roger Heitzman

Materials and methods for better shop-built machines

Title to the copyrights in tlle conu'ibutions appearing in

88 Building a Stationary Sander by Roger Heitzman

90 Pine by]on Arno

Capturing the special charm of a common timber

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A jointer can rabbet edges and do many other

jobs besides squaring edges. Bernie Maas tells

how on p.

J16 in. scale

62 The Jointer by Bernard Maas

Getting it straight

74 Making Easy Chairs by Ray McCarthy

Tenoning square rails to round legs

N"tion"' Accounts M"n"gers Don Schroder,

Dick West

Senior S"'es Coordin"tor Carole Weckesser

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raphers and artists, unless otllerwise indicated. They have

granted publication rights to

Letters

n g and t disease-I think we should avoid the

Narrow

( 7

We have a cute saying running mrough our school these days.

"Hardening of the categories, leads to art disease."

-V

e Stanford, The Penland Sc hool of Crafts, Penland,

t objecs- The July/August issue

kind of narrowness concerning art and crat expressed in Woody

Pistrich's lener

( 7 #77) printed letters commenting on the relative merits of

#77). He sums up his position in the last

line: "Instead of blurring distinctions, it is now time to estab

lish some and put the proper forms back under their proper

categories and contexts."

Unfortunately for Mr. Pistrich, times are not moving in his di

rection. The interrelationship between fine arts and the Ameri

can crat movement is a fact of life. Wid10ut providing a history

lesson in The Development of Crats (andJor Art) in America, it

may sufice to explain that as the "Fine Artists" in this country

estranged themselves from much of the American public by deal

ing with more and more esoteric subjects and as they showed

more and more esoteric work, they came to need interpreters or

at least

More on woodworing and

"practicality and aesthetics" and "art and craft." I know a number

of avocational and a few professional woodworkers. We share

the opinion mat urniture is something to be used to sit on,

sleep on and store things in and that good uniture should be

both useul and pleasing to the eye. In addition to uniture, most

of us will occasionally undertake to make a wooden

t historians to translate that work for public consumption.

"t object"

which, like a painting or sculpture, is intended solely to please the

eye and does not pretend to have any other useul function.

I enjoy reports on good furniture and good art, but not re

ports on "furniture that has been consciously designed to be

either useless or near useless." Woodworkers have an amazingly

broad spectrum of interests and

7 is doing well at the difi

Primarily for historical reasons, many people now relate well

to "Crat" materials and crat techniques and have turned more

and more to them, thus causing much of the resurgence we are

now experiencing. Unfortunately for Mr. Pistrich, good tech

nique, full understanding of materials and design are not

enough for many Crat Artists. They have imaginations; they are

innovative risk takers, they are more and more inclined to chal

lenge the assumptions of history. They see in new ways.

When I lament the narrowness of crat (especially in wood)

I'm seeking to remind us all that the field is broad enough to

accommodate the full spectrum of work, from the most folksy

traditional utilitarian to the most ethereal and expressive.

. Hse, Oak Ridge, Te nn.

cult task of having someming for everyone. While "artiture" may

be a valid pursuit, it is simply not woodworking. It should be

reported in an appropriate journal, but not in Fi ne Wo odworking.

-Eugene

w orking-s an amateur w w orker, I

15 yars with no ill

i ng, ater leaving my shop for the evening, I be

t historians, t critiCS, academic institutions and various crat

llergies and w

have worked with various wods for more than

efects, such as allergies, or health problems. Suddenly one week

end, without

gan coughing, experienced a shortness of breath and began to itch

in several areas of my body. (I had been working with oak.)

The next day I visited a dermatologist who prescribed an oint

ment and some pills for the breaming problem. In a day or two I

was ine again. He said mat sometimes the body will suddenly

reject or become allergic to substances (food, medicines, dust,

etc.) that had never before been a problem. He said to stay away

from oak and try some other wood.

I always wear a dust mask when working with woods, but I

have a very small work area wim no exhaust system. At any rate,

I worked wim some pine and maple a week later and the very

same coughing and shortness of bream problems occurred, al

though this time there was no rash.

I am very concerned that I will have to give up my most

cherished hobby due to allergiC reactions. Perhaps other read

ers have had similar reactions to wood dust and could offer

some advice on how they coped with the allergies and what

mey did to avoid suffering and keep on woodworking.

-Lanejonap, Evanston,

schools and crat organizations all find it convenient to "Put the

proper forms back under their proper categories... " as Mr. Pistrich

puts it. It's cerainly much easier and in most ways clearer. Howev

er, this thinking has been a large impediment to the progress of

new ideas. This progress need not be made at the expense of ine

cratsmanship. We see, these days, the most exciting work coming

from people who employ a solid understanding of materials, and

the techniques that form these materials, to create extraordinarily

thoughtful and intelligent work. Oten that work contains more

than cratsmanship and utility: it contains, or expresses, ideas.

Writers and w

f they are to use it to its best advantage. Having a repertoire of

n no longer get by on our exquisite gr 1fi ar in either medi

w orkers share the need to understand material

o "say" what one wants,

techniques in wood is what allows one

just as grammar, punctuation and spelling are necessary in writing.

ll.

um. Both in words and wood it's what we have to say that counts.

s h needed-ter reading Craig Deller's

Tel us about your accidents:

Broader view of

The Taunton Press is gathering material toward a video

workshop on safety and is looking for cratsmen with stories

to tell. If you have had an accident and think others would

benefit from your experience, write us with a short

description of the accident and how you're working

differently now. Send leners to Video Department, The

Taunton Press, Box 355, ewtown, Conn. 06470.

#77, I feel some comments

are in order. The term "varnish" has been corrupted today to

include a number of resin systems that can be quite different.

These include alkyds, linseetung oil phenolics, oil-modified

polyurethanes and vinyl toluene/styrene modified oils.

I felt Deller's article seemed slanted to alkyds only. Mr.

Deller may not be aware of the fact mat polyurethanes or

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