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NOVEMBER /DECEMBER 1983, NUMBER 43

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DEPARTMENTS

102 Notes and Comment

20 Books

122 Adventure: Old Ken's Tools

ARTICLES

32 Quick and Tricky Little Boxes by Jim Cummins

How I bookmatch scrap wood into Christmas gifts

39 Splitting Out a Firewood Tote by Wayne Ladd

This project gets you started with green wood

42 Shop-Testing Five Jointer-Planers by James A. Rome

Combination machines solve some problems, have drawbacks too

45 Learning how to read the grain by R. Bruce Hoadley

4 9 Bandsawn Dovetails by T age Fid

50 Cutting Dovetails With the Tablesaw by Mark Duginske

A versatile way to join a stack of drawers

Tilt, saw and chop

52 Goats Get Jim Pritchard by Deborah Navas

How a homebuilder became a igure carver

54 :uropean-Style Cabinets by Bil Pfeiffer

Frameless carcases, hidden hinges and continuous veneers

60 Improving the Fretsaw by Ed Kampe

Pivot guides handsawing of marquetry veneers

ys, not brands, make the diffe rence

Cover: A tableful of smal-to-medium boxes,

most of them quick to make on the tablesaw,

with enough design vaiations to keep any

body busy with new combinations. As shown

61 Motor makes fretsawing ly by Scott Littleton

above, you begin by resawing a piece f scrap.

Where to go from there is explaine in the

article beginning on p. 32.

66 Disc Sander Sculpts Turnings by William Hunter

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Chemical

70 Spoon Bits by David Sawyer

Putting 17th-cenrury high technology to work

fs, mana g er; Madeline

n . n: Roger Bnes,

72 The incredible duckbill spoon bit joint by John D. Alexander

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77 Applying Classical Proportions by Mack S. Headley, Jr.

o n, Dorothy Dreher, Marie Johnson, Cathy Ko

m , Marchelle Serling, David Wass.

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116 Connections

8 Methods of Wo rk

41 Plans for a Swiss shaving horse by Drew Langsner

62 Which Glue Do You Use? by eorge Mustoe

A way to cut spirals without an ornamental lathe

73 British Enter Miami by Rick Masteli

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A tea table built to 18th-century rules

80 A Hepplewhite Breakfront by Richard L. Heisey

One cabinetmaker's mahogany dissertation

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W #42), and would like to pass on

I enjoyed Phil Lowe's article on cabriole legs

PAULBERTORELLIREPLIES:I too remember be

some information I came upon by chance

twenty years ago. I'd been making legs the

same way s Lowe des, bandsawing the pat

tern and then carving the pad. But I wasn't

really happy with them because the pad

seemed too small and it also threw the weight

of the cabinet in fr ont of the ankle line,

stressing the ankle and risking a break.

ing told to hold the label up. The reason is that

ash, though springy and resilient, is a ring-po

rous hardwood, and the whack of a ball on the

face grain can crush the earlywood layers, and

weaken the bat. A thump on the edge grain re

bounds on the hard latewood layers. So that

batters can tell the difference, batmakers brand

their labels into the face grain. If the label is

held up-or down-the barrer is more likely to

hit the pitch with solid edge grain. H&B's Rex

Bradley says that Oglivie and Ford, and many

other major leaguers, are so intent on their

stance and grip that they ignore label position.

"It desn't matter much o good hitters, though,"

says Bradley. "Bats usually break when the hit

comes off the handle. A good hitter is going to

make contaCt up on the sweet spot."

One day, either in a museum or in an

aniques magazine, I don't remember which,

I saw an 18th-century cabinetmaker's tem

plate for a cabriole leg. It hit me like a ton

of bricks: Although the pattern looked a lot

like the one I'd been using, the curved line

at the back of the leg went straight down to

the loor instead of being undercut. On the

next leg I made, I tried it according to the

old pattern and found I could carve a much

better-looking pad, about s in. larger all

around, which was also better balanced and

had a less undercut fo ot. If you look at the

pads on Carlyle Lynch's little highboy, on

W #41 (p. 20) on how tea table tops were made. Round

I laminate rings of wood together

to make my vessels, which are not

tuned on a lathe but sculpted en

tirely by sight and fe el.

-Robert St. Pierre, Hanover, Mass.

p. 32 of that issue, you'll see what I mean.

I do have to disagree, however, with Lynch's explanation in

Having been a regular user of axes, mauls and similarly han

dled tools for over thirty years, I liked Delbert Greear's

"Making Ax Handles" (FWW #41). Regretfully, hickory is

not indigenous to my part of the Northwest or I'd surely

make my own handles. I would like to add emphasis to his

next-to-last sentence. I've witnessed some bloody and debili

tating injuries caused by the use of axes with fa ulty handles.

When the first sign of damage is noticed, put the ax away

until the handle can be replaced.

There is a quick, if unorthodox, way to remove the wood

fr om the eye of the ax. Drill a X-in. hole about center, % in.

into the old wood. Give the ax head to an explosives expert.

Ask him to put a dynamite cap in the hole and ire it. He'll

know the appropriate precautions. I've used this method for

some years. It has never damaged a head and always removes

every last sliver of wood. Those not trained in handling ex

plosives must resort to conventional methods of removing the

remainder of the tool handle. Initiator explosives such as dy

namite caps are frightfully dangerous to the inexperienced.

-Scott Heter, Lewiston, Idaho

tabletops may have been dished out of one piece on the lathe,

but as for the rectangular ones, the moldings were always

applied. And tops were held on with glue blocks, not furni

ture buttons. Also, Lynch's outside profile is misproportioned.

The "round" shown in his drawing should have been the

actual tabletop. In the original, this is usually about � in.

thick. The molding is applied on this top. The only time I've

ever seen one carved out of a block was if it had depressions

to receive saucers for teacups.

-Eugene Landon, Montoursvile, Pa.

"Keeping Ten Fingers" (FWW #42) ought to be absolutely

required reading. Your closing comment succinctly expresses an

idea I hammer with regularity-don't do it if it doesn't look

right. Experienced intuiion is an acquired asset which must be

trusted in matters of safety. We have invested far toO much

time acquiring skills to vaporize our primary tools in a mo

ment of impatience. -RJ. Westra, Roling Meadows, Il.

Re your article "Souping Up the Block Plane," by R.S. New

man (FWW #39): Instead of sending the plane to a machine

shop or lapping the sole, I use a scraping procedure. To be

gin, grind the teeth off the first inch or so of both sides of an

old lat file. Next, fo rm a radius on the end of the file. This

creates two cutting edges. Spread a vety light coat of bearing

blue on a piece of glass and rub your plane over the bluing to

mark the high points. Place the plane in a vise. Using the

cutting edge of the file, scrape high points fr om the sole,

using X-in. to �-in. push strokes. Alternate the direction of

your strokes as work progresses, applying bluing when neces

saty to mark high spots. Continue until the bluing marks the

surface uniformly. When you're done, the sole will be true,

which will reduce drag as you plane.

-Richard H. Perin, Ashaway, R.I.

Some may apply white glue to wedges before driving them to

set an ax handle, but there is another way. I use a wedge cut

fr om a rare, very heavy piece of "pitch pine" passed down to

me fr om Grandpa Small. Touched off by a lighted match,

the wedge flames and "bleeds" molten pitch, and it is driven

home while flaming. It's stickier and more fun than using

white glue.

-Jim Smal, Newville, Pa.

W #40, pp. 64-65). However, an

As my subscription to Fine Woodworking comes due, I am

questioning whether or not I want to renew it. In the past, I

have considered it an essential part of my woodworking refer

ence libraty. In the Methods of Work section, I have found

and still do find suggestions. The layout and illustrations are

top-notch, and even the advertising has been more useful

than annoying.

I have noticed a steady decline in useful and uplifting in

formation in the body copy, however. Plans for traditional

fu rniture are available in reference sources which are more

complete, and the presentation of innovative concepts and

As one who enjoys baseball as much as woodworking, I really

appreciated Paul Bertorelli's glimpse of the Hillerich and

Bradsby "battety" (F

opportunity to answer a question that has intrigued me all my

life was missed. What is the signiicance of

the placement of the label on the bat?

Among my earliest memories of the game is

hearing one of the big kids hollering at me

to hold the bat label up. Yet one sees Ben

Oglivie and Dan Ford, for example, hold

ing the label fotward. What gives ?

-Alan Abrams, Takoma Park, Md.

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