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FINE WOODWORKING

Editor John Kelsey

Managing Editor Paul Bermrelli

Art Director Deborah Fillion

Associate Editor Jim Cummins

Assistant Editors Dick Burmws

David Sloan

Copy Editor Nancy Scabile

Arsistant Art Diector Roland Wolf

Editorial Secretary Par Zimmerman

MRCH/AplL 1984, NUMBER 45

DEPARTMENTS

Contibuting Editors

Tage Frid, R. Bruce Hoadley,

Richard Srarr, Simon Warts

Consulting Editors

George Frank, Orm Heuer, Ian). Kirby,

A.W Marlow, Don Newell,

E. Preiss, Norman Vandal

Methods of Work

Jim Richey

10 Methods of Wo rk

& Answers

Laminated bracket foot; joint

for chair spindles; router subbases

Richard

Detachable highboy legs; reactive

inishes; defunct tool companies

102 Events/Connections

106 Notes and Comment

Co ver: Th ere are seven pieces of wood

in a tradi tional drawer. The trick

is, you fit the parts to the op ening

befo re you join them together. Tage

Prid explains how on p.

32.

Letters from afar; Oregon toys;

trade-show news

THE TAUNTON PRESS

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ciate publisher; JoAnn Muir, director of admin

istration; Tom (uxeder, business manager; Bar

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ARTICLES

32 How to Make Drawers by Tage Prid

36 Drawer-stop ideas from three makers

39 Varnish Finish That's Rubbed On by Joe Th omas

Sanding is the way to a glass-smooth surface

40 A Dehumidifier Kiln by Donad Kli mesh

Home-dried lumber with no frills

43 Pipe Clamps

Six versatile tips

44 Knockdown Furniture by Cu rtis Erpelding

Form follows junction

48 Doweling Jigs by David Sloan

Putting nine to the test

52 Boston Bombe Chest by Lance Patterson

Bulging drawer fronts are all shaped at once

58 A Patternmaker's Carving Tips by Wa lace C. Auger

And a portable carving kit for whittling wherevet you are

FineWoodworking

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64 The Bottom Line for Turned Bowls by endel Smith

Versatile chucking plug permits a variety of designs

67 An Eye on Marquetry, Here and Abroad by Jim Cu mmins

You can begin with an easy kit, bur the sky's the limit

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71 Winners fr om the 1983 British Marquetry Show by Enie Ives

72 Laying Plastic Laminates by Jack Ga vin

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76 The Wo odworker's Tools by Pa ul Bertoreli

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4 Letters

16 Questions

22 Books

Working harmoniously with wood;

decoy-carving; wooden planes

Design for drawing table illustrates the principles

57 How to make slope-sided boxes

61 Boomerang by AI erhards

63 Throwing the boomerang by John Huening

Newtown,

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Letters

Recently, Fine Woodworking has published photographs of

work that is obviously lawed. It is most disturbing to see

detail such as in the color photograph on p. 81 of issue #43

(November), because it would appear as if boxwood stringing

with tension failures from bending represents an acceptable

level of quality in workmanship. People correctly or incorrect

ly assume that if F

W publishes it, it therefore must be the

I don't mean to imply that the crafts are an inferior pur

suit. One does what one does best. The thing Castle does best

is make furniture. But somewhere along the line he, or his

dealer, got their semantics crossed up. No one in his right

mind would lay our $40,000 for a table, and then actually

eat linguine off it. So why build such an object in the first

place? You are doomed to resort to hype to get it sold, rather

than letting it stand on its merits as an honest piece of work.

-Jack Spiegelman, Glendale, Calif

best, or at least more than just acceptable. Neither would

open miter joints (#43, p. 33) be deemed appropriate join

ety. Even though the emphasis of that article is on speed,

haste should not be an excuse for a lack of quality.

For Fine Woodworking not to take a irm, perhaps contro

versial, position on the issues of quality, by explicitly showing

what quality entails, may prove to be exceedingly detrimental

to the continued revival of the stirring corpse that once repre

sented the craft of woodworking in North America. It is not

enough to say that design can be assessed in a photograph;

craftsmanship needs to be seen and touched. The photographs

in F

W and other Taunton Press publications are perceived

E. Moore, Sprinfield, Va.

Regarding Japanese chisels, Toshio Odate says in FWW #43,

p. 16, "The very ine edge becomes extremely hard when the

blade is tempered." It does? Tempering is the process of con

trolled reheating (at some temperature between 300°F and

10000F) of hardened steel, to increase toughness at the cost

of some hardness. I should like vety much to know how

Odate generates at least a 300°F temperature in the edge of a

blade by wiping it across a waterstone.

It has been my experience in knifemaking that during the

heat-treating process, an edge that is ground vety thin will,

during the quench, become quite hard and brittle, while the

main body of the tool is still vety hot. As the main body of

the tool cools and shrinks, the thin, brittle edge must con

form. The result is waves, cracks and much stress. Hence, the

blacksmiths' adage: forge thick and grind thin. Mr. Odate is

grinding off this stressed edge-no tempering occurs at all.

-Venon Raaen, Oak Rid ge, Tenn.

TOSHIO OOATE REPLIES: My knowledge of blacksmithing and met

allurgy is not great, so my choice of the word "tempering" was

perhaps unfortunate. Your explanation of what actually happens

during the "taming" process seems correct, but I do believe that the

tremendous friction of sharpening and cutting can heat the extreme

ly ine edge of a tool hot enough to affect the metal. This heating

does not change the steel in the body of the tool, but it does take

the harshness Out of a new blade.

as pieces of woodworking, not as photographs of designs. Be

cause of this, and because of the inherently deceptive nature

of photographs, it is vety important that only work of the

highest quality be illustrated in Fine Woodworking, especial

ly since it purports to contain fine things ...

-John Perkins, Halifax, N.S.

-Tom

Re Jim Cummins' article on boxes in FWW #43. First, I am

always bothered by any suggestion to use metal, regardless of

the coniguration, as a push stick. Embedded in the ceiling

and walls of my workshop are parts of 18 carbide saw teeth

that came into contact with a spring-metal hold-down. The

ice-pick suggestion makes me cringe.

Also, the tone of the article presents a sort of slapdash

approach to woodworking. I could cite a number of exam

ples, but the slippety-glue comment on p. 36 should make

my point. In the next paragraph, the idea of having a sturdy

box with open corners makes me wonder why bother mitering

at all; burt joints and nails should do nicely. Of course, it's

easy to criticize, and on the plus side I suspect that Cummins'

casual approach is inviting to some inexperienced woodwork

ers who would be turned off by more precise instruction. But

my own feeling is that even a rank amateur should be shown

the bull's eye; he or she can then decide on what to shoot for

as a function of skill level and patience.

-Allan]. Boardman, Woodland Hills, Calif

The stoty by Peter Pennypacker (FWW #44, "Making 50

Tables") reminds me of the argument over handmade versus

machine-made guitar necks. It was thought that the machine

made were not as good as the handmade, but the fact of the

matter is, if the craftsman running the machine was interested

in the quality of each and evety piece, the quality of the in

strument would not suffer.

-Peter B. Rock, Mt. Pleasant, S.c.

For readers looking for a local supply of potassium dichro

mate (used in wood finishing), you might check with camera

stores stocking flm-developing supplies. Kodak sells it in

I-lb. jars under catalog number 146 3231 for about $7.

-Julian Case, Los Osos, Calif

W #43 pp. 77-

W #42). I think those experiments of his in the Post

An important addition to the reading list in Mack S. Head

ley's "Applying Classical Proportions" (F

Re the article on Wendell Castle in your September issue

79) is The Geomety of Art and Life, by Matila Ghyka

(Dover, 1977). Ghyka describes how thousands of reported

measurements of the proportions of ancient and Renaissance

structures can be summarized in the forms of certain regular

geometric igures. The most compelling of these relations is

known as the Golden Section. In simple linear form, this rule

states that the longer of twO segments of a divided straight

line should have a ratio of l.6818 to the shorter segment.

Astounding to me, expansions of the Golden Section pro

portions yield figures that Ghyka shows are consistent with

the proportions of natural object-plants, animals, and the

Modern vein are hideous beyond belief. I have a lot of admi

ration for the man, and nothing but awe when considering

the amount of work that goes into those pieces. But it is a

mistake to consider any piece of furniture to be art. Wood

working, even at his level, is still a craft. Its main purpose is

function. If at the same time it pleases the eye or tickles the

funny bone, great. Bur art is different. Whatever it is, it

seves no practical function. It makes its appeal purely to the

spirit, not to the seat of the pants.

Here's a suggestion that might be of value to your readers.

Make friends with the local typewriter repairman. He prob

ably throws away the platens (rollers) for any number of old

typewriters, and I'm sure he'd be glad to see them pur to

good use. They make good outfeed rollers for tablesaws,

jointers and planers. They come in several lengths, and so

could ind other shop uses, too. Make supports for the rollers

by boring or dadoing slots into maple or oak brackets. Dado

ing is the best technique if twO or more rollers are to be

in line.

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With everything it can do, you'd think the Skil Cordless

Screwdriver would

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The Skil Cordless Screwdriver recharges in

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The Skil Cordless Screwdriver weighs mere ounces

and is so small it fits into your pocket. Yet its high

torque motor has the power to drive up to

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