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JULy/AUGUST 1981, NUMBER 29

Art Director

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Letters

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Questions & Answers

26 Books

28 Adventures in Woodworking

32 Events

Cover: Yo u can always spot the craftsmen ata

woodworking exhibition-they're puling out

the drawers, peen'ng under tabletops andin

gen'ng the fi nishes. Table, above, was made

by Tom McFadde n. The Mendocino Wood

workers Association holds two jun'ed shows

every year. Beginning on p. 36, the award

winners from last November's show tel how

they work wood and why they do it in Men

docino. Photos: Nicholas Wfson

ARICLES

36 Woodworking in Mendocino by John Kelsey

A close look at the new generation of anist-craftsmen

44 Two-Board Chairs by Drew angsner

Plans and methods from a Swiss woodworker

4 7 Wooden-Drum Stroke Sander by .. . Marlow

Shop-built machine saves space and money

52 Five Basic Spindle Laminations by Ted Pack

Glued-up turnings produce various patterns

54 Geometric Turnings by Nick Engler

The work ofJohn Barklow

56 ' Inlaid Turnings by Fran Wfliam Hal

Decorating with plugs

57 More Inlaid Turnings

58 Sanding and Finishing on the Lathe by David Ward

59 Variations on the Frame and Panel

New designs for machine woodworking

63 The Pin Router by Dennis R. Wils on

Basic setups for this versatile machine

65 Homemade Overhead and Pin Routers

66 Grinding by Frank Klausz

Use your tool rest only as a fence

67 How to Sharpen by Ian J. Kirby

A keen edge makes all the differenGe

70 Japanese Blades by Toshio Odate

Traditional sharpening methods

74 Pole-and-Wire Joinery by Len Brackett

The quick way to build

76 Man-Made Boards by Simon Watts

Working with particleboard and fiberboard

82 The Woodcraft Scene

The Apprenticeshop by Richard Star

84 The Pipe Organ Reborn

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Letters

Tage Frid's article suggesting equipment for a one-man

woodworking shop (F W #24, Sept. '80) is enlightening but

disappointing. I am a tool-and-die maker by profession, and

a woodbutcher by hobby. What slips me, is why in a one-man

shop you would select machines that stand idle 95% of the

time, and contribute only 2 % to 5 % of the progress of the

finished product?

I am not a salesman for a radial saw, but it is quite obvious

that manufacturers of radial saws have done a poor job of en

lightening the trade on the wide range of work you can do

quickly and accurately on this machine. A radial saw and a

gluing bench are all the equipment I have. I am now making

twelve grandfather clocks, of my own design, for the grand

children. With the exception of the hinges in the door, there

are no screws or nails in these clocks. All joints are either mor

tise and tenon or tongue and groove, glued together. ...

The radial saw has three built-in adjustments that will cor

rect all errors in three planes, if, and it is important, you lock

the column to the base when you make these adjustments.

This can be accomplished by tightening screws that control

the fit of the taper key to the machine's column.

For ripping, the saw head must be tightened on the arm by

a thumbscrew. Under heavy cutting it tends to come loose. To

overcome this,

single plank that actually measured 120 in. long, 2Y 16 in.

thick and 113 in. wide. Milling and resawing to avoid knots

and maximize yield gave me the 24 rails and stiles I needed,

one extra of each to insure against clumsiness, four small

sticks of scrap, plus a fu ll bag of chips, dust and shavings.

The original plank contained 2,753 cu. in. of wood; the

finished sash contains 1,606 cu. in., 58% of the plank. The

leftover bits total 311 cu. in., or 11%. That leaves 836 cu. in.

of trashed wood, 31% of the plank. We ngert writes that I

started out with only a quarter of the living tree, the rest be

ing left in the forest and at the mill. Thus, my windows are a

mere one-seventh of the tree. Six-sevenths, 85%, has been

wasted along the way-one chip at a time.

Like diligent ants, we labor in the service of cosmic en

tropy, whittling highly ordered living systems into homoge

nous piles of useless little chips. What fools we are!

-Larry Green, Bethel, Ct.

I made a right and left-hand bracket, which,

by tightening a socket-head screw, I clamp securely on the

arm. The saw head is then locked between the two brackets.

By loosening one knurled-head screw and tightening the

other, you can move the head any direction you desire. The

knurled-head screw has a 32-pitch thread. One full turn will

advance the head Y32 in. One half-turn will advance the head

In the spirit of the fe llow who drove a nail into his finished

piece (F W #24, Sept. '80) , I sometimes leave a nick or a

blemish here or there, something that obviously could have

been avoided or sanded out, just to indicate that the piece

was handmade. I realize that there is a fine line between such

blemishes and sloppy workmanship, but the rest of the piece

could decide that.

-. . Fais, Mentor, Ohio

Y6 4 in. One quarter-turn will advance the head .0 08 in. You

can get very fine, accurate adjustments consistently. You can

not approach this accuracy on a table saw where you move the

fence by hand.

All my projects are made of cherry wood, which I . buy

roughsawn. I do all the planing and edging with my radial

saw. To accomplish this I made an 8-in. diameter aluminum

back-up plate of z-in. thick aluminum. This supports the

sawblade when cutting on one side only, for planing....By

controlling the feed you can get a finish acceptable to varnish

with little or no sanding. You do not get the hard, glazed,

ripple surface you get on a wood planer. With a 10-in. saw,

Here is a tip Shopsmith Mark V owners will find helpful. I

purchased a new Mark V about a year ago, and was pleased to

find it a highly versatile and a generally well-built machine.

However, the amount of side-to-side play in the spindle was,

in my opinion, somewhat excessive. This play was particularly

noticeable when drilling and turning. It appeared to be due

to the fact that the spindle is supported by a single ball bear

ing at the front of the quill. Replacement of this bearing

yielded no noticeable improvement. I took the quill and

spindle to a local machine shop run by an experienced tool·

and-die maker. He examined the parts and confirmed the

feasibility of adding a bearing to the rear of the quill. The

modification is shown in the sketch.

.01 in. larger than push-fit dia ., to alow

beari ng to drop int o quil.

Bore quil to push-fit o.

. of bearin g.

can plane boards 43 in. wide.

I make all mortises with a router cutter, with two stops

clamped on the fence. The stops control the length of the

mortise and also the position of the mortise on the

workpiece....With the saw in vertical position and the work

piece held flat on the tabletop, held firmly against the fe nce,

I cut all grooves, tongues and tenons with a 7 -in. adjustable

dado saw....On molding work, the Sears radial saw has a

cutter holder that will hold any of the twelve blades of various

profiles. You can generate any profile you desire. I also have a

planer head that will plane large areas, and a jigsaw attach

ment.

Rack gear teeth

Added bearing, NSK 6202Z,

Shopsmith No. 502962

Gind shaft to press-fit i.d. of bearing.

I have a hardened insert in the table, which leaves the

jigsaw with little unsupported area. I saw all table legs on this

saw. I have sawn work 2Y4 in. thick with it.

I find the Sears radial saw with accessories to be a rugged

machine that can take a lot of hard work, and give a good ac

count of itself. I enjoy working with it. As far as woodworking

goes for me, the days are too short and the nights too long.

-Raymond H. Haserodt, Lyndhurst, Ohio

in. less than press-fit dia .,

to alo w bearing to slide over shaft.

.01

The splined outside diameter of the shaft was ground to

permit press-fitting the new bearing onto the shaft (the

amount of grinding required is minimal; thus the depth of

the spline teeth is not significantly altered). The quill was

then chucked in the lathe and bored to accept the outside

diameter of the bearing as a push-fit. Note that this bore

must be deep enough to permit filII retraction of the quill

into the machine without interference between the bearing

and the face of the splined drive inside the machine. The

bore and the outside diameter of the shaft were then slightly

relieved to facilitate assembly of the components. This

Eugene We ngert's article on the state of our fo rests

(F W #27, March '81) provoked me to calculate wood yield

in the micro-economy of my shop. The figures are startling.

I made six window sashes from 20 bd. ft . of mahogany, a

Bore

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Hot Tools. Inc.

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Buck Bros. Inc.

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BuckeyeSaw Co.

13 Johnson's Workbench

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Chen-Tech

Kaymar Wood Products. Inc.

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Cherry Tree Toys

Kountry Kraft Hardwoods

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Kuempel Chime &Clck Works 27

WeibeckSawmill Ltd.

. Sullivan Co.

College of the Redwoods

Kuster Woodworkers

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Conover WoodcraftSpecialties 24

Lee Valley Tools Ltd.

Willard Brothers Woodcutters 35

Craftmark Products. Inc.

Love-Built Toys &CraftS. Inc.

Williams& Hussey Machine Corp. 31

X 31

Craftplans

Mason

WinchesterCarbide Saw. Inc.

Craftsmanship in WoodInc. IS Maurice L. CondonCo.. Inc.

Wisner Tools

TheCraneCreekCo.

Morgan Veneers

19.21

The Wood & Tool Store. WI

Croy-MariettaHardwoods.Inc. S Morris Wood TolCo.. Inc.

The Wood & TolStore.

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Edward A_ Schaedel

TheCutting Edge

Morrison Originals

Wod is GoodCo.

Deft. Inc.

ative American Hardwods

WodShed

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934-A Apparel Center

Chicago, IL 60654

(312) 329-0885

Delmhorst InstrumentCo.

The uttyCo.. lnc.

Wod World

Derda Inc.

Paxton Hardware

13 Woodbutcher Tols

Design Group

Peter Child

Woodcraft

Dorsett Publications. Inc.

PootatuckCorp.

Wodline theJapan Wodworker 14

EmperorClckCo.

15.19

Prakto. Inc.

Woodshop Specialties

EqualityScrew Co. Inc.

PrimroseCenter

WoodworkersSupply. Inc.

Western:

William Hague and Richard Ayer

Media Sales Associates

26944 Camino de Estrella

Capistrano Beach, CA 92624

(714) 61-2423

Esslinger & Co.

R.Jackson Mfg.

21 Woodworks

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Working Wood

The Fine ToolShops Inc.

25 Sand-Rite Mfg.Co.

16 The Xylophile'sCo.

Fisher Hill Products

TheSawmill

Yukon LumberCo.

Frank Hubbard Inc.

27 Shopsmith Inc.

Frank Minermeier, Inc.

15 Singley Specialty Co.. Inc.

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