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Editor John Kelsey

Art Director Deborah Fillion

Associate Editors Rick Mastelli

Paul Bertorelli

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J ULY /AUGUST 1983, NUMBER 41

DEPARTMENTS

Letters

Methods of Wo rk

Questions & Answers

Notebook: Bark Beetles

Books

Profile: Cornwall Carver

News and Notes

Exhibition: At the Wustum

Events

Connections

Adventure: Pick-Up Sticks

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ARTICLES

28 A Wooden Tablesaw by Galen Winchip

An attractive, shopmade alternative to cast iron

33 Testing the wooden saw by Paul Bertorelli

34 The Laminated Wood Ribbon by James Rannefe ld

A built-up joint with sculptural possibilities

36 Respiratory Hazards by George Mustoe

Choosing the right protection

40 Making Ax Handles by Delbert reear

A good handle fits at both ends

42 Kitchen on a Stick by Jere Cary

A pencil and a few lx2s tell the whole story

46 The Legendary Norris Plane by Edward C. Smith

A hard-to-find tool that's worth the search

48 Turning Giant Bowls by Dale Nish

. Ed Moulthrop's tools and techniques

54 Making a Pencil-Post Bed by Herbert W. Akers

A method for shaping tapered oCtagonal posts

Cover: Ed Moulthrop tuns a tuip magnolia

log into a bowl 30 in. in diameter. To under

stand Moulthrop's special tools and tech

niques, woodtuming expert Dale Nish visited

him at his Atlanta shop. Be g inning on p. 48,

Nish tels what he leaned. Cover photo by

Louie Favorite, Atlanta Journal.

56 Layout tips from the boatyard by Michael Podmaniczky

60 The Woodcraft Scene: San Francisco in Miniature by Michael Pearce

65 Making Your Own Hardware by David Sloan

Hand-worked brass beats the store-bought stuff

68 Wooden Eyeglass Frames by Howard Bruner

Making a spectacle of yourself

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Kathryn Olsen, staff artist. Books: Laura Cehanowicz Trin

70 Color and Wood by Roger Holmes

Dyeing for a change

74 Small New England Clocks by Jim Cummins

Minimal cases hide elegant works

104 Alice's Wonderland

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57 Moldings by Victor J. Taylor

Applying geometry with sryle

62 Keeping the "Poplars" Straight by Jon W. Amo

Many woods, good for many different things

66 A catch, three hinges and a lock

Fine Woodworking (ISSN

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Letters

I am glad to see that the stain-versus-gloss controversy, which

had raged in earlier issues, has been revived by Don Newell's

well-taken comments regarding the appropriateness of each

(F W #37, p. 102). Charles Dickens, that master of the

spirit of descriptive prose, expressed his own mid-nineteenth

century opinion on the subject in chapter three of Mar

tin Chuzzlewitt:

It was none of your fr ivolous and preposterously bright bed

rooms, where nobody can close an eye with any kind of pro

priety or decem regard to the association of ideas; but it was a

good, dull, leaden, drowsy place, where evey icle of i ture

reminded you that you n e there o sleep, and that you were

expected to sleep. There was no wakeful reflection of the fire

there, as in your modern chambers, which upon the darkest

nights have a watchful consciousness of French polish; the old

Spanish mahogany winked at it now and then, as a dozing

cat or dog might, nothing more. The vety size and shape, and

hopeless immovability of the bedstead, and wardrobe, and in

a minor degree of even the chairs and tables, provoked sleep;

they were plainly apoplectic and disposed to snore.

-Wesley Kobylak, Tuscarora, N. .

cause the codes are written for large industrial motors.

In 40 years in the chemical industry, I never saw a blower

or fan with non-sparking blades, except fo r plastic blades

used to avoid corrosion. The fan switch can spark unless it's a

mercury switch. The garden-variery mercury switch won't

meet industrial explosion-proof standards, but it can't spark

in normal operation. -David Canel, Wilmington, N.C.

Stan Wellborn's letter in FWW #39 about the woodturner

wearing a necktie brought to mind a recent experience I had.

I've adapted a Sony Walkman to fit inside my hearing pro

tectors ...a super way to make hours spent at droning ma

chines more enjoyable. But watch Out fo r those loose ear

phone wires. While whistling along at the flap sander, I

brushed a little toO close and before I knew it the Walkman

was thrown to the floor and the wires were torn from the

headphones. Whew !

There's good reason why OSHA demands that all drive

shafts and belts be enclosed. Even if you think you're too

clever, it's easy to slip up just once (or twice).

-Nick Nicholson, Welfleet, Mass.

Craig Brown's comment in F W #40 (p. 10) on the use of

fans to ventilate fumes from a workshop is 100% wrong. The

motors of bathroom and kitchen ventilating fans are shaded

pole motors and have no spark-producing mechanisms. Split

phase, capacitor-start and repulsion-induction motors all have

starting windings which are disconnected by a spark-produc

ing switch when the motor gets up to speed. These motors

must be modified to be explosion-proof. Small pumps and

fans ...are not included in the codes as explosion-proof be-

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In Rick Mastelli's article in FWW #39 (p. 78), he quotes

John Economaki as claiming that Sam Maloof said "industri

al arts teachers didn't know anything."

After teaching industrial education for 26 years to some

3,000 students, I really resent being told that I know noth

ing. I realize I've never created a large, one-of-a-kind table or

special chairs, but in talking to past students, I have a sense

that they have learned to love the fe el, beauty, strength and

fu nCtions of wood. Many are working in wood-related indus

tries, carpentry, or avocationally in their own workshops.

I believe that Economaki, or Maloof, has done industrial

education a great disservice and should apologize for this

statement. The shaping of young lives is as important as the

shaping of wood and JUSt as rewarding. I will continue to

think of Maloof as one of the world 's greatest craftsmen, but

with reservations. -Paul J. Hooker, Zeeland, Mich.

RICK MASTELLI REPLIES: We received a number of such letters fr om

offended I-A teachers, and all deserve an apology. The point was to

emphasize the transition in Economaki's own career, not to insult

anyone. Maloof has said that many industrial arcs teachers are doing

archaic things. He has also said that many are doing outstanding

work. In recalling his self-image at the time-a time when he was

himself an industrial arts teacher-Economaki meant to communi

cate how radically Maloof had affected him. The sentence unfortu

nately pulled on the wrong lever to move a large idea.

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I enjoyed Kevin Kelly's article on making bee boxes

(FWW #39, pp. 86-89) and thought your readers might be

interested in an experience of mine. While working for a

CARE-sponsored beekeeping extension and research project in

Belize, it was my dury to procure equipment and bees for the

Mayan Indians I was training to become beekeepers. White

pine boxes imported fr om the U.S. would either rot in two

years or be devoured immediately by the local termites, who

fo und the imported wood particularly appetizing.

The answer was simple. In northern Belize, the Mennonites

had for years been turning out household fu rniture in their

woodworking shops using abundant, cheap mahogany. On

contract with local beekeeping cooperatives, they were soon

producing a fu ll line of well-built bee equipment inexpensive

ly made from solid mahogany.

Before returning to the U.S., I asked a local woodworker

to build a shipping trunk for me. I gave him the rough di

mensions and asked that it be made fr om clear mahogany

that I could reuse after I returned home. He seleCted some

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