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F[ E WOODWORKING

Editor John Kelsey

Art Director Deborah Fillion

Associate Editor Rick Mastelli

Assistant Editors Paul Berrorelli

Jim Cummins

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Art Assistant Roland Wolf

Editorial Assistant Linda D. Whipkey

Contributing Editors Tage Frid

R. Bruce Hoadley

Richard Scarr

Simon Watts

Contlting Editors George Frank

Ian J. Kirby

A.W . Marlow

Methods 0/ Work Jim Richey

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JANUARY /FEBRUARY 1983, NUMBER 38

DEPARTMENTS

Letters

Injury Survey Results

Methods of Wo rk

Quick Tips

Questions & Answers

EditOr's Notebook

Books

Exhibition

Events

Connections

Adventures in Wo odworking

54 Building a Secretaire-Bookcase by Victor I Taylor

Lots ro learn fr om this 18th-century case study

61 Marquetry on Furniture by Silas Kop/

Double-bevel sawing leaves no gaps

66 Portfolio: Walker Weed by Richard Starr

A retrospective of quiet woodworking

70 Turning a Matched Set of Bowls by Arthur F. Shery

Patternmakers' tricks for consistent shapes

71 Walnut-oil inish is safe for food by Antoine Capet

72 Turning goblets by IH. Habermann

73 Repouring Babbitt Bearings by Bob Johnson

A low-tech way ro rescue old machines

78 . The Trade in Exotic Hardwoods by Irving Sloane

How wood gets from the tropics ro your shop

81 Whither Rosewood? by Paul McClure

A supply outlook for exotics

83 Storing precious scraps by Tom Dewey

84 Knife Work by Rick Mastelli

Make the knife and carve a spoon

89 The Stanley #55 by regoy Schipa

Underscanding an ingenious workhorse

93 Putting an old #55 to work by T.D. Culver

94 Super-Surfacers by Paul Bertorelli

Fixed-knife planers slice the wood paper-thin

97 Smoke Finishing by Robert B. Chambers

Rubbed-in sOOt colors pine

98 The Rise of Artiture by Arthur Espenet Carpenter

Woodworking comes of age

Cover: The best way to understand period

construction is to build a piece, second best is

to take one apart. Furniture connoisseur

V J. Taylor of Bath, England, does both jobs,

at least on paper, beginning on p. 54. In ex

ploded drawings, he disassembles a secretaire

bookcase fr om the Georgian House museum,

above. In the text he explains how it was

made then, and how he'd reproduce it today.

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ARTICLES

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Letters

In my 32 years of full-time woodworking I've seen many

people do dangerous things with power tOols. Art Carpenter,

a ine craftsman I admit, is shown on the cover of

FWW #37 (Nov. '82) making a Cut on the bandsaw which,

in my opinion, is dangerous. I hope none of your novice

woodworking readers tries this one, it's scary.

-Bil Nolan, Munising, Mich.

ART CARPENTER REPLIES: To all woodworking students (and

their shop teachers), I affirm that it is dangerous to do barrel

rolls before you can solo. And even then it is more dangerous

than orthodox flying. I have as much distaste for blood on

cold steel as anyone, particularly my own, and I do have all

ten fingers. I found this cut to require the method shown, in

the interest of accuracy and speed. The photOgraph does not

make clear that the CUt I am making is curved in plan (the

stOck could not be oriented alternately) and that the piece,

though U-shaped, has a lat firmly resting on the table. After

30 years of daily life with the bandsaw, there are some things

that can be done with confidence and competence and care

which shouldn't be tried by a novice. One reader tells me he

will hang the photO in his shop to illustrate horrendous prac

tice. Excellent idea. No stunt-flying in the classroom.

oLLOWER �AI"rAINs Sir

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a router, since I have had to face the same problem. Enclosed

is a sketch and description of my scheme, which allows the

router to directly follow the turned contOur while allowing

full visibility of the cutting process. The work is held station

ary, using the lathe indexing mechanism, while the router is

slowly fed into the work. -Dennis Preston, Brookield, t.

As an industrial arts teacher of 24 years' experience, I found it

difficult to believe what I saw on pp. 103-104 of your No

vember '82 issue. How any�ne in this day and age can allow

children to work in an industrial arcs shop without wearing

safery glasses is beyond me.

I admire what Richard Starr has done with young children,

but to allow this to happen and to write a book about it and

for you to publish it sure makes me wonder in what age you

are living. These are JUSt the people we can teach the right

way about safery from the start ....

-Lawrence P. Jones, East Hampton, Ct.

RICHARD STARR REPLIES: I expect children to think about pos

sible hazards in every job they do and to take the appropriate

precautions. I believe that teaching an intelligent concern for

safery is wiser and safer in the long tun than devising blanket

regulations. Since my students use hand tOols exclusively,

there are only a few operations where safety glasses are neces

sary. To require them where there is no reasonable risk-as

when planing or boring with a brace-and-bit-would only en

coutage the kids to doubt the rules that do make sense.

In FWW #37, Don Carkhuff asks for advice on how to reed

curved and tapered bedposts. Both repliers to his question

suggest using a router but point out its limitations for this

particular operation. Assuming Mr. Carkhuff is not into pro

duction work, you might care to tell him how I performed a

similar operation on the reeded legs of a SheratOn-sryle dress

ing table.

I divided the legs into 12 segments, using a homemade

indexing head on my 1950 Shopsmith, and did the rest of

the work by hand, using three tOols-a strong chip-carving

knife and twO gouges (#3 and #4, g-in. and Yz-in.). The

lathe acted as a vise for the first part of the job.

With the work locked in the lathe in convenient positions,

I made starting cuts with the knife along the pencil lines di

viding the segments, the CUtS directed tOward the center of

the spindle. I worked from the bead at each end tOward the

center. As I had left both ends of the leg square, I was able to

transfer the work to the bench. The next step was to open up

the CutS to right and left of the initial CUt, thus starting the

reeding operation. This was done by slicing with the same

knife down each side, changing direction as the grain dictated,

until reaching the bottOms of the reeds. The depth, of course,

varied depending on the diameters of the turning along its

length. Further opening up of cuts continued using the goug

es instead of the knife.

The advantage of this hand method is that the increasing

and diminishing diameters (and curvatures) of the reeds can

be maintained, the gouging being adjusted to give a true

shape the whole length of the reed. As an additional aid I

scribed pencil lines around the turning at intervals. These lines

tallied with sectional drawings of the completed leg, and gave

the correct diameters at the bottoms of the vee between each

reed pair. From thin sheet brass I CUt actual-size gauges from

the drawings, to check depth and roundness as the work

progressed.

Your article on hand injuries (Sept. '82) is very worthwhile. I

have been carving and sculpting wood since I was eight years

old-almost 30 years-and have developed several tules for

myself to prevent injury. The worst lacerations I've suffered

have been to my right index finger. I am left-handed and

sustained them when the tOol slipped off the work. The big

gest and deepest was when I was very tired.

I never get equipment heavier than I can control physically.

Bracing with vises, when possible, saves the right hand, and I

wear a pliable leather glove on it when carving detail. On the

motOr tOols, even the jigsaws, I put a foot-pedal speed control

to turn the machine off instantly if it goes awry. When I use

an electric rotary cutting tOol with work braced in my lap, I

always wear a heavy denim apron (I'd probably have several

navels by now without it). Since my operation is non-com

mercial, I can pick times to carve when I'm relaxed-my

youngest child just entered school and I foresee better oppor

tunities ahead. Distraction by children can present a hazard

for them as well as you. -Nancy E. Hanel, Ijamsvile, Md.

-Stephen R. Miler, Essex, t.

It was certainly nice to see your mention of Adirondack

guideboats in the lapstrake boatbuilding series by Simon

Watts (Sept. '82 and Nov. '82).

Two points I beg to differ on. First, Watts states that early

guideboats were made of white oak planks, beveled at the

In Q&A for November (FWW #37), I read with great in

terest the description of fluting and reeding turned POStS with

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Addkison Hardware

23 General Woodcraft

27 Ring Master

Advantage Machinery

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35 Rochester Institute of Technology

Ajema Enterprises

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9 Rockledge

Alder Ltd

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Artisty in Veneers

7 Hardwoods of Memphis

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Rudolf Bass

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Beall Tool

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8,41 Singley Specialty

Biesemeyer Mfg.

9 Hiller Hardware

16 5mit Products

Blue Ball Machine Works 14, 35, 47 Hitachi

2 Stewart-MacDonald

Box-Art

29 Hoover Tool Works

9 Sun Designs

Bratton Machinery & Supply 44 Horron Brasses

7 Su perior Finishers

Brink & Corron

32 Hot Tools

27 Supreme Woodworking 20, 29

Broksrone

41 How To's of Working Wood Show 18 Swing Painrs

Burns, Inc.

46 HTC Products

23 Talarico Hardwoods

Cane & Basket Supply Co.

20 Frank Hubbard Inc.

II The Taunton Press 18A, B. C, D, 19

Carolina Craftsmen

47 J . Philip Humfrey

33 Ten Plus Tools

Wendell Castle Workshop

27 Imported Euroean Hardware 15 Tennessee Hardwood

Cherty Tree Toys

15 Indusrrial Abrasives

28 R.D. Thomas

Maurice L. Condon

29 Incernarionai Woodworking

38 Toymaker Supply

Conover Woodcraft Specialties 17 Iron Horse Antiques

14 Trend-Lines

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41 J amescown Artisan Cencer

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II Klckit

21 Viking Clock

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45 Kuemel Chime Clock Works 7 WaKo-Dennis

The Cutting Edge

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24 Weird Wood

Dallas Wod & Tol StOre

42 Robett

7 Wetzler Clamp

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6 Leeds Design Workshops

18 /ilke Machinery

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31 Windsor Classis

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30 Wood & Wheels

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32 Metric Machinery

27 Wd

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15 Wod Shed

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20 E.e. Mirchell

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31 Morris Wood Tool

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Fine Tol & Wod StOre

31 Native American Hardwoods 35 Wdshop Secialties

Fine Tol Shops

5 Noex

34 Wodworkers' Score

Fisher Hill PrductS

38 Occidental Leather

10 Wdworkers Supply

Foley-Belsaw Co.

23,28, 37 Parks Wdworking Machine 46

Forrest Mfg. Co.

39 Paxton Hardware

21 Xylophile's Co.

38. 45

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45 Philipps Br05. Supply

32 Yukon Lumer

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