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DEPARTMENTS

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42 Editor's Notebook

0/ Work Jim Richey

44 Events

50 Connections

Letters

Methods of Wo rk

Comment: Nutting Revisited

Questions & Answers

Point of View

52 Adventures in Wo odworking

ARTICLES

Methods

31 through 39

Center Insert: Index to Issues

Miniatures by Machine by Herbert Consor

Three rourer-powered setups for precision curs

The Louisville Slugger by Paul Bertoreili

Cusrom-turned bats for baseball's heavy hitters

Straightening Up an Old Secretary by regoy J. Landrey

What Winterthur conservators do about 200 years of sag

A Spider-Leg Carriage Table by D. Asher Carmichael

Turned legs, tray top evoke diminutive elegance

Making Wooden Buckets by Drew Langsner

White cooperage, the Swiss way

Taos Furniture by James Rannefe ld

Sourhwestern style embodies Stickley's Craftsman spirit

Repairing Bandsaw Blades

And how to make up your own fr om bulk rolls

Bandsaw-blade sharpening jig by Robert Meadow

Japanese Resaws by Rich Preiss

Two small machines with big blades

Scroll Sawing by Ron Pessolano

Filigree revitalized with a saber saw

Knoll Makes a Wooden Chair by John Kelsey

A look at the contract fu rniture business

Turning Tools That Cut by James Rtdstrom

A book fr om Sweden fa vors some old tools

73-78. Cover photo:

Cover: Rudolph Kohler planes pine staves fo r

a milk bucket. Drew Langsner, who stulied

with Kohler in Switzeland, explains the

coopers' crat on pp .

95 Bent Bowl Gouges by Douglas Owen

Drew Langsner.

9 6 Woodshop Computers by Paul Bertoreli

98 Radial Saw Meets Computer by Lewis Buchner

100 An Adaptable Instrument Form by Jim Cummins

Reforge your tools for finish-turning

They're best at figuring curting lists

104 Current Work by Rick Masteli

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Letters

Re Art Carpenter's "Artiture" (FWW #38): I'm one who

makes things that .,dare to not take the traditional form of

their semi-functional function," although the quotation

makes my head swim. I'm not sure that it is necessary to

make the "artiture" distinction. There are, after all, art and

furniture already. Carpenter's path from suspicion to accep

tance of what he calls artiture is something he is working out

for himself, but I don't think many of the examples he uses

to illustrate his thesis support it. I am very familiar with the

work of McKie, Zucca; Madsen, Loeser, Smith, Crozier and

Maruyama. To my mind, they are all trying to do work that

is useful, fun, individual and visually interesting-decorative

art. Each piece may not be completely successful, but this

work does not it under Carpenter's artiture umbrella.

"Most artiture pieces had little to do with wood and less to

do with craftsmanship. " This statement is not supported at

all by Carpenter's examples. The makers that I have men

tioned are all very careful workers and most use wood for the

wonder of the material.

But maybe artiture is a valid concept, useful to help people

over the art/craft, fu nctional/non-functional hurdles. I am

happy to see FWW give space to the exploration of this cor

ner of the craft scene. A good percentage of your readers are,

I think, holed up in this corner.

-J im Fawcett, Esopus, N. Y.

posltlons vary. All contain lead, which is reason enough to

take precautions. However, other highly toxic metals such as

cadmium, nickel, arsenic and antimony may also be present.

Heating and pouring the metal should be done outdoors or

in an area provided with local exhaust ventilation. If back-up

respiratory protection is needed, a NIOSH-approved fume or

high-efficiency particulate respirator should be worn. Filings,

shavings and dust should be cleaned up scrupulously with a

wet mop to avoid raising dust. -Monona Rossol,

Center fo r Occupational Hazards, New York, N. Y.

I wanted to carve a crow, took a

Saw, took a walk, fo und an up

rooted cedar heaved over and

dying on its side. The irst cut

crowned his head, the second

laid flat his fe et. Among the

roOts the cedar is deeply fu r

rowed, just so deeply figured

was the crow around feet and

tail. The white sapwood seemed

to describe his fo lded wings.

First incredulously then enthusi

astically I discovered that the

crow was within the wood, not

to be imagined as my own cre

ation. -Richard Harrington,

Austin, Tex.

In response to Art Carpenter's article in FWW #38, I would

like to quote Edward Lucy-Smith in World of the Makers:

"When skill is preserved after the need for it is gone, then

it turns into an exercise in pure virtuosiry. It is the knowing

how to do it and not the end product which gives delight.

Yet it must be recognized that crafts exercised in this way, for

their own sake, or in simple rejection of the modern world

and its assumed evils, seldom produce objects which are par

ticularly interesting to look at."

While technical proficiency is a means to freedom of cre

ative thought and work, it is not necessarily a prerequisite for

creativity nor does it guarantee success. Woodworking will

not come of age until woodworkers stop thinking of tech

nique and wood as ends in themselves, and start producing

pieces of aesthetic value and conceptual substance.

It seems unlikely that Art Carpenter has ever spoken with

Judy McKie, Tom Loeser, Wendy Maruyama or others about

their work. Had he done so, I doubt he would be so inaccu

rately guessing their motives to be "play, farce, ego ix, mon

ey, or ease of construction." The truth is, these people take

their work quite seriously, most are not making ten times the

money, and many possess unquestionable technical expertise.

They have moved away from traditional furniture because

they have found more interesting and challenging avenues to

pursue.

Regarding FWW #39, a fe w corrections ..

In the book review of Apprenticeship in Craft . Berea

College was fo unded in 1855, not the 1920s. Craft s (in its

modern usage) neglects trade. To speak historically of craft,

one must include trade. Berea has always (since 1855) taught

crafts and trades. One of the most beautiful buildings on

campus, built about 1912, was built by students. They made

the bricks, and did the woodwork and the building. The Be

rea Woodcraft Industries are not "cottage industty," they are

serious factory.

Now, on to Wallace Nutting (pp. 70-73). I do not see

Berea mentioned. Berea was, in fact, quite involved with

Nutting. He bequeathed a fine personal collection of antique

fu rniture to Berea College, and there was commercial/indus

trial interchange between Berea's and Nutting's fu rniture fac

tories. For details, write Berea College Woodcraft Industries,

Berea, Ky. 40404..

-Wi liam Post Ross, Georgetown, Maine

-Gail Fredell Smith, Oakland, Calif

I read with interest a back issue of FWW (#34) concerning

the ravages of the powderpost beetle. In my area of north

western California, the U.S. Department of Agriculture oper

ates a gas chamber for fumigating seed. They will, however,

accept other objects which need treatment.

I recently had a long-case clock fumigated over a weekend

for the vety modest fee of

As delighted as I am about the technical side of your publica

tion, I have to add a word about the artistic content.

Almost all pieces of furniture you show or report on (ex

cept the classics) are, in my opinion, misconceptions with the

purpose of showing off the craftsperson's skill rather than

serving a purpose in the most beautiful way. Beautiful may

have many interpretations, but when the furniture's purpose

is fulilled in an awkward way just to be different, the piece

is bad.

out where other such chambers are operated would be to

check with the local county Agricultural Extension Service.

-D. V. Gayton, Loleta, Calif

-H. Jaeckel, Nevada City, Calif

The article by Antoine Capet on walnut oil in FWW # 38 is

misleading in twO ways. First, it gives the impression of cov

ering the full range of natural oils and their dtying capabili

ties, when in fact it doesn't mention oils (like Oiticica) which

have been much more signiicant commercially than sunflow

er oil or poppy oil in wood finishing. Second, by saying that

"tung oil is not edible" Capet leaves the impression that it is

Bob Johnson included some good safety advice in his article

on pouring babbitt bearings (FWW #38), bur he neglected

an important health hazard: toxic metal fumes can be inhaled

when pouring and heating babbitt metal. Babbitt alloy com-

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18 Wilke Machinery 41

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