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DEPRTMENTS

May/June 1990

Methods of Work

Tablesaw tenoning fixture; fitting with cork; raised panels

Questions & Answers

Building a spray booth; sulfate mixtures; phase convertors

Folow-up

Large cove bits; static electricity; simpliying sharpening

Evens

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visit funituremakers who tell how thy handle

these high-priced commissions. (Photo by Fred

Lyon.) Cover: Tage Frid routs a mortise in a lami

nate, tapered leg for an end table. He tells how to

build the table on p. 52.

112 Notes and Comment

Norris miter plane; New American Furniture; fish decoys

Conference tables are big business. On p.

RTICLES

40 Building a Tea Cart by John Dunham

A simple method for making spoked wheels

Editor Dick Burrows

Art Director Kathleen Rushton

Assorilte Editor Sandor Nagyszalanczy

AssistRnt Editors Jim Boesel, Charley Robinson,

Gary Weisenburger

Copy Editor Carolyn Kovachik

EditoriRl SecretRy Claire Warner

Contributing Editors Tage Frid, R. Bruce Hoadley,

Christian Becksvoort, Michael Dresdner

Consulting Editors George Frank, Richard E. Preiss,

Norman Vandal

Methos of Work Jim Richey

Indexer Harriet Hodges

46 Made in Taiwan by Sandor Nagyszalanczy

Visiting the woodworking-machiney center of the Far East

51 Buying Taiwanese

52 Making an End Tab le by Tage Frid

Multicolor laminates accent a design

� electing a s pray gun

62 Evaluating Wood Finishes by Tim B. Inman

Shop methods for gauging durability

Publisher John Lively

MRrketing MRnRger James P. Chiavelli

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Public RelRtions MRnRger Donna Pierpont

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65 Sho pmade Sanding Discs by James R. Johnson

High-speed finishing without swirl marks

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70 Custom urniture with a new angle

FineWoodworking is a reader-written magazine. We welcome

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72 Shar pening Twist Drills by Ken Donnell

Grinding standard and brad-point bits freehand

FineWoodworking, Box 5506, Newtown, Conn. 06470-5506.

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75 Managing a Rain Forest by Scott Landis

A Peruvian experiment in sustained yield

77 Efforts to revalue tro pical timber

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80 A Knock-Apart Bench by Stephen Sekerak

Joiney by sawing and reassembling a plank

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Leters

Antique tools should be used-As an active woodworker, I'm

concerned about the repercussions of what I see as a trend

toward the collecting of antique tools. The prices at shops and

auctions have gone up easily five times over what they were a

few years ago. The problem is simply that the majority of collec

tors and dealers are not purchasing these tools to use, but to

polish them up and put them on the proverbial shelf or resell

them at a higher price.

My complaint is that many of these tools are not made nowa

days, or else modern versions are oten so poorly made that the

second-hand market is the only source for these items. One

might also suppose that used goods that generally need tuning

up would be fairly inexpensive. While I would only buy an old

tool if I could use it on a project, the collectors take usable tools

out of Circulation, oten hoarding many, and thus making them

harder to find and more costly. Some not-so-antique tools such

as shoulder planes now show up at sales at least as expensive or

even more expensive than their currently manufactured counter

parts. The situation is diferent when armchair woodworkers fill

their little-used shops with all sorts of new machine tools; this

has the efect of increasing sales volume and thus lowering

prices. (You're doing us all a favor, guys.) But when the arm

chair woodworkers and collectors ill their unused shops and

shelves with functional old tools, the active cratsmen suffer as

availability decreases and prices increase. With this kind of

inflation going on, I would hope that more manufacturers real

ize that there is a strong demand for good hand tools and I

would think that many could be produced for less than what

these inlated antiques sell for. The key issue is quality, and

modern metalurgical and machining technology should be able

to inprove on the past, not merely copy it.

-Wo ody Pistrich,

Volumetric shrinkage is 4.7%, which is 70% as great as teak.

The radial shrinkage is 2.2%, and the tangential shrinkage is

2.6%. Between the two, this results in a ratio of 0.85, which is

closer to unity than catalpa or any of the other woods pre

viously listed. (The closer the ratio is to unity, the less distor

tion occurs with moisture changes.)

The mesquite lumber industry is also growing in the South

west. We currently have about a dozen sawyers using small

sawmills, and while we do not produce mesquite lumber in

railroad-car quantities, we are producing and marketing a re

markable wood. For more information on mesquite, contact

our association: Los nigos del Mesquite, c/o Jim Lee, Reagan

Wells Route, Box 122, Uvalde, Tex. 7880l.

-Herb No rdmeyer, Mequite Lumber & Cats, Knppa, Tx.

More on teak substitutes- I have another suggestion for a re

placement for teak. In my estimation, one of the finest native

woods is Persimmon (Dioyros virginiana) . It is the same ge

nus as ebony and has a small area of black heartwood, but the

extensive sapwood is a creamy-tan color. The wood works

beautifully and has natural waxes and oils. It was used in the

past for weaving shuttles, because of its ability to take a fine

finish, and with use it becomes even smoother. It is not easy to

find as lumber, but the trees are plentiul in the Southeast. With

a renewed demand, smaller mills could produce a sizable vol

ume for the woodworking trade.

-john McClain Gray, Sy racuse,

s for Prs ma n es - We have formed a new company to

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stock and sell replacement parts for all Parks woodworking ma

chines. These will be manufactured to exacting machine-tool

standards, using only the original Parks drawings and material

speciications. Deliveries began on March 1, 1990, and it is an

ticipated that all parts for Parks planers, bandsaws and jointers

will either be in stock or available on a prompt delivery basis.

We do not have any record of orders that may have been pre

viously placed with Parks, but were not filled, so we request

people contact us directly at (606) 581-7511 or send a fax to

(606) 581-9642. No price list is available at this time, but we will

quote prices upon request.

-Gregory

h agoras vs. workbenches - Why have skilled craftsmen,

particularly those with an obvious feel for wood, persisted in

building trestle-style workbenches and ignoring basic struc

tural principles? The essence of rigid structure is the triangle

shape diagonal bracing. Three elements pinned together make

an absolutely rigid structure. (Bucky Fuller did it three dimen

Sionally and became world famous.)

These squared-up trestle designs exert terrific leverage on the

joints when su-essed. Wood is guaranteed to swell and shrink, so

even if the joinery is beautifully done, there eventually will be

play. The answer is the diagonal brace. About 50 years ago, I

added a plywood back and ends to make my bench rigid, and

then added shelves and a door to utilize the space. The bench

has taken a beating and it isn't very pretty anymore, but it's solid.

-Hugh johnson, Sy osset,

. Reder, Pars Repair Pats, Covington, Ky .

Gn bluing for antiquing-I thought Michael Dresdner pre

sented a well-written and practical method for giving brass an

aged look (

WW #80). The following is a diferent procedure,

which I've found works very well, is easy to do, and involves

materials that are safe to handle and inexpensive.

First, strip of tl1e manufacturer's finish with lacquer thin

ner. Then purchase a $6 bottle of gun bluing and wipe the

bluing on the brass with a clean cloth. Allow four- to six-min

utes drying time/oxidizing time, and then buff the piece with

0000 steel wool until you have the desired highlight effect.

Any remaining steel-wool particles can be removed with a

light blast from an air nozzle. Now wrap a 2-in.-wide strip of

s teak substitute-I'd like to add mesquite to the

teak substitutes mentioned by Jon Arno in

WW #80. Mesquite

Mesquite

multiplies faster than it can be grubbed out, so it is consid

ered a pest throughout the Southwest and is not endangered.

It has a specific gravity of 0.70, which is heavier than teak.

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