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November/December 1991

DEPRTMENTS

4 Letters

ProScale update; bending boxes; jigsaw puzzle blades

14 Methods of Work

Hand-screw storage; jointing long boards; routing dadoes

26 Questions

& Answers

Truing a grinding wheel; toxic wood dust; sealers and fillers

116 Events

A look at upcoming programs of interest to woodworkers

122 Books

Refinish�ng OldFuniture;ShakerFuniture and Woodenware

124 Notes and Comment

Design in Wood show; luthiers' symposium; product reviews

RICLES

46 Building a Sleigh Bed by William Turner

Bu ild a deh umidification kiln fo r drying lumber

at home (a rticle on p. 83). Cover: William Wa lk

er's chairs were standouts in a show of fu niture

by Ja mes renov and some of his fo rmer students

(a rticle on p. 94) . Cover photo: Chris Eden.

A vacuum fence for a tablesaw

52 Belt Sander Tune-Up by George E. Cooper

Flattening the base and aligning the wheels

54 Laying Out a Workshop by Scott Landis

Planning for worklow and flexibility

57 Working in a small space

Flowing tambours and intricate detailing enhance a classic design

Exe:utive Editor Jim Boesel

M"n"ging Editor Sandor Nagyszalanczy

Art Diredor Kathleen Rushton

Assist"nt Editors Charley Robinson,

Gary Weisenburger

Copy Editors Carolyn Kovachik,

Deborah Surprenant

Assist"nt Art Dire:tor Aaron Azevedo

Editori"' Assist"nt Alec Waters

Editori"' Se:ret"y Claire Warner

Contributing Editors Tage Frid, R. Bruce Hoadley,

Christian Becksvoort, Michael Dresdner,

Mark Duginske

Consulting Editors George Frank, Richard

E. PreiSS,

n Easy-to-Build Workbench by Richard Starr

Bolted butt joints for rigid construction

62 Milk Paint by A. Richard Fitch

Making an udderly timeless topcoat

66 Sharpening a Scraper by E.S. Martin

A lat file and a few seconds are all you need

Norman Vandal

Methos of Work Jim Richey

Indexer Harriet Hodges

Publisher John Lively

Assist"nt Publsher James P. Chiavelli

Cir:ul"tion M"n"ger Brenda Hamilton

Administr"tive Se:ret"y Susan M. Clark

68 Making a Wooden Cube Puzzle by Stewart T. Coffin

Simple methods produce precisely interlocking pieces

i g CoordiBtor Ka n Mo ian Simonds

Advertising Se:ret"y Betsy Quintiliano

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A sliding-tile puzzle by Robert Stirling

72 Reining Table Design with Details by Ross Day

Twin aprons, sculpted joints and chamfers

76 Turning a Scoop by Richard Raffan

Twelve steps from lathe to flour bin

80 Building an Octagonal Pedestal by John Hines

Easy assembly with core-and-rib construction

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A Dehumidification Kiln by William Bolf

A compact system for drying your own wood

Fine Woodworking magazine remains witl1 the authors, pho

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granted publication rights to

Fine Woodworking.

A Review of Fractional Calculators by Pat Warner

Adding up the feet and inches

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85 How a kiln dries wood

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94 James Krenov and Friends by Jim Boesel

Show spotlights work of students and teacher

97 Decade in the Redwoods by Doug Noyes

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91 Routing Hardware Mortises by Jef Greef

Working with templates and guide bushings

93 Making a mortising f

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Small Shop," WW #S9, is an interesting read, but it raises more

questions than it answers. All of us have spent time rearranging

machinery and work low to improve the economy of process,

but there is a point beyond which organizing things becomes an

activity for its own sake with no particular cost benefit. Paper

organization is equally subject to diminishing returns. For some

cultural reason, we associate maximum eiciency with copious

record keeping and ritual, oten regimented procedure, but it

ain't necessarily so. More to the point, eficiency is only one vari

able in the equation that distinguishes a businessman-artisan

from a businessman-operator of a small-scale assembly-line shop.

Mr. Tolpin, whose thoughtful prose neither lectures nor pon

tificates on the merits of his methods, likes block diagrams,

flowcharts and card files to keep his work in order. Others use

dedicated computer programs to the same end, and still others,

such as myself, manage quite well with a no. 2 pencil and a

I've

read with interest the letters in recent issues about finding

the radius of an arc using basic algebra and geometry. Maybe it

was just the environment, or dle times in which I served my

apprenticeship as a carpenter and joiner (1946-1952), but the

mention of an algebraic formula to find the radius of an arc

would have met with no uncertain abuse in tile shop I appren

ticed in. Part of our work consisted of making curved wood

forms for brick arches, some of which were so large that if we

used a radius metilod, we would have ended up trying to draw

an arc with a 50-ft. radius. The drawings below illustrate the

practical method we used 40 years ago to draw an arc, given the

distance between brick piers (chord length) and the height

(rise) of the arc.

pocket calculator. What pleases one person is poison o another,

and there is no connection I know of that associates these or any

other shop methods with long-term prospects of profit or loss.

But there is another point of debate tilat is less conspicuous

and arguably more contentious. In the sidebar to tile article, Mr.

Tolpin describes pocket-screwed face-frame joints as an example

of how he has reduced labor costs. We've all faced similar

choices between traditional woodwork and the convenience of

dedicated hardware and materials, but like so many other manu

facturing conu'ivances, this one comes too close to the edge for

my conservative taste.

The crucial difference between the one-man shop and a fac

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tory is that we can work not just o please our clients, but to

satisy our own standards as well. None of us are in tilis business

to sufer gratuitous losses, but many of us prefer not to subsidize

a profit by sacrificing the pleasure and virtue of classic wood

work to a lifeless, production-driven methodology. Mr. Tolpin's

description of his professional rebirth is, therefore, less an ex

ample of strict competitive necessity than it is an example of an

approach that suits his market and his personal preferences. His

comments are worl reading, but by no means do they represent

an urgent model for contemporary small-shop management.

-Josepb Beals, Marslfiel, Mass.

ICenterline

Hold wood strips against nails

and tack them together at center.

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Move

nail down.

: Centerline

Trim apex and

notch for pencil.

dle timber, as shown in step l. Next, place two narrow, thin

strips of wood that are a little longer tilan tile distance between

the center and end nails against the nails as shown in step 2.

Tack the two strips togedler where tiley overlap at the middle,

and cut away the prou'uding ends. ow, remove dle end nail at

dle top of the rise and drive it in on the baseline, like tile nail at

dle otiler end (see step 3). Finally, carve a small notch to hold a

pencil at the apex of dle bevel formed by the two strips of wood,

and place tile bevel against two of the nails as shown in step 3.

To draw tile arc, hold tile pencil with one hand, and use your

other hand to gentiy push tile bevel against the nails while slid

ing it along them. Move tile bevel to dle other side of the center

line to finish drawing dle arc.

This method may look like the old-timer's way of doing

( WW #90), riding those golden contrails, is a glorious tribute to

his skills and to tile old war-horse dlat he has modeled. My hel

met is off to him.

A word, dlough, about the text. There never was a nine-cylinder

Corsair. It was designed and built around an IS-cylinder R-2S00

Pratt & Whiwey engine. Some early models made use of a dlree

blade prop and several late examples built by Goodyear sported

28-cylinder engines. But all F4U4s were powered by R-2800s and

swung a 16-t. four-blade prop. -Gene Aul, Merrick, NY

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