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SEPTEMBER /OCTOBER 1982, NUMBER 36

DEPARTMENTS

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14 Design Book Enty Blank

42 Adventures in Woodworking

16 Methods of Work

46 Events

26 Questions & Answers

50 Connections

ARTICLES

54 Lapstrake Boatbuilding by Simon Wa tts

The thousand-year-old way to keep aloat

60 Chainsaw Lumbermaking by Wil Maloff

Good-bye to vibration and fu mes

64 New Machines Turn Logs to Boards

Stools

65 The three-legged stool by David W. Scott

70 The Taming of the Skew by Mike Darlow

Subtlety, not fo rce, wins fa vor

A slightly diferent angle by Jim Cummins

76 Wood Identiication at FPL by Paul Bertoreli

Gilding

79 On the trail of Cennino by Henry E. Sostman

Curved Moldings on the Radial-Arm Saw

80 Shaper setup can CUt a swan-neck by Walace M. Kunkel

82 Clock tops and planing by Raymond H. Haserodt

Woodworking Injuries

84 A hand surgeon looks at how accidents happen by Dr. E. Jeff Justis

Cover: The sweeping, ovelapped planks of

this ancient Viking ship are an elegant, un

mistakable characteristic of lapstrake boat

building-a technique at least ten centuries

old. Lapstrake boats are made with relatively

thin planks riveted together into strong, light

huls. Much of what we know about this art

has been leaned fro m the okstad ship, shown

on the cover, and from the Oseberg ship, whose

richly carved bow iS J ictured above. For more

88 An island with dogs and drawers by Dwayne]. Intved

Survey of hand injuries

Workbenches

91 A portable carving bench by Everett Traylor

Photographing Your Work

The set-up table by Heny T. Kramer

54. Photos: ©University of National

92 Like woodcraft, the more care you take, the better the results by Gary Zeff

on Vikin g boats an lapstrake boatbuilding,

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96 Watching a ptofessional shoot a chair by Rick Masteli, Deborah Filion

Antiquities, Oslo, Norway.

98 Linenfold Carving by Rick Butz

Planes and gouges shape fo lds

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Letters

As reviewed in FWW #34, plate joinery is a rapid and accu

rate method of aligning boards. Several years ago I began

using the #20 Lamello plates or splines for various projects.

As a hobbyist, I couldn't justiy the more than $500 price of

the Minilo machine, and the less expensive Elu had not come

out yet. The Minilo machine uses a 100mm (4-in.) diameter

blade that CUts a slot 4mm (%2 in.) wide and 12.5mm (� in.)

deep. As an alternative, I purchased a %rin. slotting cutter

for use in a router. It does the job quite nicely, with the only

difference being that the slotting cutter is 2 in. in diameter

instead of 4 in. Therefore the slot, which is Cut by moving the

blade along, is slightly deeper at the ends of the spline than

necessary. This has posed no problems for my purpose. With

tencies with the international rules of botanical nomenclature

become apparent. Also, there is sometimes room fo r argu

ment as to which genus a species properly belongs. For exam

ple, the question of whether incense-cedar is Calocedrus de

currens or Libocedrus decurrens falls into this category.

However, the use of names that were unequivocally replaced

decades ago is just plain inexcusable. Mussey's "Abies ex

celsa" was a real puzzler, because that name had been var

iously used for no less than three distinCt species during the

19th century. I finally determined that he was referring to

what is now known as Abies alba, usually known in English

as European silver fir and rarely as "German ir."

I do encourage you to continue using botanical names. I'm

sure they are helpful to your fo reign readers who may not be

familiar with American common names, and they can be a

definite help to anyone who works with tropical woods. Per

haps you may also save some 21st-century scholar /wood

worker the frustration that I'm sure Mussey experienced in

deciphering those old recipes.

For your reference: Ca/itris quadrivalvis (misspelled as

Calitris) is Tetraclinis articulata, Rhus copal/inum is

Rhus copa/ina, and Rhus venicifera is Rhus veniciJlua.

-Kim C. Steiner, Associate Professor of

Forest Genetics, Pennsylvania State University

ROBERT MUSSEY REPLIES: I appreciate these corrections. Professor

Steiner properly points to the confusion in trying to interpret histori

cal material. I have discovered another error in the article as pub

lished. The sentence at the botrom of the irst column of p. 57

parenthetically describes true "English polishes"

4-in. dia. Minilo blade

a 0.945-in. diameter bearing, the slot is about � in. deep,

which matches the cutting depth of the 4-in. blade. A cus

tom-ground, carbide-toothed slotting cutter can be purchased

from Winchester Carbide Saw, 2633 Paper Mill Rd., Win

chester, Va. 22601. A 4-wing assembly (includes cutter, ar

bor and bearing) COStS less than $35 with postage. Request a

B-13 bearing with the assembly, and specify whether you

want a X-in. or �-in. arbor. You can also purchase a less

expensive 2-wing assembly, or just the cutter by itself if you

already have an arbor and bearing.

-David D. Dolton, Bowie, Md.

"oil varnishes

made with copal and shellac resins." These are spirit varnishes

made with copal and shellac resins; shellac is not soluble in oil.

I have also come across another source of supply for varnishes

and varnish resins. It is Wood Finishing Enterprises, Box 10117,

Milwaukee, Wis. 53210.

Ms. Holzapfel's reflections on handicapped persons gammg

access to wood turning through the use of a machine lathe

(FWW #34, p. 98) are indeed faCt. At the Veterans Admin

istration's Blind Rehabilitation Clinic in Northampton,

Mass., we have been using a machine lathe as well as a com

pound rest attachment on our wood lathe as an integral part

of the training of blind and visually impaired veterans for

over ten years. We use these more mechanical methods as a

confidence-building introduction to turning, or to make pre

cise turned pieces. Except in cases of severe physical impair

ment, we also encourage our clients to attempt freehand turn

ing as an exercise in coordination, creativiry and "feel."

A device that has been very effective in allowing visually or

physically impaired persons to do freehand turning is a tool

rest made from a X-in. thick steel plate mounted flat on the

tool-rest post. You set its height to ix the plane of cut for a

scraping tool, and it provides support along the length of the

tool. This lessens the chance of accidentally raising or lowering

the point of Cut and gouging the project. We make the plate

triangular in plan, to fit into bowls.

Using these devices in conjunction with most other normal

procedures, we have been able to introduce over 200 handi

capped individuals to a more independent lifestyle through

woodworking. -Peter A. Kukish, Evan G. Bandouveres,

V.A. Medical Center, Northampton, Mass.

I must call your attention to serious safery problems depiCted

in John Kolkman's Method for sharpening planer knives

(FWW #34, p. 14). The irst error is grinding on the side of

a type 1 grinding wheel. Type 1 wheels are made to be used

on the periphery only; they are not made to be stressed from

the side. In addition, any wearing of the side only further

weakens the wheel. Wheels designed for side grinding are

steel-backed, with the abrasive cemented to the back.

The drawing also shows a wheel lange on one side but

none on the other. This is also very dangerous. The pressure

of the flanges must come at opposite points on the side of the

grinding wheel. The combination of a larger flange and a

smaller nut will create a SOrt of punch press that can cause the

wheel to explode. -Oliver Quist, Stoddard, N.H.

In Kolkman's application, may I suggest a type 6 straight cup

wheel or a type 11 laring cup wheel? Not only does the user

reduce the risk of injury, but these are standard "tool room"

wheels that most industrial suppliers will have on the shelf in

a wide range of grades. -Tim Neun, Portland, Ore.

Robert Mussey's article "Early Varnishes" (FWW #35, July

'82) was very interesting and obviously thoroughly re

searched. Unfortunately, I must fault him in a small way for

the careless use of botanical names. Of the seven in the arti

cle, there are three misspellings and twO instances of entirely

incorrect names. This is not surprising: supposedly ..correCt"

botanical names are replaced from time to time as inconsis-

Many of us do a lot of turning, and have found that, to our

horror, checks and defects mar the inished product. Instead

of trying to hide these defects, I have made them work for me

by making them more pronounced. The defeCts are filled

with a mixture of fine sawdust or water putty, carpenters'

glue, and acrylic color (the brighter the better). Mix to a thick

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