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JULy/AUGUST 1982, No. 35, $3.00

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Chainsaw

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FINE WOODWORKING

Editor John Kelsey

Art Director Deborah Fillion

Associate Editor Rick Mastelli

Assistant Editors Paul Bertorelli

Jim Cummins

Roger Holmes

Copy Editor Nancy Stabile

Editorial Assistant Linda D. Whipkey

Contributing Editors Tage Frid

R. Bruce Hoadley

Richard Starr

Simon Watts

Consulting Editors George Frank

JULY/AUGUST 1982, NUMBER 35

DEPARTMENTS

32 Books

34 Design Book

J. Kirby

A.W. Marlow

Methods of Work Jim Richey

36 Adventures in Woodworking

38 Events

Answers

ARTICLES

46 Joinery Along Curved Lines by Jim Sweeney

A general method for template routing

50 Relying on the Router

Three tricks: drawer pull, mortising jig and wooden hinge

54 Early Varnishes by Robert D. Mussey

The 18th century's search for the perfect ilm inish

58 The Harpers Ferry Conservation Shop by Paul Bertoreli

Where White House furnirure gets refurbished

61 Framing Pictures by Jim Cummins

Choosing and making suitable moldings

68 Three Decorative Joints by Tage Frid

Emphasize the outlines with contrasting veneers and splines

Most of the picture-frame moldings above, as

wel as the one on t h e cover, were made on the

tablesaw using nothing more complicated

than a lO-in. carbide blade and a shopmade,

adjustable-angle fence. For more about the

framer's craft , including such fi ne points as

how to choose a frame, how to make the mold

ing, and how to cut it and join it, see p.

61.

71 Bermudan Dovetailing by Ja mes Bump

72 Building a Stripper Canoe by Buce Winterbon

Cedar and iberglass make a strong, lightweight shell

76 Another Approach to the Stripper by Richard Swanson

78 Getting the Right Feel by Charles Parish

Don McClain's formula for good furniture and good business

80 Dough Trays by Delbert reear

The Southern tradition of handmade wooden bowls

84 Using Bench Planes by Ian J. Kirby

These basic tools still do what machines can't

Current Work

88 Fresh approaches to marketing by Paul Bertorelli

8 9 Alabama wood show by Craig Butt eworth

91 Showing urniture across the continent

by eorge Breck and Roger Bell

92 A Time and Motion Study

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Letters

Editor's Notebook

Methods of Work

Questions

Cover photo: D. Filion.

Gamble, personnel assistant; Mary

Glazman, data prcessing; Barbara Bahr, secretary. Account

ing: Irene Arfaras, mana g er; Madeline Colby, Elaine Yamin.

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Letters

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heels from a scant a in. to more than 2 in. high to accommo

date different thicknesses of wood. I prefer to use birch ply

wood to make the shoe ...and often laminate several pieces

when I feel a wider push is needed. The extra expense of

birch is well worth it when safety is a factor.

The main advantage of the shoe is the extra stability given

by its sole. This is most helpful when ripping wood that has

knOts, is very hard or is cupped. The sole also helps hold

short pieces.

...I couldn't agree with Kirby more about the hazards of

kickback on a tablesaw. By far, the worst injuries I've seen

associated with the tablesaw have come from kickback. A

note I'd like to add is to mount a push-button on-off switch

flush with the edge of the table and at knee height, facing the

operator. For a right-handed operator, the switch should be

on the left-hand side of the blade. This can help avoid stand

ing in front of the saw with a dangerous situation that needs

two hands to keep from being potentially fatal, and waiting

for the motor to overheat so the saw will shut off.

-Gay Root, E. Calais, Vt.

ways keep several shoes with -.- --

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The reason for this letter is NASA's "space age saw-guard"

(Methods, March '82). That design is as old s the Industrial

Revolution. If that is space age, then the space shuttle's fuse

lage was hollowed out with a gutter adze.

There are many small lumberyards which I've been in that

employ that type of saw guard. Some are still maintaining

lineshafts and flatbelts. One lumberyard very near us has a

16-in. tablesaw with that apparatus mounted to the ceiling so

it doesn't interfere with large cuts or fence movements.

-Ric Puis, Elkhart Lake, Wis.

-John Roccanova, Bronx, N. Y.

Kirby's article on the tablesaw was informative, yet I don't

believe it went far enough on safety equipment. What safety

devices are available and how do they compare? Where are

they sold? For example, I use a Rockwell 12-in. contractor's

tablesaw. The original blade guard and anti-kickback device

are almost unusable. The blade is all but invisible with the

blade guard in place. What else could be used with that saw?

The fact that one sees most saws stripped of their safety gear

indicates that many other people have the same problem that

I do.

(F W #34). He wonders if some advertisers actually make

more money from selling their advertising literature than

from selling their product.

I cannot answer for other advertisers but here are some

facts regarding our catalog, which we "sell" for $1.50. Cata

log costs 45", envelope 4", label 3', order form 2., price list

2., irst-class postage 88., labor (typing, packing, etc.) 30·.

The total is $1.74 for something we sell for $1.50. From this

-William Loehr, Franktown, Colo.

Craig Arbau $h of Noistown,

Pa., built thtl chey desk for "a

gent of large outdoor stature with

the sentimental desire to have

funiture from his own trees."

jeff Stewart brought his walnut

beaver from Mt. Hood to the

sculpture show held in Februay

at the Westen Foresty Center

in Portland, Ore.

"A marquet y picture of a bookshef intrigued me, and

inspired the door of this cabinet...a new realm for me."

-Silas Kopf, Northampton, Mass.

I found Ian Kirby's article "Using the Tablesaw" (F W

#34, May '82) a fine refresher on the basics of using this

machine. The push stick that you depicted is the one shown

by most industrial arts books; however,

feel it is not the

safest or most accurate to use. I have been taught to make a

push stick in the shape of a shoe. For general work I make

the shoe about 12 in. long

and 6 in. high. The heel

must be a little shorter than

the thickness of the wood

being ripped. Therefore I al

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