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Wood
Summer
1976, $2.50
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Summer
1976,
Volume
1,
Number
3
CONTENTS
4
Lettes
8
Books
Caftsman's Gallery
by John Kelsey: Shop/gallery combination works in
Philadelphia
10
11
Authos
Wood
by R. Bruce Hoadley: A look at this fu ndamental material
Mortise and Tenon
by Tage Frid: Choosing and making this basic joint
The Christian Tadition
by Francis J. Newton: Portland Museum mounts
exquisite show
Hand Shaping
by Daniel Jackson: A simple approach to sculpturing
wood
Yankee Divesity
by Jere Osgood: Boston show features interesting
designs
Plane Speaking
by Robert Sutter: One man's guide to the more useful
ones
Desert Cabinetry
by Thomas A .. Simons IV: Coping with six percent
mOIsture
Hidden Dawes
by Alastair A. Stair: Some eighteenth-century examples
Green Bowls
by Alan Stirt: Turn unseasoned wood, dry it, then turn
agam
Queen Anne
by Franklin H. Gottshall: Styling elements used in table
designs
Gate-Leg Table
by Paul Buckley: A contemporary version of a classic
design
Tuning Conference
by John Kelsey: Notes and information on a recent
gathering
Stroke Sander
by M.G. Rekof, Jr.: Building a machine to smooth flat
panels
Funiture Plans:
A listing of what's available in book and sheet form
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16
22
Editor and Publisher
24
Paul Roman
Contributing Editors
26
Tage Frid
R. Bruce Hoadley
Alastair A. Stair
Robert Sutter
28
30
Associate Editor
34
John Kelsey
37
Associate Publisher
40
Janice A. Roman
42
Editorial Assistant
Ruth Maidman
4
Subscription Service
6
Carole E. Ando
52
Advertising Consultant
55
Sources of Supply (continued)
I've Got
a
Secret :
"Little Man" of walnut
Granville M. Fillmore
56
Covr: Scanning electron microscope photograph
shows structure of yellow birch. Large vertical cells
are vssels, the smallr ones mostly brs. The
laer-like structures in the large vessels are the
diagonal endwalls through which sap travels. Ra
dial ray cells and rays are clarly visible in all
sufaces. Centr of tree ould be toward lowr right.
Photo from the Center for U Itrastructures Studies,
SUNY, Colege of Environmental Science and
Forstry.
Fine Woodworking is published quarterly, March, June, September and December, by The
Taunton Press, Inc., Taunton Lake Road, Newtown, CT 06470, Telephone (203) 426-
8171. Second-class postage paid at Newtown, CT 06470 and additional mailing offices.
Copyright 1976 by The Taunton Press, Inc. No reproduction without permission of The
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I do not denigrate the use of a ile; a ine flat ile has
helped to thin many a slightly recalcitrant tail or pin. After
all, it is known as the " cabinetmaker's friend." Fine dovetails
in thin wood can sometimes use a ine triangular ile.
....As Me. Mattia states, there are many ways to make
dovetails. Some of my peculiarities may be of some beneit to
some readers.
To begin with, most dovetail sawing is ripping; conven
tional dovetail saws are ground with cross-cutting teeth and
have a round .. pistol" grip. This makes for unnecessary strain
and wobble for those of us not hugely muscled nor intensely
dedicated. Great comfort, peace of mind, and accuracy can be
obtained by having two dove-tail saws, both with convention
al hand-saw handles, one ground for ripping, one for
cross-cutting, the latter of which I make noticeable by
chiseling an
"X"
on the handle. Any good professional saw
sharpener can convert cross-cut to .. raker teeth" for ripping.
Life has been simpler since I routinely dado'd all the sides
of a drawer before dove-tailing - the slot is a constant point
of reference for the inside of the board.
Paul W. Caney, DeKalb,
III.
I am wrmng in regard to your Spring '76 issue of
Fine
Woodworking.
In the article "Textbook Mistakes," Tage Frid
talked about how it was better to glue boards with the end
grain in the same direction because it is easier to hold down
one big warp than smaller warps. It seems to me than if what
he says is true, it wouldn't make any diference whether you
use one wide board or many small ones because they will both
warp the same.
If one has a good number of dovetails to cut, e.g. 36 inches
of dovetails on each corner of assorted drawers for a chest, it
makes for considerable convenience to have a template of
brass or aluminum on hand. Time making accurate templates
will be repaid ten-fold in time saved. Scribing for pins theu
tails can be frustrating if the stock is thick, the pins narrow. Myself, being in the custom furniture and repair business, I
see that in antique furniture where larger pieces of wood are
used, there are obvious warps in those pieces. Whereas there
seems to be no warp when glued up in narrower widths, with
the end grain alternated. The method Tage Frid recommends
seems very risky, especially on table leaves without skirts.
The labor saved by using a jig saw or tight band saw to cut
tails to me is as reasonable as using a table saw to cut stock.
Sawing pins is simpler by hand.
If marks are scribed rather than penciled, it should not be
necessary to raise a light chip to preserve the mark so the
chisel is placed precisely. A sharp chisel of the correct width
can always find and hold a scribed line. I prefer to scribe
depth lines with the material used, because sides of drawers
are thinner than fronts or backs, etc.
I also question what he says about dowel joints as com
pared to mortise and tenon, especially if you want your
urniture to last longer than yourself. The mortise and tenon
joint is good, but people like driving nails through them to
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hold them tight, which only leaves the furniture repair man
one choice of chiseling the wood away from the nail to pull it.
Then when the joint is apart, the glue must be scraped or
sanded off which in many cases leaves the joint sloppy and
requires wedges to make it tight again. As with dowels people
don't nail them nearly as often, and are easily replaced if
broken or sanded too small. The dowel may not be as good in
theory, but to me seems superior in repairing, and in giving
the original tightness that old loose chairs once had.
Jim Surgent, Misoula, Montana
cause a split. The sketch showing an alternate grain panel was
very much exaggerated and never happens to dry wood.
H. C. Conkling,Jr., South Dartmouth, Mas.
Tage Frid replies: "Responding to Mr. Van Sinderen, in the
type of furniture I do,
I
am usually gluing up planed boards
of the same or nearly the same thickness. I temporarily clamp
battens (such as
2
by
4'
s) top and bottom across the boards to
align them. I remove the battens once the boards are
clamped. "
"Responding to Mr. Conkling, the drawing of the grain di
rections was exaggerated for clarity. Whenever I screw a top to
a base,
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....With respect to Tage Frid's article in the March issue.
I certainly agree, dowels are not necessary for strength, but
how do you keep all these boards lined up when joining an
eight-foot table rop? We all would love to work with perfect
lumber, but it is not often you come across an eight-foot
board of walnut that doesn't have a crook or two! By the time
you plane and joint this wood it's better, but when you go to
edge glue-let's say your boards are six inches wide-it would
be very difficult to clamp these boards accurately at the edges
without some type of guide.
Donald Van Sinderen, Pembroke, Maine
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alternating the grain. He was correct in what would happen if
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