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George Nakashima

]ANUARY/FEBRUARy '1979, No. 14 $2.50

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There's a wealth of infornation and ideas

Our readers tell us they regard Fine Woodworking more as a reference resource than as a

magazine because of the timeless and hard·to·find nature of its contents. And because there is

so much material to cover (new ideas and techniques pop up all the time) we don't intend to

repeat ourselves editorially. All thirte�n back issues are now available and you can have a

complete set for your shop.

Winter 1975. Number 1-The Renwick Multiples. Checkered Bowls, Tramp Art,

Hand Planes. Carving Design, Decisions, Woodworking Thoughts, Marquetry Cutting,

Which Three?, Library Ladders, A Serving Tray, Stamp Box, All in One, French

Polishing, Birch Plywood, Bench Stones.

niture, Chain-Saw Lumbering, Rip Chain, Getting Lumber, Sawing by Hand, Gaming

Tables, Two Contemporary Tables, Wooden Clamps, Elegant Fakes, Aztec Drum,

Gout Stool, Two Tools, Measuring Moisture, The Flageolet, Young Americans.

Winter 1977. Number 9-Repair and Restoration, Designing for Dining, Tall

Chests, Entry Doors, The Right Way to Hang a Door, Drawer Bottoms, School Shop,

Health Hazards in Woodworking, Basic Blacksmithing, Carving Cornucopia, Carving

Lab, Routed Edge joint, Shaker Round Stand, Cutting Corners, Small Turned Boxes,

Unhinged.

Spring 1976. Number 2-Marquetry Today, Split Turnings, Eagle Carvings, Hand

Dovetails, Mechanical Desks, Textbook Mistakes, Antique Tools, Spiral Steps, Gustav

Stickley, Oil/Varnish Mix, Shaker Lap Desk, Chair Woods, Back to School.

Summer 1976, Number 3-Wood, Mortise and Tenon, The Christian Tradition,

Hand Shaping, Yankee Diversity, Plane Speaking, Desert Cabinetry, Hidden Drawers,

Green Bowls, Queen Anne, Gate-Leg Table, Turning Conference, Sttoke Sander, Fur

niture Plans.

Spring 1978. Number 10-Two New Schools, Wooden Clockworks, Hammer Ve

neering, Claw and Ball Feet, Block-Front Transformed, Hot-Pipe Bending, Furniture

Galleries, A Two-Way Hinge, Laminated Turnings, Chain-Saw Carving, Circular Saws,

Louvered Doors, Small Workbench.

Summer 1978. Number ll-Harpsichords, Spinning Wheels, American Wood

carvers, Drawers, Turning Spalted Wood, Scratch Beader, Leather on Wood, Notes on

Finishing, Building Green, Parsons Tables, Hanging a Door, Pencil Gauges, Dulcimer

Peg Box, Tiny Tools.

September 1978. Number 12-Community Workshop, Greene and Greene,

Holding the Work, Scandinavian Styles, Tambours, Stains, Dyes and Pigments, Spindle

Turning, Cleaving Wood, Whetstones, Sharpening, Cockleshell, Dust-Collection

System, Sanding, Used Machinery, Wooden Wagon.

November 1978. Number 13-Making Ends Meet, Scientific Instruments of Wood,

Making a Microscope, The Harmonious Crar, Laminated Bowls, Preparation of Stock,

Tung Oil, Relief Carving, Roll-Top Desks, Shaped Tambours, Cylinder Desk and ook

Case, Basic Machine Maintenance, Portfolio: A.W. Marlow, End-oring jig, Scale

Models, The Purpose of Making, Lumber Grading, On Workmanship.

Fall 1976. Number 4-Cabinetmaker's Notebook, Water and Wood, Hidden Beds,

Exotic Woods, Veneer, Tackling Carving, Market Talk, Abstract Sculptures from

Found Wood, Workbench, Ornamental Turning, Heat Treating, Mosaic Rosettes,

Shaped Tambours, Buckeye Carvings, Hardwood Sources.

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Spring 1977. Number 6-The Wood Butcher, Wood Threads, The Scraper, Califor

nia Woodworking, Bent Laminations, Dry Kiln, Expanding Tables, Two Sticks, Stacked

Plywood, Two Tools, Pricing Work, Going to Crar Fairs, Colonial Costs, Serving Cart,

Woodworking Schools.

Summer 1977, Number 7-Cooperative Shop, Glues and Gluing, Winter Market,

Three-Legged Stool, Lute Roses, Bowl Turning, Wharton Esherick, Doweling, Spalted

Wood, Antiqued Pine Furniture, Solar Kiln, Carving Fans, ending a Tray, Two

Meetings, Index to Volume One.

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Fall 1977. Number 8-0ut West, Steam Bending, Triangle Marking, Painted Fur

Winter 1976. Number 5-Stacking, Design Considerations, Keystone Carvers, Car

case Construction, Dealing With Plywood, Patch-Pad Cutting, Drying Wood, Gothic

Tracery, Measured Drawings, Wood Invitational, Guitar joinery, The Bowl Gouge,

English Treen, Shaper Knives.

Publisher

Paul Roman

Editor

John Kelsey

Art Director

Roger Barnes

Contnbuting Editors

Tage Frid

R. Bruce Hoadley

Alastair A. Stair

Consulting Editors

George Frank, A. W. Marlow

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1979, NUMBER 14

JANUARy/FEBRUARY

Assistant Editors

Laura Cehanowicz

Ruth Dobsevage

Production

JoAnn Muir, Manager

Deborah Fillion, Art Assistant

Barbara Hannah, Darkroom

Nancy Knapp, Typesetting

DEPARTMENTS

4 Letters

14 Methods of Work

Advertising

Janice A. Roman, Manager

Lois Beck, Vivian Dorman

& Answers

34 Adventures in Woodworking by George Frank: Fernan banks on ammonia

36 The Woodcraft Scene by Richard Starr: Guitarmaking school

39 Events

27 Questions

Advertising Representative

Granville M. Fillmore

Marketing Representative

John Grudzien

E. Ando, Manager

Gloria Carson, Marie Johnson

Cathy Kach, Nancy Schoch

Kathy Springer

Subscnptions

Carole

80 Bruce Hoadley: Wood has to breathe, doesn't it?

82 Editor's Notebook: A portfolio of recent work

Mailroom

Viney Merrill

Business Manager

Irene Arfaras

Correspondents

Carol Bohdan, John Makepeace

Alan Marks, Jim Richey

Rosanne Somerson, Richard Starr

Colin Tipping, Stanley N. Wellborn

ARICLES

40 George Nakashima by John Kelsey: For each plank there's one perfect use

47 Lester Margon's Measured Drawings

48 Tapered Lamination by Jere Osgood: Slender curves can still be joined

52 Improving Planes by Robert Foncannon: Eliminating common problems

55 Restoring Bailey Planes by George C. Gibbs

56 Box-Joint Jig by Patrick Warner: Router template indexes cuts

Five Chairs: One View by Robert DeFuccio: A critique

World Globe by Steven A. Hartley: Jig cuts segments for hollow sphere

Koa Table by Ben Davies: Cove cuts emphasize joinery

Incised Lettering by Sam Bush: Boldness is better than puttering

Bolection Turning by Thomas J. Dufy: How to inlay around a bowl

Air-Powered Tools by Lyle Laske: What's available and where to get it

Polyhedral Puzzles by Stewart T. Coin: Sculptural art that comes apart

Design Sources by Cary Hall: Conventions stand in for genius

Have a Seat

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Cover: Ater they have been air died and

kzln rie, planks are normaly stored stand

ing on end at George Nakashima's work

shops. Th e ones on edge, fo regoun, are

about 5 . wide and too long to stand up

niht, despite 16-ft. cezlings. More about

Nakashima on page

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There is no need for Drew Langsner's froe club or maul

("Cleaving Wood," Sept. '78, pp. 64-67) to be "unavoidably

expendable." A properly chosen hickory or dogwood root

maul will endure many years of constant use. It will wear

down only by gradual pulverization and never by the splitting

or shattering that is inevitable in stem-wood mauls.

When you dig up your maul rather than cutting it down,

you have two important factors going for you. First, the cir

cumference is largely composed of the end grain of the

severed lateral roots ....Second, these lateral roots have their

origin deep within the root stock, thereby binding the head

of the maul together.

To make a maul like this, ind a hickory or dogwood sap

ling that is about 6 in. in diameter at ground level. Dig out

around it, cutting away the side roots with an old ax as you

go. Hickories will have a long taproot that must be exposed

by pulling the tree over. Dogwoods tend to have only shallow

lateral roots ...and are easier to cut loose. Wash as much of

the dirt and sand of as you can and immediately peel of the

bark. Rough-shape the entire afair with a sharp hand ax and

finish up the handle (about a foot long) with a drawknife or

rounder plane. As always, let it season well before you put it

to work.

Mr. Alexander's shaving horse (" Holding the Work,"

Sept. '78, pp. 46-48) is indeed a fine beast for the chair

bodger, or the cooper who works with short lengths of wood.

But if, however, you need a general workhorse that will take

any length of work and provide maximum holding power,

please go with a dumbhead horse. The typical dumbhead,

pivoting much closer to the business end, gives you a me

chanical advantage of 4: 1. A bodger's bench, which pivots in

the middle, gives no such advantage. In addition to holding

Dumbhead horse

the short stock of chair work with greater strength, the open

sides of the dumbhead make life a lot easier when you're

working with 7-ft long rake stails (handles) or shaving down

similar lengths of white oak for making splits.

-Roy Underhzll, Hzllsborough,

. C.

In Sept '78, you permit a reader on page 10 to threaten you

with economic sanction. Will you please cut that out? It em

barrasses me. There is not an issue of Fine Woodworking that

doesn't contain a sentence or two which alone are more than

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Until now. quality work

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