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4 Editor's Notebook

Updates on salt-cured stock and tuning a router

6 Letters

Maintaining forests; bandsaw tires; free business counseling

16 Methods of Work

Grooving dowels; shopmade micrometer; concealing nail holes

24 Questions & Answers

Protecting wood's color; bending cherry; centering dadoes

. 94 Evens

A look at upcoming programs of interest to woodworkers

100 Notes and Comment

Joinery challenge; Grinling Gibbons' carvings; product reviews

Kelly Mehler tels how to build a tablesaw rosscut

box on p. 72. Tablesawn moldings and hand-tooled

bead add dimension to Ron Layport's maple hutch

( article on p. 46) . Co ver photo y Ch uck Fu .

38 Building a Trestle Table by James Merritt Dunlap

Draw wedges make self-tightening jOints

Executive Editor Jim Boesel

Art Director Kathleen Rushton

Senior Editor Dick Burrows

Associ.te Editor Sandor Nagyszalanczy

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Gary Weisenburger

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Christian Becksvoort, Michael Dresdner,

Mark Duginske

Consulting Editors George Frank, Richard E. Preiss,

Norman Vandal

Methods of Work Jim Richey

Indexer Harriet Hodges

42 Visiting a Veneer Mill by John Kriegshauser

From steaming logs to thinly sliced sheets

43 Sharpening a 16-t.-Iong knife

46 Building an Open Hutch by Ronald Layport

Moldings detail frame-and-panel sideboard

52 Water-Base Finishes by Chris A. Minick

Tips and techniques for choosing and using these new materials

56 Inlaying Turquoise and Silver by John S. Manuel

Adding life and luster to ancient ironwood

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How blade design afects quality of cut

64 Knockdown, Stand-Up Mirror by Bill Bivona

A contempoary version of a cheval glass

68 Reproducing an Antique Plow Plane

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Getting double duy fom a common shop tool

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44 Figured veneers by Jim Dumas

54 Applying a water-base inish

74 More than a crosscut jig

78 Joining cabinet face frames

Editor's Notebook

A magazine is a clearinghouse for ideas, especially if the journal

is reader written like ours. We seek out skilled woodworkers

and other experts and give them an opportunity to pass on their

special knowledge. Along the way, we oten find others with dif

ferent points of view. Sometimes these new opinions contradict

our experts, but mostly they just enlarge our field of vision. The

end result is that we all learn more. This learning curve is en

sured as long as our readers keep sharing tl1eir experiences with

us, as they did in the letters cited below.

r ed s tock-In the "Q&A" column of

recommends cleaning these parts wid1 a mild solvent on a soft

cloth. Secondly, Reed points out d1at d1e oil-impregnated, sin

tered-bronze bushings, upon which d1e head slides on most

plunge routers, should be lubricated "with a light machine oil,

wiped on with a sot clod1" instead of wid1 wax or a dry lubricant

as Duginske suggested. In addition, he says that cleaning his rout

er baseplates with furniture polish allows them to glide easily.

Finally, Reed says that using compressed air to blow chips and

dust off a router only tends to blow d1em into d1e very places

from which you want to remove them. He wipes the outside of

the router ater use, and allows the router's internal air low to

blow any dust from the housing.

Duginske regrets any confusion caused by his recommendation

on abrasive pads, and responded to Reed's letter by saying, "The

goal when caring for a router is to clean, but not damage, d1e

machined and polished surfaces. Sandpaper and coarse steel wool

WW #87, wood technologist Jon Arno responded to a question

from Sinclair . Chiles III of Bethlehem, Pa., about whether salt

curing could cause a walnut gunstock to swell and split. Arno said

he'd never heard of salt-cured wood. s it turns out, several read

ers have. In response to their letters, Arno called Browning Arms,

the maker of the shotgun in question, and here's what he learned

about salt-curing.

"Apparently, in the 1960s, Browning Arms and several other

firearms manufacturers experimented with drying gunstocks us

ing salt. According to the folks at Browning, the process involved

layering green gunstock blanks with salt in much the same way

one might salt down a ish. The salt quickly dehydrated the wood,

but unfortunately, the wood also absorbed considerable amounts

of salt. Although the problem was not discovered until years ater

the stocks were put into production, the high salt concentration

caused some serious difficulties, especially in regard to corro

sion of the metal parts, which are in contact with the stock. Al

though Browning didn't mention it, I suspect that because salt is

extremely hygroscopic, it would also cause the stock to have an

inordinately high ainity for moisture, and this could cause the

wood to swell-the problem described by Mr. Chiles in his origi

nal letter to 'Q&A.'

A technical adviser at Browning also said that a water solution

of 0.1 % (YlO of 1 %) silver nitrate could be used to determine if a

stock had been salt cured. First, scrape the finish of a small area

of the stock, preferably in an inconspicuous place such as under

the butt plate, and apply a drop of the solution to the raw wood. If

the stock is salty, the spot will turn white. Over the years, Brown

ing has tried to assist customers with corrosion problems due to

salt-cured stocks. For information, write Browning Arms, Morgan,

Utah 84050, or call (80l) 876-2711."

n scratch the mating surfaces and remove material from the collet,

cone and column, thus compromising the it. However, the plastic

mesh pads that I use to clean these parts are scouring pads found

in most grocery stores. These pads are 'telon safe,' meaning they

are designed not to scratch a hard surface." Ater reading Reed's

letter, Duginske bought eveY plastic mesh pad he could find to

see if they would scratch the blade of a steel square, which would

be about as hard as the router slides. He found that d1e scouring

pads didn't cause scratches, but that 3M Scotch-Brite brand pads

did and should be avoided. "All of d1ese plastic pads look and feel

very Similar, and so unless the pad is clearly marked teflon safe,

you'll need to make the scratch test to tell the difference."

Duginske felt that Reed's other suggestions were acceptable op

tions, except for d1e one about applying furniture polish to router

baseplates. Duginske warns d1at "furniture polishes and car waxes

contain a high percentage of silicones, which can contaminate

bare wood and cause problems when inishing." For more informa

tion on silicone contamination, see WW #77, pp. 64-67. Duginske

said he u-eats router baseplates, saw tables and plunge-router col

umns with Behlen's paste wax, applied with a telon-safe plastic

mesh pad, which is just rough enough to remove any accumula

tion of pitch, dried wax or dirt as the wax is applied. Any excess

wax can be removed with a clean rag.

u ter- L n wood . Reed of Man

chester, Conn., objected to contributing editor Mark Duginske's

article on router tune-ups in WW #86. Reed, a machine designer

and engineer by u-ade and a woodworker for more than 20 years,

said Duginske was wrong in recommending abrasive pads for

cleaning the plunge router's slides, tapered collet and arbor. Reed

states that "abrasive pads remove material, and no matter how

minute it may be, over time and with repeated cleanings, this

could cause unacceptable slop between the sliding members." He

Maple-leaf rag-One last note. A couple readers wrote about the

leaf shape that Duginske is sawing in the photo on p. 64 of WW

#88 to demonstrate the cutting radius of a Y16-in.-wide bandsaw

blade. Sandor Nagyszalanczy, d1e editor of that article, wrote d1e

aption for d1e photo and called it a maple leaf. Chris Mulcal1y from

Robbinston, Maine, and Paul Tobler from Sand ke, N.Y., bod1

questioned that call, insisting Duginske is sawing an oak leaf. San

dor blames d1e dispute on foreshortening in the photograph, but

on behalf of all readers who agree d1at it is indeed an oak leaf,

we'll continue to give Sandor a hard time about it.

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