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DEPRTMENTS

Methods ofWork

Questions & Answers

Folow-up

Tool steel source; bending in Anchorage; turning spheres

100

Notes and Comment

Plans for this credenza call for a number of dfferent

joinery techniques, each with its purpose. The author

explains his choice of biscuits, dowels and tenons in

the article beginning on p. 42. Cove: eriod doors

can be made with a combination of hand and power

tools, as described in the article beginning on p. 6.

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Turning toothpicks; product review; spalted wood

ARTICLES

32 The New England Windsor Chair by Jeremy Singley

Mfnfging Editor

A tadition captures the imagination of contemporary makers

Dick Burrows

Art Diredor

Roland Wolf

Associfte Editors

Jim Cummins, John Decker

Assistfnt Editors

Sandor Nagyszalanczy

Jim Boesel, Alan Platt

Coy Editor

Cathy McFann

Assistfnt Art Diredor

Kathleen Creston

Editorifl Se�retfy

Mary Ann Colbert

Contributing Editors

Tage Frid, R. Bruce Hoadley,

Michael S. Podmaniczky, Graham Blackburn

Consulting Editors

George Frank, Richard E. Preiss, Norman Vandal

Methods of Work

Jim Richey

Indexer

Harriet Hodges

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39 Miter Trimmers by Jim Cummins

Slicing cuts fo r picture frames and trim

42 Two-Door Credenza by John McAlevey

A case of dowels, dovetails and tenons

46 The Brace and Bit by Richard Starr

This old standby can do more than just bore holes

50 Drawers with Curved Fronts by Paul Harrell

Templates and guide blocks simplfy the joinery

52 Pivoting drawers by Mark Webster

56 Shellac Finishing by Donald C. Williams

A traditional finish still yields outstanding results

60 Making Period Doors by Malcolm MacGregor

Though tenons and scribed cope joints

65 Belter Furniture, 1840-1860 by Stacia Gregory Norman

A man who lent his name to a style

67 Building Belter by Michael Podmaniczky

68 River h istles and Cane Flutes by Delbert Greear

Pastoal pipes fo r plaintive tunes

70 Twig whistles by John Marcoux

71 Cam Clamp by Dave Flager

72 Building Cofee Tables by Suzanne Burns

Student projects from Leeds Design Workshops

76 Bullnose Edge Sander by Lynn McSpadden

A low-cost method fo r sanding in tight places

78 Wooden Lamps by Sandor Nagyszalanczy

Safe wiring fo r shop-built lighting

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W n g on engine v l v es - The May/June issue ( WW #70)

carried a "Methods of Work" item on using discarded engine

valves as drive centers fo r turning deep bowls or goblets.

Many gasoline and diesel engines use valves manufactured

with a hollow core that is illed with elemental sodium, which

facilitates rapid heat transfer rom the head of the valve to the

stem, and eventually out to the engine head or block itsel. Ele

mental sodium reacts violently when brought in contact with

water, however, and can cause severe caustic burns if allowed

to contact the skin. Anyone working with the valves should

wear goggles and a ull-face shield. Although engine valves are

very strong, using them fo r anything but their intended purpose

is inviting an accident to happen. I'd emphatically recommend

your readers be discouraged from using engine valves as shop

tools or anything else.

the coming years. We can hardly go on ignoring the fa te of

these trees. Some experts estimate as much as 7 sq. acres of

these rain fo rests are cleared every minute. Stockpiling these

woods, as George Putz sugests, is useless and will only agravate

the problem. Unfortunately, I don't have the magic solution that

would keep us all waist high in rosewood and ebony, but support

fo r some of these "environmental groups" we pass the buck to

wouldn't be a bad place to start. -Carlos . Vo ss, Coiton, Cal.

-B. R. Smith, Keys, W Va.

Feedback on mail-order companies- I'd like to respond

to Douglas Peterson's letter ( WW #70) decrying the "buy-.or

else" marketing approach taken by some mail-order firms. I am

a woodworker who buys by mail, but I'm also a direct marketing

consultant, with many clients in the catalog field. I'd like to

shed some light on some practices Peterson fo und objectionable.

Catalog marketing is expensive. On a typical mailing list, per

haps only two or three people out of every 100 will order. A

company will send the "last catalog" notice only to people who

have not ordered fo r a very long time, to whom it cannot aford

to continue mailing catalogs. It is not sent to a good customer,

unless perhaps the customer is inadvertently on the computer

more than once. Rather than a "buy-or-else" threat, the notice

is a "We'll send you more catalogs if you show us you're still

interested" message.

As fo r companies that seem to send too many catalogs, they

aren't stupid. They keep careul track of the sales those other

catalogs produce. It's a case of voting with your checkbook:

Customers, through their orders, show that those extra catalogs

are wanted. And by generating proits that help subsidize other

mailings, these extra catalogs actually help keep prices down.

True, a store owner doesn't charge you fo r the privilege of

walking in the door. However, it costs him nothing fo r you to

do so. Instead, compare the catalog to an estimate in your busi

ness. You may not charge fo r them now, but ifyou found yourself

giving 50 free estimates fo r every job you landed, I think you

would change things quickly. Actually, most companies give

ree catalogs to regular customers, and those that charge fo r

the irst one generally give an equal or greater credit with an

order. Your suggestion about companies sending out summar

ies instead of catalogs is well-intentioned, but it won't work.

The cost of printing and mailing a summary is almost as high as

that of the catalogs, and a summary produces few orders.

-john Martin, Cumberlan, Me.

m saws - I'd like to expand on Jim

Cummins' observation that low-set carbide blades can make

bad machines cut better ( WW #70). My Crarsman radial-arm

saw was a rugged workhorse that served me fa ithully fo r years.

Its main drawback was not so much motor vibration as the

roughness of its cylindrical tracks. When crosscutting, the motor

carriage would rumble along like an old trolley car, leaving a

cut whose predictable meanderings I had come to know by

heart. Painstaking adjustment of the carriage bearings had little

or no efect on this problem.

Ater giving up all hope of ever getting a really good cut on

this machine, I tried a Freud LU85M. The cut was not only

smooth, it was straight. The blade's lack of set causes it to fe nce

in the cut like a Japanese handsaw, compensating fo r all the

slop in the track. A corollary beneit is that the rigidly conined

blade virtually eliminates tearout and face-veneer chipping.

-Scott McBride, Irvington, NY

Your article on carbide sawblades didn't do much fo r wood

workers who use radial-arm saws. All the radial saws I've seen

or operated are just not rigid or powerful enough to use most

carbide sawblades. The result is frequent stalling, and worse,

inaccurate cutting. Most carbide blades have thick kerfs and re

quire a larger motor than radial saws are equipped with.

One solution is to cut a board a third at a time, lowering the

blade arer each cut. A fa r superior method is o use a thin-kerf

blade that has about half the thickness of a standard blade, thus

requiring half the horsepower. I've never seen the deep gouging

Cummins refers to. All my cuts with thin-kerf blades are unusual

ly smooth. The increases in performance of radial-arm saws with

the right blade is drmatic.

- William Wheel, Demares, NJ

The article "Making and Market

ing Multiples" ( WW #70) provides good advice for the novice

or would-be businessperson. There are two points I would like

to make, however. Tony Lydgate says that in working up the

costs fo r your goods, you must include labor, and he suggests

that you pay yourself a realistic wage. My business planning phi

losophy has always been that the owner's labor should be valued

at the market cost fo r having an unrelated employee provide

the same services. For example, an unskilled laborer might cost

55 per hour while a skilled designer who can sell might cost

530 an hour. It should be noted that labor cost is separate and

NOTE: You'll see gouging mostly on rip cuts.

ElTOR'S

Responsibility for deforestation - I suspect that many

woodworkers would much rather leave a problem like defores

tation ( WW #70) to the environmental groups. We, as direct

consumers of exotic woods, regardless of the amount we use,

should feel some responsibility in conserving and replenishing

these fo rests, if only to guarantee a steady supply of lumber fo r

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