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Editor Jo hn Kelsey Managing Editor Paul Bermrelli Art Director Deborah Fillion Associate Editor Jim Cummins Assistant Editors Dick Burmws David Sloan Copy Editor Nancy Scabile Arsistant Art Director Roland Wolf MARCH/ApRlL 1984, NUMBER 45 Editorial Secretary Par Zimmerman

Contributing Editors , R. Bruce Hoadley, DEPARTMENTS Richard Srarr, Simon Warts 4 Letters Consulting Editors Methods of Wo rk George Frank, Orm Heuer, Ian). Kirby, 10 A.W Marlow, Don Newell, Laminated bracket foot; joint Richard E. Preiss, Norman Vandal for chair spindles; router subbases Methods of Work 16 Questions & Answers Jim Richey Detachable highboy legs; reactive finishes; defunct tool companies 22 Books Working harmoniously with wood; decoy-carving; wooden planes 102 Events/Connections Cover: Th ere are seven pieces of wood in a traditional drawer. The trick 106 Notes and Comment is, you fit the parts to the opening Letters from afar; Oregon toys; befo re you join them together. Tage trade-show news Prid explains how on p. 32. THE TAUNTON PRESS Paul Roman, publisher; Janice A. Roman, asso­ ciate publisher; JoAnn Muir, director of admin­ istration; Tom (uxeder, business manager; Bar­ ARTICLES bara Bahr, secretary; Lois Beck, office services coordinator; Patricia Rice, rece tionist; Liz Cros­ 32 How to Make Drawers by Tage Prid p by, personnel assistant; Mary Galpin, production Design for drawing table illustrates the principles manager; Mary Glazman, data processing; Pau­ line Fazio, executive secretary. Accounting: Irene 36 Drawer-stop ideas from three makers Arfaras, manager; Madeline Colby, Catherine Sullivan, Elaine Yamin. An: Roger Barnes, de­ 39 Finish That's Rubbed On by Joe Th omas sign director; Kathryn Olsen, staff artist. Books: Laura Cehanowicz Tringali, editOr; C. Heather Sanding is the way to a glass-smooth surface Brine, assistant art director; Roger Holmes, assis­ tant editor; Deborah Cannarella, copy editor. 40 A Dehumidifier Kiln by Donald Klimesh Fulfillment: Carole E. Ando, subscription man­ Home-dried with no frills ager; Terry Thomas, assistant manager; Gloria Carson, Dorothy Dreher, Claudia Inness, Marie 43 Pipe Clamps Johnson, Cathy Koolis, Peggy leBlanc, Denise Pascal, Nancy Schoch; Ben Warner, mail-ser­ Six versatile tips vices clerk. Robert Bruschi, distribution super­ visor; David Blasko, Linnea Ingram, Marchelle 44 Knockdown Furniture by Curtis Erpelding Sperling, David Wass. Production Services: Form follows junction Gary Mancini, manager; Nancy Knapp, system operator; Claudia Blake Applegate, Annette 48 Doweling Jigs by David Sloan Hilry and Deborah Mason, assistants. Promo­ tio'n: Jon Miller, manager; Dennis Danaher, Putting nine to the test publicist; Elizabeth Ruthstrom, assistant art di­ rector. Video: Rick Mastelli. 52 Boston Bombe Chest by Lance Patterson Advertising and Sales: Richard Mulligan and Bulging drawer fronts are all shaped at once lames P. Chiavelli, sales representatives; Vivian E. Dorman and Carole We ckesser, sales coordin­ 57 How to make slope-sided boxes atOrs; Kimberly Mithun, coordinator of indirect sales; Laura Lesando, secretary; Kathy Springer, 58 A Patternmaker's Carving Tips by Wa llaceC. Auger (203) 426-8171. customer-service assistant. Tel. And a portable carving kit for wherevet you are 61 Boomerang by AI Gerhards Fine Woodworking (ISSN 0361-3453) is pub­ A laminated flier that's prettier than lished bimomhly, January, March, May, July, September. and November, b The Taunton Throwing the boomerang 064y 70. 63 by John Huening Press, Inc., Newtown, CT Telephone (203) 426-8171. Second-class postage paid at 06470, 64 The Bottom Line for Turned Bowls by Wendell Smith Newtown, CT and additional mailing i984 Versatile chucking plug permits a variety of designs offices. Copyright by The Taumon Press, Inc. No reproduction without permission of The Taumon Press, Inc. Fine WoodworkingMarquetry Show $19 $36 71 1983 by Ernie Ives ada, for one year, for twO years (in U.S. dollars, please); other counrries, $20 for $38 72 Laying Plastic Laminates by Jack Gavin one year, for twO years (in U.S. dollars, please). Single coPy, $3.50. Single copies ourside Understanding the basics of this ubiquitous "veneer" U.S. and possessIOns, $4.00. Send to Subscrip­ tion Dept., The Taumon Press, PO Box 355, 76 The Wo odworker's by Pa ul Bertorelli 06470. Newtown, CT Address all correspon­ Function is bur one reason for making dence to the appropriate department (Subscrip­ tion, Editorial, or AdvercislO ), The Taumon 52 g 355, 79 Portfolio: Garry Knox Bennett by John Kelsey Press, Church Hill Road, PO Box Newtown, CT 06470. U.S. newsstand disrri­ Oakland innovator takes on the trestle table bution by Eastern News DisrributOrs, Inc., ill Eighth Ave., New York, N.Y. 10011. 116 Superior ex machina

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Recently, Fine Woodworking has published photographs of I don't mean to imply that the crafts are an inferior pur­ work that is obviously flawed.It is most disturbing to see suit. One does what one does best. The thing Castle does best detail such as in the color photograph on p. 81 of issue #43 is make furniture. But somewhere along the line he, or his (November), because it would appear as if boxwood stringing dealer, got their semantics crossed up. No one in his right with tension failures from bending represents an acceptable mind would lay our $40,000 for a table, and then actually level of quality in workmanship. People correctly or incorrect­ eat linguine off it. So why build such an object in the first ly assume that if FWW publishes it, it therefore must be the place? You are doomed to resort to hype to get it sold, rather best, or at least more than just acceptable. Neither would than letting it stand on its merits as an honest piece of work. open miter joints (#43, p. 33) be deemed appropriate join­ -Jack Sp iegelman, Glendale, Calif ety. Even though the emphasis of that article is on speed, haste should not be an excuse for a lack of quality. Here's a suggestion that might be of value to your readers. For Fine Woodworking not to take a firm, perhaps contro­ Make friends with the local typewriter repairman. He prob­ versial, position on the issues of quality, by explicitly showing ably throws away the platens (rollers) for any number of old what quality entails, may prove to be exceedingly detrimental typewriters, and I'm sure he'd be glad to see them pur to to the continued revival of the stirring corpse that once repre­ good use. They make good outfeed rollers for tablesaws, sented the craft of woodworking in North America. It is not and planers. They come in several lengths, and so enough to say that design can be assessed in a photograph; could find other shop uses, too. Make supports for the rollers craftsmanship needs to be seen and touched. The photographs by boring or dadoing slots into or brackets. ­ in FWW and other Taunton Press publications are perceived ing is the best technique if twO or more rollers are to be as pieces of woodworking, not as photographs of designs. Be­ in line. -Tom E. Moore, Sp ringfield, Va. cause of this, and because of the inherently deceptive nature of photographs, it is vety important that only work of the Regarding Japanese , Toshio Odate says in FWW #43, highest quality be illustrated in Fine Woodworking, especial­ p. 16, "The very fine edge becomes extremely hard when the ly since it purports to contain fine things ... blade is tempered." It does? Tempering is the process of con­ -John Perkins, Halifax, N.S. trolled reheating (at some temperature between 300°F and 10000F) of hardened steel, to increase toughness at the cost Re Jim Cummins' article on boxes in FWW #43. First, I am of some hardness. I should like vety much to know how always bothered by any suggestion to use metal, regardless of Odate generates at least a 300°F temperature in the edge of a the configuration, as a push stick. Embedded in the ceiling blade by wiping it across a waterstone. and walls of my workshop are parts of 18 carbide saw teeth It has been my experience in knif emaking that during the that came into contact with a spring-metal hold-down. The heat-treating process, an edge that is ground vety thin will, ice-pick suggestion makes me cringe. during the quench, become quite hard and brittle, while the Also, the tone of the article presents a sort of slapdash main body of the tool is still vety hot. As the main body of approach to woodworking. I could cite a number of exam­ the tool cools and shrinks, the thin, brittle edge must con­ ples, but the slippety-glue comment on p. 36 should make form. The result is waves, cracks and much stress. Hence, the my point. In the next paragraph, the idea of having a sturdy blacksmiths' adage: forge thick and grind thin. Mr. Odate is box with open corners makes me wonder why bother mitering grinding off this stressed edge-no tempering occurs at all. at all; burt joints and nails should do nicely. Of course, it's -Vernon Raaen, Oak Ridge, Tenn. easy to criticize, and on the plus side I suspect that Cummins' TOSHIO OOATE REPLIES: My knowledge of blacksmithing and met­ casual approach is inviting to some inexperienced woodwork­ allurgy is not great, so my choice of the word "tempering" was ers who would be turned off by more precise instruction. But perhaps unfortunate. Your explanation of what actually happens my own feeling is that even a rank amateur should be shown during the "taming" process seems correct, but I do believe that the the bull's eye; he or she can then decide on what to shoot for tremendous friction of sharpening and cutting can heat the extreme­ as a function of skill level and patience. ly fine edge of a tool hot enough to affect the metal. This heating -Allan ]. Boardman, Woodland Hills, Calif does not change the steel in the body of the tool, but it does take the harshness Out of a new blade. The stoty by Peter Pennypacker (FWW #44, "Making 50 Tables") reminds me of the argument over handmade versus For readers looking for a local supply of potassium dichro­ machine-made guitar necks. It was thought that the machine­ mate (used in ), you might check with camera made were not as good as the handmade, but the fa ct of the stores stocking ftlm-de veloping supplies. Kodak sells it in matter is, if the craftsman running the machine was interested I-lb. jars under catalog number 146 3231 for about $7. in the quality of each and evety piece, the quality of the in­ -Julian Case, Los Osos, Calif strument would not suffer. -Peter B. Rock, Mt. Pleasant, S.c. An important addition to the reading list in Mack S. Head­ ley's "Applying Classical Proportions" (FWW #43 pp. 77- Re the article on in your September issue 79) is The Geometry of Art and Life, by Matila Ghyka (FWW#42). I think those experiments of his in the Post­ (Dover, 1977). Ghyka describes how thousands of reported Modern vein are hideous beyond belief. I have a lot of admi­ measurements of the proportions of ancient and Renaissance ration for the man, and nothing but awe when considering structures can be summarized in the forms of certain regular the amount of work that goes into those pieces. But it is a geometric figures. The most compelling of these relations is mistake to consider any piece of furniture to be art. Wood­ known as the Golden Section. In simple linear form, this rule working, even at his level, is still a craft. Its main purpose is states that the longer of twO segments of a divided straight function. If at the same time it pleases the eye or tickles the line should have a ratio of l.6818 to the shorter segment. funny bone, great. Bur art is different. Whatever it is, it Astounding to me, expansions of the Golden Section pro­ serves no practical function. It makes its appeal purely to the portions yield figures that Ghyka shows are consistent with spirit, not to the seat of the pants. the proportions of natural objects-plants, animals, and the

4 Once you've used the Skil Cordless Screwdriver, you won't want to go back to your old screwdriver. The Skil Cordless Screwdriver weighs mere ounces and is so small it fits into your pocket. Yet its high torque motor has the power to drive up to 500 screws on a single charge. The Skil Cordless Screwdriver recharges in 3 hours or less and even has a special built·in feature to help prevent stripping of screws. And since it's cordless, it's perfect for everything from everyday fixups in or out of the house, to serious do·it-yourself projects. With everything it can do, you'd think the Skil Cordless Screwdriver would be expensive, but it's not. Not at all. And its surprisingly low price makes it a great gift. So forget about all the stripped screws, tired arms and DIIS1lers that went with your ordinary screwdriver. The Skil Screwdriver just made them obsolete. We build that�.f�t. last and last and Letters (continued) human figure. Perhaps, objects built according to the Golden ? Do these woods check, split and warp---to what de­ Section are pleasing to man, and considered beautiful, because gree? How do they join? Glue? Finish? There are a lot of trees they reflect these natural proportions. out there being burned ... most are available for the asking. -James C. De Haven, Pacific Palisades, Calif -J. Robison Krup , Oxnard, Calif

I'd like to add to the discussion of cabriole legs in George Mustoe deserves compliments for a well-written arti­ FWW #42 and #43. For any cabriole leg to have strength, cle on wood adhesives in FWW #43 . He has rendered a there must be some wood that carries unintertuptedly straight public service by busting two marketing ploys: first, that of down through the POSt, , ankle and foot to the floor. the "concentrated" adhesive which actually is less concentrat­ Adherence to this principle will not only give you a leg that ed (lower solids) but more expensive, and second, the use of won't crack in a year or two, but it will also help avoid the the word "aliphatic" to differentiate two adhesives which are bandiness in leg design which Phil Lowe correctly cautions both aliphatic. Pure folly when you realize that Vaseline, pro­ against. That caution ought be on grounds not only of aes­ pane and Christmas candles are also aliphatic. thetics but also of proper construction ....A cabriole leg will I'd like to add that tacky, or yellow, polyvinyl acetates acquire added grace if, after the lathe and bandsaw, the ankle (PVAs) are not born that way-the color is added. They do is carved back somewhat from the side of the pad to the back perform differently, as Mustoe said, but the price comparisons of the leg. Without this refinement, the leg, as it comes from in the photo and captions left the reader to conclude that the the bandsaw, is dull and clunky, uninteresting. A fishtail price differential between white and yellow glue was artificial gouge works wonders here. -Bill Pease, Lancaster, Pa. and unfair. Color and name are artificial, but tacky PV As do cost more to produce .... I find only passing references in FWW to various fruit­ Finally, on shelf stabiliry and resistance to freeze damage, it woods, the notable exceptions being cherry and pear. The pays to shop around. Some brands, ours among them, are fruitwoods I have in mind are lemon, orange, lime, grape­ guaranteed not to be damaged by freezing, and our tacky fruit, kumquat, loquat, mulberry, pomegranate, avocado, PV A has a shelf stabiliry of two years plus. even older grapevines. -Julio A. Fernandez, Here in California, these woods are grown for the fruit LePage 's (Canada) Limited, Bramalea, Onto crops, and an aged orchard is often bulldozed, burned and cleared, and the field replanted with young trees. It pains me . Mustoe mentions Aerolite #306 only briefly. This two­ to see these trees put to the torch, but I don't know how part glue, developed by CIBA, has some solid advantages and these woods behave once cut and prepared as lumber. Do any deserves wider use. The white powder is mixed with water to of your experts or readers have any experience with these the consistency of heavy cream and in this state can be kept in ______(continued on p. _8) On testing jointer-planers Your article comparing jointer-planer combination machines Makita in your pages, While acknowledging that Makita 's (FWW #43) was most timely for me, as I am shopping for service system is not perfect (no company staf fed by human one. Reading the article prompts me to suggest ideas for fu­ beings ever will be), I can report that we at Highland Hard­ ture tests. First, a standardized list of criteria should be in­ ware have experienced excellent service from Makita in the cluded for all machine comparisons. I am told, for example, four years we have been their dealer. . that the Hitachi F-lOOOA is "built like a tank," but I am not Incidentally, Rome is wrong about having to dismantle the told whether it has tables riding on gibbed dovetail ways. I'd Makita jointer to change a belt. Just remove the two screws like to see an objective statement of construction details rather holding the belt guard, loosen the setscrew on the shaft cou­ than a nondefined , quali tative judgment . pling, and pry the coupling apart with a screwdriver, tapping I realize that amateur contributors aren't in a position to the screwdriver with a hammer to get it started. The belt can act as a testing lab like Consumer Reports. But the kind of be slipped off through the space created, It took me ten min­ information I'd like to see wouldn't need elaborate equipment utes the first time I tried it. -Chris Bagby, Atlanta, Ga . or vigorous experiments. How about a user survey? -Tom Whitlow, Ithaca, N. Y. Re Jim Rome's accident with his Makita jointer-planer: One of my safery rules is always pull the plug when changing a The Hitachi is crude cast-iron next to the Inca. The Hitachi cutter on any tooL This applies to everything from tablesaw table extensions never align, nor can they be adjusted-you blades and shaper cutters right down to bits. Whenever have to file and shim. The Hitachi is made to an accuracy of I'm tempted to disregard this rule, I think back to all the 0.008 in., the Inca to 0.004 in. Several aspects of each ma­ men in mills and yards I've met who were missing a finger. In chine were not judged. For instance, Inca has a five-year Rome's case, the simple operation of having to plug in his warranry, Hitachi one year. Most makers void their warranties jointer could have jogged his memory, reminding him that his if the machine is used professionally, Inca does not. Also, Inca knife installation was incomplete, partS are guaranteed to be ,replaced within three days. I sell -Randolph Mateer, Detr oit, Mich. both Hitachi and Inca, and' waited nine months for partS for my own Super Surfacer. -Robert Ma jor, Suncook, N.H. James Rome complained about the difficulry of rigging a dust-collection system for the Inca 343-190. We made wood The article by James Rome was very unfair to Makita's ser­ filler blocks that fit between the planer table and the under­ vice department, and to your readers for creating such a mis­ side of the jointer. We then placed the shop-vac nozzle into a leading impression, An incident of customer dissatisfaction, hole cut through the outboard-side filler block. To hold the while always regrettable, does not in itself constitute a lack of blocks, raise the planer table until it's snug against the blocks, service, Rome's anger at himself for destroying his jointer ta­ Don't tighten too much, or something drastic may happen, bles should not have been allowed to be projected toward -John Congdon, Philadelphia, Pa.

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7 Letters (continued) the refrigerator. The hardener, or catalyst, is acetic acid (actu­ I would like to qualify Jim Cummins' remarks about the ally extra-strength vinegar) and is spread on one surface, the bottom board of banjo clocks (FWW #4 1). Simon Willard glue on the other. Only when the two surfaces are brought was not so naive as to think that a free-falling lead weight together does the reaction begin. This makes Aerolite ideal for could be stopped cold by a in thin wood. Rath­ complex lamination requiring lengthy assembly time. er, he designed the bottom for easy breakout to avoid more Aerolite is also a gap-filling glue needing only moderate serious damage, since failure of the catgut cord was, unfortu­ clamping pressure, and I have fo und it more tolerant of low nately, rather likely. He, or his cabinetmaker, used a blind temperatures than either resorcinol or plastic resin. I've used it dovetail, with a few very small pins cut into the clock side­ in small boats for 30 years and have never had a joint fail. pieces. Thus the dovetailing provided absolutely no strength One caution: Cured Aerolite gets so hard that it will chip vertically. Simon's brother, Aaron, and their apprentices and irons and rapidly dull knives. Also, they never give you successors, made an even more easily broken . enough hardener. You can mail-order the glue from Wo od­ None of these clocks was reinforced with glue blocks between craft in Wo burn, Mass., or fr om the WoodenBoat Shop at the bottom board and the strong back, but used two glue 1007 N.E. Boat St., Seattle, Wash. 98105. blocks cross-wise of the bottom board, so that cracking loose -Simon Watts, Ber ke__ley, Ca ______lif would not cause splitting. -AI______Root, Newark, _ Del. Readers talk back about tables aws Re your tablesaw discussion, FWW #4 3, p. 102. For many be helpful or advisable on the Sears saw? years I owned a Sears tablesaw with a 1-HP motor. With very -MarshallG. Baldwin, Westport, Conn. little maintenance and a good sharp blade, that saw ripped EDITOR'S NOTE: Yes. Sears sells one for abour $125. It's worrh 2-in. oak and walnut, and cut all manner of joints very accu­ changing to double pulleys and cwo drive belts, also from Sears. rately. I never replaced any bearings. I almost never blew the thermal-overload protector. During the time that I owned my You mention paying $9 for a new tablesaw bearing. In my Sears saw I worked daily making fu rniture and cabinets, and 15-plus years as a mechanic (automobile, motorcycle and air­ that saw worked right along with me. craft), I have learned a thing or two about bearings. I now own a Unisaw and am totally happy with it, despite Approximately 99.9% of all bearings and seals are stan­ the price. Its resale value is more than I paid for it. People dard, and a good bearing-supply house can sell you an exact look askance at my Sears jointer and radial-arm saw, until duplicate of equal or better quality for about half to two­ they see the furniture. Tools are only tools. Learn their likes thirds the price of one purchased from the tool dealer. See the and dislikes, and make furniture with their help. Yellow Pages under "Bearings." These supply houses can -George Breck, Sebastopol, Calif cross-reference the part numbers of Japanese, Swiss, Spanish or other foreign-made bearings and seals to U.S.-made counter­ I, too, began my woodworking adventures with Sears "best" parts. "Made in U.S.A." means something when it comes to lO-in. tablesaw. I was 24 years old, moving into my first bearings. Few foreign makers use vacuum-degassing, a pro­ house and had planned for the Sears delivery truck to meet cess that eliminates tiny air pockets in the balls, rollers, nee­ me at the new house early on the morning of the move. As I dles and races, thus reducing uneven loading and early failure. look back seven years later, I think I was as excited about When you change a bearing, change its seal-always. getting the saw as I was about buying the house. Nothing makes permanent lubrication more temporary than After many hours that week, I managed to assemble the sawdust where it does not belong. machine-not an enjoyable task. I, toO, had problems getting -Tim McCarthy, Oak Harbor, Wash. the sawblade to stay parallel to the , and never really got it totally corrected. Other major problem areas included I outgrew three tablesaws before I finally got it right. If you the vastly underpowered and overrated motor, the ridiculous are a professional cabinetmaker, the name of the game is panel­ fence which could always be expected to move when a corner handling. I shopped around for several months and finally of a 4x8 panel hit it, the burnout-prone plastic on/off switch, selected a ten-year-old Martin T-1 7 from Rudolf Bass, Inc., the flimsy legs, and the motor-belt cover secured by thin met­ for $6,250, reconditioned. After working with it for over six al clips. In addition, the long screw mechanism that adjusts months, I can no longer imagine how I ever functioned with­ the blade angle fr equently clogged with resin, making blade­ out it. -Edward V. Crescimanni, Middle Village, N. Y. tilting impossible. Finally, I decided to buy a used Rockwell 12-in. contrac­ Trunnion bolts clarified tors' saw. The rack-and-pinion fence was a joy and the 2-HP Several readers asked how to cure blade-alignment problems motor couldn't be jammed. The saw's stamped table exten­ with Sears tablesaws. The fix, which came from John Hallam sions were warped, however, and I traded up again. Now I of Livermore, Calif., is to substitute better bolts for securing own a lO-in. Rockwell tilt-arbor bench saw and I'm pretty the trunnion-the cast-iron frame that holds the arbor assem­ well pleased. Its solid, cast-iron table is much better, its miter bly to the table. Most hardware, auto-pans and industrial­ fits in aT-slot instead of just a groove, and its adjust­ supply stores stock bolts in three grades. Low-carbon-steel ment wheels are sturdy metal instead of plastic. My oid saw grade 2 bolts are for general applications. Grade 3, which are had an optional 2-HP motor, though, and my new saw's heat-treated and marked with three radial lines on the bolt l�-HP motor just doesn't seem to have any reserve power. head, are for more demanding work. Grade 8 bolts, marked -Ray Arouesty, Reseda, Calif with six radial lines, are alloyed to withstand stress and high temperature. Bolts with no radial markings but a manufac­ After examining the Rockwell contractors' saw, I purchased turer's symbol (usually a string of letters) are likely grade 2. the lO-in. Sears saw. I found it hard to justify an expenditure Sans symbol and radial lines, they could be anything. Choose of almost 2� times more fo r what appeared to be a similar a grade 5 bolt (three radial lines) to hold the Sears trunnion, piece of equipment. Would the substitution of a l�-HP motor and add lock washers to resist vibration. 0

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9 Methods of Work edited and drawn by Jim Richey

Laminated bracket foot existing holes in my Makita router base and epoxied two out­ riggers to the ends. The low outrigger acts as a fe nce against the edge of the panel. In the sketch below, the tOngue that will fit the frame's groove has already been milled on the tablesaw, but you could just as well do this step aftetward.

The traditional bracket-foot construction calls for hard-tO-get thick (lX-in.) wood and tricky spline-miter joinery. Here is an alternative approach that laminates �-in. material into the equivalent of a strong rabbeted-miter joint. After the corner has been laminated, I cut the profile on the bandsaw, taking care not to saw off the two high spots, one at the base and the other at the maximum swell of the foot. This keeps the foot flat on the bandsaw table, eliminating the need to tack the waste back on for cutting the profile on the second side. When it's on the piece, the fo ot looks juSt like a solid one. -John B. Comstock II, Essex, Conn. The high outrigger rides atop the panel or, if the panel is narrow (as in the sketch), atOp a board of the same thickness Laminated mortise-and-tenon damped to the bench. I saw the panel project as a one-shot job, so I didn't make provision for removing the from the router without breaking the epoxy joints at one outrigger. Maybe next time I'll pin things instead. -Edward M. Rosen fe ld, Gunley, Ala.

Hammer-eye joint for chair spindles The best way to join brace spindles to back bows in Windsor chairs is a hammer-eye joint, shown at right. This joint is tapered tOp and bottom, Laminated construction ensures correct thickness glued, and wedged fr om the top. of . Flare the bottom of the hole with a taper reamer and the tOp with a round file, taking care to enlarge the tOp Laminating can eliminate tedious chopping and sawing when hole only with the grain, so it will fit the elliptical shape of making mortise-and-tenon joints. Simply glue up the parts to the wedge-expanded . To taper the ends of the spin­ be joined in three layers. Leave slots in the middle layer to dles, I use a "precision pencil sharpener" made from a form mortises and projections to form tenons. plane damped or screwed to a There are several things to watch for. First, leave the tenon block of wood, as shown at lef t. shoulders a little long and saw them off after laminat­ Drill a hole through the block ing-it is virtually impossible to line up the shoulders exactly and ream the hole at an angle, so when gluing. Use temporary spacer blocks to help hold the the reamed edge is parallel to the mortise dimensions during glue-up. surface of the block. Now plane Because you use thinner stOck, you save some wood with down the block until about X6 in. this method. You also get a near-guarantee of a perfect fit in of the hole is exposed. Screw or the thickness, which is critical to joint strength. One addition­ damp a rabbet plane over the al advantage is the ease with which you can make the mor­ reamed part of the block so that the plane's blade will shave tises fishtailed in shape by crosscutting the ends of the middle the spindles to shape. Run each spindle about X in. beyond lamination at 50 or so. That way, the tenons can be wedged the blade, so its tip will be round, ready for wedging, rather in the final assembly, yielding a strong, permanent joint. than tapered. -David Sawyer, E. Calais, Vt. -Sam Bush, Portland, Ore. Two shop made router subbases Raising panels with the router In the woodworking shop at Edinboro State College, we've I wanted to make some raised panels, but I didn't want to developed two router subbases that do away with much of invest in a shaper and special cutters. My solution was to raise the trauma associated with routing dadoes across wide boards the panel with a �-in., 2-flute helical end mill in my router. and grooving the edges of narrow stock. The subbases all but All that's needed is a simple jig to tilt the router base to 150. eliminate wavering Cuts, plunge-cut kickouts and awkward I fitted a length of 1%2-in. drill rod through each of the two balancing acts. Subbase No. 1 is made from X-in. Masonite

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Subbase 1 Router keeps my fingersaway from a fully raised blade. I made a mounting notch and ended it well ahead of the heel. This positioning hole contributes to the push stick's safety: if you carelessly lower your hand, the end of the stick will bottom out on the saw table, pivoting the notch up and releasing its grip on the end of the board. It will still hold the work, but it's a re­ Subbase 2 minder that you're courting trouble. Two push sticks are bet­ ter than one. With a second small notch at the end of both, either can be used to hold stock against the rip fe nce while you push with the other. I applied non-stick stair tape to the end notch to improve the grip on the work. -David L. Wiseley, Waters, Mich.

Reground hole cutter

By regrinding an adjustable hole cutter to make a clean cut on the inside, you can cut clean discs in stead of holes. Lateral guides or hardwood plywood. Mounted to the router in place of the regular base, the straight side of the subbase allows uniform fence pressure for rabbeting and positive control even after the bit has left the workpiece. I curved the other two sides to avoid confusion about which side of the triangle was indexed to the bit. Subbase No. 2 sits saddle-like atop narrow-dimension stock. The lateral guides are completely adjustable to various stock and groove locations. A simple system of slots with slides ensures rigidity and perpendicularity during use. Hefty o/s-in. carriage bolts and wing nuts make tightening easy and positive. The lateral guides eliminate plunge kickout and bal­ You can use an adjustable hole cutter and a drill press to ance problems. -Bernar d Maas, Cambridge Sp rings, Pa. make smooth toy wheels and small wooden discs. Simply re­ grind the cutter so that its inboard side enters the material Tool for scraping beads first. Regrind the tip slowly on a bench grinder, pausing fre­ quently to dip the metal in water so that it doesn't over­ Sharpen back heat. Be sure to maintain the proper front-to-back bevel on from one corner the cutter. -Bob Raiselis, White River junction, Vt, at 30° angle. Cutting edges Laminated plywood storage bracket %-in. square bar To store plywood in our new shop, we built a lami­ Rotate tool 90° nated bracket that doesn't to get two cutting edges. ;r--> �""=::::::::::::::::::::::::::::��� take up floor space, and is a This homemade lathe tool is handy for making scraping cuts pleasure to look at besides. on beads. Start with a o/s-in. square bar of tool steel and grind The curve, which is sized to a 30° bevel fr om one corner back, as shown above. By rotat­ hold 34 in. of material, was ing the chisel 90 °, you get two angled cutting edges, one for drawn full-size on brown each side of a . -j ames F. Dupler, jamestown, N. Y. paper. To make the 6-in. wide laminations, two ash Improved push stick planks, 2 in. thick by 12 ft. The notched push sticks used in many shops seemed unsafe long, were resawn on the and unwieldy to me. So I designed a push stick that lets me bandsaw. To achieve the fi­ concentrate on sawing boards instead of fingers. First I traced nal I-in. thickness required the handle from a comfortable handsaw OntO a piece of scrap, ten strips, planed to about 10 in. by 18 in., positioning the handle at an angle that 'lio in. thick. We bent and clamped the laminations di­ rectly over the drawing, with no clamping form except for a short fe nce that en­ sured that the part to be Apply double-sided screwed to the wall would tape to nose area. be straight. Using rollers, we coated each lamination with plastic resin glue. Next, three of us clamped the laminated stock firstto the fe nce, then every 3 in. along the lines of the drawing, using 54 clamps in all. The laminations easily aligned to the curve. 12 One final and important note: Out choice of ash, a long- (fI�T sDOES IT AGAIN! Model GI021 15" withsurprise.ThisHe machinehigh avHeavy quy ality, has dutyDuty taken constructionprecision Plthe anindustry machcombinedersined by professionmachparts ineand al thepractical. inevit abfeatule choiceres make of thisthe ownYetaffo,rdable thislook very at that our professional evenlow pricea home mac- nowhobbyisthine made. can so

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Fold sandpaper; tear one Supercircles short fold to the center.

An old salesman showed me how to get the most out of a sheet of sandpaper. Fold the sheet in half in both direCtions. Then tear the sheet halfway through on the short fold line. Superellipse Now fold the sandpaper up into a fo ur-layer sanding pad. The sheet can be refolded diff erent ways to expose a fresh surface. None of the sanding surfaces tub against each other, which results in a longer-lasting sanding pad. -Steve Chastain, Bel lingham, Wash.

Inlaying veneer in turnings I use a simple method of inlaying veneer to enhance bowls, jars, lamps and other turned work. This method works for both faceplate and between-center turnings. As shown in the sketch below, start by regrinding an old parting tool or the hardened tang of an old file. Grind the width of the point to the thickness of your veneer, and lengthen the top bevel so that the tool won 't bind. Now use the tool to cut a groove Ys in. deep where you want to put the veneer. The superellipse is a contemporary classic curve of unusual grace used on some Scandinavian tabletops. Its simple geo­ metric derivation enhances its aesthetic appeal. The super­ Regrind parting tool to cut narrow groove. ellipse has the equation: (xlA)n + (yIB)n 1 A is half the width and B is half the length of the super­ ellipse; n is a constant of 2, 4, 6, 8, etc. If n is 2, the equa­ Press veneer stnp tion produces a standard ellipse or a circle (if A equals B). As into place; you increase n, the superellipse tends to become rectangular, complete turning. yet there are no straight segments. Thus you can mathemat­ ically generate intermediate shapes between an ellipse and a rectangle by choosing an appropriate value fo r n. The easiest way to apply supercircles and superellipses to an actual tabletop is by the squares method. Use the grid marks on the drawing to divide it into a number of squares. Mark the length and width of the tabletop with the same number of divisions, which will fo rm a grid of reCtangles. With a straightedge and an X-acto knife, cut a strip of When you copy the supercircle to the rectangular grid, it will veneer slightly more than Ys in. wide and longer than the stretch the supercircle into a scaled superellipse. circumference of the gtoove. Bevel one end of the strip and -James Potzick, Potomac, Md. soak it in hot water until it's pliable enough to bend around the entire groove. Place the toe of the bevel in the groove and Sandpaper sizer press in the veneer with your fingers. If the water swells the veneer so that it doesn 't fit the groove, enlarge the groove slightly with your parting tool. To complete the fitting of the Wo oden Strip. size d to fit veneer, cut a reverse bevel so that the ends overlap exactly. electric sander. saves measuring time. Once the veneer is in place, let it dry, then sand or turn it flush with the surface. A coat of shellac or lacquer will cement the veneer into the groove. If your pattern calls for multiple inlaid rings near each other, install the first strip before you cut the groove for the next strip. Othetwise, the wood be­ Everybody may know this one already, but you don't need tween the grooves will tear out. -Bill Vick, Richmond, Va . scissors and a tuler to cut up sandpaper to fit your eleCtric sander-just make a sharp-edged wooden strip the size of Methods of Wo rk buys readers' tips, jigs and tricks. Send your sander's paper, place it on the sandpaper, and tear the details, sketches (we'll redraw them) and photos to Meth­ sheet to size. -Harry D. Stumpf, West Point, N. Y. ods, Fine Woodworking, Box 355, Newtown, Conn. 06470.

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15 Q&A Detachable highboy legs-I want to reproduce a highboy the joints don't hold. -to-ebony seems to be the worst. made in Newport, R.I., circa 1760, but I can 't figure out Any suggestions? -Glenn Lesse nden, Lawrence, Kans. how the cabriole legs were mount ed. On this piece, the legs R. BRUCE HOADLEY REPLIES: and ebony are often are detachable. I can't inspect the original, and would difficult to glue, possibly because of the high resin and oil appreciate any help on this construction tec hnique. content of these woods. Surface contamination results when -Robert T. Granger, Mustang, Okla. these resins and oils, called extractives, migrate onto surfaces PHILIP C. LOWE REPLIES: De ­ ... exposed by machining. tachable legs were probably Try gluing right after you machine the surfaces. If this used so that a piece could �.'-.../�<> isn't possible, give the wood a light sanding with 220- grit to knock down easily for ship­ 280-grit paper just before spreading the glue. Some people ping. When the highboy was report good results fr om a quick sponge rinse with alcohol or delivered to its owner, the acetone before gluing. You may also get better results with legs were attached with glue epoxy instead of yellow glue. and screws. [R. Bruce Hoadley is professor of wood technology at the The legs are rabbeted at the University of Massachusetts at Amher st.] top where the knee meets the case. For the front legs, Dashboard restoration-I'm doing some restoration work the rabbet across the front on 1940s Jaguars and Bentleys, and I'd like to know what of the leg is as truck as the manufa cturers used to glue and fi nish the veneer ed dash­ apron; the rabbet across the boards. Th is finish has to be glass-smooth, withstand ex­ side is as truck as the case treme fluctuations in temper ature and humidity, and pro­ end. For the rear legs, it's the tect the wood against ultraviolet light. case end and back that deter­ -Richard W. Morton, Redwood City, Calif mine the rabbet edges. Glue DONALD S TEINERT REPLIES: In the 1940s, hot hide glue was blocks are attached to the used to attach the veneers (FWW #10, pp. 52-54). A legs after rabbeting, then the modern alternative is hot-melt glue sheets (available fr om transition pieces are glued on, Bob Morgan Woodworking Supplies, 1123 Bardstown Rd., shaped and carved. Louisville, Ky. 40204), which are heated with a household To give the illusion of a iron. Don't use contact cements for veneering. stronger leg-post construction The dashboard veneer was finished with either varnish or (FWW #42, pp. 32-39), a piece lacquer, neither of which is immune to the effects of tempera­ piece of Ys-in. thick veneer is glued in the rabbet cut in the ture, humidity and ultraviolet rays. Even today, there is no front of the case, to cover the joinery. clear finish that will stand up to the extremes a dashboard can [Philip C. Lowe is a cabinetmaker and an instructor at the experience. I refinish the woodwork in many $120,000 Rolls­ North Bennet Street Industrial School in Boston, Mass.] Royces that are less than three years old! ' In my restoration work, I spray on a catalyzed polyester Combining reactive and solvent-release fin ishes-I ve resin, but this is pretty toxic stuff, and tricky to work with worked in shops that use shellac as a sealer under alkyd because of its 20- to 40-min. pot life. You can use a varnish varnish. It seems to work well, but allmy research suggests product such as McCloskey's Bar Top Varnish, or a bar-top that reactive finishes like varnish shouldn 't be used over lacquer. Both require many light coats, followed by wet-sand­ solvent-release finishes, and vice versa. What's the deal? ing with very fine-grit wet-or-dry paper. Finish up with rub­ -Jon Brandon, Amissville, Va . bing compound. If you follow the procedure in George Mor­ DON NEWELL REPLIES: Shellac is a solvent-release finish, which ris' article on lacquer finishes(F WW #31, pp. 90-94), you'll means that when its alcohol solvent evaporates, it leaves be­ eet good results. hind a glossy, solid fUm that remains resoluble in alcohoL A LDonald Steinert restores Rolls-Royce automobile wood­ second coat partially dissolves the first, resulting in a strong work in Grants Pass, Ore. He wrote about piano finishing bond between consecutive coats. in FWW #44.] A reactive or polymerizing finish like varnish reacts with oxygen and forms a sttong cross-linked chain of molecules Harpsichord-soundboard finish-In FWW # 10, pp. 27- which, once dry, is no longer soluble in the original solvent. 28, Geor ge Frank recommended shellacas a finish fo r harp­ With reactive finishes, the second coat doesn't dissolve the sichord soundboards. I've ex amined old piano soundboards first coat but adheres via a mechanical bond. Also, because with shellac finishes that have become crumbly and dry. Is there's no alcohol or other strong solvent, reactive finishes there an al ternative finish that would be more durable ? won't soften a base coat of solvent-release finish. -Oliver Finney, Lawrence, Kans. Varnish works well over a thin sealer coat of shellac or MICHAEL DRESDNER REPLIES: Although shellac could be used lacquer because the wood surface still has enough irregulari­ as a finish for a harpsichord soundboard, it would be neither ties for the varnish to develop a mechanical bond. It won't the best choice nor the one most likely to have been used by adhere to a , heavy coating of shellac unless the surface is the old builders. They used a sealer called glair (also called first roughened with sandpaper. Don't, however, apply lac­ vernia bianca, or white varnish), which was made fr om egg quer over a varnish, because lacquer solvents will soften most whites, gum arabic, water, honey (for elasticity) and some­ varnish finishes. times sugar. This fo rmed a very thin, hard, transparent coat­ [Don Newell is a former paint and varnish chemist who lives ing that hugged the wood tenaciously. Glair also provided an in Farmington, Mich.] excellent base for the tempera that were used to deco­ rate some harpsichord soundboards. Gluing exotic woods-I've been laminating African and Here's a typical recipe: Beat egg whites and collect the Indian rosewood, ebony, and cordia with yellow glue, and clear liquid that settles to the bottom. Dissolve 10 grams of

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What's the best way accessories for the following brand names may be available, to make these legs? -Kenneth Glover, Mt. Pleasant, s.c. depending on the age of the machine, from Rockwell Interna­ CARLYLE LYNCH REPLIES: The tional, PO Box 186 17, Memphis, Tenn. 38118 (contact their best way to make the round Jig for customer-service department): Sheraton chair legs is to bend bending Delta/Milwaukee, EFI, Handi-Shop, Invicta, Multi-Drill, turned chair them after rurning and reed­ legs Qualters & Smith (Q&S), Tauco, and Yates-American (l8-in. ing. Bending isn't difficult, planer only). especially when the legs are For parts and accessories for the following brands, write to turned from green stock ri­ the address shown: ven from the log. Because Beaver-Rockwell International of Canada, Ltd., 40 Wel­ there is no grain runout, ri­ lington St., PO Box 848, Guelph, Onto NIH 6M7. ven wood is less liable to Buckeye-Rockwell International, Power Tool Division, break while bending. 3050 S. Kettering Blvd., Dayton, Ohio 45435. Make a bendingfo rm from Commander-Rockwell International, PO Box 1765, Co­ a piece of 2x6 with rwo cauls lumbia, S.c. 29202 . to form the curve, and holes Porter-Cable-Porter-Cable Corp., Youngs Crossing at and pegs to wedge the leg to Highway 45, PO Box 2468, Jackson, Tenn. 38301. the cauls. Make the cauls Precise-Precise Corporation, 3700 Blue River Rd., Racine, with a radius slightly smaller Wis. 606 17. than the one desired, as the [D.E. Fledderjohn is product specialist with the Power Tool leg will spring back when re­ Caul Division of Rockwell International.] moved from the fo rm. Steam the leg until it's pli­ Tablesaw-blade runout-The blade runout on my Sears able (FWW#8, pp. 40-45), then place it on the bending lO-in. tablesaw seems excessive. With a dial indicator, I jig, put in the first peg, and test the wood's pliancy. A piece measure runout of 0.011 in. I've tried a new blade, with that's ready for bending will be soft and yielding. If the leg is no improvement, and when I rotate the blade on the arbor I hard to bend, steam it a little longer. Bend the leg around the still get 0. 011 in. at the same point with res pect to the form, put in all the pegs, and let the piece dry for a few days. arbor. Is this arbor defective, or is this just sloppy machin­ Cut the curve in the square, tapered Hepplewhite table ing? What are the standa rds fo r runout on these saws? legs on the bandsaw. You'll need rwo patterns: one for the -Michael Murray, Xenia, Ohio sides, and one for the front and back. RICHARD PREISS REPLIES: I, too, would become suspect if my [Carlyle Lynch, of Broadway, Va., is a retired fu rniruremaker.] saw had an O.Oll-in. blade runout, but the manufacrurer of your Sears tablesaw, Emerson Electric Co., considers runout of Non-allergenic floor ftni sh-Is there a non-allergenic fin­ as much as 0.015 in. to be "normal and within our produc­ ish with no petroleum distillates suitable fo r refi nishing an tion standards." oak floor? Woul d pure tung oil be durable enough ? Part of the problem is that there are no indus tty-wide stan­ -Evan Fales, West Branch, Iowa dards for woodworking-machine production, either in this DON NEWELL REPLIES: Shellac contains no petroleum distillates country or abroad. It seems that the consumer market, by its and would be a durable floor finish. acceptance or rejection of the product, determines whether a Apply rwo thin coats, scuff-sanding berween coats to re­ manufacturer's .standards are "close enough ." move whiskers. You'll get maximum durability if the shellac [Richard Preiss runs the woodworking shop at the University penetrates the wood rather than builds up on top of it. of North Carolina at Charlotte.] In my view, rung oil would not be suitable. While it is extremely durable and resistant to liquids, it is probably not Airbrush frni sh repair-I have a mahogany-veneered card as wear-resistant as you need. Also, pure rung oil dries flat­ table with a Ifs-in. wide sp lit across the top in both the another reason I wouldn't choose it fo r finishing a floor. veneer and the core board. The fi nish looks like gloss var­ [Don Newell is a fo rmer paint and varnish chemist who lives nish. I re paired the split and sanded with wet 400-grit in Farmington, Mich.] paper, but this dulled a strip of varnish on each side of the repair. How can I res tore the finish without redo ing the Defunct tool companies-My husband recently purchased whole top ? -Malcolm Garrett, Steelton, Pa. an 8-in. tilting-table saw. It's marked Delta "Grey GEORGE FRANK REPLIES: You need some fast-drying gloss var­ Line, " and was made in Milwaukee, Wi s. It came with nish, thinner, and an artists' airbrush. A mouth-sprayer lots of accesso ries, but there 's no instr uction manual, so we (available at art supply stores) is a less expensive alternative to can 't figure out how to use them. Do you have any infor­ the airbrush, and I've had good results with one. mation on this company? Spray a light coat of thinned varnish on the strip and allow -Jean M. Yberg, North Merrick, N. Y. it to dry. A little varnish will spray over and build up on the D.E. FLEDDER]OHN REPLIES: The Delta Manufacruring Com­ old finish. When this is dry, gently level the overspray with pany of Milwaukee (formerly the Delta Specialty Company) very fine sandpaper. When you've built up enough varnish in was started during the early years of the Great Depression, the repair area (from 5 to 15 very thin coats), and it's dry,

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rub with a damp rag and pumice, then switch to rottenstone. blades that perform exactly the same at a given RPM. [George Frank is a master Euro pean wood fm isher, now retired.] Here at Forrest Mfg. Co. we have a process that eliminates the runout that hammer-tensioning can't, at any RPM. The Powdery fungus-I have a problem with some rough-cut plates for our blades are purchased thicker than final dimen­ white oak. In certain places, such as the corner of the sion. The supplier has roll-tensioned each plate, and the plate plank, it disintegrates into a fine powder. I can 't find any is "warped" or bellied like the bottom of an oil can. It is first insects, worms or holes. What could cause this problem, ground perfectly flat, then ground to final thickness. The sur­ and how can I treat it? -Charles R. Reints, Rochelle,Ill. face is checked with a straightedge, and any remaining undu­ R. BRUCE HOADLEY REPLIES: It sounds like your boards were lations are pressed out. The result is runout of not more than cut from trees that were dead before they were felled, or re­ 0.00 1 in. (with perfect arbor and collars). A dampener (not a mained in the log fo r a long time before being sawn. Fungus stiffener) should be installed with the blade to kill harmonics developed in the sapwood, and when the lumber dried, the from outside sources (motor, belts, etc.), so the blade will run decayed wood became powdery. Although white-oak heart­ true from 1 RPM to 6500 RPM. wood is highly resistant to decay, the sapwood has virtually -Wallace M. Kunkel (" Mr. Sawdust"), no fu ngal resistance. marketing consultant fo r Forrest Mfg . Co. As long as the wood is dried below 18% to 20% moisture content, the fungus won't spread, but you'll have to Cut off Sources of supply: the deteriorated sapwood before using the boards. -Reproduction 18th-century sheet glass is available from [R. Bruce Hoadley is professor of wood technology at the Blenko Glass Company, Inc., Milton, W.Va. 2554l. Universiry of Massachusetts at Amherst.] -Replacement pans for old Stanley planes are available fr om Sterling Woodcraft, Box 335A, RD 3, Highland, N.Y. 12528. Follow-up: With all due respect to my good fr iend Tom Miller, owner of Re· aders can't find: Winchester Carbide Saw, I'd like to get in on this sawblade .. flexible metal tubing fo r gooseneck lamps. discussion (F WW #43, p. 14). Tom made the statement, · -Russell Pals, Ft. Bragg, Calif "Only the better-qualiry blades are hand-tensioned in the first .. springs for a child's platform rocker. place." He's absolutely correct, but he didn't go far enough. · -Norman Metcalf, Princeton, Minn. Hand-tensioning, properly done, is an art. And there are .. plans fo r a marimba. -CO Burchard, Ashland, Okla. very few fe llows left who can actually hammer-tension to achieve a minimum of runout at a certain RPM. But hammer­ Send queries, comments and sources of supply to Q & A, tensioning, at best, can't be consistent, and can't produce two Fine Woodworking, Box 355, Newtown, Conn. 06470. The INCA Jointer/Planer is so good, our customers are becoming our salesmen. "Our INCA 510 Auto Feed And when you consider that the is your best INCA 550 can plane wood flat and salesman. It produces for us." parallel from rough lumber and turn -L.c. Wisconsin all those twisted, wavy boards that "I have used the Model 510 you used to be scrap into good wood, sent. It is a wonderful machine and this machine will pay for itself. as a thickness planer it is And at on ly $1495 (including incomparable." motor) it won't toke long. -PS. New Hampshire Add to that the 5-yea r, limited When customers write letters like warranty-even commercial use is that, we have to wonder whether we covered -and you have on ever need to run on ad for the INCA unbeatable machine. And on Automatic Jointer/Planer. But this unbeatable deal. time we have a reason. Because this We just can't resist one more of fine machine is now even better . our customer's comments. And even more versatile. "The INCA machines are pure Just a few of the improvements joy. I've sold all my other machines include longer tables and fence, and replaced them with INCA. with two feed speeds that can be -T.R. Michigan changed while in •••••••••••••••••••••••••••• operation. As well Garrett Wade Company, Dept. 194 as on adjustable 161 Av enue of the Americas outfeed bed and a New Yo rk, N.Y. 10 013 choice of either a 1Y2hp (1 io volts) or a Gentlemen: \ 2hp (220 volts) o Send me your INJECTA INCA cotolog. -­ motor. Plus a half Enclosed is $1.00. o Send me your 268 page cotalog of the dozen other improvements you'd finest woodworking hand tools, machinery and accessories. (This includes the INJECTA probably never INCA cotalog.) Enclosed is $3. notice, but help ____ make the new INCA Name______550 the best ______Jointer/Planer Address ______money can buy. ______City Stat�e..______Zip---- Dea ler inquiries invited from established retailers.

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In Harmony With Wo od by Christian Becksvoort. Va n In his new book, LeMaster has grown beyond perfection­ Nostrand Reinhold Company, 135 West 50 St ., New York, ism. He says that his criticisms of the old-t imers were wrong, NY. 10020, 1983. $22.50, hardcover; 134 pp. made Out of ignorance, of not knowing the whole stOry. He is now conscious of an art in decoys, rather than just a science. The wood stOve boom has greatly increased the number of His new book lacks the strident tOne of the firstand is very amateur lumberjacks around, and this book may tempt a lot different from it. It contains much more practical carving. of them to use our timber resources fo r something other than The first pattern is a miniature, a simplified generic duck burning-the author pointS out that $30 worth of fl fewood may painted as a mallard. His step-by-step procedures, with one be $300 worth of lumber. The heart of the book is 60 pages large drawing to a page, can help anybody turn a wooden on the identification and working characteristics of native block into a sort of wooden bird. Too ls? A band saw would American woods, including many fine trees and timbers ne­ help at the start, but you can get by without one. LeMaster glected by commercial loggers. Peripheral chapters discuss apparently roughs out with a and gouges, but the wood technology, timber management, harvesting, drying steps show an X-actO knife instead, and because it has re­ and joinery. The text is fast-reading and necessarily a little placeable blades you don't even have to know how to sharp­ sketchy, but it certainly whets the appetite. Becksvoort in­ en. He shows how to tame three-dimensions with a series of cludes technical charts adapted fr om numerous sources, and templates and index lines scribed on the work. The process is provides an excellent bibliography. -Jim Cu mmins straightforward and methodical, and there is plenry of good advice about how to avoid mistakes. The most important Wo oden Puzzles and Games by Kenneth Wells. Sterli ng things, such as exactly where to put the eye, are handled in Publishing Co ., Two Park Ave., New York, NY . 10016, great detail. 1983. $7.95, paperback; 142 pp . In addition, LeMaster, after his many years of painstaking observation, has arrived at a set of general rules and propor­ A puzzle or game made fr om wood is rwice as enticing as one tions that guarantee you a pretty good duck every time-by made from plastic or metal. Placed strategically on a coffee concentrating on each detail separately, complexity becomes table, an attractive wooden puzzle will invite all but the most simplicity. The chapters on painting explicate color relation­ unobservant, soon snaring them in a mind-boggling conundrum. ships as well as any I' ve ever seen. The book is a fast read, You'll find real puzzles in this British book. The first is a and it makes me itch to get out and carve, which the first sliding-letter teaser where the words "black" and "white" book didn't. But the first book is still required reading for change places-the solution requires at least 160 moves. Oth­ its inspirational fe rvor, and fo r its concentration on the er puzzles are even harder to beat (the author gives solutions). birds themselves. -J.e. Although the 21 projects are fashioned from exotic hard­ woods, their small size should keep costs down, and most can Wo oden Planes in 19th-Century America, Vo l. II: Plane­ be made with hand tOols. making by the Chapins at Union FactOry, 1826-1929, by I found the directions for some of the more intricate proj­ Kenneth D. RobertS. Ken Roberts Publishing Co ., Box 15 1, ects hazy, though, and the photOs didn't help to explain the Fitzwilliam, NH. 03447, 1983. $55.00, hardcover; 452 pp . complexities. The space devoted to pictures of such things as a chisel paring could have been put to better use. I liked the Several years ago I had the opportunity to examine an in­ cube sanding jig and miter planing board at the beginning of credibly extensive collection of wooden planes, all manufac­ the book, but the section on hand tOols and finishes could tured by the Chapin factOry of Meadow, New Hartford, have been done away with. Nevertheless, Wells provides fresh Conn. Ken Roberts, a collectOr and prolific publisher of and fun territOry to explore. -Roy Berendsohn books and trade journals relating to old woodworking tOols, was proud of the assemblage, and he has now completed a Basic Whittling and Wo odcarving by E.]. Tangerman. volume of material related to this collection. Sterling Publishing Co ., Inc., Two Park Ave., New York, Wo oden Planes, Vol. II, is an exhaustive study of the NY. 10016, 1983. $6.95, paperback; 128 pp . 19th-century planemaking industry as viewed through the histOrical documents, contracts, inventories, business agree­ EJ. Tangerman probably has done as much as any single ments, trade catalogs, patents and photOgraphs of the Chapin person to popularize woodcarving as a hobby. His new book firm. This vast assemblage of original material is being pre­ (he's written at least six others) is aimed at beginners. It reads served by the Connecticut HistOrical Society, and is here pre­ well, and it tells you what you need to know to get started. sented by RobertS in a chronological narrative of the incep­ Projects and patterns are mostly very simple, just right for tion, prosperity and fall of a giant in the industry. Seldom are practicing basic techniques, but the photOs are murky. There such documents assembled in so straightforward a manner as are, however, magnificent examples of folk carvings fr om to give us as vivid a picture of the way it was. other cultures. -J.e. Chapter III, "Making Wooden Planes," is not directly re­ lated to the Chapin theme, but fills a void that otherwise Decoys, The Art of the Wo oden Bird by Richard LeMas­ would have existed, as the Chapin materials lack hands-on ter. Co ntemporary Books, Inc., 180 North Michigan Ave., planemaking information. Ed Ingraham, III, himself a profi­ Ch icago, Ill. 60601, 1982. $22.50, hardcover; 156 pp. cient contemporary planemaker, adds greatly to the chapter by sharing his craft unselfishly. PhotOgraphs of some of the In his earlier book, Wildli fe in Wo od, Richard LeMaster processes in making both bench and planes invite concentrated on the art of observation. His goal at the time the reader to give it a try. Missing, however, is sufficient in­ was to make his carvings as close to the living model as possi­ formation on the treatment of plane irons, i.e., tempering, ble. He even showed photOs of duck body language, the pos­ annealing and shaping. Included in the chapter appendix is a tures that indicate whether a bird is alert and curious, or reprint of an original article on planemaking, "Practical Plane frightened, or musing. He zealously condemned all decoys Making," by W.]. Armour, taken from an 1898 trade jour­ that didn't look exactly like living ducks. nal. This is the only original material I have ever seen on the

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The small, conventional drawer and fiveshallo w trays in Frid's compact, knockdown drawing ta­ ble provide plenty of storage, and illustrate the basic drawermak­ ing techniques that you can apply to any kind of fu rniture. How to Make Drawers Design fo r drawing table illustrates the principles

by Ta ge Frid

A bout twenty years ago, when I first started teaching at the adjustable drawing surface. For odds and ends, I added a I\..Rhode Island School of Design, I was commissioned to drawer to the right of the space where your knees go. For make drawing tables for the school dormitories. The tables instruments, pencils and pens, I also included some shallow were to be plain and inexpensive, yet sturdy and able to with­ trays that slide in grooves milled inside the carcase. stand abuse. Because dormitoty rooms are small, each table Once I had decided on the drawer and trays, I worked out had to be space-efficient. This last requirement made the ta­ the construction details for the carcase. There are three basic bles a good exercise in an important cabinetmaking skill­ ways to make a carcase that will contain drawers: with glued­ designing and building drawers. up solid wood, or with a fr ame-and-panel system, or with When I design a piece with drawers, I first consider what cabinet-grade plywood. I used plywood fo r my drawing table will be put in them. This helps determine how I will build because it's good for knockdown joinety, and because it's both the carcase (the body of the cabinet into which the simple and fast to work with. Lately, though, I've been using drawers go) and the drawers, and of what materials. The more and more solid wood fo r my fu rniture because I can do overall size of the drawing table described in this article (see more with it, such as shaping, carving and bending. Of plans, p. 38), which is an improved version of the one I made course, solid wood shrinks and swells with the seasons, so you twenty years ago, is based on standard sizes of drafting paper must account fo r this in your drawer-hanging. A fr ame-and­ and parallel rulers. For storing big sheets of paper and fin­ panel carcase, with a solid or plywood panel, isolates most of ished drawings, I wanted an open compartment below the the wood movement, but it limits your shaping choices, and

32 Photos: Roger Bim;drawings: Lee Hov complicates the joinery and drawer-hanging. Fig. 1: Drawer-hanging methods There are several ways to hang a drawer. When I was an Let runner into groove. apprentice in Denmark, I learned the method shown in fig­ In solid wood, fa sten back ure 1, which is the one I used fo r the top drawer of my of runner with screw through slotted hole. drawing table and in all of my best fu rniture. The drawer slides in and Out of the carcase on two horizontal members Carcase side called runners, which fit into grooves milled in the sides of the carcase. At the front of the carcase, the drawer rests on a stretcher or a rail, which also ties together the fr ont edges of Runner the carcase and provides a surface to which drawer stops can be glued. For a drawer to work correctly, it must have some Rail or SOrt of guide to keep it fr om tilting down when it is pulled stretcher out. This guide, which bears against the top edges of the drawer sides, is usually called a kicker. In a chest of drawers, the bottom edge of the runner above acts as a kicker. The top drawer usually kicks against the inside of the carcase top, but in some cases (my drawing table is one) you have to install a separate kicker because the carcase doesn't have a top, or be­ cause the top is toO far above the drawer to act as a kicker. This method, called bottom-hanging (figure lA), is good for almost any kind of fu rniture, whether plywood or solid. The runners are very strong and will carry the weight of a drawer filled with heavy objects. If lubricated with paraffin For extra strength, and made of a hardwood, such as oak or maple, the runners Drawer front tenon runner mto rail (and drawer sides) will last a long time. The big disadvantage � is that to work right, a bottom-hung drawer must fit snugly, Carcase top acts as kicker for In sohd top drawer wood, Jom making it liable to stick in humid weather. rail With twm A drawer can also slide on runners that ride in grooves in tenon � I'l I the drawer sides, as in figure lB. You don't need stretchers \ \ and kickers fo r each drawer, but you do need to tie a big Ida \ carcase together with at least one fr ont rail in the middle to � keep the sides from bowing outward. Side-hanging is best for � small, light drawers, such as in writing desks and jewelry boxes. I wouldn't use it in a chest of drawers or a kitchen cabinet, though, because the sliding surfaces are small and Bottom edge of runner above acts as kicker, keeping drawer they would wear out pretry fast. level when it's opened. Some people think that metal runners (figure lC) are used only in cheap factory furniture, but fo r heavy drawers, such as 1A: 1 B: Side-hung drawers 1C: Bottom-hung Ball-bearing a desk file drawer or a kitchen-cabinet flour bin, I prefer Side-hung drawers don 't need drawer runners them. Good-qua liry metal ball- bearing runners will suppOrt a kickers-runners support dra wer and keep it from tilting when I heavier drawer than wood will, and some kinds allow the it's opened. drawer to be fu lly extended so you can get what's in the back without removing the drawer. These runners last fo rever, and they never stick, no matter what the weather. Always buy your runners-{)r any hardware, fo r that matter-before you make the piece. Some rypes of runners require a drawer that is 1 in. narrower than the carcase opening; others need lX-in. clearance. Nothing is more frustrating than to build a piece, only to find that the hardware you want to use won't work. To accommodate runner, drawers are narrower Getting started-If you want drawers that fit well, you have than carcase opening. to take your time and make an accurate carcase. My drawing Fig. 2: Drawer details table consists of a permanently joined plywood carcase which 2A: Drawer with slip 2B: Sliding tray Make trav !i.J2 in. to holds the drawer and trays. To this, I attached (with knock­ Vl6 in. narrower than down fasteners) the panels that form the sides, the back, the d. storage compartment, and the shelf under the drawing sur­ i-'---- Side face. A really fine carcase should be made about X2 in. wider �f- Carcase side Slip Front rail � at the back than at the fr ont so that the drawer action won't lA-in . plywood stiffen up from increasing friction as the drawer is pushed in. � t'I lbottom There are a couple of ways to do this. If your carcase is solid wood, you can join it up square and hand-plane a few shav­ Extend bottom 716 in. on each side to ings off the thickness of the back inside third of each carcase -. fit into grooves in carcase.

33 Fig. 3: grooves in carcase sides side before final assembly. Or, in solid wood or plywood, you

3A: Router method can CUt each end of the carcase top and bottom slightly out of square. An article in FWW #21, pp. 73-76, tells more Screw router and about this type of carcase construction. stick to plywood jig base. The drawing table has only one drawer, so I didn't bother making my carcase wider at the back. I cut the parts I needed out of a sheet of %-in. veneer-core cherry plywood, squaring each panel caref ully and joining the carcase with tongue-and­ groove joints. Where the raw edges of the plywood would be exposed, I glued on a X-in. thick by Ys-in. strip of solid cher­ ry, planing it flush with the plywood and sanding it after the Distance between glue had dried. stick and bit sets Next I cut the grooves fo r the solid-oak drawer runners groove spacing. and the sliding trays. This step is a critical part of making the carcase-the runners (and so the grooves) must be square to the front edges of the carcase and spaced the same distance apart on both carcase sides. Some people mount the drawer runners in a sliding dovetail joint, which is stronger. But it's a lot of extra work, and since the load is all downward, you don't really need that much strength. You could avoid grooves altogether by screwing the runners directly to the car­ For stopped grooves, rip strip off carcase side before case, though this method isn't as accurate. For the trays, I 3C: Gluing up dadoing, then reglue st rip . decided to make lots of grooves relatively close together so

To glue a mitered carcase, clamp To correct an out-of-square that there would be maximum flexibility in tray arrangement. across corners using 450 blocks carcase, pull it square The grooves can be croSSCUt with a dado blade in the ta­ glued to plywood cauls. Sandpaper with a clamp skewed across on cauls provides a good grip. its width. blesaw, or with a router, using the jig shown in figure 3A. I usually use the router because it's easier for an old guy like Long diagonal me, and if I don't want the grooves to show at the fr ont edge of the carcase, I can Stop them short. If you use the tablesaw, be sure to mill each pair of mating grooves in both carcase

Diagonals will sides before you change the fence setting. Figure 3B shows be equal how to stop a tablesawn groove. if carcase Short diagonal is square. If I were making a chest of drawers, I' d cut the joints fo r the front rails at this point. In solid wood, I'd join the rails to the sides with a twin tenon, as shown in figure 1. I usually mill the twin mortises with a router. Then, with a , I lay out the tenons on the rail and cut them (by hand or on the tablesaw) to a tight fit. A rail can be joined to plywood with a tongue that stops short of the front edge of the carcase, so it won't be seen. For extra strength, you can tenon the runner into the back edge of the rail. Assembling the carcase comes next. A tongue-and -grooved plywood carcase, such as my drawing table, is easy to glue up with clamps and . When I'm joining solid wood, I usually use dovetails or splined miters. If they fit right, dove­ tails don't need to be clamped at all. You just put some glue on and tap them home. Miters should be clamped across the corners, or else the pressure of the clamps might distort the case. I use the clamping shown in figure 3C, and I check the carcase for square by measuring diagonally fr om corner to corner. If both diagonals measure the same, it's okay. Don't try to correct an out-of-square carcase by clamp­ ing the corners diagonally, or else you'll twist it. Instead, clamp across the width of the carcase, with the clamp angled slightly to pull in the long corner. When the carcase comes out of the clamps, you can install the drawer runners. Plane or sand them smooth first, other­ wise the little ripples left by machine-planing will make your drawers noisy. Because the drawing-table carcase is plywood, For a perfe ct fit, Frid fits the drawer parts individttafly befo re which won't shrink and swell, you can glue the runners right he assembles them, first trimming the dra wer fro nt to a tight fit in the carcase opening. If the drawer fr ont 's length can't be in, all the way across. If the sides of your piece are solid scribed from inside the case, mark it directly fr om otttside. wood, runners should be glued only at the very front.

34 Fitting the drawer-Getting a wooden drawer to work like it's gliding on ball bearings is not all that difficultif you take the time to do it right. The trick is to fit the drawer be fore you make it. First, rough-mill all the drawer parts you will need. I like to use maple, oak, cherry and walnut for drawer parts. Pine and poplar are tOo soft. For drawer sides higher than 10 in ., �-in. Baltic plywood is good because it is less liable to warp. I make the sides and backs of small draw­ ers % in. thick, and their fronts % in. thick. Larger drawers should have �-in. sides and backs, with %-in. fronts. Th e drawer sides should be made equally snug, then trimmed to a length that will stop them fro m banging against the back of The drawer fr ont should be fitted first. Cut the wood to the carcase. width so that it will just about go intO the opening, then Fig. 4: Marking drawer parts Front and back finish the fit with a hand plane. Now cut the front to length: Front Front end Square one end (if it isn't already) and fit it into the opening, _ D /I Slde / of sides ---- then mark the other end by scribing the back of the drawer I .-- -.-----�!l..,., if � front from inside the case. Cut it a hair long at first,then trim Points of triangle always fa ce fo rwardJI� or upward. Put numbers on trian­ it to fit. If for some reason you can't reach inside, mark the gles to distinguish parts of multiple drawers.

length by holding the front outside the case, as shown in the Fig. 5: Drawer bottoms Slip is notched to photO on the facing page. The drawer fr ont should fit so clear back of drawer. snugly that it can beJUSt pushed in halfway. Mark and cut the drawer back exactly the same length as the front, but make the width less, to leave space for the drawer bottOm to slide in and also to allow a little space to make fitting easier later on. 'A-in. plywood bottom Side I usually make the back about % in. narrower than the front. screwed to back Fit the drawer sides the same way as you did the front, by Bottoms can be mounted in grooves milled planing the width until they will just slide in snugly. Crosscut directly in the sides, or in drawer slips glued to the sides. the back ends square, then push the drawer sides back as far A Lay out dovetailS as you want them to go. Drawer sides should not go all the so that groove way to the back of a solid-wood carcase because when the for bottom exits above half-pin. carcase sides shrink, the drawer will pop out a little. Also, I don't like to stOp a drawer against the back of the carcase iW unless I have to-it sounds clunky. I allow about X in. be­ Groove exits in hidden fa ce tween the back of the drawer and the carcase. One way to of tail. make sure the clearance is right is to place a scrap shim tem­ porarily against the case back as you push the sides i�. When the drawer front, back and both sides have been fitted, the drawer is ready to be assembled. But before I do Screw rail in to that, I mark the parts as shown in figure 4. �notch in drawer back. Assembling the drawer-The traditional joint for a drawer is a half-blind dovetail at the front and a through dovetail at the back. Other joints will do, but they aren't as strong. The On a wide drawer. box on p. 36 shows some examples. Some craftsmen use solid support a wood for drawer bottOms, but I think that X-in. hardwood two-piece bottom plywood is better. It's more than strong enough and quite with a grooved center rail. stable. Although it doesn't really matter, running the grain of the bottOm in the same direction as that of the front looks nicest. In my best fu rniture, I mount the bottom in grooved strips, called drawer slips, which are glued inside each drawer after assembly, as shown in figure S. This technique allows me to work with thin drawer sides, which are better-looking, and still leave a wide wearing surface for the drawer to slide on. To prevent the bottOm fr om sagging in really wide draw­ ers, use thicker plywood, or make the bottOm in two pieces and sUppOrt it with a rail down the middle of the drawer. Normally, I put slips only on the sides, letting the bottom into a groove cut in the drawer front. But on my drawing table, the finger pull routed in the bottOm edge of the drawer fr ont would have exposed the groove, so I glued a slip on at A finger pull that Frid ro uted in the drawing-table drawer the front as well. For quick drawers in kitchen cabinets, I fr ont would have exposed the groove into which the plywood bottom is normally let-a problem Frid solved by gluing a slip to just mill a groove directly in the drawer sides and fronts. Cur the fro nt, as well as to the sides. Th e carcase rail, visible at the the grooves before you lay out your joints, so a groove bottom of the photo, is relieved to give access to the pull.

3S Instead of dovetails .. Whenever I can, I prefer to join a draw­ er with handcut dovetails, half-blind at the front and through at the back. This combination of joints is mechanically strong against all the pushing and pull­ ing that happens to a drawer, and it's quite attractive, especially if you use dif­ ferent colored woods fo r the drawer sides and front. Other easier-to-make joints are okay for drawers, too. But remember that when a drawer is pulled out, the front­ to-side joint bears most of the load, so it made on the tablesaw. Remember to al­ If a drawer is narrower than the in­ must be designed to resist this stress and low for them when you cut the drawer side of the carcase-as it would be if you should be strong mechanically, without sides ro exact length. A rabbet re­ were using ball-bearing runners-or if relying entirely on glue. You could, for inforced with Swedish dowels (nails) is you wanted the drawer front to over­ example, use dovetails at the front and a fine for quick drawers, too. hang and cover the fr ont edges of the tongue-and-rabbet or a half-blind tongue­ A box or is another good carcase, a sliding dovetail is a good and-rabbet at the back. For quick draw­ drawer joint that can be CUt on the ta­ choice for joining the drawer fr ont to the ers in a set of kitchen cabinets, the half­ blesaw. I might use this joint for draw­ sides. Sliding dovetails work well in blind tongue-and-rabbet would also be ers in a tool chest, bur I wouldn't want both solid wood and plywood. If you set okay for the drawer fronts. But if you it in furniture because I think that the up to make this joint, you can also use it use it, stop the drawer at the back in­ end grain of the exposed fingers is ugly. to join the back to the sides. -T. P. stead of at the front, otherwise the weak To hide the fingers, or the end grain of short-grain of the grooved piece might through dovetails used on a drawer For more on joints, see FWW #5, crack off. Both of these joints can be fr ont, you could glue on a planted front. pp . 30-36, and #27, pp. 68-75.

Drawers in really well-made fu rniture I learned about the outward drawer stop should have outward stops, bur I don't shown below fr om Stephen Proctor, my Drawer-stop ideas like to spend a lot of time making them. teacher at the Wendell Castle work­ Usually, I use the method in the draw­ shops. It consists of a notched wooden from three makers ing below, which works for praaically leaf spring let into a mortise in the rail Sometimes it's not practical to install a any style drawer. The stop is a small above the drawer. If you need a lot of Stop that works against a drawer's fr ont, block screwed to the rail (or to the in­ StopS, it's easy to mill the shape into a as Frid does. In this case, I stop a drawer side of the carcase top) above the draw­ wide board, ripping the leaves off to the at the back by gluing and screwing er. As the drawer is opened, its back required width. For strength and spring­ small wooden eccentrics inside the car­ strikes the block and Stops. So that the iness, ash is the best wood to use. Locate case, as shown in the drawing below. drawer can be inserted, the block pivots the Stop where you want the drawer to Before the glue dries, I rotate the eccen­ to align with a notch cut into the back. stop, then scribe and cut the mortise. A trics so that the drawer stops just where A felt pad glued to the block gives the countersunk wood screw holds the stop I want it to. Stop a quieter action. in place. -David Hannah, Newtown, Conn. -Ben Mack, Mt, Tremper, N. Y. -Wendy Sta yman, Scottsville, N, Y.

Mill shape in wide board and rip off stops as needed

Screw stop ' in to mortise.

To remove drawer, push stop clear of back. Drawer back.;' To adjust stop, rotate eccentricallv mounted disc before glue sets.

36 won't come Out in middle of a dovetail pin. I had only one drawer to dovetail for my drawing table, so I did it by hand. If there are a lot of drawers to do, I use a dovetail fixtute with my router, sanding or planing the inside of the drawer parts before the joints are cut. I don't dry­ assemble drawer joints because if they are as tight as they should be, testing them will compress the wood fibers and the joint will be too loose later. Put just a little bit of glue on the top of the pins and fr ont edge of the tails, and tap the joint together with a hammer. Check your drawer for square and Hold a dra wer put it on a flat bench to make sure it isn't twisted. When the for planing or glue is dry, cut the drawer slips to length and glue them in. sanding by hanging it over a board clamped Next, I clean up the joints by sanding lightly with a belt to the bench top. sander, and planing or scraping the top and bottom edges of the sides and front. To hold the drawer for sanding, I prop it Plane the dra wer's top edge in over a wide board clamped between two bench dogs, as one continuous motion, shown in figure 6. After sanding, I try the drawer. Usually it starting at the front and moving toward will slide right in. I move it in and Out a few times and the back. remove it. Where the drawer binds agai nst the runner, kicker or carcase side, there will be a shiny spot on the wood. I scrape or plane off these spots until the drawer fits perfectly. If I'm making a drawer in January, I'll make the fit a little loose so that the drawer will still work when the wood swells up in August. Don't take toO much of f, or the drawer will The drawer back, which is narrower end up too loose and will bind instead of sliding. To plane than the sides, needn 't the top of a drawer, start at one end of the front and plane be trimmed, but plane or Drawer back sand its top edge before you toward the back. When you get to the joint between the fr ont assemble the drawer. and side, JUSt turn the corner in one continuous motion. If Fig. 7: Drawer fixes Correct a bowed side by pulling it In you want to finish the inside of the drawer, you can do it at with a clamp and holding it true this point. I use twO coats of 2-lb.-cut shellac. I wouldn't use Bowed side with a small glue block. oil-it smells toO strong and will bleed out of the wood later. When everything fits, slide the bottom in and fasten it Bottom with screws driven into the drawer back. To locate the drawer stops, set a marking gauge to the thickness of the drawer front and scribe a line on the top surface of the rail. Glue two 3-in. by I-in. by 1;s-in. blocks to the rail. Don't make the stops smaller, or someone slamming the drawer might knock Correct twist by t kerfing the high corners to the depth of the first them off. I don't use outward stops, but many wood­ tail. Then insert wedges to partially fla tten the drawer, planing the rest of the twist out of the bottom. workers like them. The box on the facing page shows some __ � Wedge good methods. -i Rub paraffin on the runners, kickers, slips and inside of the Kerf carcase. Don't put any other kind of finish on the outside of a drawer or the inside of a carcase where drawers will go, unless you are using ball-bearing runners. The finish will just gum up the works and might cause the drawer to stick.

M the trays-Making the trays is a lot easier than mak­ Excessively sloppy drawers can be corrected with a center quide, which aking fits Into a track glued to the drawer bottom. Mount the gUide between ing the drawers. The tray pares can be kept small in dimen­ the front rail and a rail added to the back of the carcase. sion because the assembly is solidly glued and screwed to the plywood bottom. You don't have to fit the pares first, just cut them so that there will be Ys2 in. to Xs in. between the side of tray and the inside of the carcase (figure 2, p. 33). No grooves or slips are needed for the bottom, but you should let it into a rabbet milled in the tray front. When you assemble a tray, make sure that it is square and that the bottom overhangs equally on each side. Complete the final fitting by testing the trays in the grooves and sanding the plywood lightly where necessary.

Correcting problems-Sometimes drawers won't work right, no matter how careful you are. Bowed sides are one reason. If you notice this before you assemble the drawer, position the

37 bulge of the bow to the inside of the drawer. That way, when back. The kerf should go down just to the first tail of the you slide the bottom in, the side will be pushed straight. If a joint. Plane the remaining twist Out of the bottom edges. drawer side bows out after you put it together, pull the bow A drawer that really rattles around---either because you in with a clamp and hold it with a small glue block, as shown planed too much off or because the carcase is toO wide-can in figure 7, p. 37. be fixed with a center guide, or by gluing veneer shims inside A slightly out-of-square drawer will usually be forced into the carcase. Shims work best when the looseness is mostly at true when the bottom is put in. Just make sure the bottom is the back of the drawer. I don't like to use the center-guide truly square and fits exactly to the bottom of the grooves, and method unless I have no other choice. D put the bottom in before you do fm al-fitting. A twisted drawer, which won't sit flat but teeters on twO corners, is Besides teaching one day a week, Tage Frid is building more difficult tofix, but it isn't hopeless. Take some of the fu rniture which he'll write about in his third book for twist out by driving small wedges into kerfs sawn at opposite The Taunton Press. For more on drawers, see FWW #9, corners in the joints between the sides and the front and pp . 49-51, and # 11, pp . 50-53.

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hen I first started working wood, I read a lot about of the wood so that they can be removed with steel wool. finishing. The more I read, the more confused I got. Dampen an old washcloth-not dripping but wet-and wipe ThereW are literally hundreds of stains, dyes, and fillers the wood surface with it. After the wood dries, the surface around-some soluble in water, some in alcohol, others in oil. will feel fu zzy. Now with a loose ball of 0000 steel wool, It seems to me, you ought to have fun working with wood take a swipe over the wood in each direction. The wool will without having to build a chemical processing plant. So I hook the loose wood fibers and pull them free. Vacuum away experimented and developed my own finishing method using any strands of loose steel wool that may remain. paste rubbing stains and varnishes. I'm sure it's not the most With a fresh piece of 220-grit on your sander, sand the sophisticated in the world, but if you fo llow my procedure, surface again, checking for defects as before. Repeat the you'll get a silky smooth, alcohol- and water-resistant finish. grain-raising process, hit the piece again with steel wool, The secret to good finishing is to prepare the wood proper­ vacuum, then switch to sanding with 320-grit paper. At this ly by careful sanding. Actually, wood preparation should be­ point, I protect the wood from marring with an old towel on gin even before you reach the sanding stage. I carefully choose my bench. By now, the wood should feel smooth as glass. the wood for a piece I'm building. I love distinctive grain and Give it a quick polishing with 600-grit wet-or-dry paper and knots, so I try to use them to good advantage. If you prefer then wipe off the sanding dust with a tack rag, a sticky clean­ clear wood, work around the defects, or position them where ing cloth sold by paint stores. you won't have to give them extra sanding later. If possible, Next comes the exciting part: staining and finishing.I don't use wood with planer snipes-ugly gouges caused by im­ don't always stain, though. If the wood is already the color properly adjusted planers. Even if sanded smooth, the glazed I want, I just go ahead and finish it. When I do Stain, I pre­ wood of a will sometimes show as a streak. Another fer oil paste wiping stains. The Bartley Collection Ltd., way to save sanding time is to chisel off the glue squeezed out 12 1 Schelter Rd., Prairie View, Ill. 60069, is one good source of joints instead of wiping it off with a damp rag, which just for these stains. I've been happy with the finish I get without smears it around. Let the glue set for about half an hour, using any of the paste wood fillers that are on the market, but until it's rubbery, and it will slice right off with a sharp chisel. I do n't see why they wouldn't work. You will need a good-qualiry finishing sander. I have a I use the stain right Out of the can. Spoon a few blobs into Rockwell orbital that isn't made anymore, but of the half­ an aluminum pie tin, dip a terry cloth pad into it, and rub dozen other I've tried, I think the Black & Decker the stain firmlyand briskly into the wood, going with the #7430 (which takes a third of a sheet of sandpaper) aqd the grain. When you run out of the small amount of stain on the Makita block sander (a quarter of a sheet) are both good pad, briskly polish the stained area with a larger piece of terry buys. Whichever sander you use, cut a stack of sheets to fit it cloth. Now go back for more stain, blending it into the al­ at one time, so you won't have to Stop sanding in the middle ready stained area and polishing again. Continue this way un­ of a project to Cut more paper. For inside curves, tight spots til you're done, allowing the work to dry for 24 hours. and end grain, I have a drum sander that fits my X-in. I use either of twO kinds of varnish: the paste varnish sold portable drill and accepts small sheets of regular sandpaper by Bartley, or McCloskey antique polyurethane. Both are instead of sleeves. I gOt it from Singley Specialry Co. Inc., rubbed on and polished just like the stain. If you prefer the PO Box 5087, Greensboro, N.C. 27403. McCloskey, or any other store-bought polyurethane, thin it Before I begin sanding, I clear my bench of all tools-if 1: 1 with mineral spirits. Apply fo ur or five light coats, allow­ you drop a sanded piece on a sharp tool, the small nick that ing 24 hours' drying between. Don't try to get away with one results will look like the Grand Canyon when you stain. I or two thick coats, or you'll wind up with a blotchy, ugly start orbital-sanding with 180- grit aluminum oxide paper un­ film that you'll just have to sand off. til all the scratches and tool marks are gone. To check for When the final coat has dried, polish it with 600-grit wet­ missed blemishes, I view the wood obliquely, with the light or-dry paper lubricated with mineral spirits. Wrap the paper in front of me. If none are visible, I give the piece a thorough around a scrap-wood block and wet the grit with spirits, drib­ once-over with 22 0-grit. What do I mean by thorough? It's bling a few drops on the varnished wood while you're at it. no 15-minute ordeal. If you're working a 5-in. by 12-in. Now begin sanding, with the grain. On the first pass, you'll piece with 220-grit, for example, you ought to see the surface fe el the paper sort of bumping along the relatively rough var­ improve after 30 seconds to one minute of sanding. More nished surface. On the second or third pass, it will feel like a sanding at that grit won't give you a smoother surface. Switch vacuum is sticking the paper to the surface. At that point, to a finer grit. Once you learn to find flaws by viewing the quit. You're done. Buff the surface with a soft, dry rag, and wood correctly, you'll know when to stop. If you're progress­ sit back and admire the beautiful finish you've created. 0 ing toO slowly, start with 120 - or 150-grit, working up to 220. If you must, use a belt sander to smooth large flaws, Joe Thomas works wood in Tucker, Ga . He pu blished his but never use a belt coarser than lOO-grit. own book about finishing called Silky, Sensuous Wood Fin­ Now I'm ready to raise the grain for the first time. Raising ishing ($13, 61 pp .), which is available fr om him at the grain causes loose wood fibers to stick up from the surface PO Box 1158, Lilburn, Ga . 30247.

39 with useful lumber. The first time I used my kiln, I ran the A Dehutnidifier Kiln dehumidifier full-tilt. The wood dried much tOo quickly. The boards bent badly when ripped, and many were filled with Home-dried lumber with no frills internal checks, a defect called honeycombing. I've since over­ come these problems with controlled drying and conditioning. Wo od will gain or lose moisture depending on the rela­ by Donald Klimesh tive humidity of the air that surrounds it. As long as the relative humidity remains the same, a piece of wood will eventually reach a point where it neither gains nor loses mois­ ture. The moisture that remains in the wood when it has or the past few years, I'v e been drying my own lumber in reached this balance with the air is called its equilibrium a kiln that I designed and built around a 22-pint/day moisture content, or EMe (FWW #39, pp. 92-95). I operate MontgomeryF Ward dehumidifier. It will dry 300 bd. ft . of my kiln until the wood reaches an Me of approximately 7%. lumber in 8-ft. lengths, at a cost of about 1O¢ /bd. ft. for To measure the relative humidity inside the kiln, I use a electricity. The dehumidifier cost me abour $170, and the rest wet- and dry-bulb hygrometer (available from Edmund Sci­ of the materials for the kiln tOtaled another $ 7 5. entific Co., 10 1 E. Gloucester Pike, BarringtOn, N.]. 08007). The skeletOn of my kiln is a wood fr ame of lx6s covered It consists of a standard thermometer mounted side by side with 4-mil clear plastic sheet, overlapped at the seams, and on the same base with a wet-bulb thermometer which has a attached to the frame with wood strips and staples. I covered cloth wick fitted over the bulb. The other end of the wick the plastic with 3�-in. fiberglass insulation. Don't fasten the dips into a small reservoir, which I fill with distilled water to insulation to the lid, because the insulation's removability is prevent mineral buildup and to ensure accurate readings. The part of the kiln's temperature COntrol. The dehumidifier sits hygrometer hangs inside the kiln, and I cut a hole in the inside, with its drain hose passing through a hole in the plas­ fiberglass so that I can read it through the plastic. I cover this tic and emptying into a catch pan outside the kiln. The water window with a piece of insulation when I'm not reading the that collects here must be weighed daily to monitOr the oper­ hygrometer, so that condensation won't fog up the plastic. ation of the kiln. There is also a small electric fan inside, To determine the equilibrium moisture content, you need which runs continuously to circulate the air. I used a fan from to know the relative humidity, bur since the EMe is a more an old appliance, but a small household fan would work fine. useful number to me than the RH, I've eliminated the need The lumber to be dried is loaded on 4x4 supports, which fo r calculations by making a chart that gives me the potential for I-in. lumber should be spaced no more than 2 ft . apart. EMe of the wood directly from the wet- and dry-bulb read­ To prevent the end grain from drying faster than the side ings. Just remember that the hygrometer actually measures grain-the main cause of checking-I liberally coat the ends of the condition of the air inside the kiln, not of the lumber. the boards with oil-based enamel paint. I use :X-in.stickers to It takes some time at any given relative humidity fo r the separate the layers of boards and to allow air to circulate. wood to reach the EMe shown on the chart-how long de­ Space the stickers about 18 in. to 20 in. apart, and keep them pends on the species and thickness of the wood. To lessen one above another to minimize kinking. drying time and minimize degrade, you should air-dry dead­ It's easy to dry wood, but it's relatively difficult to end up green lumber to below its fiber saturation point (25% to 30%

A simple dehumidifier kiln � 3V2-in. fiberglass insulation. 1 x6 frame covered with plastic sheet loose on lid

Wet- and dry-bulb hygrometer

4-mil plastic sheet. all surfaces

_ 6 --...... lx supports on 2-ft. centers 42

3V2-in. fiberglass insulation

Light-bulb heater (2) Carpet-pad floor insulation

40 Photo: Jack Glaser; drawing: Ken Daniel moisture content) before kilning it. An article in FWW #33, Controlling the kiln Regulate drying by monitoring fMC, which is indicated by the point at pp. 88-89, explains how. which the diagonal lines in the fMC chart in tersect the wet- and dry-bulb To keep track of the drying process, I use a data sheet with temperatures. Find this fMC in the left-hand column of the drying sched­ the following headings: date, time, wet-bulb temperature, ule . The right-hand column shows the maximum wei ght of* wa ter you can remove (per 100 sq. f1. of lumber) without degrade. Turn down dry-bulb temperature, EMC, total weig ht' of water colleered, *the humidistat if you get more; turn it up if you get less than half. and rate of drying as measured by pounds of water per day. I These fig ures derive from experimentation. and your results may differ. start a fresh load with the humidistat control on the dehu­ 110r---,---,----,---,---y�� Equilibrium midifier set about one-quarter of the maximum dry setting. moisture content Then I monitor the drying rate by daily weighing the water (EMC) that collects in the catch pan, and I compare this to the maxi­ mum allowable weight of water listed in my drying schedule. If the daily catch of water exceeds the maximum recommend­ ed in the drying schedule, the wood is drying too fast, and I turn the humidistat down. If the catch is less than half the Wet-bulb amount listed in the drying schedule, I turn the control up to temperature (OF) 90 t-----,;I77''T7+7''-r-b''---;;'''t--r--t--:-'''-1 speed the drying rate. Keep the catch pan covered, or else water will evaporate and weights will be inaccurate. I maintain the kiln temperature at 105°F to 115°F throughout the drying cycle. Higher temperatures would speed drying, but might also harm the dehumidifier.In com­ mercial kilns, dry-bulb temperatures go as high as 180°F, but these kilns must dry wood quickly to make a profit. I 75�k-���---+----t----+----1 don't have to tush.

I can control the temperature in three ways: by changing 95 100 105 110 115 120 the humidistat setting, by removing the insulation cover on Dry-bulb temperature (OF) Drying schedule the lid, or by adding auxiliary heat. Although the main fu nc­ Equilibrium moisture Maximum water tion of the humidistat is to control the relative humidiry in­ content (EMe) collected per day from chart above per 100sq. ft. of lumber side the kiln, the dehumidifier motor also produces heat. If 16% and above 11.0 Ib./day the temperature exceeds 11 5°F, I remove insulation fr om the 15 8.0 Ib./day lid to cool it down. If the temperature is below 105°F and 14 7.0 Ib./day Note: the lid is totally covered, I add heat by turning on one or 13 6.0 Ib./day 100 bd. ft. of 1-in. lumber= 100 sq. ft. both of the two shielded light-bulb heaters (detail A, below). 12 5.0 Ib./day 11 4.5 Ib./day 100 bd. ft. of The lumber is dry enough for me when, with hygrometer 10 4.0 Ib./day 2-in. lumber= 50 sq. ft. readings of 7% EMC, the daily catch of water amounts to 9 3.0 Ib./day 0.2 Ib./lOO sq. ft . (not bd. ft .) of lumber, which indicates a 8 2.0 Ib./day 7t 2.0 Ib./day moisture content of approximately 7%. You can measure the t Wh en water yield is less than 0. 2 Ib./l00 sq. ft. , lumber has reached approxi­ mately 7% moisture content. moisture content of the wood itself to be sure, but if you

To p view Detail A: Auxiliary light-bulb heater Continuously running fan Tin-can shield (top and bottom removed)

Light bulb (60- to 100-watt)

Dehumidifier Porcelain lamp socket 1-in. air gapI Sheet-metal support (3) --� 4-in. electrical ------ceiling box 120 /

41 don't have a moisture meter, you'll have to sacrifice part of a water from a garden hose. Then I immediately res tack the board. Here's how: Crosscut a strip 1 in. wide about 1 ft. in lumber in the kiln and redry, following the drying schedule. from the end of a board. Weigh this section on any sensitive The final drying step is called equalizing. When the lum­ scale-a gram scale, beam balance, food-portion scale or post­ ber has dried again after conditioning (less than 0.2 lb. of age scale-anything that will give you an accurate reading in water per day per 100 sq. ft. with hygrometer readings of small increments. Write down the weight. Now bake the 7% EMC, which is approximately 7% MC), I continue to oper­ piece of wood in a 225°F oven for several hours to drive off ate the kiln for one week for each inch of lumber thickness, all moisture. Weigh this dried piece and subtract its weight with the auxiliary heater lamps turned off. By this time I'm from the wet weight, to find out how much water it con­ usually tired of the daily chore of weighing the water, so I just tained. Now divide the weight of the water by the oven-dry let the dehumidifier run with the humidistat set to give ap­ weight of the wood, multiply by 100 (move the decimal two proximately 7% EMC, as measured by the hygrometer. places to the right), put a percent sign (%) after this figure, How long does it take? A batch of 320 bd. ft . of green, and you have the moisture content. But even if you've I-in. red oak took me 60 days-46 days to dry and another reached 7% MC, your wood isn't ready to use yet. 14 days for conditioning and equalizing. A total of 563 lb. of As lumber dries, it develops residual compression stresses water was removed during the drying process. Drying time in the outer fibers. This condition is called casehardening, a varies for different species, and thicker lumber takes longer. misnomer since the "case" is not really harder than the inside. So far, I've used the kiln and my drying schedule to dry It is most noticeable when you're resawing or ripping boards. oak, white pine, maple and cherry. While it may seem that Even if the board being CUt is dry and straight, a casehard­ the process is time-consuming, it takes only a few minutes ened board will bend when it is CUt, sometimes severely. each day to weigh the water, read the thermometers and occa­ Commercial kilns solve the casehardening problem by adding sionally adjust the humidistat. 0 a step called conditioning. Steam is introduced into the kiln to add moisture, which swells the outer fibers and causes Donald Klimesh, of Birmingham, Mic h., is an amateur them to yield, so they will be under less stress when they are woodworker and an engineer with Ford Motor Co. For redried. I also condition my dried lumber, but my process is more information on drying, read Dry Kiln Handbook by less sophisticated. After the boards are dry, I remove them J.L. Bachrich, published by H.A. Simons (International) from the kiln and spray both sides of each board with warm Ltd., 425 Carrall St., Vancouver, B.C. V6B 2J 6.

WoDood n't is only let as dry that as the airdry that sur­lookthat fo relativeol you humidity. rounds it, and once dried it doesn't nec­ When the relative humidity essarily stay that way. Instead, wood of the air changes, the moisture always seeks a moisture equilibrium content of the wood changes, with its environment. until it reaches a new equilibri­ No matter how long wood has been um mOIsture content. seasoned, whether or not it has been Wood should be dried to a kiln-dried, lumber still contains some moisture content dose to the water. This is called its moisture content EMC it will reach in the environ­ (MC), and is usually expressed as a per­ ment in which it will be used. cent. The moisture content changes as In the Northeastern winter, in the relative humidity (RH) of the air a heated, non-humidified room, around the wood changes. the relative humidity might An example: Two identical boards of, average 25% or less. Wood ex­ Klimesh loads his kiln with green, 2-in. pine boards. say, white oak are kiln-dried to a mois­ posed to this low RH would ture content of 7%. One is shipped to reach equilibrium around 5% moisture weight, and divide the result by the dry the Northeast, where the relative humid­ content. In summer, when windows are weight, as in the equation: ity outdoors averages 75% year round. open, inside humidity levels are dose to = Wwet -Woven-dry The other goes to the Southwest, where those outside. MC Woven-dry x 100 the relative humidity averages 38%. Why is all this important? Because In the 75% RH of the Northeast, the wood expands across the grain when the Relative humidity (RR): The ratio board picks up moisture fr om the air moisture content increases, and shrinks (expressed as a percentage) of the and eventually reaches a moisture con­ across the grain when the moisture con­ amount of water vapor in the air to the tent of 14%, where it stops absorbing tent decreases. Furniture must be de­ maximum amount the air could hold at moisture and stabilizes. The board has signed to allow for this movement. a given temperature. Saturated air is now reached the equilibrium moisture Here are some terms woodworkers said to be at 100% RH. content (EMC) for that relative humidity, should knlilw: Fiber saturation point (FSP): The and will hold at 14% as long as the rela­ Moisture content (Me): The ratio (ex­ moisture content (which varies with the tive humidity stays at 75%. pressed as a percentage) of the weight of species) where all water has evaporated In the Southwest, at 38% RH, the water in a piece of wood to the weight from the cell cavities, but the cell walls board loses moisture to the air until its of the wood when it has been complete­ are still saturated. Wood shrinkage oc­ moisture content stabilizes at about 6%. ly dried in an oven. To calculate, sub­ curs only when the cell walls begin This board also has reached the EMC for tract the dry weight from the wet to dry. -D .K.

42 LeCocq's toolbox handle Pipe Clamps Harrigan's extender Leather hinge makes jaws Six versatile tips manageable in vise.

Between glue-ups, the humble just gathers dust and gets under­ foot. Here's how six readers coax dou­ ble-duty out of these tools. So he always To drill a strai ght hole for the clamp. firs t mill grooves in the has one handy, SCOtt leCocq of Arvada, jaws on the ta blesaw or with a Colo., uses a pipe clamp for his toolbox router. Th en clamp the jaws to­ handle. Robert Harrigan of Cincinnati, gether and drill. The square hole Ohio, extended the grip of his vise with will guide the bit. a clamp gizmo, while Philip Hahn of Blacksburg, Va., made a simple bench hold-down. Lyon McCandless of Bain­ bridge Island, Wash., Bernd Schroder of Half Moon Bay, Calif. , and Maurice Harrington of Chicago devised pipe­ clamp . Thorn Lipiczky of West Stockbridge, Mass., suggested adding Hahn's hold-down bench dogs for larger work. n

McCandless' clamping horse

For an in stant worktable, clamp a To clamp doors piece of plywood. and panels, extend one end of horse. Clamps passed through slightly oval holes allow clamping of irregular objects. Schroder's bench vise

Harrington smoothed the action of his vise Oval holes-ti ght by adding a toe block Movable vertically but loose Lipiczky and a bolt snugged rr-':\ jaw horizon tally-allow jaw added finger-tight through a 'LlJ to skew for clamping dogs. threaded insert. tapered work.

Drawing: David Dann 43 Knockdown Furniture Form fo llowsjunaion

by Cu rtis Erpelding

A lthough I design and make fu rniture for private clients, I\.my pieces usually incorporate knockdown features. I like to devise designs suitable for mass production because I be­ lieve that functional, well-craf ted furniture should be afford­ able. Because assembly time is eliminated, knockdown fu rni­ ture is economical to produce commercially, and the pieces can be shipped disassembled, in compact packages. This economy and convenience are particularly relevant now, when people live in smaller spaces and move frequently. But the heart of my interest in knockdown design lies beyond func­ tion or practicality. What interests me fu ndamentally is the concept that ma­ chined pieces of wood can lock together into a new fo rm in ways that take into account the wood's physical properties. The basic problem becomes how to join (and later separate) two pieces of wood using gravity, friction and, occasionally, metal fasteners. In 1980, the Design Arts Program of the National Endow­ ment fo r the Arts (1100 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W., Washing­ ton, D.C. 20506) awarded me a one-year project grant to explore knockdown wooden furniture design. I had to satisfy three grant requirements: First, I was to continue my work in applying knockdown design to standard household and office furniture. Second, I was to develop three knockdown proto­ types that would be suitable for mass production. And third, I was to research the possibility of having my designs com­ mercially produced. The three prototypes I decided on were a platform bed, a stacking chair with a circular seat, and a shelf system that leans against the wall. Each presented challenging design problems. In the beginning, I had intended to make detailed drawings and mockups to establish dimensions and propor­ tions before building the actual prototypes. This goes against my usual practice. Normally I start with a fa irly firm idea, work out the joinery details hastily on paper, cut a practice joint, and then plunge right into building the piece. When it works, this method saves a great deal of time. When it fails, the results are disastrous. Each procedure must be done cor­ rectly the first time, and design changes must be anticipated in advance, or they will interfere with the already complet­ ed part of the project. Sometimes I'm stuck with a half­ completed piece of fu rniture and the prospect of having to start over again. For the grant project, I wanted to avoid this by doing drawings and mockups. Intentions may be noble, but bad habits die hard. As much as I tried, I kept reverting to my usual method. Somehow, fo r me, the design process has to involve this element of immediate risk. Either get it There 's no glu e and no screws in Erpelding's knockdown right the firsttime or blow the whole project. platfo rm bed: well-designed joinery keeps all the pieces in place. A router-cut dovetail joins each bed slat to the side rail. A dowel driven into the floorra il prevents the wedge Of the three projects, the platform bed, designed fo r a Jap­ fr om breaking the weak short-grain at the corner. anese furon mattress, most closely approaches my notion of a pure knockdown design because it is built without glue or Photos: Joseph Felzman Studio, except where noeed

44 metal fasteners. The rail-to-rail joint locks the parts and cir­ cumvents a troublesome characteristic of traditional bridle Fig. 1: Platform-bed joint joints: an increase in humid ity causes wood to expand across Slat dovetail (detail A) the grain, locking a tight-fitting . This is fine for fi ts pocket in rail. conventional fu rniture, but I had learned in earlier experi­ ments with bridle-joint construction that knockdown struc­ tures would freeze solid in the middle of a humid summer. To solve this problem, I modifiedthe bridle joint by tapering it (figure1). This joint tightens under load, yet because of its geometty, it easily loosens when force is applied in the oppo­ Dowel reinforces weak site direction. Simply wiggling one of the rails, or tapping short-grain. upward lightly, breaks the assembly. Ta pered fa ce modifies The tapered bridle joint wouldn't hold the pieces together bridle join t so that it by itself, so I added a wedge that fits into an angled notch in locks, yet knocks down · easily the floor rail. This wedge, which has a compound taper, locks the joint by forcing the side rail tightly against the side of the notch in the floor rail. The bed can be lifted and carried by the side rails, and the joint won't slip. I Cut most of the modified bridle joint on the radial-arm saw. To accommodate expansion, I cut both pans of the joint Compound-taper slightly wider than the thickness of the rails. The tapered face wedge Sla t dovetail and Cove iden tifies in the floor-rail part was surfaced with a router on an angled rail pocket taper so outsIde fa ce of wedge jig, and I fe athered all sharp edges of the joint with a chisel. that joint expands for quick assembly The round cap that protrudes from the top edge of the wi thout binding. floor rails is the end of a dowel, driven 4 in. into the rail. The dowel strengthens the weak short-grain, keeping the wedge Fig. 2: Tw o-way router jig for pocket dovetails from breaking it off. Ta ck 'notched Indexing stnp ; . In keeping with the solid-wood construction, I opted for Rabbet side rail to rail's back edge. before routing slats, rather than plywood, to support the mattress. The soft, cOtton futon mattress is used without a box spring, and tradi­ tionally it's unrolled right on the floor. The slats had to be thick enough and spaced closely to provide a firm platf orm for the futon, yet not so close as to interfere with ventilation. The obvious solution was to cut individual pockets in the side rails for the ends of each slat, while leaving enough space for the slats to expand without locking. I tapered both the sides of the pockets in the rails and the dovetails on the slats 150 so that the joint can swell without locking. I cut the joint with a I-in. dovetail bit in a router using a jig that cuts both the pockets and the dovetails (figure 2). To cut the slats, I used a router with a smaller-diameter base. Tiapezoidal fr ame' The skins at the head and fo ot of the bed are installed guides round router base to cut U-shaped pockets in after the bed is assembled but before the wedges are driven rail, above. Same fra me turned in. The ends of each skirt are stop-slotted and slip over splines on edge, below, guides router with a smaller base to cut matching slat in the side rails. The outside face of the skins is planed con­ ends. Straight '/2-in bit hogs waste, cave to match the radius on the ends of the rails. then I-in. dovetail bit cuts angles With the bed, I suppose, I drifted furthest from the grant In pockets and slats. requirement that my design prototype be manufacturable. I don't pretend for a moment that this bed could be easily manufactured-although with simpler joinery it could, con­ ceivably, be a production prototype.

While joinery was the major design fe ature of the knock­ down bed, this is not true of the three-legged stacking chairs. Here, most of the joinery is straightforward and expedient­ socket-head cap screws. I was aware of precedents to this design. Finnish designer Alvar Aalto made spiral-stacking, circular-seat chairs, and Rudd International manufactures a stacking chair (FWW #30, p. 34), but both designs have four legs and don't knock down. Hans Wegner designed a three-legged stacking chair, but it does not stack on the rotational principle. I felt that my

Drawings: David nann 45 A splined key joins the ends of Erpelding's chair-seat rim at the rear leg, above. The legs are fa stened to the rim with socket-head cap screws threaded into propeller nuts mounted in a reinforcing block inside the rim. Th e curved damping blocks of the chair-seat rim-bending fo rm, below, which fit inside the la minated rim when it's being glued up, are shown resting on the metal pins that align the la minates.

In these knockdown sp iral-stacking chairs, every piece was la mi­ nated and bent, then joined together with metal fa steners. design was different enough to justify pursuing. wood. Planing each laminate before glue-up kept sanding to The final chair design evolved after many paper incarna­ a minimum. I cut the laminates to a length just shy of the tions. I built a few models, but the mockups only frustrated outside circumference. After removing the glued-up rim fr om my thinking. So I put the chair project on the back burner, the fo rm, I slotted the break with a slotting cutter in a router, and returned to it nearly a year later, visualizing a circular seat and fitted the joint with a key where it joins at the rear leg. I rim with legs and back supports coming off at points of a glued an additional reinforcing piece across the joint inside the circumscribed hexagon. With an idea of what dimensions the rim. All of the rims have exactly the same outside diameter. chair would need to stack, I began building the bending I drilled the rims and installed propeller nuts (available fo rms. I guessed, and hoped the calculations were correct, but from Selby Furniture Hardware Co., 17 E. 22n d St., New I could perfect the design only by building the chair. York, N.Y. 10010) from the inside. Flat-head socket cap I bent the backrest by clamping Xs-in. ash laminates in a screws fasten the legs and back supports, which are also form­ cone-shaped form. The curve of the backrest tapers in radius bent laminations, to the rim. I put an emery-cloth spacer be­ from top to bottom to follow the bend in the upright back tween the rim and the legs to prevent slippage, and to serve supports. Since the human back also tapers from shoulder to as a shim so that the legs clear the seat rim of the chair waist, this makes a comfortable chair. underneath when the chairs are stacked. The outside diameter of every seat rim had to be identical, There were few aesthetic decisions in this chair's design. or at least within a Ya2-in. tolerance, or the chairs might not Having stated the problem-a three-legged, knockdown, stack. The rim could have been glued up around a circular stacking chair-the design evolved in a purely fu nctional and form and machined true later, but my shop isn't equipped to geometric way. Nearly all of the design decisions-the thick­ do this easily. Instead, I built a peripheral bending form, ness and width of the members, the radii of the bends, the clamping up the seat rim inside it with curved blocks on the choice of fasteners and seat cushion-were arrived at as the inside surface of the rim. Metal rods projecting from the bot­ simplest solution to the stated problem. tom position the laminates in the same plane during glue-up. To ensure color and grain continuiry in the set of chairs, I cut The third prototype, a leaning shelf system, was a rework­ the outside laminate of each rim fr om the same piece of ing of an earlier design inspired by Italian designer Vico Ma-

46 A wedge joint holds the shelves together. Th e compound taper of the wedge in a dado fo rms a sliding dovetail and locks tight.

2. As stub tenon enters vertical slot. stopped half-dovetail fits housing in upnght. 1. Keyhole fits over dovetailed dowel, then brace slides sideways to lock.

Dovetailed Slot 3. We dge dowe�1 ��t---=::::::::::::� Gelocks assembly1J

Plunge router with Knockdown leaning shelves are supported by both the walland dovetail bit cuts the flo or. The horizontal braces under the shelves add strength keyholed pocket. and allow a longer shelf sp an. gistretti. With minimal material and no bracing, the bookcase neath the shelf with a keyholed-pocket dovetail. Dovetailed is very sturdy because weight is distributed between wall and dowels are driven into the edge of the brace, and dovetail floor. The design eliminates the need for shimming or fasten­ slots are CUt into the bottom of the shelf with a plunge router. ing where floors slope, and the piece lends itself well to The dowels enter the slot in the hole where the router bit was knockdown design. plunged in. The assembly locks tight when the brace is slid I had originally intended to use metal hardware-a bolt toward one end. A stub tenon on each end of the brace fits passed through the upright standard and threaded into a nut into a slot cut into the upright. embedded in the end of the shelf. While doodling, however, I I am just now entering the third phase of the grant-re­ came up with the wedge joint which, because it involves searching the possibility of mass-producing the protorypes. wood alone, fit my design philosophy more neatly. At first I Although I received only a one-year grant, I spent more than used a wedge with a narrow tongue on the top edge which twO years, on and off, working on the prototypes, and I am slid into a groove in the upright, but now I use a simpler by no means finished with revisions. joint. I've replaced the with a compound­ To make an object is to arrange components into a new taper wedge that acts like a sliding dovetail (figure3). system. The assembly of parts can be final, the intersections To cut the edges of the dovetailed dadoes in the standards, fixed with glue, or it can be temporary-knockdown design. I used a router with a I-in. dia. dovetail bit, after wasting the For me, the intersection of the components, the joinery, de­ material between with a 'l;;-in. straight bit. A router-cut dove­ fines the form-not the other way around. Form is significant tail pocket on the underside of the shelf end fits into the only insofar as it is incorporated into the structural integrity of dovetail-shaped bottom edge of the dado. the whole. The knockdown approach focuses on the relation­ The horizontal braces under the shelves add strength and ships between the structure's components, and adds a new make a longer unsupported span possible (for 'X-in. shelving, dimension to form-reconstructabiliry. 0 30 in. is about maximum before sagging occurs under load). The braces also stiffen the assembly against racking, act as a Curtis Erpelding is a professional woodworker and design­ stop for books on the shelf below, and center each shelf with er in Seattle, Wash. He wrote about making slip joints respect to the upright standards. The brace attaches under- with the radial-arm saw in FWW #32. 47 I tested all the commercially made doweling jigs I could DowelingJigs find, nine of them, by making as many diffe rent joints as I could with each. I used !Is-in. thick,3-in. by 12-in. poplar Putting nine to the test boards, factOry-made birch dowels (both fluted and spiral-I fo und no obvious advantage to either rype) , brad-point bits and yellow glue. I evaluated each jig fo r accuracy, versatility, by David Sloan ease of operation and quality of construction. In addition to the jigs, I tested a dowel-former-a X-in. thick, hardened steel plate that produces a crude, but fu nc­ tional, dowel when you bang an oversize piece of wood hen you're starting out in woodworking, the dowel through the appropriate hole (X-in., �6-in., o/s-in. or �-in.). seems like the perfect answer to every joinery ptOblem. This $15 tOol could be handy if you run out of dowels in the DrillW a couple of holes, dribble in some glue and bang in middle of a job, or want dowels made of your primary wood. those little wooden nails. If the dowels and holes don't quite I also tried dowel-centers-metal plugs with a point on one line up, a little muscular persuasion will put things right. And end. These are great for curved work that doweling jigs can't if the surfaces aren't exactly in the same plane, the belt-sander handle, and they also work well on flat stOck. You drill a offers a quick remedy. hole, insert the right-size plug and press the piece you want to Before long, however, the aspiring woodworker will learn join against the point, which leaves a nice clear center mark that dowels won't do everything. They are mostly worthless for the other hole. You may seldom need a dowel-center, but where there is much cross-grain wood movement, or any they're cheap enough ($4.50) to keep on hand. amount of racking stress, as in chairs. Sure, dowels work well when glued into end grain, because the dowel's fibers line up, Mter Bnishingmy tests, I had several favorites. The Dowl­ and move, right along with those of the main board. Dowels it # 1000 was hard to beat fo r speed and convenience on edge are also great for aligning edge-glued joints where long grain or end joints, and the Dowel-Master and Dowel Magic were is being mated to long grain, and they keep things fr om slid­ really fast on corner joints. These jigs center autOmat ically-1 ing around while you're clamping. They're good for quick like that. Most times I want a dowel on center, and fo r the frame joints or fo r lightly stressed rail-tO-leg joints, and they few times I don't, I can use a shim to nudge the Dowl-it off­ work fine in stable, man-made boards. But in most applica­ center. With the Dowl-it and either of these other twO, there tions, to get the best results with dowels, you need some kind aren't many jobs I couldn't tackle. But if I could have only of jig to get the holes lined up and square. one jig, I'd buy the Record. It takes a long time to set up, The various doweling jigs on the market are designed to do and its loose bushings are easy to lose, but no other jig can just that: guide a drill to make accurate, perpendicular holes make as many different joints. in the edge, end or face of a board. Most also provide a way to drill mating holes in twO boards. A fe w jigs can make only David Sloan is an assistant editor at Fine Woodworking. one rype of joint, others can make several, and some are ex­ For more information about dowel joints, see FWW # 7, tremely versatile. Deciding which one to buy can be tOugh. pp . 46-49, and #21, pp . 68-Each 72.jig will make the joinlJ Jhown in white. Dowel Dowl-it Sugg. sizes #1000 price 'A Sf'6' $27.95 31; '/2' "V'6.

Dowl-it Model #1000-The Dowl-it one side of the wood. jig I gOt didn't look like the one pic­ To use the # 1000, you first mark the tured in the mail-order catalog-the giz­ board where you want dowels, then line mo I remembered fr om junior high up the jig's index marks with your pen­ school shop. The manufacturer says it's cil lines. You have to read these marks "improved." I'm usually skeptical of through a slot, which is difficult with "improvements" (translation: cut man­ overhead light, but this was the only de­ ufacturing costs and, most of the time, sign flaw I fo und. quality), but this time I was pleasantly Of the nine jigs tested, the Dowl-it surprised. The American-made Dowl-it # 1000 was the handiest and most accu­ is a durable tOol of nicely machined steel rate for edge- or end-doweling, and it's and extruded aluminum. The hardened­ the only one that can be conveniently steel drill guide has five holes (X-in. to used on round or odd-shaped stOck. �-in.), with sizes clearly stamped into I didn 't test the Dowl-it #2000, the metal. There are no loose parts to which is basically the same as the lose and no extra clamps required . A # 1000 except fo r six screw-in bushings large T-handled center screw clamps the that allow you to drill twO identical exttusions around boards up to 2�6 in. holes parallel to each other, without thick, and centers the drill guide autO­ moving the jig. It's easy enough to do matically and accurately. You can drill this by moving the # 1000, and besides, 48 holes off-center by putting a spacer on who needs those loose bushings? Dowel Dowl-it Sugg sizes #4000 price IA. 5/,6. $72.95 %. V2 . 5!e. %. 1

Dowl-it #4000-Weighing just under longer rods. It was the only jig tested 41b., this behemoth was, at $72.95, that could accommodate :X-in. and I-in. the most expensive jig tested. Like the dia. . # 1000, its quality is high. Two clamp­ Alignment marks incised on the jig ing heads and a steel guide slide are easy to read on wide stock, but on on two rods. A T-handled screw then narrow stock, parts get in the way. No tightens the heads. There are seven drill instructions came with my jig, and it sizes (X-in. to I-in.), the three smallest doesn't center automatically, but the in the fo rm of pairs of threaded bush­ thing I like least about this one is that ings that enable you to drill two identi­ you need an Allen wrench (not sup­ cal holes without moving the jig. The plied) to make all the adjustments. four larger drill sizes are permanent holes. Knurled screws, which could be finger­ Unless you improvise with spacer turned, would be a great improvement. blocks, the #4000 will drill holes only This jig is hard to beat for drilling in the face of a board, or in the edge or holes on the face of a board or a beam, end of boards thicker than 1� in . It can but for most cabinet-scale work, it's just drill anywhere on the face of a board as too massive. If you work with large, wide as 12 in., and wider if you add thick stock, this may be the jig for you.

Dowel Disston Sugg. sizes Dowel Magic price ',4 $11.40 5/, � . (lA-in ) %

Dowel Wolfcraft Sugg. sizes Dowel-Master price IA $19.95 5/, �. %

edge-to-face corner or "T" joints, a job it does quickly and well. It can handle stock of unlimited width, up to IX in. thick. You place the jig posts astride the board's edge, which automatically cen­ ters the hole, and drill. The indexing marks don't work for edge-drilling, so you have to eyeball the location, which I found fairly easy to do. Then you slide the jig along the edge to drill more holes. Next you put dowels in the holes and clamp the mating board flat on top of the first. When you invert the jig, its slotted fence fits over those dowels to locate the holes on the face of the sec­ ond board. I tried both the X-in. Disston and the %-in. Coastal. Base sections that were - solid plastic on the Coastal were ribbed Disston Dowel Magie This plastic or hollow on the Disston, but this was built. Unlike the Dowel Magic, one size contraption, imported from West Ger­ the only difference I found, and it didn't jig can drill all three hole sizes (X-in., many, drills only one size hole. You seem to affect performance. :Xs-in. and %-in.). It's also more dura­ must buy a separate jig to change dowel I wasn't thrilled about the plastic ble-aluminum extrusions, with steel sizes. At $11.40 for the X-in. model, it construction, but it keeps the cost down, drill guides. It uses dowels in the edge was the least expensive jig tested. The and I don't think metal would work any of one board to locate holes in the face same jig is sold under the Coastal label. better. The drill was a sloppy fit in the of the second board, and it's limited to Two plastic posts protrude from the guide bushing. The square nuts that corner joints or "T" joints. square face of the jig, flanking a steel held the fence fell off and gOt lost. My only complaint: When I flipped drill-guide bushing. A pair of machine the jig to drill the second board, I had to screws with nuts clamp a sliding plastic Wo lfcraft Dowel-Master-Similar to reset the depth gauge on my drill. Other fence to the base. the Dowel Magic in design and oper­ than that, the jig performed well and The Dowel Magic makes only 90° ation, this German-made jig is vety well was convenient to use. (continued on next page) 49 Dowel Disston Sugg. sizes Doweling Jig price \4 Clamps $27.30 s/ 3fa1�'

clamps, but the jig clamps' 2:X-in. throat capacity couldn't grab my 4-in, thick benchtop. It was easy to line up the jig's indexing marks with my pencil lines on the face and edge of the boards, so I got the holes exactly where I want­ ed. The clamps held the boards firmly fo r drilling, but the drill was sloppy in the guide bushing, I also found it te­ dious to unclamp, move and reclamp. When I drilled the X-in. holes, I dis­ covered that they were way off-center: Ysin. from one edge and X in. from the other edge of my Ys-in. thick board. There is no way to remedy this. The X6-in. and o/s-in. holes were slightly bet­ ter-:X6 in. from one edge. This doesn't affea the alignment, but the dowels are toO close to the outside corner. Disston Doweling Jig Clamps-This To use the jig, you set up the boards Dissron's jig (also sold under the German-made, die-cast aluminum jig with one clamp at each end, drill a hole Coastal brand for $1 9.95) comes in a consists of two clamps: one with steel in each board, loosen the clamp with the box marked "best," while their Dowel drill guides (X-in., X6-in. and o/s-in.), drill guides, move it, retighten it and Magic is marked "better," but I found and one without. The clamps are used drill twO more holes, and repeat for each the latter more useful and a better buy. to hold one board flat on the benchtop pair of holes. When you get to the Although the Doweling Jig Clamps and the other board on edge at 90°, board's other end, you have to switch made a joint with good alignment, they This jig can make only a 90° corner the clamps to drill the last set of holes. were inconvenient to use and will prob­ joint, in stock up to lX6 in. thick. I liked not having to set up extra ably end up gathering dust in my shop.

Dowel HIT Products Sugg. sizes Precision price 3/16 \4 Doweling Jig $25.95 5/1 6: 3/8'

where you want the hole. Once the arm is set, you lock it with a wing nut, drill one hole, loosen the wing nut, swing the arm over the other board, and repeat the procedure. All the holes are the same distance from the edge of the board, though not necessarily on-center. The jig reaches to the center of a IX-in. thick board; thicker stock can be doweled, but with holes off-center. It took a long time to set up this jig, and using it wasn't easy. I needed a vise, a clamp, a wooden "T" spacer block (supplied with the jig), a �6-in, wrench to change bushings, scrap pieces, and four hands-the "T" block kept falling out whenever I tried to clamp the two boards in the vise, I finally got all my holes drilled, but despite careful re­ checking, the alignment was off by X6 in, I blame the wing nut, which is HIT Products Precision Doweling the bottom of the jig. An aluminum supposed to lock the arm ti ght. It Jig-This aluminum and steel jig is radi­ arm, which holds a steel drill-guide doesn't, so the arm wobbles around cally different from any other jig on the bushing (:X6-in., X-in., X6-in. and o/s-in. when you're drilling. I was intrigued by market. The two boards to be doweled bushings are supplied), swings from side this jig's design, and impressed by the are clamped edge-up, one on each side to side over the edges. You adjust a bolt quality of construction, bur in use it was of the X-in, thick aluminum vane on on each side of the jig to stop the arm a big disappointment,

50 Dowel Stanley Sugg. sizes No. 59 price 3/16, 14, $44.45 5/16, 3Ja, r16, V2

Dowel General Sugg. sizes No. 840 price 3/16, K $24.95 5/16, %, r16, V2 gauge is a piece of tape wrapped around the drill bit). This jig doesn't center automatically. To center a hole, you line up a mark for your bushing size on the graduated scale (which is accurate), then lock it with a thumbscrew, The American-made No. 59 was easy to set up and performed well-one of the better ones. I liked it best for drilling a series of holes for a mortise, But the loose bushings and lack of a self-center­ ing feature dampened my enthusiasm.

General No. 840-Also sold by Sears under the Craftsman brand ($21.49), this die-cast aluminum jig seems to be an artempt to improve upon the Stanley No. 59. It has a revolving turret with six drill-guide holes (7is-in. to �-in.), instead of Stanley'S loose bushings, The turret clicks in place to index the desired ness. The scale is accurate, and I had no hole, Like the Stanley, this jig fastens on trouble using it. Stanley No. 59 -This well-made, die­ the edge or end of a board with an inte­ This jig was easy to work with. No cast metal jig has a built-in screw that gral clamp. The carriage slides on two extra clamps are needed to set up, and clamps on stock up to 2% in., and a steel rods to locate holes on-or off­ there are no loose drill guides to lose. sliding guide-bushing holder that can be center. You can drill the edge, end or It's well made, but the turret has about set anywhere on the board, The jig face of stock up to 4% in, thick. Ya2 in. of play. Surprisingly, this didn't comes with six loose guide bushings The General is not self-centering. A seem to cause any major alignment (7is-in. to �-in.), which fitone at a time measurement scale on one of the steel problems. The depth gauge that comes in the holder, and a useless, one-size­ rods lets you locate the center of the hole with the jig is worthless-it's clumsy and fits-all depth gauge (my favorite depth once you've measured the board thick- it doesn't fit small drills properly.

Dowel Record Sugg. sizes No. 148 price 14 5/16 $59.90 3/8 10',mm Sm'm. Record No. 148-This British-made make it easy. Except for the steel rods jig is a complicated-looking device: Two and screws, the jig is made of painted, 6-in. polished steel rods hold a station­ die-cast metal. ary reference head at one end and a slid­ The illustrated manual has good, clear ing head at the other. Between the instructions, in four languages. I had no heads, two drill-guide bushing carriers trouble using the jig, but I found set-up slide back and fo rth. You clamp a to be time-consuming, and there were board between the heads and move the loose bushings-my only complaints. carriers to locate the holes. Five bushing Equipped with the IS-in. rods, the sizes are supplied: X-in., :Xs-in.(6mm), Record is the most versatile of the jigs %-in., Smm and lOmm. The basic jig tested, but it can't handle round stock. will dowel boards up to 6% in. wide, It performed well, though it could stand but optional rods are available, in two some improvement. The play in the lengths, that will extend the capacity to bushing-carrier assemblies, for example, 12X in. and ISX in., respectively. could be eliminated if these were ma­ There are lots of adjustments, but chined instead of cast and painted. knurled screws, some of which are slot­ Some of the other jigs are faster and ted, so you can tighten them with your easier to use, but if you want one that fingers or with a coin or a screwdriver, does it all, this is the one to buy. 0

51 Boston Botnbe Chest Bulging drawer fronts are all shaped at once

by Lance Patter son

ore than 50 pieces of American bombe fu rniture made id wood. I think the magnificent grain patterns of this shaped in the last half of the 18th century still exist. Surpris­ mahogany are a major attribute of Boston fu rniture. The ingly,M all were built in or around Boston. The kettle-shaped bombe fo rm, I believe, also shows the enthusiasm that bombe fo rm (the term is derived from the French word for 18th-century cabinetmakers must have fe lt when wide, clear bulge) is characterized by the swelling of the lower half of the mahogany first became available to them. carcase ends and front, with the swell returning to a normal­ There was also an evolution in the treatment of the case's size base. This shape is, I think, directly related to English inside surfaces and, consequently, in the shape of the drawers. pieces such as the Apthorp chest-on-chest, which was impon­ On the earlier pieces, the case ends are not hollowed our and ed to Boston before 1758 and is now at that ciry's Museum the drawer sides are vertical. Some transition pieces have of Fine Arts. Bombe was popular in England for only 10 to lipped drawer fronts, the lip fo llowing the curve of the case. 12 years, but remained the vogue in Boston for nearly 60 years. The fully evolved form has hollowed-out ends and drawers In America, the carcase ends were always shaped from with sides shaped to follow the ends. Some of the later pieces thick, solid planks of mahogany. In Europe, the ballooning have serpentine drawer fro nts. case ends were most often coopered-3-in. to 4-in. pieces of I will describe how I built a small bombe chest with four wood were sawn to shape, glued up, contoured and then ve­ shaped drawers, ball-and-claw fe et and a serpentine front. I neered. Instead of veneering, the Americans worked with sol- didn't take step-by-step photos while building, so I'll have to

Patterson's bombe chest, based on an 18th-century design, has fo ur dovetailed drawers and balt-and-claw feet. Side view, right, shows shape of serpentine /ront.

52 Photos chis page: Lance Patterson Fig. 1: Patterson's plans for a Boston bombe chest I C/l - - � - - BILL OFMATERlALS � � : ;; Rough Dimensions Finished Dimensions D Description Amt. T W L Amt. T W ___L p A � Cau------Drawer II / / h ,I Top I 20Y. 39Y, 1 % 190/. 38Y, r Front 1 12/4 6� 38 � % 50/.� 330/, ' � I:: I Bottom 7 10/. 3 360/. 1 1 Y,19Y. 350/. Sides 2 0/,: 50/. 17 Y, 50/,16% : 2 12/4 20Y,25 1 5 34 Y, 40/. 330/,:! :1 Ends 2 % 20 24Y, :Back 0/,: ; ;�: �;�� I ;�---�fcr� : : Rail I 1 1 4 38 1 '1{.3Y, 34 Bottom 1 0/, 17Y. 34 0/, 160/. 33 :1 1 1 4 38 1 ' 'I Rail H '1{. 3Y, 35 Drawer III : Rail III 1 1 4 38 1 '1{. 3Y, 38 Front 1 12/4 7 38 1 1 6Y, 360/, :1 Drawer runners I 2 4/4 2 150/, 2 '1{. 10/. 14% Sides 2 4/4 6Y, 19 2 0/, 6Y, 180/, Drawer runners 1I 2 4/4 2 16 2 '1{. 10/. 15Y, Back 1 0/, 5Y, 37 1 Y,5Y, 360/, I :1 ,I Drawer runners III 2 4/4 2 17Y, 2 '1{. 10/. 17 Bottom 1 0/, 180/.37 1 0/, 18Y. 36 I' :1 2 4/4 3Y,19Y, 2 0/. 3 19 ------I Runner supporrs Drawer IV :1 Feet with one ear2 12/4 8 16 4 2% 7 7Y, Front 1 12/4 8 38 1 lY.. 70/. 36Y.. I :1 Ears 1 12/4 4 14 4 2% 3% 2Y, Sides 2 5/4 7Y, 19 2 1 7 180/, 11 :1 Backboards 3 60/. 38 3 0/, 6Y. 37Y, 1 6 37 1 Y, 50/, 360/, I :1 0/, Back 0/, I Back cleat strips-- --4 0/, ---- 2 -- 38 4 0/,-- lY,______37Y,__ Bottom 1 0/, 16Y, 32 1 0/, 16Y, 31 Y, : I Drawer 1------I1 All measutements include length of tenons and dovetails. :1 Front 1 12/4 4Y. 38 1 % 3% 32Y. I 2 0/, 4Y. 17 2 16Y. : Sides Y, 3% :1 Baclc 1 0/, 4 33 1 Y, 30/, 32Y. :1 Bottom 1 0/, 16Y, 32 1 0/, 16Y, 310/, ______I :1 ------Plan view section B e c ti O L ____ J I ---�I�;��� � ---;�------t -r1- Tl:1 1: I 0 1 Sweep of rail I ----. I, 'I __ ------...... �-h:1 '-___ L �fj -__-----? :I Sweep of rail III ]...,.1 Sweep of rail II

Outline for template Housed tapered dovetail , in Fig. '3C , Drawer I ,1 Detail A: Rail and Rail I : I: drawer runner : A = ) � l1l:Fi"[:-�-:--='=':� � ��- ��==� ��---� -::-::-:: = = Drawer--.f----v'I � -:: stop ---Drawer­ I: runner , I' I I r :f,,(':, ,:r �---==ir1i support /' Drawer II Ii I It LJ 1 Ripping angle , for drawer front I:': r. I I: I 1 : Screw slot - - - I L. .-�1 ��' :�:J------� ��������- --���======�------= Fla t field aligns : - l Rail II "'I rt Ta il is parallel I�i t J :1 with case end. ! elL to � 'i ) : long edge of board to minimize short-grain . I d I Drawer III �: : / 'L: �i, :I iPPing angle � , or drawer front � r i'ji I :.::..� �o Cock beading \ Drawer ' I . :'�;\ ��;\,---i� iDrawer��""�-blankc:' -c�:: �� �=oo�.�.���'_"'''�: \'\\ \ outline stop J,::;';II : -l , It Drawer IV \ R' Ipplng angle :i : \ ,: \ for drawer front I'' r': I': , \\ Mortise and tenon ' , \ y-. � r----,I I , ,

Front elevation End elevation

Plan is based on fo ur existing 18th-century bomM 2 3 4 5 6 chests. Th ree of the ori ginals are at the Museum I I I I of Fine Arts in 80S ton, the Rhode Island School of Scale in inches Design and the museum at Win terthur, and one was privately acquired through Israel Sack & Sons. Grain direction C/l

53 Don Burkey rail height should equal the height of the next lower drawer. The wood for my chest was a 12/4 plank of South Ameri­ can mahogany, 12 ft . by 22 in., and a 4/4 mahogany board, 40 in. by 21 in., with secondary parts of poplar. For effective use of grain, the symmetry of the ends and the continuiry of the front are the most important considerations. I laid out the ends book-fashion, with the bulge toward the wider annual­ ring pattern (figure 2). Either face of the plank can be used as the outside; both elliptical and hyperbolic annual-ring pat­ terns are beautiful. I chose the bark side of the plank, pro­ ducing a hyperbolic pattern at the bulge, as shown in the photo at left. De Rham's desk shows the characteristic ellipti­ cal pattern of the heart face, best seen in the photo on p. 56. To avoid conflict between the long grain and the cross grain around the case, and to eliminate applied moldings, I departed from traditional construction. I used a thick mahog­ any bottom with the base molding cut into it. Thus the end -""" Vivid grain patterns are exposed when thick mahogany is base molding is end grain, but so is the molding on the top's shaped. Making the board's bark side convex yields a hyperbolic end, and there's a lot of end grain in the serpentine front figure, as in the author's chest, above; cutting into the other side molding as well. I especially like end-grain molding. produces elliptical patterns, shown in the photo on p. 56. To shape the chest, first rough-sawall the parts according to illustrate some operations with photos of Jerry de Rham the rough stock list on p. 53. Note that the final dimensions building his bomb e desk at Boston's North Bennet Street differ considerably in many cases, but the parts should be cut School, where I teach. His version is of the basic bombe form: oversize to ensure that they can be shaped with the setups the front is not serpentine, but bulges to match the ends. shown in figure 3. Next, rip the front pieces for the three It's unclear how early cabinetmakers made the shaped lower drawers at the angles shown on the side-elevation draw­ drawers, but it probably was done by trial and error, then ing in figure 1 so that they can be canted to provide the angle blocks and patterns were made for future reference. necessary thickness for the serpentine shape. Mark out the There are graphic methods for figuring the angles, and math­ rails from the centerline and bandsaw them to shape. ematical methods are quick and accurate, too, as explained in I shaped the front as a unit, the method I recommend for the box on p. 57. The same techniques can be applied when any serpentine or oxbow casework. Mount the drawer fronts designing anything with canted sides and ends, such as a cra­ and rails on the benchtop jig shown in figure 3A, made with dle, dough box, or splayed-joint stool or table. twO 2-in. wide supportS cut to match the rail and drawer­ front profile. I tack-glued the parts to each other at the ends The ftrststep inany project of this scope is to make full­ and added two bar clamps for support during shaping. size orthographic drawings, primarily to facilitate making pat­ Using the full-size patterns, trace profile shapes on all four terns for shaped partS. This also helps you work out joinery edges of the assembly. These lines, with the bands awn rails, dimensions, and preview the actual size and look of the piece. are your guides for the compound curves. With a large, shal­ In developing drawings, I like to gather information from all low gouge, I first roughed out the concave areas and then the the sources I can find.I know of four original chests similar to flat fields at the ends. Now to the profilelines, mine-one was privately acquired through Israel Sack & Sons, using a square from the end surface to check the front. I used and the others are at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the a bandsawn three-dimensional pattern, shown in figure 3C, to Rhode Island School of Design, and Winterthur. Measured draw the line of the corner in to where the flat fields meet the drawings of the chest at RISD can be found in Masterpieces serpentine shape. The rest of the front was shaped from this of Furniture by v.c. Salmonsky (Dover Publications). After line. I did most of the gouge work across the grain, following building the chest, I revised my drawing by adding 1:; in. to up with , cutting fr om high to low in various the bottom drawer height. Because this drawer recedes from directions. I sawed an inch off the handle of my No. 15 1 the common viewing angles, it appears narrower than it is. round-bottom spokeshave to reach all the concavities. Usually I fo llow the rule of thumb that drawer height plus The front should be symmetrical and free of lumps,

Fig. 2: Plank-cutting diagram

� --- -...... � - Two pieces of bottom Five pieces of bottom "- Foot Foot Rail II � Drawer front III End End Drawer front I Ears '" 1 ! Center of annual rings Rail III � ' Drawer front IV Foot Foot Rail I Drawer front II

Mosti'- of the major parts were cut from a 12/4 South American mahogany plank, 12 ft. by 22 in . The case ends were laid out book-fashion with the bulge toward the wider annual ring pattern.

54 Fig. 3: Shaping the curves A: Contouring the front A bench top jig positions all the drawer fronts and rails together so that they can be shaped as a unit. Th e drawer fronts shown here are in various stages of completion. Th e two supports are cut to con­ form to the slope of the backs of the drawer blanks, shown in Fig. 1, and are notched to receive the rails. Rails, bandsawn to shape ------;;;",L-----::7 and aligned along centerline, act as depth gauges for Areas marked with shaping drawer fronts. an X will be removed when ends are bandsawn to shape. �Clamp. Spot-glue at ends ---� � ------and clamp.

Support jig, 2 in. wide Trace edge profiles from full-size templa tes.

B: Shaping the ends C: Matching the curves Carcase ends are rough-shaped by making tablesaw cuts every 2 in . about !4 in . short of the profile lines traced on the edges. These parallel Three-dimensional pattern, bandsawn to match chest outline in Fig. 1, sawcuts allow the waste to be removed quickly with a wide chisel. The allows you to draw a fairly accurate pencil line over the contoured sur­ contours are smoothed with planes, spokeshave and scraper fa ce to define the corner where the case ends meet the front. 1. Saw. 2. Chisel. 3. PlIane. 4. Smooth.I I t Plane flat area Trace pattern on to make tenon. carcase end; cut to line.

smoothly curved in all directions, The final scraping and ad­ side of the half-dovetail with my because I justing of the field lines can't be done until the case and don't have a dovetail plane that will taper the angled side, as drawers have been assembled, yet before the cock beading is is usually done. Othetwise I used traditional methods of saw­ carved. The gouge work goes quickly and is fu n. It's impor­ ing, wasting with a chisel, and cleaning up with a router tant to stay relaxed, and I try to keep a rhythm to my mallet plane. When drawn home, these joints establish the width of blows. Hollow the backs of the drawer fronts individually, the case, and thus locate the mortises in the base. but leave enough flat area at both ends to pass each piece I made the case bottom from seven pieces, 36% in. by 3 in. over the tablesaw, to mark out the dovetails, and to check for by 1% in., ripped from waste sections of the plank. The thick­ any movement after shaping. If there is any winding or other ness lets you shape the base itself, rather than having to use movement, first plane it out of the back of the drawer fro nt, applied moldings. The moldings on the top and base are cut on thus making a reference surface for correcting edges and ends. a spindle shaper, as are the in the ends . I grind my own Now put the front assembly aside, and turn to the case cutters. Nine tenons join each end to the base, allowing a lot of ends. Cut them to their finished width of 20 in., but leave grain to run through to the molded edge. There is a short-grain the length and thickness rough. With the flat patterns, trace problem inside the case ends between the tenons, so leave extra the shape of the long-grain edges. Rough out the contours by wood here until after glue-up to prevent a crum bled edge. making tablesaw cuts about every 2 in., as in figure 3B. I Rails on 18th-century Boston cases are typically 4 in. to stopped the cutS about X in. away from the profile line to 6 in. wide, with secondary wood often joined to the primary allow for the inevitable movement: the top of my ends wood. I think that 31:; in. to 4 in. is wide enough to keep the cupped outward, though I suspect that the bulge prevented rails straight. Assemble the case dry, position the rails (align­ significant cupping at the bottom. The sawcuts allow the ing the center marks), and cut them to length. Slide the rails bulk of the waste to be chiseled away quickly, after which it's in on the stub tenons, scribe the stepped dovetails and cut the best to let the wood settle for a couple of days. Then plane mortises for the tunners in the rails (figure 1, detail A). The the inside areas near the top and bottom edges flat and paral­ case is ready to be glued up. To avoid friction between paral­ lel, and retrace the pattern. Now scrub-plane across the grain lel edges, the dovetails joining the top and ends must be slid down to the line, and finish up with smooth plane and in individually before the rails and base are added. spokeshaves. Place the three-dimensional pattern over the Glue blocks or screws usually support the tunners in contour and trace the profile of the long edges. Bandsaw the bombe cases. To provide support while allowing movement, I ends to shape, and true up the top and bottom edges. used a vertical strip of poplar, notched to support each run­ ner, at the back of the chest. Stub tenons hook these two To join the case, first attach the ends to the top with housed vertical supports to the base, and screws through slots hold tapered dovetails. When fitting the joint, I tapered the square them at the top. The runners are screwed to the case ends

Drawingthis page: Ue Hoy 55 through slots at the back. tal boards with overlapping rabbets. The narrow boards are De Rham used oak supports screwed into the rabbets at the case ends, but the wide boards and fastened them both top are free-floating and can move. and bottom with screws, as The grain runs vertically in the feet and their ears. I band­ shown in the photo at right. sawed each foot with one ear as part of it and the other ear I didn't glue the runner ten­ applied. This uses a little more wood, but it eliminates half ons in until later, after some the glue joints, and the grain match, of course, is perfect. finish had been applied to The feet are stub-tenoned to the base, and I put a screw the inside of the case. through a sloppy hole in each ear into the base. The fe et are carved as large as possible in the 12/4 pieces. (For an Bevel dovetails are needed article on how to carve ball-and-claw feet, see FWW # 10, for the lower three drawers, pp. 58-59.) The side toes are angled slightly fotward, but the since both their sides and tips of the claw extend to the diagonals of the square blank. I fronts are angled. As dis­ also keep the knuckles of the rear, side and fr ont toes differ­ cussed in the box on the fac­ ent distances from the floor, to avoid a box-like appearance. ing page, cut the drawer The bones of each toe get progressively longer as you go back parts to length at the proper from the , and the number of knuckles is anatomically - end and bevel angles, and Notched vertical members sup correct. The ball itself and the claws are smooth, but I left port drawer runners at back. then before shaping the draw- tool marks on the rest of the fo ot up to the ankle. The case er sides, cut the dovetails. Next, to fit each drawer front into is designed so that the line formed where the flat field ends the case, position it over its opening and scribe the curve of and the serpentine shape begins runs across the base mold­ the case ends onto the dovetail pins from inside the case. ing and around the transition as a miter corner, and ends at Trim the pins to the scribe line to get the drawer front started the point representing the fe tlock. I think knee carving suits in the opening and to check the fit. Then trim the rest of the this design if the mahogany is highly figured. But if the drawer front to the pins. The grooves for the drawer bottoms wood is straight-grained, as mine was, then a less fa ncy sryle are cut on the shaper wherever possible; the rest is done by is better. hand. Assemble the drawers and plane the drawer sides down Bombe chests deserve the best traditionally made hard­ to the curve of the drawer-front ends. The drawer bottoms ware: I spent more money for the hardware than for the lum­ are solid wood, with the grain running from side to side and ber. My thin cast brasses with separate posts are from Ball three sides beveled from underneath to fit the grooves. and Ball, 436 W. Lincoln Highway, Exton, Pa. 1934l. I With the case on its back, block up the drawers flush with shaped a pine block to help bend the plates. To seat the posts the rails. I established the line of the corner between the flat properly, I drilled post holes perpendicular to the tangent of fields and the serpentine shape by running a along the curve, then I adjusted the bails to fit the posts. I used #0 the curve of the ends. Scrape the entire front to smooth all the by X-in. round-head brass screws to attach the keyhole es­ contours, taking care to leave the flat fields at a uniform cutcheons, so they are easily removable. All the locks needed width that is crisp and clean. Then, after removing the draw­ lYsin . to the selvage. I used a slant-top desk lock on the ers, use a scratch stock to make most of the cock beading on lowest drawer and made strike plates for all the locks. the rails and the case ends. The scratch stock will have to To finish the chest, I gave it one very thin wash coat of be adjusted for the middle rail, because of the angle of its orange shellac, to set up the grain for its final sanding, then face. The beading at the corners is carved. used boiled linseed oil. If applied in very thin, hand-rubbed The back of the chest is made of wide and narrow horizon- coats, linseed displays the grain with depth, clariry and warmth. I don't thin oil greatly with turpentine (never more than 1 part rurpentine to 20 parts oil), nor do I apply soaking coats. I don't think these methods significantly increase pene­ tration, and I suspect that not all of the oil oxidizes, so you risk bleed-out problems. I do add a little Japan drier. I store my oil in a colored glass bottle placed in direct sunlight-I think this helps polymerization and drying. It is most impor­ tant to apply the oil in the thinnest layers possible and to give it adequate time to oxidize between coats. Each coat should be rubbed hard to build up enough heat to force the oil into the pores and to level the surface. Carvings and moldings should be brushed vigorously to remove excess oil. Instead of waxing, I prefer to build up the oil slowly to a high gloss. Like most 18th-century furniture, each Boston bombe piece is a complete design in itself, independent of its envi­ ronment. It has character and warmth which are a joy to live with. Its shape continually invites you to run your hand over its curves, or even to tickle its carved feet. 0 Jerry de Rham, a student at North Bennet Street School, scrapes his desk fr ont smooth. Note the alternate traditional design-the Lance Patterson is a cabinetmaker and shop instructor at fr ont is not serpentine, but matches the curve of the sides. the North Bennet Street School in Boston, Mass.

56 Phocos this page: Brad Mayo The ends of hopper pieces are cut at How to makesl ope-sided boxes compound angles by tilting the saw­ blade and setting the miter gauge. You Plans for slope-sided boxes, such as the Plan view can use trigonometry to calculate the drawers in the bombe chest on p. 52, tangents of the angles, then from the aren't in the perspective we're used to. In tangents set a bevel gauge with which to a from-elevation drawing, the from set the saw, as follows. measures less than its true height be­ cause it is tilted out of the plane of the � /' Here's the math Side drawing. Here is a method for reading tilted plans, laying the pieces out, and Front � setting the tablesaw to cut the elusive angles involved. In this particular hop­ � per, the front and the back could be cut /' � with the same saw settings, but for dar­ Tr ue length of top edge ity, let's consider just the front. L ---.J I Front elevation -l

L- True length of ---1- I � bottom edge I With no math at all

1. The side elevation, above, shows the true 4. As shown in the plan view, above, the cut For end cuts: cross section of the board that will be the has be at 900 the beveled edge of the to to Sawblade tilts front of the hopper. Use a bevel gauge to workpiece, not at 900 to the face. To deter­ = to p, ps) mine this tilt angle, place a carpenters ' square (Pf transfer the edge angle to the tablesaw, then rip the front to width . fla t against the beveled edge of the workpiece To cut front, miter and crank the blade over until it lies tight gauge swings to af. against the arm of the square. Tilted To cut side, miter gauge swings to as. Tilt sawblade. Rip front. s ----" Workpiece rf� �1 \.-\� Width of front 1 ,--c---I,...... ,-y/ IT\� 2. The end angle shown in the front elevation '-'--_.L.J/I'lW�W�f is distorted, but the drawing does show the Front elevation Side elevation true length of the top and bottom edges. 5. Lower the blade to a safe height and cut to the line. If the piece is symmetrical, you can Measuring out from a perpendicular reference On full-size elevation drawings, measure to line, transfer the edge lengths the work: switch the miter gauge to the other side of to in. or better: the blade, turn the work over. and saw the l62 piece. Then connect the edges to dra w the other end. If asymmetrical, rep eat steps and = true end-cut lines. Th is method also works for 3 hopper height asymmetrical pieces-where end-cut lines are 4. Repeat all five steps for the other sides. = front ' overhang' at different angles. Tu rn piece over; = h side 'overhang' Cut first end. cut second end. = E Length of top edge fs = width of front face I --11 W fs width of side face Reference Now calculate Ys, the edge angle of the side: line W = tanys = Calculate Yf, the edge angle of the front: tanYf h -7-s. End-cut = h-7-f. = Then tanaf and tanas s-7- . line = And tanp = tanYf-7- COSaf, or tanYs-7-cosas. s Or tanp Wf-7-f W k- Length of Widt s) I bottom edge-=-1 of frontJ Having figuredhV thef2 tang+ Wf2ents, -7- you(f. can look up the actual angles in trigonometric tables, The problem of the hopper joint is tradi­ punch them on a scien tific calcula tor (arctan 3. Wi th a straightedge, set the miter gauge or tan-I). or directly set your bevel gauge as so the end-cut line is parallel to the blade. tionally solved by projection and mea­ below: surement on full-size drawings. Lance

Patterson derived the mathematics at e Straightedge right from the graphical method, then u ana b picture- Jim Cummins devised 1in in:�ches.:;;,. a � gauge:V. �� Set blade at the no-math method shown above. For a n---'---'rA 900 to table. Measure H photocopy of Patterson's mathematical over 1 in. proof, send a self-addressed stamped en­ 1-1'--++---+- End-cut line To tilt the blade for a mitered hopper. such as velope to Hopper, c/o Fine Wo odwork­ a shadow box, when sides= and fronts are of ing, Box 355, Newtown, Conn. 06470. equal thickness: pm (1800-P)-7-2.

57 A Patterntnaker's Carving Tips And a portable carving kit fo r whittling wherever you are by WallaceC. Auger

The author enjoys carving miniature decoys, but doesn 't like to be tied to his bench, so he devised a carving kit that fits in a belt pouch. In the process, he discovered that small tools don 't need bul ky handles. Th e template shown was Cltt from a soft-drink can.

hen I was an apprentice patternmaker thirty years ago, run straight up and down, or do they spiraP You won't know the old guys in the shop weren't eager to share what unless you look. A carver must anticipate these questions­ theyW knew. If an old-timer thought you were watching, he'd and a lot more-before starting to cut. turn a little, so that his shoulder blocked the view, or he'd Ducks are symmetrical, which makes it fairly easy to make switch to some other work until you went away. So mostly I templates. For a miniature, carved from a single block, you learned from workers my own age, but I picked up a lot just need only a side-profile template (figure 2). But the outline from the way the older guys moved their elbows. I'd catch a will only start you off; you will have to thoroughly under­ glimpse of what they were doing and tty it myself. It didn't stand the three-dimensional shape you're aiming for. I'll give take long to learn that the main trick was to choose the right you tips about duck anatomy as we go along. For any other tool and cut in the right direction. carving project, the same kind of knowledge and understand­ Any carving has ptoblem areas, places where the wood ing is necessaty-there is nothing more frustrating than to won't cut cleanly in the direction you're working. Experience carve a block of wood to the point where it almost looks and practice will show you ways around the problems, but right, and not know where to go from there. without a teacher, experience can take a long time. A minia­ In any carving, get close to the final shape in the easiest ture duck decoy is as good a practice field as any. You'll find way-use a saw. For a miniature decoy, I cut the blank profile the same problems there as in larger carvings or in more pur­ with a jigsaw. For a larger blank, I bandsaw, cutting not only poseful things such as cabinet and drawer handles. Whatever the side view but the top as well. On a larger bird, quarter­ you want to make, here are some general carving hints that size and up, the head is usually carved separately, then glued will smooth yOut path. on. This saves wood, and also allows you to bandsaw both Few tools are needed to start. Because I like to get out­ profiles of the head, as is done with the body. Making the doors, I assembled a small kit that lets me carve miniatute head separately allows you to shift the head template on the decoys anywhere (photo, above). I could probably get by with carving block so that the long grain of the wood goes in the knife alone, but the other tools make some jobs easier, as the same direction as the bill. If you tried to cut the whole you will see. bird from one block, and wanted a lifelike pose with the bill First of all, you can't carve something until you know what pointing slightly down, chances are you'd end up with short it looks like, and general knowledge isn't enough. Anybody grain in the bill, which would be liable to break. For the would recognize a pine cone, for instance, ·but how many of same reason-grain directi on-wings and wing tips that stand us have ever really looked at one? Is it egg-shaped or coni caP away from the bird are carved separately, even on miniatutes. How does each scale taper into the main fo rm) Do the scales Pick a wood that works well. Jelutong is my favorite, but

58 basswood or any other soft, even-textured wood works well, Fig. 1: Shaping the blade too. White pine is good for larger birds, but it's a little too Grind away surplus metal to make the knife blade easier to control. The weak for miniatures. Some people use sugar pine for fu ll-scale rounded bevel makes tight scoop cuts without digging in. decoys, but I avoid it for miniatures because its large sap pockets can bleed through the final finish, even after you think you have sealed them. Let's say you have your block sawn out. The first problem is how to hold it while you work. On a little carving, one Original blade hand is enough to power the tool, but your other hand will Fig. 2: A min iature mallard, one-twelfth scale tire quickly if you try to grip the bare blank. On a larger carving, you'll want both hands free to manipulate your tools, so attach a handle to the blank. For miniatures, just screw the f-����:����-�--- blank onto a wood screw epoxied into the end of a dowel. For larger carvings, you can hold the handle in a vise, or you could make the bench I use, shown on p. 60. It securely holds a blank at virtually any position. The prime tool in my kit is a patternmakers' knif e I made from a file many years ago. Actually, these days I pref er a laminated-blade Swedish carving knife, such as those sold by places like Woodcraft. Wille Sundqvist carved spoons with one of these knives in FWW #38, pp. 84-88, and demon­ Te mpla tes and sizes vary slightly according to species. strated a lot of carvers' grips and knife strokes. A laminated blade sharpens faster than a solid-steel blade. Don't just unwrap the knife and start carving, however. It head and neck are squared off to the right width. comes from the factory as a general-purpose knife, and it When slicing a Stop cut, begin at the tip of the blade and should be modified for the job at hand, as shown in figure 1. end with the thicker part. You have more control with the First, grind away most of the blade. It is false economy to thicker part of the blade because it's closer to your hand, and have more steel in the blade than you need-the point will be its shape will also help prevent the blade from going toO too far from your hand to control. Then taper the blade so deep. To control a Cut, you must steadily decrease pressure that it ends in a point, and sharpen as in the drawing, with a during the slice. This lets you ease the cut to a halt. If you are crowned bevel. right-handed, use your left thumb to help power the cut. Many people will tell you that this is wrong, that the bevel Stop CUts, in general, are necessary anytime you don't want a has to be flat. Well, it depends on the job you want to do. A cut to go toO far. In scoop cuts, as you cut down from each flat bevel will give a knife good control fo r long, straight cuts. side to the center, every cut can be thought of as a stop cut­ But woodcarvers make a lot of scoop cuts as well as straight each one prevents the wood from splitting out ahead of the cuts and cuts across the grain. The most difficult cut is a tight blade on the next cut. When slicing a scoop cut, however, scoop. A straight bevel tends to dig in and scrape at the bot­ slice from the thicker part of the blade toward the tip. It tom of a scoop (a hollow grind is even worse), but a crowned takes less fo rce to move the thinner part of the blade around bevel helps guide and support the cutting edge. Think of a the curve, and you'll be better able to maintain control as you knife blade as if it were a bandsaw blade. If you try to make ease through. a tight curve with a wide blade, the blade binds. When a Next, round the body. On larger carvings, I'd recommend knife blade binds, its leverage splits off a chunk of your carv­ a wide, shallow gouge for this job, but the knife works fine ing. So the tighter the curve, the narrower the blade should on miniatures. When roughing out, you can take wood away be. But, just as for a bandsaw, the narrower the blade, the quickly. Wo rk from the high point on the body toward the harder it is to keep a constant curve. That's why a pattern­ ends-it's best not to Cut uphill into the ; cut makers' knife is shaped the way it is. It promotes a slicing down from each side. Use lighter cuts as you get closer to the cut, and, in addition, somewhere along the length of the line of dimension. blade there's the right width and the right crown for the When making cuts, you'll find it best to work both hands scoop cut you want to make. together. By rocking your hands-something like a scissors Begin to rough Out a miniature decoy blank with the knife action-you will maintain control throughout the cut, instead by cutting away the waste at both sides of the head to center of having the blade run away from you. You will take a lot the neck on the body. First, slice a line along the shoulder, of wood off at the front and rear of the body, but aim for a aiming at the base of the neck, a little more than X6 in. deep. wide curve, like a raindrop, that blends into the curve of the This is a stop CUt, and it has to be as deep as or deeper than breast below the neck. When cutting from the center of the the shaving you plan to take from the side of the neck, be­ body back toward the tail, I'd recommend that a beginner cause its purpose is to prevent the second cut from splitting make a template of the side of the bird. The template should ahead of the blade through the block. Be sure to slice when fit the curve when the bird is finished. It also will show you you use a knife, especially when making the stop cut. If you where you must remove a lot of wood, and it will save you wedge the blade through instead of slicing, you won't have from "finishing" a bird before it has the right overall shape. any control--<:hances are you'll cut the head right off, and For instance, don't waste time making a smooth curve along maybe your finger, too. Make a series of stop cuts, taking the corners of the block until you have roughed out the top­ shavings off the sides of the head to meet them, until the view profile. When roughing out, you don't have to be too

59 fussy-there's still plenty of wood if you make a mistake. cause the V-parting tool has such a small job, I removed its Perhaps the best carving tip I can give you is to pay atten­ handle. The modified tool worked so well that I removed the tion to every cut. This is second nature to me after so many handles on my gouge and straight chisel, too, grinding away years of carving, but beginners often let their attention wan­ any sharp edges on their tangs. The V-parting tool and the der, and lose the chance to learn how the wood, the tool and gouge originally came from a small Marples tool set, but I the hands work together. If the wood tends to split or tear, made the chisel from an old file. you should figure out how to deal with the problem while The gouge also has a limited job: it hollows out the areas you still have enough wood left to experiment. With the beneath the tail and the depression on the back behind the knife, simply changing the slicing angle can make a big dif­ neck. The straight chisel makes the low spOt between the ference. Change cutting actions and directions until you find wings and the tail, outlining the wing tips at the same time: I what works. Remember which CUt worked best for each trou­ first make a stop CUt by pressing the edge straight down into ble spot-it will also work well as a finishing cut. Slice rather the wood for the required depth, then I use the same tool to than wedge whenever possible, regardless of what tool you are clear the waste-something like chip-carving. using. With the wide, shallow gouge I mentioned earlier, for You should be able to detail most of the top of the bill instance, I make my share of straight-ahead cuts, but I use it with the point of the knife. For the tight curves around the more like a knife wherever I can, holding it slightly askew neck, I use a round file. On the head, a couple of strokes with and slicing with it. Even when making a straight-ahead, the round file make the groove above the duck's cheeks. I use cross-grain CUt, you can get a gouge to slice if you rotate it a a half-round to smooth broader curves, such as around the little as you go. bill and along the sides of the head. To smooth the sides of Keep the edges of your tools sharp, of course. When I'm the head above the cheek line, lay the edge of the half-round carving larger work in my shop, the minute I feel an edge file on the cheek line, then gradually slide the file away from beginning to drag through the wood, I touch it up on a buff­ it during the stroke. If you try to file parallel to the line, ing wheel charged with gray compound. The setup doesn't the file may too easily wander, cutting into and lowering the have to be elaborate-I chuck a 3-in. dia. felt wheel in my cheek. When rounding the cheek below the line, begin at the drill press, right next to my bench. When I take my kit out­ line and roll the file away from it during the stroke. doors, with such small pieces of soft wood, I don't bother to A duck ·has a slight depression on its back, which channels bring sharpening gear along. The edges last long enough. water from the high point of the body fotward, so that it can Ducks fold their wings beneath the feathers along the sides roll off at both sides of the neck. This is one of the small of their bodies. The wing fits into an area called a side pock­ things most people don't notice, but if you omit it, the carv­ et, and it pushes the side feathers out, away from the body. I ing will look chunky and lifeless. Make the channel with the use a V-parting tool to define the top of the side pocket. I gouge and smooth it with the half-ro und file, being careful could outline the side pocket with the knife, but the parting not to make the base of the neck too narrow-the neck should tool does the job in one stroke, whereas the knife would take be about as wide there as it is just below the head, with the two. The parting tool is easier and safer for the job, and its thinnest part about halfway up. This is the time to lower the shape helps ensure that both grooves are the same size. Be- surface of the wing tips slightly, so they look as if they are emerging from the feathers that cover them. After sanding a little, you're ready for detailing. For this part of the job, it's best to have the carving on a handle, but the handle can be smaller than the one used for carving. I burn-in fe ather texture with a fine-point woodburner con­ TheBen carvingch blank fo isr screwed larger to a round carvings anvil that fits into trolled by a rheostat, adjusting the heat according to how fast pivot blocks. The round post swivels, too, allowing the I want to work. I recommend sealing any wood before paint­ work to be turned and locked in any position. -w.c.A. ing it. Shellac or lacquer works well. After sealing, I paint the bird with artists' actylic colors. A nicely painted miniature decoy sells for about $20. They are X2-scale, an inch to the foot, the same scale as most min­ iature furniture, so they fit right into a scale-cabinetmaker's room displays. I've sold my share, but now I carve mostly for myself. I don't like to think of my carving as a business, because that would take a lot of the fun Out of it. I'd like to make a set of all the American waterfowl, more than fifty species if you count the geese and swans, and I find that one of the nicest parts of decoy carving is researching the birds. Pipe clamp pinches I've learned much from bird books and magazines, but they slot to lock post. often disagree, particularly about colors of bills and iridescent feathers. So once in a while I go to the park or to the zoo and look at the real thing. I'm retired now-I can go look at ducks whenever I want. 0

Wallace Auger makes miniature fu rniture, sells plans for decoys and fu rniture, and carves in Fairfield, Conn. Duck carvers will enjoy the book re viewed on p. 22 of this issue. Drawing: ]im Richey

60 Gerh(lrds ' laminated boomerangs (shown on a 2-in. grid) are strong becallse the wood grain fo llows their CIIrves. . Lead inserts (left ) can increase flying distance . �oQtnerang A laminated flier that's prettier than plywood bY .AI Gerhard!

boomerang is an exercise in free-form woodworking. No and place the ends between two laths, the bent strip springs straight lines, no corners to fit, no accurate measure­ back a few inches and wedges in place. You could nail laths menA ts-just flowing lines and curves. Boomerangs can be on a piece of plywood instead of on a wall. Whatever you do, made in many diffe rent shapes and sizes, besides the tradi­ let the strips dty for about a week. tional shape. They're quick to make, fun to throw, and you To laminate the boomerang, you'll need to make a form can pack one along when you travel. To use it, all you need is by gluing and nailing together pieces of plywood or particle­ a field and a little breeze. board. You want a block about X in. thicker than the width The easiest way to make a boomerang is to cut the shape of your strips, and about 4 in. longer than the length of the from 5-ply, X-in. birch plywood, then and sand the boomerang you want to make. The outside curve of the boo­ edges to an airfoil section. I prefer to make a laminated boo­ merang takes its shape from the concave surface of the form. merang by gluing up strips of wood on a form to build up Trace the outer edge of your boomerang pattern onto the not the thickness but the width. You can use any type of plywood block, leaving about 2 in. of block at either end. hardwood that will bend-so far, I've tried ash, hickoty, oak, Cut out the curve with a bandsaw or a bowsaw. Then glue elm and locust. Where I live, these woods are inexpensive and and nail another piece of plywood to the fo rm to make a available from local . base. Now you are ready to glue the strips together, but first Since I make my boomerangs in batches, I start with a coat the form with wax so that the glue won't stick to it. straight-grained, knot-free board, about 28 in. long, 2X in. You can get decorative effe as by gluing up the strips in thick and 5 in. or more in width. I can get five of them from different ways. You can reassemble them in the order they a board this size. Allow about X in. thickness for each boo­ were cut from the board, to match the original grain. For a merang. If you want to make two, you can start with a board different effect, you can alternate light and dark woods, or CUt 1 in. thick and 5 in. wide. two long, thin wedges from wood of a contrasting color and On the tablesaw, rip strips about :Xs in. to X in. thick from slip them between the strips. the edge of the board (see drawing, next page). Eight to ten Coat both sides of the strips with epoxy (not quick-set strips, laminated together, should give you a thickness of epoxy) and allow the glue to cure for about an hour before 17:; in. to 2 in. It's a good idea to cut a few extra strips, in assembling. This allows the glue to penetrate the pores of the case you break some while bending. wood and helps prevent a starved joint. I use T-88 epoxy My boomerangs have sharp bends-less than 90 °-so I (available from Chern Tech, 4669 Lander Rd., Chagrin Falls, steam and pre-bend my strips before gluing and clamping Ohio 44022), but some other brands may set faster, so this them on a form. If your boomerang doesn't have such a sharp technique may not work with all glues. The epoxy should still bend, you can omit the steaming step. Place the strips in a be tacky when the strips are assembled. Lay the glued-up preheated for about 30 minutes (FWW #40, strips in the form. To even the pressure from the clamps and p. 102). When the strips are pliable, bend them freehand into to prevent them from marring the wood, I use a thin, flexi­ a "U" shape and immobilize the ends to keep the strips from ble, steel strap about 2 in. wide and long enough to follow straightening out again as they dry. On my wall, I nailed lath the curve. On a concave fo rm, however, this isn't essential. strips about 16 in. apart, and when I compress the bent "U" Place the steel band (if you're using one) against the last

61 Making a boomerang 2. Pre-bending the strips Steam strips and dry them 1. Cutting the strips in a rack.

1 x 5 x 28 board

Sif�s under Cut 'A-in. stnps . Waste Lath� ��� �tension� stay� i�n place���. 3l 3. The bending form 4. Gluing up the blank� � Clamp��� every��� 3 in . �5. Ripping ��� the � blank

Steel strap prevents clamp marks.

Make form and base from 3,4-i17. plywood or particleboard. J ------6. The shape that flies A boomerang has a flat surface and a curved surf ace. If the surface shown in this plan is curved, the boomerang will be right-handed. If the surface shown is flat. the boomerang will be left-handed.

This section of the boomerang provides no lift. so airfoil isn 't needed.

Detail A: Full-size airfoil

strip. With a large� C-clamp or bar clamp, start pulling in the are the edges you want to round. The rounded edge tapers to midsection, snug it up and clamp each side at 3 in. intervals. a thin trailing edge like the cross section of an airplane wing. Allow the epoxy to cure for a day at room temperature. When shaping and sanding, I use a boomerang-shaped When the epoxy has cured, remove the laminated block �-in. plywood backup to minimize flexing. Clamp the boo­ from the form, and square up the sides where the edges of the merang blank and the backup in a vise. Using a rasp, shape strips may have slipped out of alignment. You now have a the top side of the blank into an airfoil shape. After you've thick block shaped like a boomerang, from which you'll cut roughed Out the boomerang, fm ish it with sandpaper. I use individual blanks. I cut mine on the tablesaw, but you can an inflatable-bag drum sander for final contouring. probably do this more safely and waste less wood with a wide Every shape and size flies differently, so after flight-testing, resaw blade on the bandsaw. To increase the height of the you may need to tune your boomerang by slightly changing tablesaw fence, I attach a piece of plywood wide enough to the shape of the airfoil. To make the boomerang travel farther suppOtt the blank while ripping. Saw the blanks about X in. before it returns, I sometimes epoxy Y:;-in.dia. lead insertS in thick. The blanks are now ready for shaping and sanding. holes near the ends of the arms. After the glue sets, I file the Here's how to determine which side gets rounded to form lead flush with the wood. the airfoil. With your throwing hand, hold the boomerang I finish my boomerangs with tung oil or boiled linseed oil, upright by its arm, with the edge of its "elbow" toward your to bring out the wood's natural beauty. A boomerang gets a nose. Go through an overhand throwing motion. The side lot of hard use, and an oil finish is easy to repair. 0 facing your ear is the top surface, which gets curved. The side away from you remains flat.As the boomerang leaves your AI Gerhards is a dental technician in Downington, Pa. hand, it spins, and the two edges that cut the wind as it spins He 's been making boomerangs fo r almost 25 years.

62 Drawing: Lee Hov Throwing the boomerang by John Huening

� : � -�\ \"'''�?':> Hold the boomerang so it's nearly vertical and la unch with an overhand throw. Snap your wrist on release to give it a good sp in.

Rusty Harding tOok me to a field and considered the air and sky. "A boomer­ ang is a gyroscope without a fixed point of gyration. It describes a circle, or whatever its flight path, depending on the design, velocity, spin, wind direction and thermal air currents." Harding makes boomerangs for a liv­ ing. Working in his backyard in Leba­ non, Tenn., he produces fanciful, unor­ thodox shapes-a far cry from the familiar shallow "V" shape developed by the Australian aborigines. There are right- and left-handed boo­ merangs, the difference being the loca­ tion of the rounded edges and the direc­ tion the boomerang is thrown into the wind. A right-hander returns in a coun­ terclockwise circle, while a left-hander circles clockwise. Hold the boomerang in your throwing hand, with the flat side against your palm, and imagine it spinning out of your hand, away fr om you. The rounded edge, like the front edge of an airplane wing, should be the edge that hits the wind first. If it's not, you've gOt a boomerang designed for the other hand. "I usually pick up pieces of grass and Harding makes his fa ncifu l, unorthodox boomerangs from either hardwood or plywood. drop them to see which direction the wind is blowing," Harding tOld me. boomerang a good spin ." site if you're left-handed. If it lands con­ "Throw about forty-five degrees into That first throw was nearly miracu­ sistently in front of you, throw a little the wind. Stand so that the wind hits lous-the boomerang actually returned higher or a little harder. If it lands in your left cheek." Since he's left-handed, and I almost caught it. There was a back of you, throw a little lower." Harding let the wind hit his right cheek. whirring sound as it cut the air. "Con­ Boomerangs were originally used as "Spin is important," he continued, sistency is important," Harding said. weapons, and they do have the potential "so hold the boomerang as close as you "Until you can throw the same way to be dangerous. When throwing one, can to the end of its arm. The boomer­ each time, you won't know what you're you should allow berween 50 and 75 ang should be nearly vertical when doing wrong. If the boomerang lands yards of open space in alldirectio ns. 0 launched. Now, pick a target forty to consistently to your left, turn more away fifty yards away, aim, and throw over­ from the wind. If it lands to your right, John Huening is a pipe-organ builder hand, snapping your wrist to give the turn more into the wind. Do the oppo- and writer in Se ffner, Fla .

63 If you plan ahead and have a thick enough blank, you can turn a bowl bottom of any shape without leaving a clue as to how it was attached to the lathe. Th e photo above sh ows the secret: grip the bowl via a small wooden plug, which you saw off after shaping. The BottotTI Line for Tur ned Bowls Ve rsatile chucking plug permits a variety of designs by Wendell Smith

wood turner can often improve a bowl just by realizing least as thick as the length of the screws penetrating into the that its bottom is as important to its design as its rim or wood. Unless you want a thick bottom and plugged screw itsA overall shape. You may neglect the bottom, but if you holes, a more refined method is needed. submit a piece to a juried exhibition, you can be sure the Other chucking methods can impose restrictions. Turning a judges won't. The best bowls don't how they were at­ recess into the bowl bottom for an expanding-collet chuck tached to the lathe. But chucking procedures can interfere requires that you design a bowl with a rimmed bottom . If with good bowl design. The trick is to make the design you you turn a male plug on the bottom to fit some type of ring want, while leaving no trace of the method. chuck, you'll have a footed bowl. On the other hand, facing The simplest method of chucking is to screw the bowl bot­ off the bottom so that it is flat and can be attached to a scrap tom to a fac eplate, but then the finishedbottom must be at block with double-sided tape or with glue and paper does

64 lead to a flat bottOm. moving the chucking plug For green wood, I use a from the base of an otherwise simple on-the-lathe method finished bowl about 5 in. high Flat that lets me prepare and fm ­ and 10 in. in diameter. This ish bottOms of any thickness, bowl was rough-mrned green and have them flat or smooth­ by first screwing a 3-in. face­ ly curved (with a slight flat spot to stand on), rimmed or plate to what would become the open (tOp) side of the blank, footed, while maintaining complete freedom of design. This using %-in. # 12 flat-head wood screws. With the fa ceplate technique requires starting with wood thick enough to mrn a mounted on the lathe, the bottOm can be faced off with a �-in. by 3-in. plug on the bowl bottOm, using the plug to deep-fluted gouge. Then, with the tOol rest slightly below the hold the wood on the lathe, and then removing the plug to center of the blank, use a parting tOol to make a �-in. deep finish up. shearing cut about 1� in. from the blank's center. It is im­ The plug is helpful when turning green bowls because the portant to hold the parting-tOol handle low when doing this, blank is solidly attached to a faceplate. You cannot use the so the tOol Cuts, not scrapes. If your design calls for a fo oted glue-and-paper method because the glue will not stick to bowl, cut deeper to leave a longer plug. With a gouge, shape the wet wood. Balance is important with green stOck be­ the outside of the bowl to a rough form from the rim to the cause of its weight, and with the subsequently dried bowls parting-tOol groove. After the outside has been roughed out, because of their eccentricity. remove the faceplate from the tOp of the blank and screw it For chucking dty wood, which is often not thick enough to to the plug. Although the bowl blank may not be perfectly allow for a chucking plug, I usually use glue and paper to fix tecentered, it's unnecessary to true up the outside until the the blank to a scrap block that is screwed to the fa ceplate. wood has dried. The inside of the bowl is turned using This requires a clean-up procedure based on a simple off-the­ conventional methods. The photO sequence shows how to lathe hand-scraping method (bottOm right photO, p. 66). remove the plug, picking up after the bowl has been dried, The photOgraphs illustrate my finishing method fo r re- re-mrned and sanded.

1. The tailstOck ring center holds the 3. After reducing the plug to a %-in. di­ bowl, fm ish-sanded except for the chuck­ ameter, smooth and flatten the bowl ing plug on its base, against a pressure bottom using a straight-across or right­ plate made from a i-in. by 13- in. hard­ skew scraper, followed by sanding. wood disc. A groove in the plate holds Then, with the tool rest parallel to the the bowl's rim in place. Make a new lathe axis, use a thin parting tool to groove for each size bowl, using a part­ make a shearing Cut about Xs in. from ing tool to size the groove until the rim the bowl's base. Before cutting deeply, of the bowl· bears on either its inside widen the cut slightly on the right. Keep edge or its outside edge. Now push the the CUt wider than the tool as you cut bowl OntO the plate and bring the tail­ intO the plug, to reduce resistance to stOck in. Before locking the tailstock, cutting and to keep from breaking the however, crank the ram far enough Out bridge. I find it best to rotate the part­ to leave room for a small tool rest. At ing tool slightly clockwise and counter­ this point, any type of foot can be clockwise while cutting, as though CUt­ turned on the bowl. Here I chose a ting a small bead. The small Xs-in. smooth, footless finish. platform of waste wood left berween the base of the bowl and the bridge pre­ vents the parting tool from tearing wood fibers on the bowl bottOm.

2. With a parting tool or a beading wood has a fancy figure, put the tool tool, make Xs-in. to Ys-in. shearing cuts rest perpendicular to the lathe axis, then until the 3-in. plug is reduced to % in. scrape away the plug with a small in diameter. Don't use toO much force round-nose tool. A deep gouge could be on the tOol, or the bowl will slip. If the used if the tool rest were lowered.

65 4. With the lathe off, I use a Japanese dozuki saw to CUt the small bridge be­ tween the bowl and the plug. Before sawing, pull the tail stock ram back slightly to take pressure off the bridge. The masking tape protects the bowl bottom from the saw. For a full view of the work at this stage, see p. 64.

5. Place the bowl rim-down in a right­ angle stop-block jig as shown at right and remove whatever waste remains by slicing cross-grain with a bench chisel, held bevel-up. The tape prevents the chisel from damaging the finished base. Finally, scrape the center of the base with the grain, then hand-sand.

Glue-and-paper chucks-To remove a glue-and-paper chucking block, place the completed bowl face-down on a towel and tap in an old plane blade, bevel-up. Insert the blade between the two bottom plies of the plywood, rather than between the block and the bowl, to prevent damage. Lift the blade end to lever off most of the block. The remain­ ing waste can be pared off with a bench chisel, used beVel-up.

Remove the final traces of the glue­ when sharpening it on a grinder. 0 and-paper joint with a 1 �-in. paint scraper, then follow up with sandpaper. We ndell Smith, who lives in Fairport, The secret to using these scrapers is N. Y. , is a chemist in the Kodak Re­ to leave a burr on the cutting edge search Labs. Photos by the author.

66 x James Belmonte's grand prize winner, with a picture size of only lIh lIh, is shown here one and a half times its actual size. An Eye on Marquetry,Here and Abroad Yo u can begin with an easy kit, but the sky's the limit by Jim Cummins

arquetry is a field that encompasses, comfortably, an also to exchange techniques and ideas. For help, they ap­ incredible range of tastes, sryles and purposes. In our proached Constantine's, the veneer suppl.ier who'd sold many culture,M we can trace marquetry back directly to the time of them their first marquetry kit. Owner Gertrude Constan­ when sawing thin veneers became practical, during the Re­ tine, whose late husband had invented the pre-sawn kit a few naissance in Italy. These early marquetarians were among the years before, agreed to provide free space for meetings and first to discover the rules of perspective, and frequently outdid classes in a basement workshop, and eventually, last Septem­ painters in achieving realistic three-dimensional scenes. From ber, celebrated the addition of a second story by hosting a Italy, marquetry spread north and west, becoming an impor­ marquetry exhibition and competition that drew about 100 tant decorative element in veneered fu rniture during several pieces. The Society has 1200 members and has been steadily furniture periods. All the while, burgeoning world trade in growing at the rate of about 200 per year. Past president exotic timbers added fresh colors to the palette. Gene Weinberger estimates that there may be 5,000 more Today marquetry is beginning what looks like a worldwide active marquetarians around. revival, with marquetarians in Europe having a slight head There are several ways to get started in marquetty, whether start over those in the United States. For the first time, you want to join the MSA or not. Pete Rose, an authority though, marquetry is possible as a hobby rather than as an today, began by picking up a kit about 15 years ago when he all-consuming profession. Veneers are cheap and plentiful, accompanied his woodworking brother-in-law to Constan­ and the tools of the trade can be as simple as an X-acto knife tine's showroom. Rose says that instructions in those days were or a hand-held . Marquetry kits-a paper pattern frustrating, calling for each piece of veneer to be sandwiched (something like a paint-by-number design), a selection of ve­ between twO Ys-in.thick scraps, tacked down, and sawn with neers, some glue-are available by mail-order. Some kits are a fretsaw. Rose broke a lot of blades in the beginning, but even pre-cut and go together as easily as a jigsaw p�zzle. was hooked, and he soon fo und refinements in tools and Although a few European marquetarians are professionals, techniques that made marquetty a lot easier. Today he writes Americans tend to take up marquetry upon retirement, or as a monthly beginners' column for the Society 's newsletter. a convalescent pastime. Most of the dozen people who found­ Allan Fitchett took another route. He learned at the age of ed the Marquetry Sociery of America in 1972 were self­ eight from an old German cabinetmaker who taught him taught, and they organized not only to display their work, but how ro designs into furniture with nothing more than a

Photos, pp. 67-69: Doug Long 67 Clockwise from top left : Veneers fo r Meta Ketelsen's 4 x 6 box were x cut on a 4-in. tablesaw. Bill Profet's 'At rest until tomorrow, ' 12 x 15, won a merit award. Bill Rondholz's 'Bachelor's Plight, ' 12 15, is adapted fr om a Norman Rockwell painting. knife and chisel. Today Fitchett, a retired printer, works part­ heart surgery. No longer a hunter, one day he wondered why time for Constantine's as the chief of their marquetry depart­ he shouldn't veneer his old gunstock (facing page). Bill Prof­ ment, which accounts for about 15% of their total sales. He et's sled (above), which won an award of merit, was adapted gives demonstrations, lends advice, and develops new patterns from Yankee magazine. Profet has an electric jigsaw, but he for kits, such as the bluejay shown on the facing page. prefers cutting by hand, with jewelers' blades in a handsaw. Most marquetarians seem to have begun with kits, gradu­ So does Bill Rondholz, who adds that you can use a handsaw ating later to working with patterns-the MSA newsletter al­ at the kitchen table instead of having to go to the basement. ways has a few-that outline the pieces but allow a free choice Rondholz's "Bachelor's Plight" (bottom left above), adapted of the veneer . Veneer selection distinguishes the masterpieces from a Norman Rockwell Sa turday Evening Post cover, from the also-rans. Water, sky and skin tones are particularly hasn't a line out of place. He sent it off to a prestigious Brit­ demanding-purists eschew dyes and stains-and marquetar­ ish Marquetry Society competition a few years ago, where it ians often vary a pattern to make the best use of a particularly won awards despite an Old World tendency to classify fm e piece of wood. Some marquetarians work to original pat­ American marquetarians as impatient upstarts. Rondholz says terns, but the European-professional tradition is that marque­ that it was nice to "set them back on their ears a bit." His tarians work in pairs: one to do the art, the other to cut and coup was repeated at 1983's British show, where Gary paste. Most MSA members follow the example, with one no­ Wright garnered an artistic merit award (see box, p. 71). table exception, Silas Kopf, whose work is shown on the fac­ Nevertheless, Europeans still reign supreme. "Equisheim" ing page and who wrote in FWW #38. They may adapt (p. 70), by Jean-Paul Spindler, was patterned after one of his designs from photographs or magazine illustrations, but 'Tm father's on-the-spot oil paintings. With a fa mily history in no artist" is almost a rallying cry. This is but a minor draw­ marquetry, with six employees, with a "no admittance" back back in marquetry competitions: the Society once drew up a room guarding his trade secrets-and up to a three-year wait­ checklist for jurying shows, and originality counted for only 10%. ing list fo r any of his standard patterns-Spindler ranks with The grand prize winner in the September competition, Cut­ one or rwo others at the top of his profession. His work sells rent MSA president James Belmonte, got his waterwheel idea for up to $4,000, and he's not likely to be seriously chal­ from a magazine ad for a wood burning kit, and spent about lenged by anyone working at a kitchen table. Indeed, most of 45 hours cutting and fm ishing the minuscule picture (p. 67). the leaders of the MSA seem to feel that such a challenge J:Ie took up the hobby 11 years ago while recuperating from would be misdirected, that the future of marquetry lies in an 68 x Allan Fitchett's bluejay , 6 8112,which he designed fo r a marquetry kit, requires skillfu l scorching of the veneer edges to produce its uncanny liveliness.

Above and at right:x Silas Kopf 's untitled portrait, 24 40. Realist ic flesh tones are among the most diffi­ cult of a marquetarian's chall enges.

Be/ow: james Belmonte's gunstock, veneered with hunting scenes he adapted from sp orting magazines.

69 x Jean-Paul Sp indler's 'Equisheim, ' 24 30, is a copy of a painting done by his fa ther. entirely different direction, in what they call applied marque­ began her hobby with a kit from Constantine 's: "I didn't try-inlaying elaborate designs and scenes into furniture. The know what I was in for-I picked the hardest one!" But she practice is rare today, but it has flowered again and again has gone on to a rare distinction. Her original design for a throughout Europe-the Spindler family has been collecting windburnt sailor, "Old Salty," came out so well that Con­ such furniture for five generations. stantine's turned it into a kit and has featured it in their cata­ "You make framed pictures for a few years and your walls log ever since. The sailor in the kit wears a dyed-veneer will start to fall down," says Fitchett. He claims that the sweater, but Ketelsen herself is committed to natural wood American character is basically impatient and productive. In colors, and shakes her head at her single lapse, a touch of contrast to European amateurs, who may take two years on a dyed blue: "I just couldn't believe in a Scandinavian sailor picture, most Americans aim to cut out a pattern in a dozen with brown eyes." 0 hours or less. Many marquetarians give most of their work away just to make room, and might welcome a collaborative Jim Cummins is an associate editor of Fine Woodworking. effort with a period furnituremaker. The twO could reproduce You can re ach the Marquetry Society of America at something more exotic than high-style Philadelphia, more ex­ Box 224, Li ndenhurst, N. Y.117 57. The British Marque­ citing than just another framed design. try Society's secretary is Mrs. Pat Aldrid ge, 2A, Th e Parquetry, a related field,is an inlaid geometric design, Ridgeway, St. Albans, Herts, England AL4 9AU. Con­ exemplified by Meta Ketelsen's little box (p. 68). Ketelsen stantine's is at 2050 Eastchester Rd. , Bronx, N.Y. 10461.

70 Winners fr om the 1983 British Marqu etry Show

by Ernie Ives

T ast year's best-in-show winner, Rieh­ L ard Shellard (FWW #36, p. 12), improved his record by taking first and second places in Class 5, the premier class, this year. British marquetarians begin in Class 1, and after fo ur pictures move to Class 2, where they remain un­ til they win an award, which advances them. Tony Reindorp's prize in Class 3 last year moved him up a grade for this year's show-where he came in second against the stiffer competition-but he nevertheless recaptured the Walter Dol­ ley Award fo r best picture by a non­ group-member. Gary Wright's plain, bold style took the Artistic Merit Award in Class 2, the first time in a number of years that an American has won a major award in the "National." 0

Ernie lves edits the BMS's quarterl y journal. Photos by the author.

Clockwise from above: Richard Shellard's 'Fruxits of Nature, ' 1st in Class 5; Tony Reindorx p's 'Waiting fo r the Wind, ' 18 20; Gaxry Wright'S 'February Morn, ' 8 12; Sh ellard's 'Threshing by Steam, ' 18 24, 2nd in Class 5.

71 Laying Plastic Latninates Understanding the basics of this ubiquitous "veneer" by Ja ck Gavin

T et me say, before any purists dash off angry letters to the possible-particularly on surfaces subject to abrasion. Vertical L editor, that I don't consider plastic laminates to be ftne grade is cheaper, and is good for curved surfaces, but it will woodwork. As a custom cabinetmaker, however, I' ve laid show core irregularities on flat surfaces. Some laminates come miles of the stuff, and for every solid cherry secretary or wal­ with a plastic ftlmover the surface. Leave it on until the job is nut armoire I do, I am off ered ten Formica kitchens. So done-it's there to protect the surf ace from your tools. knowledge of the skills has become an economic necessiry. Visually check each sheet for damage. Unlike wood, Also, a lot of furnituremakers are discovering that new lami­ scratched plastic laminate cannot be ftxed. The sheets can be nate products and techniques add a colorful dimension to transported flat in a truck, or rolled and tied. If you roll a their work. sheet, make sure you tape the inside edge to prevent the Plastic laminates had their beginning at the turn of the laminate from scratching itself as it is unrolled. century when Dr. Leo Bakeland, a Belgian scientist, invented Seams where edges join can be ftlled with a product called Bakelite, the ftrst plastic. Bakeland offered his invention to Seamftl, available from laminate suppliers. It's a lacquer- the Westinghouse Company as an electrical insulator, but Westinghouse wasn't interested. A young Westinghouse chemist named Dan O' Connor, however, impregnated paper and doth with Bakeland's resin and formed his own company in Cincinnati, Ohio. He called the new product and the com­ pany Formica: "for mica," since mica was the premium insu­ lator of the day. Formica was originally used for such diverse products as radio vacuum-tube bases and gears for the Model-T Ford. In the late 1930s, the idea of laminating a thin surface of this abrasion-resistant plastic to counters and tabletops was tried. After World War II, the idea caught on and grew into a multi-million dollar industry. Plastic laminates are made of six or less layers of kraft pa­ per (depending on the thickness) that are impregnated with phenolic resin (Ba kelite), and then covered with a sheet of colored or patterned paper and sealed with a layer of mela­ mine plastic. Although "Formica" has become the generic name for decorative plastic laminates, there are a number of other laminate manufacturers besides the Formica Corp. Nevamar, Wilsonart, Lami n-Art, and Melamite are some of the many different brands, each a qualiry product. I've seen 30-year-old countertops that were beginning to wear through, showing a brown tone from the kraft paper beneath, but you can expect an even longer lif e than that from the modern surfaces, provided that they are well cemented to the proper core material (see box, p. 74). Laminates come imprinted with simulated wood grain, simulated stone, stripes, grids, raised designs and a seemingly inftnite variery of colors. Prices range from 60¢ per sq. ft . to about $3.50 per sq. ft., depending on brand and design. Each company has color charts and makes boxes of samples of their different varieties, and a supplier will be happy to give you one of these for the brand he carries. Plastic lami­ nates are usually stocked in widths up to 5 ft . and in lengths up to 12 ft . Instead of asking your supplier what he's gOt, tell him what size you need and he'll probably have something dose to it, or he can order it for you. You also have a choice New laminates, such as Formica 's ColorCore, offe r decoration beyond the usual wood-surfa ce treatments. Th is table, designed of two thicknesses , X6-in. and Ya2-in., called horizontal and by Milton Gla ser, is detailed with ColorCore epoxied into a vertical grade, respectively. Use horizontal grade whenever multicolored sandwich and then sliced into thin ribbons.

72 based compound that dries very quickly. It comes with color charts that tell how to mix an exact match to whatever color Covering plastic laminate you buy. A filled seam never looks as good as a panel a single piece, however, and Seamfil won't fix scratches.

Cement-The standard glue for plastic laminates is contact 1. Apply oversized stnps of Flush-trim bit cement, and several rypes are sold by stores that sell lami­ plastic laminate to both long nates. Contact cements have a bad reputation for gluing wood edges. Trim flush wi th core to wood, but when one of the materials is stable and nonpor­ at top, bottom and ends. ous, as plastic laminate is, contact cement forms a permanent bond. These cements are neoprene rubber dissolved in various solvents. Spread on both surfaces and allowed to dry, the rubber coatings stick to each other when the sheets are pressed together. For all-around use, I recommend the regular indus­ trial grade. Plastic laminate A word of warning here. Industrial contact cement is ex­ tremely flammable, so much so that if the vapors are allowed to collect in a small room, something as insignificant as a 2. File or sand any burrs until edge strips are absolutely flus h. Repeat steps 1 cigarette or a pilot light can ignite them explosively. Work in and 2 on short edges. a well-ventilated area, and even so, always wear an organic­ vapor mask. The solvents in industrial contact cement are the same as in airplane glue, and we all know the effects of sniff­ ing that. Some suppliers may refuse to sell industrial cements to amateurs, or may carry them only in commercial-size 5-gal. pails. If that's the case (it may even be the law in your area), then use whatever cement you can get. In any event, heed the File toward core, label, both for safety warnings and for application instruc­ never away. tions. Hardware-store cement is less explosive than industrial cement, and there's a nonflammable latex-based contact ce­ ment, too, but it takes significantly longer to dry. Otherwise, all types are worked the same way. One type of cement is specially formulated for use in spray guns, bur spraying isn't practical except for large production 3. Lay fa ce sheet; trim shops-you can spend up to $3,000 just for the gear. flush. Lamina ting the top last seals edge joints from water. Cutting laminates-I cut most of my plastic laminate on a tablesaw, using a triple-chip blade. So the material won't slip under the fence, I tape a strip of X-in. plywood or to the table next to the fence and run the laminate over it. The laminate sheets must be cut slightly larger than the piece they'll be laid upon, say, Ysin. oversize all around. They'll be trimmed flush after application. The tablesaw gives the quickest and most precise cut, but a plastic scribe or tinsnips work, too. To CUt with a scribe, mark the face side and score repeatedly, then crack with the score­ line over a table edge. The break will run diagonally through the thickness of the sheet, so leave the sheet about % in. to � in. oversize in all directions. Tinsnips leave small cracks perpendicular to the cut, requiring a �-in. allowance. 4. Bevel edge with Order of events-We'll go into detail as things come up, but bevel-trimmer bit. here's the general plan for, say, a countertop. First, trim the core to its final size. Then CUt a big piece of plastic laminate 5. Lightly file away for the top surface and narrow strips for all the core edges you sharp edges. plan to laminate. Remember to cut the laminate slightly oversize. Next, apply cement to both of the core's long edges and to the laminate strips that will cover them, taking care to keep cement off adjacent surfaces and edges. Laminate the long edges and trim the surplus flush. Follow the same proce­ dure for the short edges. Finally, cement the top piece and trim it flush.If the job calls for a splashboard, laminate it as a separate piece and attach it, later. For strucrural pieces such as

73 Tr icks, tips, cores and new products

Fig. 1: A simple counter After laminating end cap, trim flush, then file corner.

Two ways to attach a splash board

end with one­ or two-piece end cap.

You can lay plastic laminate on almost of joint irregularities, and may show any stable core. Solid wood, of course, Fig. 2: Edge treatments concact-cement lines, too. White glue is moves too much, so you'll want man­ the recommended adhesive, because it For plywood, made materials. For cabinet doors and flush-trim lamina te, dries clear, but you have to clamp down drawer faces, I prefer medium-density then glue on and the laminate until the glue cures, With fi berboard because it doesn't warp. shape the wo od a sharp bit, you can rout shallow deco­ Thickness can be either % in. or % in. A edging. rative patterns into the surface, and, by %-in. door with Xs-in. laminate on both Optional batting striP ,J laying different colors atop each other, sides turns out Ys in. thick, which may bevel panel edges into multicolored look a little clunky. For the cabinets To guide 'the router's stripe designs. Laminate suppliers also pilot over a coarse themselves, I often use hardwood ply­ particleboard edge, have a variety of other new "designer" wood, because it holds hinge screws glue on a thin products. At the rate things are devel­ better, but I wouldn't use it for any wood strip first. oping, your shop could end up first-on­ unsupported surfaces. then attach final the-block without half trying. Countertops can be either %-in. ply­ edge, shaping Many types of plastic laminates can wood or fiberboard. There's a tradeoff­ afterward. be heated and cemented around narrow fiberboard is my first choice, because it's curves, forming a permanent bend upon suitably "dead" (you don't wanc a Plastic !-molding cooling. Such "postformed" work has counter to be resonant or springy), but can edge plV or been around a long time. Everybody has particle core. it's heavy. If I'm going to have to carty seen single-sheet countertops that begin a 12-ft. countertop up three flights of with a rolled front edge which sweeps stairs, you can bet it'll be plywood in­ across the counter and up the splash­ stead. Whichever material you use, screw itself covered with rift-maple veneer. board. Most postforming is done in fac­ or glue a barring strip to the edge of Everythingdelaminated. We did the tories, but the technique is feasible for a your counter so that the finished edge whole job over, using epoxy. small shop and limited production, too. will be 1 in. to IX; in. thick (figure 1). Laminates make fine wall coverings, The Formica Corp. will send a detailed Edges can be covered with laminate too-have you ever taken a good look at bulletin on the process if you ask-the or decorated with wood trim milled to the inside of an elevator? You can bond low-end investment in equipment is less any shape that suits your fancy, as in sheets directly to sheetrock, but I gener­ than $400. figure 2. Plastic or rubber T-molding, ally cover both sides of X;-in. particle­ The Formica Corp.'s Information slipped into a kerf cut in the panel 's board and hang these panels on Z-clips Center (114 Mayfield Ave., Edison, edge, is also a good edge treatment. One (special hardware that allows the panels N.J. 08837) distributes numerous other source ofT-molding is Outwater Plastics, to be lifted off the walls when necessaty). technical bulletins, including a how-to 99 President St., Passaic, N.J. 07055. ColorCore is a new (albeit expensive) guide, If you outline your project to I've never had any luck ttying to lay Formica Corp. product that's the same them in a letter, they'll send relevant new laminate over old. On one job a color all the way through. Hence there's bulletins and color charts. Formica's while ago, we tried to cover a curved no dark line at the joints, and a careful technical specialist, Walter T. Davis, surface with laminate, then cover that workman can make an apparently seam­ will give advice about tricky jobs over with another sheet of laminate that was less job. But ColorCore is less fo rgiving the phone at (513) 786-3048. -J .G.

74 countertops, you don't have to laminate both sides, but other ble the cabinet. This will save you many, many hours of grief. pares, such as doors, require it or they will warp. Moisture may cause delamination. Plan edges and joints so that water will run off, rather than into the seam. When in­ Spreading cement-Apply contact cement with a brush, a stalling a sink, most good workmen take pains to seal the roller or a glue-spreader, spreading it as thinly as possible. core by applying a strip of laminate around the edges of Globs dry slowly and will cause a bump when the laminate is the hole, in addition to caulking the rim of the sink. laid down. Take care to keep the area clean, because sawdust Once applied, laminates can be removed, though the pro­ or chips that get caught in the glue will ruin the bond and are cedure is messy and time-consuming. Lift an edge slightly maddening to remove. The surface of the cement should dry with a chisel and apply solvent. You can gradually remove evenly glossy. Edges of plywood, particleboard or fiberboard the laminate without breaking it. Methyl ethyl ketone should have at least three coats, each applied after the pre­ (known as MEK and sold in paint stores) will dissolve flam­ vious coat has dried. Even on faces, it's a good idea to put a mable cements, but it is flammable itself and it won't soften second coat in a 2-in. band around the perimeter. nonflammable cements; 1-1-1 trichloroethane works on both For applying cement to narrow or tight areas, use a small kinds of cement, and won't burn. But wear your vapor mask brush with natural bristles (nylon will dissolve). It costs less to and gloves in any case, as both solvents are nasty. When dry, throw cheap brushes away than to buy enough solvent to the laminate and panel can be reglued and reattached. clean decent ones. If you are edging a few similarly sized pieces, you can stack them and apply glue to the whole stack Trimming-Once the laminate has adhered, it must be at once, which helps keep the faces free of cement. I've used a trimmed flush with the core. The best tool is a router with a natural-bristle scrub brush for large areas such as countertops, flush-trim bit, that is, a X-in. straight carbide bit with a ball­ but they are more easily done with a roller. Regular paint bearing pilot on the end. This allows you to use the core itself rollers will dissolve, but "high-solvent" roller sleeves, de­ as a guide. Don't try a bit with a steel pilot-it's guaranteed signed for spreading epoxy resins, work well. These are avail­ to burn the plastic surface. If you plan a lot of laminating, it's able wherever plastic laminates are sold. I prefer a roller with worth having a small, one-handed router called a laminate a short nap, rather than a knobby one. If you want a small trimmer. The ease of use it aff ords is well worth its $ 100 roller for edges and tight SpOts, you can bandsaw the regular price tag. When using a router, wear goggles or a face shield length into smaller pieces. to protect your eyes from laminate chips. The cement should dry in 15 to 30 minutes, and remain To trim an edge, hold the router horizontal and guide the ready-to-stick for a couple of hours. Don't wait toO long, pilot bearing along the fa ce of the core, keeping the router's though, because the cement gradually loses its adhesiveness. base square against the edge. The objective is to cut the edge The spread cement is ready when it is dry to the touch and strip exactly even with the fa ce, so the fa ce sheet will overlap has returned to room temperature. If the surface fe els cool, it it without gaps. Chances are, you'll need to do some filing, is still losing solvents and should be allowed to dry further. because flush-trim bits often cut slightly oversize, especially if they've been sharpened more than once. File toward the core Applying the laminate-Once the contact-cemented surfaces to prevent chipping. I use a smooth file fo r narrow edges and, touch each other, they will stick, so you must be very careful when I have the room, a belt sander. You can do the entire to align the pieces before contact. This is relatively easy with trimming job with these tools if you don't have a router. edges and small pieces, but with larger panels it is best to lay When routing, it's important to keep the bearing free of out thin sticks-venetian-blind slats, dowels or something plastic chips and cement. WD-40 will help dissolve any glue similar-about 12 in. apart on top of the panel, and then lay that binds in the bearing, and a few drops of light oil will the laminate on top of them. Make sure these sticks are clean keep it rolling. If a bearing clogs tight, try soaking it in sol­ and splinter-free, because anything that gets caught under­ vent to restore it. A clogged bearing will burn a X-in. wide neath the laminate will cause a bump in the surface. Once the swath across whatever surface it is riding on, so a little pre­ laminate has been centered over the panel, remove the sticks ventive maintenance is a good idea. For extra insurance on one at a time, consecutively, and press the laminate down. really glossy surfaces, you can run a line of masking tape for Work from one end, so as not to trap air bubbles, and pro­ the bearing to ride on. In a pinch, you can tty to clean up a gress down the length of the counter. When all the sticks are burned surface with 400- grit wet-or-dry sandpaper, but it Out (be sure to get them all), press the laminate down with a will never look the same as before, even if you lacquer it to rubber mallet, a padded block and a hammer, or a hard roller restore the shine. It's best to replace the piece. called a J-roller-suppliers sell them. When all the laminating is done, clean off excess glue with Personally, I do n't use sticks anymore. With the help of MEK or lacquer thinner. The edges should be square and an assistant, I align one long edge and let the panel drop, an sharp. To give the edges a finished look, use a bevel trimmer, action similar to closing a book. It's a neat trick, but it re­ which is similar to a flush-trim bit, but cuts a instead quires some skill, so I woul dn't suggest it for beginners. of a square edge. Bevel trimmers come in various angles: 150 When making a lot of interior partitions, or a set of col­ and 220 are standard, and even 450 can be used. The greater ored drawer bottoms, you can save a lot of trimming time by the angle, the more the inner layer of the laminate will show laminating an entire sheet of plastic laminate to the core ma­ on the top surface, sometimes desirable fo r contrast or to terial first, then tablesawing the pieces to size. To eliminate make the plastic laminate look thicker. In any case, a smooth chipping while cutting, laminate only one side and run the file relieves sharp edges left by the router. 0 panel through the tablesaw face-up. Then cover the other side of each piece and trim as usual. If you want to put laminate Jack Gavin is a cabinetmaker and /u rnituremaker in New on the inside of a cabinet, be sure to do it before you assem- York City .

75 The Wood worker's To ols Function is but one reason fo r making by Pa ul Bertorelli

Coachmakers' plow plane by Robert Baker.

Baker's chariot plane (at left) and miter plane.

As manmade objects go, modern hand-woodworking tools .Il..usually live squarely in the middle of function's realm. The 's sole, for example, is no longer than it need beto true a board; the curvy handle of rosewood is not for pretty but to both fit the user's hand and survive a crash around the mean insides of a toolbox. If some of us also find our tools pleasing to look at, we've hit upon a happy coinci­ dence. But suppose the reverse were true? What if hand tools existed only to delight the eye and touch, and whether or how well they worked wood was of less concern? Baker's gleaming brass plow plane mimics an 18th-century design. Indeed, for tool collectors this is just the case. They own tools for love of polished brass or for the satisfying way that precision-machined parts fit together, and, of course, because dovetailed brass bodies which are in turn fastened to their there's money to be made collecting. The tools shown on stainless steel soles via dovetails-all the joints painstakingly these three pages, however, come from a different ken. Dis­ cut and filed by hand, much as you'd do in wood. The inspi­ played last fall in a show entitled "Tools of the Woodworker" ration for the coachmakers' plow plane (shown in two views at the Brookfield (Conn.) Craft Center, all-save one-were above)-a tool once used to cut the grooves for panels in the made by devoted woodworkers and tool users who, for var­ curved rails and stiles of fancy carriages-was an 18th-century ious reasons, wandered off the usual path, pursuing a defini­ French design. The plow is made of brass and steel, and has tion of tool that only incidentally embraces fu nction. In all, an applewood handle. more than 30 tools by 15 makers were on display, from chis­ "I couldn't afford the tools I wanted, so I started building els and planes to clamps and saws. Here's a sampling. my own," says Baker, explaining why five years ago he turned from woodworking to full-time toolmaking. "As I got Shortly before the turn of this centuty, the Scottish fu m of into it, I became more intrigued with building than using." Spiers had elevated the bench-made metal, plane to near its Though his tools are likely as good as any ever made, most zenith, producing 14 models in 65 sizes. Guided by an old wind up unused in collectors' cabinets, a market Baker culti­ Spiers catalog, Robert Baker of Mattawan, Mich., crafted the vates. "I understand the appeal, and it doesn't bother me that chariot plane and the miter plane shown here. Both have my stuff never gets used ...people like to feed their eye s."

76 Phocos: Whice Lighc A hundred years ago, a cabinetmaker might have had an entire toolbox de­ voted only to hollows and rounds­ wooden planes whose sole function was to work decorative coves and beads in­ to boards. Today a router can do the same job in a fr action of the time, yet Curtis Erpelding of Seattle, Wash., finds the old tools useful still. He builds his hollows and rounds to match the radii of his router bits. The power tool chews away most of the wood, then a quick pass or two with the wooden plane whisks off the router's burns and burrs, leaving behind a glassy smooth finish that needs no sanding. The planes shown at right have soles of harder-wearing . "Toolmaking is kind of my hobby," says Erpelding, "but I use these planes. They're representative of how I feeJ about myself ...I like the idea of a hand tool made with and used with a machine technique. I'd prefer to use hand tools all the time, but I'm trying to make a living at woodworking." Hollow and round planes by Curtis Erpelding.

Allan Boardman's 5- in. long pernambuco marking gauge piece of wood the size of a playing card," says Boardman. He (with ivory wear strips dovetailed into the fence) was con­ had the gauge's design in mind for five years, but admits to ceived as and is an everyday tool, albeit a fancy one. Board­ getting carried away when he finally built it. "I could have man, an amateur woodworker in Woodland Hills, Calif., made it simpler. It didn't have to have all this pernambuco spends his bench time crafting small, precious boxes and tiny and brass and ivory junk on it ...but I figured that if I was puzzles held together by delicate joinery. "The scale of a com­ making it, I might as well make it nice." mercial gauge is all wrong when you try to mark a line on a

Like many contemporary woodworkers, James Hutchinson likes to play with metalworking tools, specifically, the Bridge­ port miller. Wanting something useful and beautiful from his experimentation, he fabricated these steel set-up squares (6 in. and 4 in.), which are handier than a store-bought T-bevel for setting a tablesaw's arbor angle. Milled from %-in. bar stock, the squares darkened attractively after Hutchinson hardened Steel squares by James Hutchinson. the steel to preserve their precise edges.

77 The sinuous striations in these paring chisels ensue from the Damascus steel from which they were forged by Richard Sex­ stone of Putney, Vt. Damascus steel was the ancient sword­ maker's solution to brittle steel, which would otherwise snap when drawn out to the thin section of a cutting edge. It's made by forging and reforging a sandwich of hard tool steel and soft mild steel into hundreds of thin layers, resulting in a tough­ er, more elastic blade. But modern hand-forged tool steels are far superior, so Sexstone used Damascus just for looks. In fact, a Damascus edge serrates when used, making it ideal fo r a flesh-cutting sword but useless for woodworking, a problem Sexstone solved by welding a tool-steel layer to the chisel 's back. The shanks and ferrules look turned, but are ac- tually fo rged to near final shape, then hand-filed.

This bowsaw, one of a pair built by Al­ phonse Mattia in 1973, sprung more from a desire to probe aesthetic and technical possibilities than from a need for a cutting tool. Inspired by artful tools he had seen in European muse­ ums, Mattia wanted to play around with the conventional notion of a bow­ saw. "The tools I saw in museums were all functional, but many of them were clearly about form," says Mattia. He laminated the saw's uprights out­ of teak, and rather than settling for the usual loose mortise-and-tenon for the crosspiece, he devised more smoothly functioning cylindrical joints that allow the uprights to pivot under tension in­ stead of binding. Though functional, the saw rarely cuts wood. "When I need a bowsaw," says Mattia, who teaches woodworking at Boston University, "I just use my Sandvik." 0

Some tools shown here were displayed in Cutting Edge tool stores in Los An­ geles, San Diego and Berkeley, Calif Bowsaw by Al phonse Mattia. Paul Bertorelli is managing editor at Fine Woodworking.

78 Portfolio: Garry Knox Bennett Oakland innovator takes on the trestle table

by Jo hn Kelsey

Color photos: ® 1982 Nikolay Zurek ome people make furniture that's really art, so they sell a few pieces of itS in galleries at astronomical prices. Others produce cheaper, simpler objects in profitable quantities. Believing the art route too precious but production work too hard, Garry Knox Bennett of Oakland, Calif., has found his own way of getting by, a way he can have the elements he likes from both of those other worlds. What Bennett does is produce related objects in series. He takes a well-known furniture form such as the dining table, and a standard structure such as the tres­ tle. Then, at the rate of one per week, he joins up a series of 12 trestle tables. They're not like any tables you've seen before, no two of them are alike and each of them can stand alone, yet the se­ ries reveals an evolutionary wholeness. "I have an isometric mind," Bennett explains, "so I don't do any drawing ex­ cept right on the wood, at the bandsaw. I figure out the next table while I'm making the current one. In my mind, each one fades into the next." Bennett got started on dining tables when, he says, .. I found out that a tres­ tle table about seven feet long and thirty to thirty-six inches wide can seat any-

Dovetailed cleat glued @T and screwed to cross rail Dovetailed Instead of being mortised, the wal nut stretcher is slotted as if to fo rm a bridle 1 1 joint. The wedge then bears against a Dovetailed pillows, screwed under la rge, horizontal pin. The thin tabletop tabletop, receive cleat. is fa stened to the cross rails with dove­ tailed cleats that slide in little dove­ Cross rail joined to trestle J; tailed slotted pillows, as shown at right. 1i 79 Acacia trestle assemblies, painted white, support a knotty aca­ cia top. The long, wedged stretcher is shouldered top and bottom fo r a snug fit between the parallel crosspieces, whose slotted ends receive glued-in blocks that lock the trestles together.

A brisk scrub with coarse steel wool cleans up the cha insawn surfaces of this walnut pedestal, above. Then Bennett dyes the wood black, applies paste wax, and burnishes with a hard­ wood stick. Right: Wedge bears against cam that's pinned into bamboo stretcher.

80 A glass top with pencil drawer makes a trestle table into a desk . The prism­ where from rwo to ten people, though "What I like best about a trestle ta­ shaped pedestals are walnut, stained ten is pushing it. Trestles look great out black, with cocobolo end caps. The ble is, you put that sucker together and stretcher is bandsawn from an a7uminum at the end of the table, but then nobody whack that wedge, and it really firms bar; its twin wedges bear against a big can sit there. I put them on fo ur-foot up. This series is as close as I've come to cocobolo pin. Bennett also built the re­ de centers, which allows enough room to sit verse i a: a glass top on aluminum loving the process of woodworking, the prisms, connected by a curvy beam of yel­ outboard without knee-banging. And if grunt work." low satinwood. Below, Bennett at work. you hang a little drawer in berween the Though he may complain about shop trestles, the thing becomes a desk." work, Bennett has accumulated a re­ Now 50 years old, Bennett is a shag­ markable collection of heavy-duty ma­ gy log of a man, about as tall and wide chinery and he has become an adept as one of his tabletops. His background craftsman: he imagines what he wants includes a fine artS degree and a number and directly makes it, without fu ss or of years of working as a sculptor, with fooling around. His series of things cus­ many more years of owning and operat­ tomarily move through his shop to stor­ ing a metal-plating and jewelry-manu­ age in the loft upstairs, until he can ar­ facturing business. He's learned how to range places to show and sell, and while work materials besides wood, and with he goes on to the next theme. Before ta­ wood he frequently combines (or con­ bles he elaborated clocks, cabinets and trasts) aluminum, brass, paint and benches. Since tables have come lamps glas�specially glass. and (at this writing) chairs. "I love a glass tableto p," Bennett The way in which Garry Bennett says. "It's thin and it lets you see what's works couldn't suit everyone. Bennett­ underneath, where all that good wood­ the-craftsman produces a run of useful working gOt done. But you can't eat on furniture, in the process discovering and glass. It's smeary and cold, and the wine refining his shop techniques. Bennett­ glasses break when they tip over. Glass the-artist plays with texture, line, color tabletops are a cheap and easy solution and form while exploring a furniture ar­ to a hard furniture problem, which my chetype. Bennett-the-businessman gets tables try to solve with thin plates of a dozen reasonably priced tables to mar­ wood. The tops are a half-inch or five­ ket. And the whole Bennett? He gets to eighths of an inch thick, light like glass. go down to the shop every day, fool Underneath they have rwo lengthwise around with good tools and materials, supports as well as several cross rails, all make some stuff, try the next idea, see held by little sliding dovetail mecha­ how it comes out. 0 nisms that allow the wood to move, yet hold it flat and make it stay put. John Kelsey is editor of FWW.

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82 BooFrom the publisherks of Fine foWoodworkingr wo odand Finewo Horkmebersuilding magazines Introducing a tradition The best way to describe Toshio Odate's new book (Japanese Wo odworking To ols: Th eir Tr adition, Spirit and Us e, $23) is to say it's a lot like his workshops.

During a workshop, Odate will often talk about his own rigorous apprenticeship in Japan and describe many of the traditions of Japanese woodworking. Then, working with a master's speed and skill, he'll show his audience some of what he's been talking about-how to set up a traditional Japanese workshop, for instance, and how to use a variety of tools. Almost always, he will re­ call stories and reminiscences that help his audience understand the spirit as well as the techniques of Japanese woodworking.

Needless to saY, people who attend these workshops come away deeply impressed and hungry for more. For them, and for anyone who wants to understand Japanese woodworking tools, Odate's new book is a marvelous resource.

The book is a kind of extended workshop, with individual chapters on saws, planes, marking tools, chisels, hammers, sharpen­ ing stones and more. Like the workshops, the book blends clear, detailed instruction

ADVERTISEMENT with memories and digressions that help il­ luminate each tool's rich heritage.

The chapter on saws, for example, begins with Odate's own theory about why Japa­ nese saws are made to cut on the pull stroke, and how this simple fact helps account for their unique Qualities. Odate also explains how he came to own two antique ripping saws, and in so doing reveals something about the tools' traditions and his own deep interest in preserving those traditions.

With this as background, Odate turns to the saws themselves and Japanese sawing tech­ niques. He shows you the different ways a Japanese craftsman stands (or sits) when sawing, depending on whether he's cross­ cutting, ripping or sawing tenon shoulders. And he describes the eleven different kinds of saws used to perform these and other operations, explaining what work each saw does best and showing you the most effec­ tive way to use it. The chapter concludes with sections on Japanese sawteeth, the files and techniques you need to sharpen the saws and the procedures for making your own saw handles.

This kind of thoroughness is characteristic of the whole book. Every chapter is equally clear, detailed and complete, and illustrated both with photos and with distinctive line drawings by Odate himself.

Whether you're looking for information about an individual tool or just looking to expand your own woodworking horizons, you can't do better than this very personal, very complete volume.

About the Author

As a young boy, To shio Odate was appren­ ticed to a shokunin, or master craftsman. Under his master's stern guidance, Odate learned the ancient craft of making sho ji (sliding screens). Later, he came to the U.S. to teach Japanese woodworking techniques to Westerners and stayed on to become a sculptor. To day, he teaches sculpture at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, N.Y His work has been exhibited at numerous galleries and museums, including the Whitney and the Guggenheim museums in New Yo rk .

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Listings are fr ee, but restricted to happen­ Nonh Harbor Drive, San Diego, 92 101. 10 WA: Exhibition/lecture-Small fu rnishings, ings of direct interest to woodworkers. Our Exhibit-Furniture as sculpture, Erik Gronborg, Mar. 19-30; Wendell Castle lecture, Mar. 25. Gal­ May/june issue will list events between through Feb. 26, MiraCosta College Gallery, 1 Bar­ lery 181, Iowa State Univ., Ames, 50011. nard Dr., Oceanside, 92054. (714) 757-2121. Apr. andjul y deadline Mar. Our 15 15; J 5. Show-Wood line/East Bay Woodcrafters, Mar. 3-4 . Crafts com tition-Apr. 1-30. Dead­ KANSAS: pe july/Aug. issue will list events between 1731 Clement Ave., Alameda. Contact Dick Comp­ line Mar. 1 1. Gallery of Fine Arts, Topeka Library, june 15 and Sept. 15; deadline May 15 . ton, 4351 Whittle Ave., Oakland. (4 15) 531-6455. 1515 W. 10th, Topeka, 66604. (913) 233-2040. Juried show-3rd Annual, June 14-July 1. Dead­ Seminar-Stretching Your Shop Dollar, Mar. 22- ALABAMA : Show-Panoply of the Arts, May 10- line Apr. 27. Design in Wood Show, Southern Cali­ 23. Contact L. Duane Griffiths, Pittsburg State 13. Big Spring Park, Huntsville. Contact Jean Poner, fornia Exposition, 920 14. (6 19) 297-0338. Univ., Pittsburg, 66762. (3 16) 231-7000. Arts Council, Von Braun Civic Ctr., 700 Monroe St., - Huntsville, 35801. (205) 533-6565. CONNECTICUT: E xhibit American ehairs and LOUiSiANA : F estival-"Mardi Gras" craft exhibit tables, Feb. I-Mar. 7. Elements Gallery, 14 Liberty and sale, Mar. 8-1 1. Hyatt Regency, ew Orleans. ARIZONA : Fair-Mar. 30-Apr. I. Arts Center, Way, Greenwich, 06830. (203) 661- 0014. Juried shows-Crafts, Apr. 14-15, Riverside Cen­ 7383 Scottsdale Mall, 85251. (602) 994-2301. Seminar-Marketing, Mar. 3. Hamden Library. Con­ troplex, Baton Rouge. Deadline for Aug. show, Apr. tact Anita Malone, Coop. Ext. Serv., 670 Winter­ 30. Craftworks, Rt. 4, Box 688, Gonzales, 70737. CALIFORNIA: Show-Tools and supplies exhib­ green Ave ., Hamden, 065 14. (203) 789-7865. its, seminar speakers, Apr. 13-15. Pasadena Con­ Workshops-Toshio Odate, Apr. 14-15; Tage Frid, MAINE: Workshops-High school, summer. New vention Center, 1516 S. Pontius Ave., Los Angeles, Apr. 28-29; Allan Stin, May 5-6. Brookfield Craft England Craft Program . J. Sinauer, 374 Old Mont­ 90025. Contact Ellen Sandler, (2 13) 477-8521. Ctr., Box 122, Brookfield, 06804. (203) 775-4526. ague Rd., Amherst, Mass. 010 02. (4 13) 549-484 1. Workshops/seminars/lectures/exhiblts-Berke­ Show-Apr. 14-16, Hanford Civic Center. ley: Chairmaking, Grew-Sheridan, Feb. 18-19; Conference-Crafts, Mar. 23-24. Conn. Guild of MARYLAND: Show-Knockdown furniture, Mar. Shaker boxes, John Kassay, Mondays, Feb. 27-Mar. Craftsmen with Greater Hanford Communiry Col­ 23-May 6. Appalachiana, Georgetown Square Mall, 12; duck decoys, Chester Wilcox, Mar. 3, 10; mak­ lege, 61 Woodland St., Hanford, 06 105. Call Frank Bethesda. (301) 530-6770. ing carving tools, Bruce Britton, Mar. 10; basic Chiaramonte, (203) 549-4200, ext. 284. Craft fairS-Sugarloaf Mountain Works, Inc., Ijams­ tools, Simon Watts, Mar. 24. Los Angeles: Lapstrake ville, 21754. (301) 831-9191. sailboat, Simon Watts, Feb. 20-24, Feb. 27-Mar. 2; WASHiNG TON, D. C.: Craft show-Apr. 27-29. turning, Jerry Glaser, Mar. 12-26; marquetry, Mar. Depanmental Auditorium, '1301 Constitution Ave . MASSA CHUSETTS: Workshop-Country cabinet­ 17-31. San Diego: Traditional tools, Feb. 21; bent making, Feb. 25. Old Sturbridge Village, Stur­ lamination, Manha Rising, Feb. 25; veneering, Pat GEORGIA : Workshops-Ian Kirby, Apr. 30-June bridge, 01 566. (6 17) 347-3362. Edwards, Wednesdays, Feb. 22-Mar. 21; cabinet­ 17. Deadline Mar. 30. Kirby StudiOS, 811 Atlanta Lecture-Toshio Odate, Mar. 14. Contact Program making, Chuck Davis, Feb. 25-Mar. 31. The Cut­ Rd., Cumming, 30 130. (404) 889-9823. in Anisanry, Boston Universiry, 620 Commonwealth ting Edge, Los Angeles: (213) 390-9723; San Exhibit- 19th-century furniture, through June 10. Ave., Boston , 022 15. (6 17) 353-2022. Diego: (619) 695-3990; Berkeley: (4 15) 548- Atlanta Historical Sociery, (404) 26 1-1837. Shows-"Do Touc h," sculpture, through Mar. 20. 601 1; Phoenix: (602) 997-8665. Seminar-Skills and techniques, Tage Frid, Feb. Juried furniture shows: Interiors I, II, III, Feb.­ Jurled fair-Furniture, toys. Sept., San Francisco. 24-26. Highland Hardware, 1034 . Highland June, slides by Mar. 31. Sociery of Arts &Crafts, Deadline Mar. 10. American Craft Enterprises, Box Ave ., Atlanta, 30306. (404) 872-4466. 175 Newbury St., Boston, 021 16. (617) 266-1810. 10, New Paltz, N.Y. 12561. (914) 255-0039. Craft fair-Mar. 17-20. Atlanta Merchandise Man, Show-Woodworking World, ew England, Apr. Workshops-Fresno: Turning, Bill Livingston, Feb. 240 Peachtree St. N.W. 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Clamping in the Arctic In two days he turned out an attrac­ us in that seminar. tive screen that for the rest of us would The village and its 2300 people sit in It was late fall in Ottawa, a time when have required the full resources of our a region of the Eastern Arctic that even night falls dark and cold behind gray benches, tablesaws, thickness planers, the polar bear shun. The only reason the snow clouds, when I was reminded once clamps, sandpaper and I don't know place exists is because it's where one of again of the most important thing I'd how much time just dreaming up jigs. the main DEW (D istant Early Warn­ ever learned in cabinetmaking . "It's the attitude you bring ing) Line stations of the Cold War was I was attending a seminar on to your work," Odate said. "If built. The radar base now is an ice­ making shoji screens, given by you don't have a tool or space cloaked ruin, made obsolete by spy sat­ Toshio Odate. Sixteen of us or knowledge, there's no point ellites and over-the-horizon radars. were squirming in desperate si­ . . in thinking about it, because But it lives on throughout rhe commu­ lence on cheap, worn-out chairs. when you dwell on what you nity in the form of bookshelves, Inuit The silence was hard, but Odate don't have, the work suf fe rs sleds, and storage boxes for gasoline cans. insisted on preserving it. We were learn­ from the lack of attention." In other The old station is about the only source ing by the ancient method of observa­ words, "do with what you have." of milled wood north of Montreal. Vir­ tion and private thought, a method• old ,-That's a lesson I had learned before. tually every gas box outside each home before Socrates first allowed questions I used to live in a place where cabi­ was once part of the defense against mis­ into the classroom. netmaking is as alien as the art of fire­ siles coming over the Pole. And those There he was, this intense master of walking is to us-rhe village of Fro­ boxes are important-the snowmobile is the delicate with rhe avant-garde artist's bisher Bay on Baffin Island. This land is the main mode of travel here, so you mind, surrounded by the best European a rock sea of rolling hills and shallow have to be able to get at your gasoline. , British wood vises, and lakes that are free of ice perhaps only This was the project, a gas box, clamps so ingenious rhey could have two weeks of the year, where there which I turned to one February morn­ tied down the devil's soul. And what hasn't been a tree growing for 540 mil­ ing. I had a borrowed circular saw, a was Odate using? A 4x4 beam for a lion years. Only the Inuit (Eskimos) hammer so soft that the nails embedded bench, a nail for a vise, and a 5-ft. have tamed it-they've learned and ap­ themselves in its face, two sheets of pop­ length of yellow plastic rope as a clamp. plied what Odate was trying to teach lar plywood ripped from the DEW Line

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Just ery breath is a carefully fil tered effort and it would be fine until next year. finishing some unumal project? Got a through the nose, to keep the air from I regretted pulling those nails out of theory you 'd like to try on the wood­ searing on the way down. It's the kind the DEW Line base. The few in the box working world, a beef you want to air, of cold that makes thought difficult. To seemed almost to rob it of the elegance some news to share? Send text and pho­ tographs (preferably with negatives) to mark a line under such conditions is ag­ of being the only box in North America Notes and Comment, Fine Woodwork­ ony. A X;-in. error in a 2-ft . by 3-ft . joined together by ice. ing, Box 355, Ne wtown, cr 06470. panel is easy at 30 below. -Rick Grant, Ottawa, Onto The wind caused me all SOrts of trou­ ble. It kept lifting the plywood and sending it off down the hillside. For a East African Carving Makonde carvings. Out siders tried to while the desperate chases after a piece copy the Makonde carvings, but their and then the trudge back up the slope When I visited Eastern Afri­ pieces never held the same mystical spir­ kept me warm, but it was tiring. Then I ca in 1970, I was impressed it of the originals. put the climate to use. I dragged Out a -- with the wood sculptures of When I visited neighboring Kenya in lO-gal. bucket full of hot water, and - the Makonde tribe-sculp­ 1980, I saw great numbers of "New" froze the panels to the hard-packed tures created by drug-inspired carvers! Makonde carvings being sold, but it was snow. Then the circular saw could easily A friend told me that the tribe in obvious that these were spiritless repro­ rip through the wood, ice and snow, Tanzania used to give hallucinogenic ductions or attempts at re-creating a more or less along the wavy line I had drugs to budding young carvers when fading tribal art. The old way of carv­ marked on the plywood. they were apprenticed. While in the ing is not done anymore by the Ma­ Still the job took much longer than I drug-induced trance, the carver was konde, so the original drug-inspired had expected. I had to wait 15 minutes urged to "see" the spirits in his work­ pieces are now collectors' items, expen­ every time I clamped (froze) another relatives, ancestors, village spirits and sive and hard to find. The original carv­ panel in place. Wandering sled dogs animals, all entwined with each other. ings, such as the one shown at right be­ needed careful shooing away. Then Each carving was a unique glimpse low, came from deep within the spirit of there were trips inside to warm up and through the mind's eye of the artist. As the carver, while the copies are just an to refill the bucket with hot water. If the carver matured, his dependence on attempt at spontaneiry. you ever try this clamping system, wear the drug diminished until he could in­ This change in the nature of East Af­ steel-tipped boots. I didn't, and the duce a trance by his own will. But he rican carvings is no surprise. Kenya has constant kicking to unclamp the panels carved only while in a trance, for his undergone changes in the past decade. from the ice became painful. conscious mind could never conjure up Nairobi, the capital city, which was The real trouble began when I started the weird and wild figures that we see in frontier-like when I first visited, has be- to nail up the box. First of all, I was trying to end-nail plywood, because there wasn't any wood around for bat­ tens. Second, the nails I had laboriously V> pulled from the DEW Line station were ;:3 X in. too short. I was stuck with six pieces of roughly cut plywood. By now the sun was long gone. But then I remembered the Inuit. The first white men to reach the Eastern Arctic were amazed by what the Inuit had done without steel: bone for knife edges, driftwood for their sleds, and ice to protect their sled runners from the hard-packed snow. A coating of ice is cheap, easily made, and effective. I had been using ice all day. It's fu nny how easily the answer came to me, and how appropriate the solution in a land where you can't survive with a rigid mind. In just a few minutes I had pOuted buckets of water over the joints. By turning the box (which was already get­ ting rigid) on its side and tilting it, I was able to build up thick gussets of ice. Then I cemented the whole thing down beside my snowmobile and banked wa­ ter-soaked snow around it. When my tour of dury ended that Akamba co-op giraffes flank native -like tool, above. At July, the box was still there, still rigid right, drug-inspired"Makonde carving.

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The tools of Black over the price, quickly losing respect for lumber facrories and by professional & Decker, Skil, Bosch and Emco, sold the person who accepts the first offer. furnituremakers. During my stay in the through their agents in Japan, are The predominant carving group in States (1957-60), I had to make some equipped with special motors for our Kenya is the Akamba tribe. Animals are furniture, so I bought a circular saw, lOO-volt, 50-cycle current. I must buy their fa vorite subjects, but their human , router and portable jigsaw. sawblades and sanding belts by mail or­ figures can also be interesting. Some of I left the fu rniture behind but brought der from Sears' catalog, though their tools the carvers have emerged as gallety­ my power tools home, and since then I are not modified with lOO-volt motors. quality sculptors and are building repu­ have constructed a tilting-arbor bench The agent of Rockwell disappeared last tations for themselves in art circles. saw, shaper, belt sander, bandsaw and year, and the dealer of Skil recently Akamba carvers don't use models. lathe, using Gilliom's kits of parts. stopped supplying imported tools. They work directly fr om their mental During the 1960s, portable power Average Japanese houses, especially images and don't even make sketches . tools began to be manufactured in Ja­ in towns and cities, are not big enough The tribe has little knowledge of mod­ pan, but they were used mainly by pro­ for the heavier machines. Our style of ern carving tools. Their tools are hand­ fe ssional carpenters, especially by the house construction avoids basements, so forged common steel and are usually younger, unskilled workers. Then eco­ we don't have basement workshops. A sharpened on any smooth, flat stone. nomic growth and inflation greatly in­ large proportion of people in Tokyo The primary tool is adze-like, a crudely creased labor wages, giving rise to the now live in apartments and worty about forged chisel about Yz in. thick embed­ do-it-yourself idea fo r house repair as making noise as much as having to suf­ ded into a piece of raw rhinocerous hide. well as fo r home furnituremaking. A fe r noise from neighbors. I am fortunate A hole is drilled or Cut into the hide at a variety of sizes of planed wood have be­ to live in a big yard where I have myself right angle to the blade, a wooden han­ come purchasable at many shops, and built a separate workshop building, al­ dle is inserted, and then the whole thing most hobbyist woodworkers now work though I shall have to make a shielding is placed in the sun until it has dried in a hybrid fashion, using at least a por­ for noise in the near future .. rock-hard. There is no way you can re­ table power saw and electric drill. -Dr. F.K. Anan move the wood or steel from that hide! This tool is used to rough out carv­ ings from a small log which the seated Starting in Germany carver holds with his feet. A handmade steel knife is used to whittle out ears, Germany produces some of nostrils, tails and other details. In spite the highest-quality produc­ of rough-sanding, the pieces are amaz­ III tion furniture in the world ingly smooth. I saw a 12-in. giraf fe today. The sound, honest carved and ready for stain in just a -workmanship stems from the three-year few hours. apprenticeship program all woodwork­ Even though carvers are paid by the ers-roof to fu rnituremakers­ piece, they exhibit a timeless patience must go through. Most woodworkers with each figure. I particularly noticed remain in the production fieldafter their this at their co-op in Nairobi. Here the apprenticeships, but some, like Verena carvers work on the ground along both Wriedt (photo, right), yearn fo r more sides of a long center aisle. Sitting el­ independence. The rigorous training, bow-to-elbow, they sometimes break she says, "tends to sap your creativity." into a chant which sets the cadence of Wriedt believes that people don't have their work. No two pieces are exactly to buy things from a production line: alike, since each carver seems to put "My goal is to create a fusion of tradi­ himself into the work. tional craftsmanship with new design, Joseph K. Mbwika, manager of the resulting in a quality piece with lasting co-op, told me that the co-op helps value. Hopefully, people who see or buy and protects craftsmen. When a carver my pieces can fe el the affinity I have fo r completes a piece, the manager takes it the material and the work I'm doing." to the warehouse and credits the man I met Wriedt last summer when I for a set amount of money. The carver wandered into the Haus der Kunst­ can depend on a standard price and handwerker (House fo r Artistic Hand­ doesn't have to take his chances hag­ work) in Hamburg, a three-stoty factoty gling over prices. The warehouse is reg­ that has been converted into workshops ularly tapped by local merchants, as and gallety for several resident artisans. well as by overseas buyers. New York Wriedt, 29, has been in business for a area firms are diligent importers. year and a half. After completing her -Michael DeNike, Wa yne, NJ. apprenticeship in Munich in 1976, she Ve rena Wri ed! and her yew mirror.

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had studied art history at universities in Twelve-legged table students and alumni of the Department Munich and Berlin, then went to Lon­ of Wood of Boston University's Program don to study "fine and decorative arts" This bird's-eye maple library table by in Artisanry, will run through April. for a year at Christie's Auction House. Kurt Holsapple of Germantown, N.Y., Gallery owners Ruth and Rick Sny­ In 1979 she got into John Makepeace's was one of the pieces fe atured when the derman plan to devote the ground floor School for Craftsmen in Wood, which Snyderman Gallery, 317 Sout h St., of the two-story space to regular exhib­ she says pushed her to achieve and come Philadelphia, Pa. 19147, opened last its of work in wood, making it the only up with imaginative designs. October with an exhibit entitled "Art­ gallery in the Philadelphia area where Wriedt's designs are what I call mod­ ists and Designers in Wood." The show you can always find wood on display. ern: the lines, whether curved or straight, included work by 16 woodworkers from The gallery takes pieces on consign­ favor crisp corners. She pays meticulous around the country. "B oston Connec­ ment. For more information contact attention to wood selection, joints and tions," an exhibit of works by faculty, Bruce Pollock, gallery manager. details. Precise dovetails highlight and blend into her work, as do hidden hinges and latches. And there are pleas­ ant surprises: drawers that traditionally would be pulled open often pivot on hidden hinges; a basic cube that serves as a small coffee table opens Out to be­ come a larger coffee table. Allowing customers to play with a number of the pieces on display acquaints people with the ingenuiry of her work. Wriedt has run into several ptoblems in trying to establish her shop. One is lack of competition. There really aren't any other shops in Hamburg where she can go to shoot the breeze and to see what other woodworkers are doing. Ger­ man law and the high qualiry of pro­ duction work are responsible for this lack of competition. You have to be a master cabinetmaker to open a shop, and that means completing the basic appren­ tice program, then five years of practical work experience and two to three years of advanced training-about the same Twelve-legged library table by Kurt Holsapple . length of time it takes to become a sur­ geon. Wriedt is not such a "master," so she had to go into business as an artist, School in Switzerland rather than as a woodworker. While the master system may stifle The little town of Brienz, some workers, it helps consumers: the Switzerland, is famous for its customer generally expects and gets sol­ .. woodcarving and its magni­ idly made fu rniture at a good price. I ' ficent alpine scenery. While didn't find that production or mass­ IIvacationing· near the famous Eiger, produced furniture has the same stigma J ungfrau and Moench peaks, I visited here as it does in woodworking circles the Swiss Woodcarving School there. in America. That's also a problem fo r The state-run school has 24 students, craftsmen. Most people here don't think both men and women, from all over the you can do any better than produc­ country. Generally 15 to 30 years old, tion furniture. they serve a four-year apprenticeship at Despite the obstacles, I had the im­ the school, hoping to become skilled pression that Wriedt's business is doing enough to make a living as wood sculp­ fairly well-that means she's eating and tors. The school distinguishes between paying her bills. Orders are coming in, woodcarvers and wood sculptors: the and word of mouth continues to be her woodcarver copies models, usually a se­ best advertising as she tries to develop ries of little statues or ornaments; the markets fo r handcrafted fu rniture. One wood sculptor makes his own designs. plus seems to be that she is a woman in The school does not guarantee place­ A crest-in-progress at the Swiss school. what is, in Germany, a traditionally male ment in a career in wood sculpture, but occupation. For most potential custom­ graduates have been hired by firms pro­ others have opened their own studios. ers, it is a source of amazement and joy ducing religious statues, furniture orna­ The training program is divided into to see her doing this work. ments and family crests. Some alumni four parts: carving fundamentals, orna­ -Richard ]. Amand, have done restoration work on antique mental carving, the human figure and Hamburg, Germany carvings, church ornaments and statues; animal carving. School days are nearly

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