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Sept./Oct.1986 , No . 60, $3.75 Chairs ® UJ11M THIS SIDE OUT N __...._ ZIllHItI Call Us Toll Free! Item Description List Sale FOR THE NAME OF YOUR LOCAL DISTRIBUTOR: In Calilornia • II You Live • II You Live LU72M010 10 x40 Gen. PurposeAT B $ 68.58 39.90 Call Toll Free: In This Area: In This Area $ 1 824-0141 -8CJO. 1-8CJO.824-8045 Call Toll Free LU73M010 10x60 Gen. PurposeAT B 79.95 44.90 (Outside NC) LU81 M0 10 10x 40 Gen. Purpo se TCG 69.30 42.90 1-800-334-4107 LU82M010 10 x 60 Gen. Purpo se TCG 86.50 47.90 LU84M01 1 10 x 50 Co mbinatio n 4 & R 74 .51 44.50 LU85M010 10x80 Fi neCutOff ATB 11 0.88 73.50 �as� LM72M010 10 x24 Rip FlatTop 64.85 44.50 PS203 7% x 24 Gen. Purpo se ATB 27.45 18.99 PS303 7% x 40 Gen. Purpose ATB 32.97 24.99 US Virgin 1 Islands- OS306 6" Dado Max. Width of Cut 716" 146.90 109.50 . - OS308 8" Dado Max. Width ofCut1716" 179.90 119.50 •• • � Puerto Rico NOTE: All Saws= and Dado have %' Bore Hawaii � ATB = Alternate Top Bevel 4&R = 4Teeth&1 Raker Tooth TCG TrlpleChlp Grlnd 218 Feld Ave., High Point, NC 27264 W®JirQ](919) 434-317 1 SALE ENDS 1570 Corporate Dr. , Suite G Costa Mesa, Cal. 92626 DECEMBER 31, 1986 (714) 751·8866 Fine __________ cIw orking September/October 1986 Editor DEPARTMENTS Paul Bertorelli Art Director 4 LeUers Roland Wolf 8 Methods of Work Associllle Editors Wired tambours; grinder misting system; featherboard variation Jim Cummins Roger Holmes 14 Questions & Answers Dick Burrows Laminating curved steps; water-repellent finish; taming Osage-orange David Sloan You could think oj a be 108 wildering variety oj jigs Events and Jixtures Jor the myr Copy Editor iad off-angle cuts in a Nancy-Lou Knapp 112 Chippendale chair, but ac Books Assistllnt Art cording to Gene Landon, Director 114 you're better off without Notes and Comment them_ He explains how to Kathleen Creston Designing for the disabled; Design Book deadline; tenon terms do the job in the article beginning on p_ 38. Editorilll Secretllry ARTICLES Cindy Howard The Taunton Press 38 Contributing Editors Making the Chippendale Chair by Eugene E. Landon Paul Roman, publisher; Janice Tage Frid A. Roman, associate pubUsber; The way to a chair is to mind your flats and squares Tom Luxeder, business man R_ Bruce Hoadley ager; Carol Marotti, personnel Michael S. 46 manager; Lois Beck, office Sliding Bevel Gauge by Irving Sloane services coordinator; Jean Podmaniczky Gracing function with form Oddo, executive secretary; Mary Ann Colbert, secretary; Simon Watts Roy Sanderson, maintenance. 48 Wood Screws by George Mustoe Accounting: Irene Arfaras, Consulting Editors manager; Mary Ames, Marie The basics of the basic fastener Seno, Elaine Yamin. Art: Roger George Frank Bantes, design director; Vickie Otto Heuer Joy Stansberry, art assistant. 51 D all screws: who needs pilot holes? Books: Leslie Carola, publish Richard E_ Preiss ryw er; Heather Brine Lambert, as Norman Vandal by Paul Bertorelli soci ate art director; Scott Lan dis, Christine Tinunons, as sociate editors; Nancy Stabile, Methods of Work 52 Pilot bits, another view by Michael Podmaniczky copy/production editor; Mar Jim Richey tha Higham, secretary_ Fulfill ment: Carole E. Ando, sub 53 Chasing Large Wooden Threads by Richard Starr sCription manager; Terry Thomas, assistant manager; An alternative to tap and die Laura Lesando, custOlner ser vice coordinator; Gloria Car son, Dorothy Dreher, Pamela 58 Filling the Grain by David E. Shaw Kaswer, Peggy leBlanc, Denise Pascal, Heather Ricca.rdl, Nan Making wood as smooth as glass cy Schoch, MarcheUe Sperling; Ben Warner, mail-services clerk. Robert Bruschi, distribu 62 by Robert Vaughan Testing Pad Sanders tion supervisor; David Blasko, Mary Ann Costagliola, Linnea You can't judge one by its cover Fine Woodworkillg (ISSN 0361- Ingram, Lisa Nacinovich, Aar 3453) is publishcd bimonthly, Janu Oil Nathensoll. Manufactur ary, March, MaY,July, September and ing: Kathleen Davis, director; 66 Jigsaw Puzzles by Steve Malavolta November, by The Taunton Press, Gary Mancini, manager; Bar Inc., NewtOwn, CT 06470. Tele· Brain twisters can be works of art ba_raBabr, David DeFeo, coor phone (203) 426·8171. Second-ciass dinators; Deborah Cooper, DI postage paid m Newtown, CT 06470, nah George, Margot Knorr, and additional mailing offices. Copy 70 Karen Truchon, production as Thomas Moser by Paul Bertorelli right 1986 by The Taunton Press, sistants; Claudia Blake Apple Inc. No reproduction without per Marketing is as important as making gate, system operator. 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Address all corre· Advertising and Sales: Rich 81 Router tenoning jig by David Marshall spondence 10 the appropriate depan ard Mulligan and James P_ ment (Subscription, Editorial, or Chiavelli, national accounts managers; Vivian E. Dorman, Advcnising), The T:lunton Press, 63 82 Woodwork from the Southwest by Jim Cummins associate sales representa South Main Street, PO Box 355, New tOwn, CT 06470. U.S. newsstand dis Santa Fe gallery mounts a regional show tive; Carole Weckesser, senior sales coordinator; Nancy tribution by Eastern News Distribu· Clark, sales coordinator. Tel. (Qrs, Inc., 1130 Cleveland Road, (203) 426-8171. Sandusky, OH 44870. 84 Guilds for Woodworkers Postmaster: Send address changes to The Taunton Press, Inc., PO Box 355, Newtown, CT 06470. 3 Letters Jay Fisher FWW #58, Letters) does himself a disservice in tiful, expressive articles ...handmade fu rniture is no more ex ( believing himself a pretender. There are no pretenders, only pensive now, compared to earnings, than it has ever been. It's woodworkers and non-woodworkers. If he works with wood the U.S. economy which is "unwoven from the warp and weft frequently, then he's a woodworker. Everyone starts at the be of ... reality, ... estranged from the energy which steams in ginning and few become master craftsmen, so he shouldn't everyday life;" likewise all those people who live in it. But this be intimidated by inexperience or unfamiliar terms. They economy is a strange hiccup in the long history of humanity, a come with time. history in which the artisan has always had his or her rightful As for fear of butchering a hunk of expensive wood, he place. It's still there.The artisan's fine opportunity is to awake should practice techniques on pine and scrap wood, working to it. -Fletcher Cox, Tougaloo, Miss. with hardwoods when he becomes comfortable with the tech niques. A well-fitted and finished piece is "fine woodwork The article "Getting Squared Away" was very interesting. As ing," whether in pine or ebony, and mistakes are the birth much as I enjoy the beauty of a try square with a brass-lined places of wondrous details used to cover them up (and which beam, I think the Stanley all-metal No. 12 square has much to the observer usually believes to be intended decoration.) offer. Definitely not as high in quality or price as a Starrett, it's If Mr. Fisher takes the time to carefully fit and finish his still a very good tool. I have two such squares, a 6 in.and a 10 in. wood, it will be a work of beauty, regardless of what he makes As I don't do any carpentry or any large work, I don't own a or the wood he works with. "Fine woodworking" is a state of framing square. mind-a quest for quality in what one does. Exotic tools and When I wish to check my squares, I place the two squares expensive woods are secondary. I Sincerely hope that Mr. Fisher back-to-back along my 12-in. Starrett steel rule. Then I repeat stops being self-conscious and starts happily (and carefully) the operation with one of the squares and a third square. chiseling away. -Philip Wiener, El Toro, Calif. Checking each pair of squares this way ensures that the angle is 90°. Then, the inside of each square can be checked against I was fascinated by the article in FWW #58, "Ripple Molding," any one of the other two squares. by Carlyle Lynch. Some time ago I came into possession of an -Norman M. Wickstrand, Harwinton, Conn. old spinet-type melodeon, cased in rosewood. Missing was about 18 in. of intricately cut molding. When I inquired of I just finished reading your article on squares, which I en Fww, Jim Cummins referred to me Irv Rosen. In about a joyed. That, in spite of the fact that I'm more interested in the month I received an 18-in. exact duplicate in rosewood from history of tools than in tolerances in thousandths of inches. Mr. Rosen, together with a modest bill for making the cutters Some points regarding the article: You say the distinction and labor.