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June 2000 Popular Woodworking 10 Endurance Test: Delta Table Saw PROJECTS SUPER BACK-SAVING PLYWOOD DOLLY INSIDE! Popular June 2000 #115 WoodworkingThe Skill-Building Project Magazine for Practical Woodworkers Ultimate Mission Chair Comfortable, Stout and Easy to Build 5 Steps to a Perfect Scraper Nick Engler’s Honing Guide Sharpens Every Hand Tool Tiger Maple Huntboard Popular Woodworking ® www.popularwoodworking.com 22 30 54 In This Issue Shop of the Crafters 24 Morris Chair Without a doubt the oversized seat, reclining back and wide 44 arms will make this chair the most comfortable place to relax in your home. Stickley Side Table 30 This reproduction of an L. & 32 J.G. Stickley side table is an ex- cellent project for beginners and is sturdy enough to dance on. Dry Sink Plant Stand 32 A little routing and some solder- ing are enough to build this wa- tertight plant stand that looks good indoors and out. The Way Wood Works 36 To properly design and build a project, you need to know wood’s strengths, weaknesses and how much it’s going to move. Nick Engler shows you how to avert disaster by follow- ing three simple rules. By Nick Engler 2 POPULAR WOODWORKING June 2000 America’s BEST Project Magazine! In Every Issue Out On a Limb 6 Remembering R.J. DeCristoforo Letters 8 Mail from readers Ingenious Jigs 12 Nick Engler lets you in on the secret to the Scary Sharp method and shows you how to build a honing guide that will sharpen almost everything Tricks of the Trade 18 Enhance your $19.99 Dovetail Jig, find the centers of large circles,and an amazing trick to cut fractions in 40 48 half Projects From 22 the Past Picnic Table Flexner on Finishing 70 How to Choose a Paint Stripper 40 The Secret to 54 Plywood Carrier Hand Scrapers Your back will thank you for Endurance Test Thousands of woodworkers building this simple but effective 74 Delta’s Series 2000 Table Saws never use a hand scraper — the dolly for sheet goods. Stop single most versatile tool you grunting when you move ply- 76 Tool Test can own. Learn how to buy, wood and start rolling. Porter-Cable’s new sliding com- pound miter saw, new jigsaw from sharpen and use a scraper this Grizzly Industrial weekend. 56 Frame & Panel By Rick Peters Dresser 82 Classifieds Learn the basics of web-frame Valet construction as you build this un- 84 Caption the Cartoon 44 Men don’t use jewelry boxes, but derstated chest of drawers. The Win a set of Quick Grip clamps we still need a place for our stuff. clean design looks great in your Out of the Woodwork This dresser-top project provides cabin by the lake or your Central 88 From Woodpile to Woodshop a place to empty your pockets. Park West apartment. Six-Legged Shaker Rocker 48 Huntboard 62 Master chairmaker Owen Rein This small-scale sideboard is takes you by the hand and shows On the built using solid wood and tradi- you exactly how he builds his Cover tional joinery throughout. It’s stunning and comfortable rocker. A really com- the perfect place to pour a toddy By Owen Rein fortable Morris after your next fox hunt, or to chair that any serve Thanksgiving dinner. woodworker By Glen Huey can get right the first time. Cover photo by Al Parrish www.popwood.com 3 ® June 2000, Vol. 20, No. 3 www.popwood.com Editor & Publisher Steve Shanesy Senior Editors David Thiel & Christopher Schwarz Associate Editor Jim Stuard Art Director Amy Schneider Contributing Editors R.J.DeCristoforo Nick Engler Bob Flexner Glen Huey Troy Sexton Technical Advisers: Bill Austin Makita USA. Inc. Scott Box Delta International Chris Carlson S-B Power Tool Dale Zimmerman Franklin International General Manager Jeffry M. Lapin Editorial Director David Fryxell Design Director Nancy Stetler CIRCULATION David Lee, Director Mark Fleetwood, Single Copy Sales Mgr. Terry Webster-Isgro, Direct Sales Mgr. PRODUCTION Barbara Schmitz, Director of Manufacturing Martha Wallace, Magazine Production Dir. Matt Walker, Production Assistant Ruth Preston, Studio Manager ADVERTISING National Sales Representative Bill Warren, Five Mile River Assoc. LLC RR1 Box 1400, Stockton Springs, ME 04981 Tel. (207) 469-1981; Fax (207) 469-3050 Advertising Sales Joe Wood, Tel. (513) 336-9760 Fax (513) 336-9761 Classified Advertising Sales Joan Wright, Tel. (207) 892-0673 Advertising Production Coordinator Debbie Thomas, Tel. (513) 531-2690, ext. 219 SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES Subscription inquiries, orders and address changes can be made at www.popwood.com (click on Subscriber Services). Or by mail: Popular Woodworking, P.O. Box 5369, Harlan, IA 51593 or call (515) 280-1721. Include your address with all inquiries.Allow 6 to 8 weeks for delivery. Popular Woodworking (ISSN 0884-8823, USPS 752-250) is published seven times a year in February, April, June, August, October, November and December by F&W Publications, Inc. Editorial and advertising offices are located at 1507 Dana Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45207; tel.: (513) 531-2222. Unsolicited manuscripts, photographs and artwork should include ample postage on a self-addressed, stamped envelope (SASE); otherwise they will not be returned. Subscription rates: A year’s subscription (7 issues) is $19.97; outside of U.S add $7/year. Canada Publications Mail Agreement No. 0546232. Canadian return address: 2744 Edna St., Windsor, ON N8Y 1V2 Copyright ©2000 by Popular Woodworking. Periodicals postage paid at Cincinnati, Ohio, and additional mailing offices. Postmaster: Send all address changes to Popular Woodworking, P.O. Box 5369, Harlan, IA 51593 Canada GST Reg. # R122594716 Produced and printed in the U.S.A. ATTENTION RETAILERS: To carry Popular Woodworking in your store, call (513) 531-2690, ext. 327, or write: Dealer Program, F&W Publications, Inc., 1507 Dana Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45207. Woodworker’s Book Club: 1507 Dana Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45207; (513) 531-8250 Audit Bureau of Circulation membership applied for. 4 POPULAR WOODWORKING June 2000 OUT ON A LIMB Contact Information Steve Shanesy R. J. DeCristoforo Editor & Publisher Specialties: Projects, techniques, article and Taught millions of woodworkers through books, magazines. project selection (513) 531-2690 ext. 238 [email protected] t is with deep regret It was not uncommon Ithat I report to you for manufacturers to David Thiel the passing of one of comment that Cris Senior Editor woodworking’s titans found new ways of using Specialties: Projects, new products and tools, and one of our most their machines that daz- tricks of the trade highly regarded con- zled even them. (513) 531-2690 ext. 255 tributing editors, R. J. DeCristoforo’s first [email protected] DeCristoforo. column appeared in What you may not Popular Woodworking Christopher Schwarz Senior Editor realize about Cris is that late in his career (1994) Specialties: Author he was your champion. under the title “Cris liaison, website, projects, His writings spanned Cuts.” He also wrote photography the entire second half of columns for us on tools (513) 531-2690 ext. 407 [email protected] the last century and and jigs under the head- earned him the well-de- ing, “Tool Talk.” That Jim Stuard R.J. DeCristoforo: 1926-2000 served title, “Dean of first column shared his Associate Editor Home Workshop Writers.” Above all else “system” for approaching any project. Specialties: Projects, Cris wrote for the hobbyist, the “Joe wood- “One,” he stated, “don’t accept the di- carving, turning, project worker” who puzzles out a project in his mensions on the materials list or a draw- illustrations (513) 531-2690 ext. 348 garage or basement. ing, yours or another’s, as bible. Two, most [email protected] His place in the pantheon of wood- projects have a main component that working greats was earned by his genius should . be the basis for accurately de- Amy Schneider for explaining complex processes in clear termining, or checking, the sizes of other Art Director and simple prose. As such, he was arguably parts before sawing. Three, design always Specialties: Magazine woodworking’s greatest educator. And ed- follows function.” and cover design, photo direction ucate he did, publishing thousands of mag- That’s the sort of practical advice you’d (513) 531-2690 ext. 471 azine articles and more than 40 books. get from Cris. The quality, quantity and [email protected] His magazine career began as a con- genius of his work earned his installation tributor to Popular Science in the post- in Wood magazine’s Woodworking Hall of Got Questions or Problems With Your Subscription? World War II years. In 1951 he moved Fame, one of only 16 to thus far be named. To report problems with your subscription from New York to California to prepare a Some of the company he keeps in the visit our website at popwood.com, call our book for Magna Engineering, the parent “Hall” is impressive: Sam Maloof, Norm subscription offices at 515-280-1721, or write to Popular Woodworking,P.O.Box company of the venerable Shopsmith Abram, Gustav Stickley, Wharton Esher- 5369, Harlan, IA 51593. multi-purpose woodworking machine. ick and George Nakashima, to name a few. Our Privacy Promise to You That book, “Power Tool Woodworking for But keeping company with luminaries was We make portions of our customer list Everyone,” was the “how to” bible for the not DeCristoforo’s style. He much pre- available to carefully screened companies Shopsmith machine. The book continues ferred the solitude of his home, the com- that offer products and services we believe you may enjoy.If you do not want to re- today as the holy grail for Shopsmith own- pany of his loving wife, Mary, his three ceive those offers and/or information, ers.
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