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Our past customers make our best references! INSPECTION DURING ASSEMBLY TESTING MOTORS BEFORE INSTALLATION EXPECT EXCELLENCE! A Popular Woodworking Project Two Boxes for Allison by John Sainsbury 24 A Popular Woodworking Project Making a Jewelry Chest by Hugh Foster 26 24 Woodworking Basics How to Make the "Basic Table" by Kingsley Hammett 29 Wood Types Pau Ferro by S. Reed Poverny 32 26 A Popular Woodworking Project Wooden Buckets by Warren Asa 34 Clock Kits by John Nelson 39 A Popular Woodworking Project A Dry Sink TV Cabinet by John Nelson 44 44 Handcrafted Furniture from the Sea by Ervin Hickman Focus on Carving 4 Clear Cuts Relief Carving-The Illusion of Distance 10 Book Reviews by William H. McMaster 50 12 Videoscene 16 The Business End 19 Tried and True 60 Out of the Woodwork You don't have to have special cooper's tools to make these decorative buckets . On page 34 Warren Asa shows how to fashion cooperage 6 Letters with ordinary cabinetmaking tools in a challeng ­ 18 Shop Health ing project that's not quite as difficult as you might think. Though they're not necessarily water­ 56 Calendar tight, they are a lot of fun to make. 58 Classified February/March 1988 3 Popular Woodworking Staff Editorial A 1-==_ = = = = = = = = = = =tl'____J"'1I.rn1:e"' ar- =I'_-_ u.........II ~-. '''1u - David M. Camp Editor Wien Chad Managing Editor Boy did we ever mess up! Believe me, the faces aro und here are sure red, and Paul R. Mason Associate Editor it's not j ust from the cold! Debra Nowak Associate Editor As many of you noticed , there was a serious error in last issue's cover story J.A. Newell Editorial Assistant "Build a Box of Dominoes" by Hugh Foster. I am truly sorry if anyone wasted any wood trying to make this project according to the information we presented Contributing Editors: in the article. William H. McMaster The mistak e we made was that we forgot to put a headlin e across the whole S. Reed Poverny page that read, "How Many Things Can You Find Wron g With Th is Article?" Hugh Foster You've seen those puzzles in childre n's magazines where they have peo ple Alan Marks wearing flower pots on their heads and riding bicycles with square whee ls. The challenge is to see how many thin gs you can find wron g with the picture. Well, Art Department that was the idea behind ou r domino project - we just forgot to tell you. Leslie Nau Assistant Art Director Several readers seemed to catch on anywa y and sent in their lists, alon g with HBK Graphics Typesetting suggestions about how to change the article so that you could actually build the Advertising project if you want ed to. Wayne Lin Advertising Director Everyone who wrot e in ca ught the fact that if you make the full sequence of Gertrude Berkowitz dominoes from double zero to doubl e nine, you' ll have 55 domin oes instead of the 40 that the box was designed for. (The author tells me he designed the box Distribution for 40 and ju st stopped drilling holes when he had that man y.) However. there Judy Swager were other mistakes that some readers caught and others didn't. Jack Brown of Circulation Rancho Mirage, Californi a tried the hardest. He was the only one to note the Suzanne Eriksen misplaced arro w in Figure I that refers to a rabbet but points to the cutoff line EGW Publishing Co. Publisher for separating the lid. He also suggests that the rabbet should be 1/4" dee p Popular Woodworking (ISSN 0884-8823) is X 1/2" wide instead of 1/4" wide X 1/2" deep. He'd be right if the rabbet were to publi shed bimo nthly by EGW Publishing Co .. be cut on a table saw; but since we were routing it with the box already 1300 Ga laxy Way. Conco rd. CA 94520. asse mbled, this does not actually co unt as a mistake. He also felt that a 3/8" Second -cl ass postage paid at Concord. Ca lifornia and add itional mailing offices. Forstner bit was not suitable for 3/8 " dowels, but we're going to have to disqualify POS TM AST ER send addres s changes to that one, too. Anytime you want dowel stoc k to fit a certain size hole, you should Popular Wood,,'orking. 1300 Ga laxy Way. drill a hole in a piece of hardwood with the bit you' re going to use and drive the Co nco rd. Ca lifornia 94520. dowel stock through the piece so it will be prop erly sized. Nice try though, Jack . SUBS CRIPTIONS: Earl Dick son of San Diego, A yea r's subsc ription is $ 15.00 : two yea rs' Californi a had the mo st correct Corrected Box of Dominoes worth is $2X.OO; outside of U.S.A . add $5.00/ answers; he even caught the dis­ year. Send all subs cripti ons and co rresponde nce crepancies in the drill ing patt ern Cutting List to: Popula r Woodworking for the two 's and three 's between Finished Size 1300 Galaxy Way Figure 3 and the cover photo (di­ Co ncord. CA 94520 agonal vs. horizontal). He also Qty Part T w L Piece Please allow 6 to 8 weeks for de livery. provided this cutting list that gives 2 A Co pyright © 19XX by EGW Publi shing Co . workable dimension s (I promise) 2 8 Reproduction without prior perm ission is for a box that will hold five rows of proh ibited. eleven domin oes. His box is co n­ 2 c structed by rabbeting all aro und Unso licited manuscri pts. photographs. artwork 55 D and other materials are accep ted. but Popular the top and bottom (C) and ju st the Wood,,'{}/-king ca nnot assume responsibility for ends of the sides (A). 495 E plugs these mater ials. Submissions must be Unfortunately. none of the accompa nied by a 'elf-addressed. stam pe d people who wrote in complained about the missing circled letters in Figure I for envelope for return . identifying the pieces, or the missing piece names in the cutting list. Since no one The opinions expressed by the authors do not caught all the errors, we can't awa rd the prize which was to have been round-trip necessarily reflect the policy of Popular airfare to the offices of Popular Woodwor king and the chance to flog the edi tor. Woodworking. Editorial co rres pondence is encouraged. and may be edited for publication. Direct all advert ising inquiries to: Adv erti sing Director. 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