THE WOODWORKER The Charles H. Hayward Years: 1939-1967 TOOLS & TECHNIQUES: GENERAL TECHNIQUES Woodwork for the Beginner ..............................464 Metal Working Tools for Woodwork .................504 The Technique of Woodwork ............................ 470 Make Your Tools Last Longer ............................506 The Way of the Grain ........................................ 472 Oil and Tools ..................................................... 508 Equipping Your Workshop: Temper in Tools ................................................. 509 Lay-Out of the Workshop .................................. 475 Using the Right Tools .........................................510 Starting at the Bottom: Your Tools: How to Plane Wood .......................................... 477 Tools for Grooving..............................................514 For the Beginner: Tricks of the Workshop: Using the Plane .................................................. 479 Things They Don’t Tell You ................................516 When Planing Thin Wood ................................ 482 Allowing for the Rebate ..................................... 520 Handling the Jack Plane .................................... 482 Workshop Practise: The Perfect Surface ............................................ 483 Useful Hints When Working a Rebate .............. 522 Heart Side and Face Side ...................................486 The Awkward Jobs: Working a Stopped Rebate ................................ 525 Workshop Hints: A Few Practical Suggestions .............................. 487 How to Work a Curved Rebate ......................... 527 When Your Tool Kit is Incomplete .................... 489 In the Workshop: Drawer Making ................................................. 528 If You Have Not All the Tools ........................... 491 Four Centuries of Drawer Making .................... 531 Useful and Practical Notes ................................ 493 Alternative Ways of Making Things: Workshop Hints ................................................ 495 Drawers ............................................................. 533 Things They Don’t Tell You: The Mark of a Well-Made Drawer ..................... 535 Shooting Board Technique ................................ 497 Drawer Making ................................................. 539 Control: Make Both Your Hands Work ........................... 499 Craft Problems: Should Drawers Project or Should The Art of Jointing............................................. 501 They be Recessed Slightly? .................................544 Chart titles are in italic. TOOLS & TECHNIQUES: GENERAL TECHNIQUES Dealing With Drawers ....................................... 545 Making Barred Doors ........................................ 573 Drawer Runners ................................................ 547 The Construction of Barred Doors .................... 577 Things you Should Know About Drawers ......... 549 Woodwork Information Chart: Barred Doors ....... 578 Woodworker Information Chart: Drawers ........... 550 Things They Don’t Tell You: Put Your Furniture Into Condition: Shaped Mouldings for Barred Doors ................. 579 Repairing Drawers ..............................................551 Some Notes on the Fixing Things That Go Wrong: of Glass in Doors or Frames .............................. 583 Door Making..................................................... 554 Beaded Panels .................................................... 585 How to Tackle the Job: Making a Framed Bow-Front Door ................... 587 Fitting a Pair of Doors ....................................... 556 The Bow-Front Framed Door ............................ 590 Door Construction: In the Workshop: Ledged and Braced Doors ................................. 558 Tambors ............................................................. 592 Door Construction: Cleaning up a Shaped Door............................... 595 Framed, Ledged and Braced Doors ...................560 How you can Make Doors Dustproof: Door Construction: Suggestions for Cabinets, Sideboards and Greenhouse Door .............................................. 562 Bookcases .......................................................... 596 Door Construction: Fitting a Hinge ................................................... 599 Diminished-Stile Door ...................................... 563 Fitting Doors .....................................................600 Fitting and Hanging Large Doors ..................... 565 Workshop Hints: Door Construction: When Fitting a Door ......................................... 602 Five-Panelled Door ............................................566 Faults in a Door .................................................. 603 Making a Barred Door ...................................... 569 A Refresher Course: The Awkward Jobs: Fitting Drawers and Doors ................................604 Making the Molding for a Barred Door ............ 571 Stages in Fitting a Pair of Cupboard Doors .......... 601 Examples of Mouldings for a Barred Door, The Making of Pigeonholes ............................... 605 and Stages in the Working ................................... 572 Chart titles are in italic. TOOLS & TECHNIQUES: GENERAL TECHNIQUES Secret Compartments: Equipment for Mitreing, etc. ............................ 641 The Travelling Writing Desk ..............................611 Stuck Mouldings and How to Work Them ........644 Fixing Tops and Plinths ..................................... 613 Workshop Notes: Joints You Should Know About: Methods of Fixing Table Tops ............................616 How to Work Mouldings by Hand....................646 Table Tops: How We Used to Do it: Methods of Construction ...................................617 Working a Pitched and Plinths ................................................................619 Backed Cornice Moulding ................................. 650 Alternative Ways of Making Things ...................... 620 An Interesting Problem: Variations on a Theme: Could You Tackle These Mouldings? ................. 652 Stand Construction ........................................... 621 The Awkward Jobs: The Chamfer in Carpentry ................................ 623 Working a Moulding Around a Curved Edge ... 654 At the Bench: Working a Moulding Around a Curved Corner 657 Chamfer Stops ................................................... 626 Gauging Contours ............................................. 659 Chamfering ....................................................... 629 Gauging Set-In Shelves ......................................660 Points to Know About: Dealing With Shaped Edges .............................. 661 Simple Chamfering ............................................ 632 How to do it: Cutting Shapes in Thick Wood ........662 Working a Wide Stopped Chamfer ................... 633 A Tricky Piece of Work: How to do it: Cutting a Stopped Chamfer ............ 635 Making a Fielded Panel With Shaped Corners ..664 Chisel Craft ....................................................... 636 Woodworker Instruction Chart No. 8 ..................666 Decorative Chisel Cuts ...................................... 638 A Question of Compound Shapes ..................... 667 How the Patterns are Marked Out and Cut .........640 Making Tapered Legs ........................................ 669 Chart titles are in italic. TOOLS & TECHNIQUES: GENERAL TECHNIQUES Moulding a Tapered Leg .................................... 672 A Refresher Course: Tapered Octagonal Legs .................................... 674 Cleaning Up ...................................................... 711 How to do it: Making Tapered Legs ..................... 675 Jointed Boards—Why You Should Always Study the Grain ..................................... 713 Tapered Reeds and How to Work Them ............ 677 A Refresher Course: How to Set Out and Make a Cabriole Leg ........ 679 Fitting Joints and Glueing Up ........................... 714 Cabriole Legs ..................................................... 682 The Technique of Glueing ................................. 717 The Cabriole Leg ...............................................684 German Cabinet Making: An Interesting Joint ...........................................687 Interesting and Distinctive Characteristics ........ 718 For a Table with Skew Legs: A Refresher Course: Corner Joint .......................................................688 Gluing Up ......................................................... 719 Things They Don’t Tell You: Putting Your Furniture Into Condition: Jointing Rails to Rounded Legs ......................... 690 Carcase Repairs ................................................. 722 The Art of Jointing............................................. 692 Your Tools: In the Workshop: Cramping Up .................................................... 724 Assembling Woodwork Dry .............................. 693 When You Haven’t the Cramps ......................... 727 Workshop Practice: The Weakest Link .............................................. 730 Assembling ........................................................ 695 The Glue Block .................................................. 732 Assembling Your Woodwork ............................. 699 The Corner Block .............................................. 734 Workshop Practice:Cleaning Up ....................... 704 Chairmaking: Cleaning Up Joints ............................................ 707 Timber and