Fine ood 111 orking Making Tables SEPTEMBER/OcrOBER1979 , No. 18 $2.50 An essential tool for your workshop: Tage Frid Teaches WoodtVOrking A master woodworker explains his joinery in detail. This new book is the first of three volumes from the distinguished craftsman--teacher, Tage Frid. This innovative book is a pictorial step-by-step some of this lore by establishing a woodworking demonstration of essential joinery and tools by the program at the School for American Craftsmen, dean of American woodworking teachers. Frid now part of Rochester Institute of Technology. shows you how to use both hand and power tools Frid taught at both RIT and later the Rhode Island to prepare wood and make all the joints useful to School of Design, and his former students now are cabinetmakers-from the simple tongue-and­ the principal teachers at many of the college-level groove to more complicated dovetails and multiple­ woodworking and furniture design programs spline miters throughout the United States. In this first of three volumes detailing everything The Frid hallmark is to teach virtually all the he has found necessary and useful in his 50 years of techniques and tools available to the woodworker. cabinetmaking, Frid begins where other books Thus his students are able to tackle any woodwork­ usually leave off-at the bench, demonstrating how ing assignment under any shop conditions. and why to make a diverse array of practical joints, Frid has accepted a wide range of woodworking and how to get the most out of the tools required. commissions-from 19th century restorations at Tage (pronounced Tay) Frid learned his wood­ Mystic Seaport to 20th century designs for offices, working as an apprentice and cabinetmaker in churches and homes. Frid's work is also part of the Denmark, a country well noted for its strong wood­ permanent collection at the Boston Museum of working traditions. After World War II, the Fine Arts. He has been a contributing editor to American Crafts Council asked Frid to transfer Fine WoodVvOrking magazine since its inception. TageBook FridI-Joinery Teaches Woodworking 8� x 11 inches, 224 pages 900 photographs, 365 drawings Postpaid Price: $12.00 softcover $16.00 hardcover Available October 15. Please allow 4 weeks for delivery. TO ORDER: Use the convenient order form and postage-paid enve- lope in the back of thi. =g�ine "' .end you, o,de, with payrnentto, (Connecticut residents add 7 % sales tax) ITI Theliumtonn.ess 52 Church Hill Road, Box 355El, Newtown, CT 06470 © 1979 The Taunton Press. Inc. Editor John Kelsey Art Director Roger Barnes Contributing Editors Tage Frid Fine R. Bruce Hoadley Simon WattS Consulting Editors George Frank, A. W. Marlow Lelon Traylor Methods o/Work Editor WqqqWorkingo Jim Richey Assistant Editors SEPTEMBER/OcrOBER1979, NUMBER 18 Laura Cehanowicz Ruth Dobsevage Rick Mastelh Assistant Art Director Deborah Fillion DEPARTMENTS Editonal Assistant Mary Pringle Blaylock 4 Letters Correspondents John Makepeace, Alan Marks 16 Methods of Work Rosanne Somerson, Richard Starr Colin Tipping, Stanley N. Wellborn 24 Questions & Answers Production JoAnn Muir, Manager 33 Books Barbara Hannah, Darkroom Nancy Knapp, Typesetting 36 Adventures in Woodworking by George Frank Cynthia Lee, Production Assistant Jean Melita, Paste-up 39 Events Marketing Director 40 The Woodcraft Scene by Irving Sloane Jack F. Friedman Marketing Representative John Grudzien ARTICLES Advertising Vivian Dorman, Manager 44 Showcase Cabinets by James Krenov Carole Weckesser Advertising Consultant 51 Tapered Sliding Dovetails by Brian Donnelly Granville M. Fillmore 52 The Haunched Mortise and Tenon by Ian J. Kirby Subscnptions Carole E. Ando, Manager 54 More on Mortising by Frank Klausz Gloria Carson, Dorothy Dreher MarieJohnson, Cathy Kach 56 Methods of an Old World Cabinetmaker by Rick Mastelli Nancy Schoch, Kathy Springer MaIlroom 59 Production Problem by Henry Jones Viney Merrill, Manager Roben Bruschi 62 Drop-Leaf and Gate-Leg Tables by Simon Watts Accounting Irene Arfaras, Manager 66 Making the Rule Joint by Alasdair G.B. Wallace Madeline Colby Woodturning Chisels by Peter Child Secretary to the Publisher 70 Lois Beck 74 High School Woodwork by Laura Cehanowicz AssocIate Publisher Janice A. Roman 75 To Finish the Finish by Don Newell Publisher Paul Roman 77 Cabriole Legs by Carol Bohdan 80 Making Cabriole Legs by Edwin Krales 83 Contour Tracer by Carlyle Lynch 83 Cabriole Templates by Charles F. Riordan 84 Paneled Doors and Walls by Norman 1. 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(Four-page insert included.) 3 Letters Last night I was prodding through my Fine Wo odworking .. .. groove n::�:-:::r�/·[�,.·.�-:- in library and ran upon a contribution from a subscriber giving I, I ,:;I �i;�I[- ,s::I: ·�,,;:-::::�,:r:IIt ?'I �=�11".,L l- --�����:r r��t directions for resurfacing sharpening stones ....Many years IJ I, I t ago when my son was about seven years old (my son is now , I I ,I, 50), I was digging through the rubble of a demolished I, II building and picked up an antique Washita stone. It was hollowed yet seemed to be of good quality. We carried the stone home. That evening a half-dozen kids ranging from 5 to 10 years old were playing in the basement near my workbench. An idea struck me. I am a retired printer, active at that time. I tied heavy jute string around that stone horizontally in the same way a printer ties up type. I had a chunk of iron an inch thick and about the size of that stone. I tied it to the bottom side of the stone, fo r weight, then with a string some 3 ft. long, hung it behind a tricycle. Those kids took turns riding the trike in a figure-eight dragging the hollow surface across the basement floor. It took about 20 minutes to wear that stone down to a flat surface. I still have the stone and use it regularly in sharpening woodcarving tools. My father once flattened a stone by holding it against ate boards. I concealed the rod with a wood key glued and the side of a wet grindstone. That also was a success. pressed into the slot. -F. Eldo n Heighway , Phoenix, Ariz . An advantage of this method is that mortises fo r lock and hinges can be cut and the door can be planed to fit its frame Tage Frid's article on wooden doors was especially good read­ without metal interference. The construction requires only a ing. I have made my son fo r his home a door similar to that saw and chisel, a standard brace and bit, and the vise. The shown in figure 3 on p. 79 of the July '79 issue. However, I splines I cut on a table- saw. had a different means of constraining the wood movement Jack A. Freeman, Olmsted Falls, Ohio and hiding the metal rods. I bent 4 in. at each end of the two rods 90° in a machinist's vise to make a U shape. Then I in­ I feel impelled to comment on the design of Simon Watts' serted this into two holes and a slot cut at each end of the library steps Ouly '79). The author comments on a minor door with a backsaw and chisel when the door was still separ- weakness in the back legs, while overlooking a weakness in Elmer's Carpenter's Wood Glue. How the pros make it lookGrabs instantly. easy. Even do-it-yourselfers can do it like pros with Elmer's'" Carpenter's Wood Glue. It's specially made to penetrate both hard and soft woods, grabs instantly, yet you can still realign the joint before it sets. After drying, it forms a heat and water resistant bond thats stronger than the wood itself. Elmer's Carpenter's I/Ik)od Glue is also sandable, paintable and resistant to gumming. What's more, its solvent-free, non-toxic* formula quickly washes off hands and wood with water. Now what could be easier than that? For plans of the Elmer's Dol/house, please send $2.00 in check or money order (no cash or stamps) to. Elmer's Dol/house, PO. Box 157, Hilliard, OH 43026.