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NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 1982, No.37, $3.00

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You know how satisfying it is to make something you

want out of wood. Now, Richard Starr shows you how you

can help your child make the things he or she wants: toys,

tables, carvings and more.

WoodworkingwithKids is filled with projects kids have

WoodworkingwithKids will help you and your child (or

Whether you are a skilled woodworker or just a beginner,

actually designed and built themselves under Starr's

guidance. First comes a selection of simple projects geared

to the interests and skills of younger children. Later

chapters present more sophisticated projects for older

kids. In each case, Starr tells you clearly and precisely how

to guide your youngster from his or her first sketch all the

grandchild) get started on a partnership you'll both enjoy

for a long time to come.

To order a copy for yourself, or to senda gift, use the insert

in this issue or call toll-free, 1-80-243-7252, and use your

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way through to the completed project. There are hundreds

of illustrations and a Tols and Techniques section

covering basic information you need to do the work.

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FINE WOODWORKING

Editor John Kelsey

Art Director Deborah Fillion

Associate Editor Rick Mastelli

Assistant Editors Paul Bertorelli

Jim Cummins

Copy Editor Nancy Stabile

Art Assistant Roland Wolf

Editorial Assistant Linda D. Whipkey

Contributing Editors Tage Frid

R. Bruce Hoadley

Richard Starr

Simon Watts

Consulting Editors George Frank

Ian J. Kirby

A.W. Marlow

Methods of Work Jim Richey

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DEPARTMENTS

NOVEMBER /DECEMBER 1982, NUMBER 37

Letters

Design Book Enty Blank

Comment

Methods of Work

42 Books

48 Adventures in Woodworking

50 Events

56 Connections

ARTICLES

62 Art Carpenter by Rick Masteli

The independent spirit of the Baulines Craftsman's Guild

69 Dovetail Jigs by Paul Bertorelli

We test three ixtures for routing carcase and drawer joints

72 How to Make a Molding Plane by Noman Vandal

Sticking with an 18th-century tool

Two Designs for Chests of Drawers

78 Chest of bags by Len Wujcik

79 Open carcase, musical drawers by Michael Pearce

80 The Guild of American Luthiers Convention by Jim Cummins

Cyanoacrylate and fellowship

82 Building a Lapstrake Boat by Simon Watts

A traditional design that's ideal for the beginner

90 Controlling shape: lofting Sea Urchin by Sam Manning

Cover: Art Carpenter bandsaws a part for a

music stand. Above, one of his wishbone

chairs, a design that exemplifies the direct,

personable character of his work. Carpenter,

of Bolinas, Calif, has been designing and

makin g fu niture for more than 30 years, and

throu g h the Baulines Craftsman's Guild has

helped to initiate a generation of woodwork

Turning Tips

91 Advice from a mill man by R. Pey Mercurio

92 A shop-built lathe duplicator by Lawrence Churchil

93 Lathe speeds by R. Pery Mercurio

94 A Chinese Woodworker by Jason Beebe

Looking over Jeng Yee's ancient shoulder

ers. For more on the man, see p. 62.

98 Horizontal Boring Machine by Michael G. Reko, Jr.

A translating mechanism with many uses

101 Fine-Tuning Color Finishes by Don Newel

Get lustrous depth with transparent top coats

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103 Woodworking With Kids by Richard Star

Making what they want introduces children to tools

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106 Seven groups show in Mendocino by Michael Pearce

108 West Virginia crosscurrents by Paul Bertoreli

110 Impressive show in San Diego by Moris Sheppard

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34 Questions & Answers

Letters

I'm glad to see shop injuries and safety being reviewed again

(FWW #36). Hospitals can repair the wound. They don't

prepare you for the emotional trauma of not being able to

recall how it happened for a couple of weeks, and then the

sudden total recall in living color, which you cannot shake,

especially in the early morning hours. This is normal, I am

told, and it is how the mind copes...

-Rod Goettelmann, Vincentown, NJ.

...I take strong exception to the statement that "woodwork

ing tools are responsible for most industrial injuries." This

condemns woodworking machines. The truth is that the users

are responsible for probably more than 90% of the injuries.

One usually finds in court that the user violated at least one

and usually several safety rules which appear in the machine

safety instructions and operating manuals ...and thus was re

sponsible for the injury himself.

-W. McCord, Vemont American Corp., Louisvile, Ky .

Danger: The Makita lO-in. stationary miter saw, model

2400, is a potential guillotine. Today, while in operation, the

heavy spring which supports and rerurns the blade to the

open raised position snapped suddenly. This caused the entire

assembly to drop OntO the work from a height of lOin.

As one's hands are constantly in and about this area, mov

ing debris and making slight adjustments to the workpiece,

the danger is real. . .

Deadfa l chair

by Peter Tarbox

2400 saw has been sold for five

floor, I began imagining ways of making functional objects

out of them, bringing something of the forest and its primal

magic into the human environment. I began making chairs

and stools (above), selling them at craft fairs as a way of

supplementing the winter unemployment checks. As time

passed I became more and more creatively involved and even

rually opted for furniruremaking as a full-time livelihood.

I have always worked on a one-of-a-kind basis, but now

I'm attempting to enter the architecrural seating market (lob

bies, condo gardens, etc.), for which I hope to produce some

standard pieces with the aid of helpers, while COntinuing to

create original designs.

I began making these furnirure sculprures without any

knowledge of the dynamics of wood shrinkage, and many of

my early creations began to develop alarming radial cracks.

After wasting an incredible amount of time and energy on

intersecting steel rods, dowels and other naive schemes to

fight the inexorable progress of tangential shrinkage, I finally

learned that I had to design with cavities that relieve shrink

age stress, or else accept radial splitting. It was probably only

the fact that my· early pieces happened to be out of a very low

moisture content wood (incense cedar) that saved me from

having to relocate south of the border.

-Peter Tarbox, Pasadena, Calif

years with no trouble, so Bennet's broken spring appears to e an

isolared incident. However, Makita would like to hear from any

body who's had a similar bad experience, and so would we.

...With fifty years of experience in shops I have not yet

been injured on a machine. Perhaps the assistance I once re

ceived from a physician may help others.

On this particular job I had been pushing the schedule. It

was a doctor's office, and part-way through the work the doc

tor called me into his existing office, saying he had something

to discuss. I sat down across from him as he sat at his desk,

and waited. He said nothing, simply leaned back in his chair.

After a few minutes, I impatiently inquired what he wanted,

because I still had a lot to do on the job and sitting there was

accomplishing nothing. He replied, "You are working too

hard and I want you to take a few minures to rest." I was

srunned. I told him that I appreciated his concern but that I

was too busy for idle conversation. He insisted that I remain

seated and do nothing.

After a few minutes he offered an explanation for this

strange confrontation: "You are well qualiied in your work

and use power tools as though they were extensions of your

hands.It is a pleasure to watch you work. But, there is some

thing you have either forgotten or never knew. The human

body is capable of sustained activity for long periods of time,

but once it fatigues (the point where training and experience

have no effect), it is only the body's reflexes and instincts for

survival (call it 'second wind' if you like) that protect one

from injury.With sustained activity even these safeguards fail

and an accident is bound to happen. The difficulty is that we

rarely perceive when this threshold is passed."

This is the "why" that may explain Dr.Justis's advice to

never work around machines when you are tired.

-Wiliam Marsela, Lynbrook, N. Y.

One very effective loosener for rusted and corroded bolts is

Coca Cola. A friend even used it to free the piston of a

junked outboard that had long been immersed in sea water.

I have found that Renaissance polish works beautifully to

reduce friction on saw tables, plane soles, saber saw shoes and

other areas....Finally, surgical tubing provides excellent,

even pressure when you're gluing up odd-shaped pieces.

-Tom Mahnken, Del Mar, Calif

I was really enjoying Bruce Winterbon's canoe article (July)

until I gOt to the part about glassing with polyester resin.

That almost blew me out of my chair. Never, never use poly

ester resin to laminate iberglass to woods. You must use ep

oxy. Polyester resin has a shrinkage of around 10%, I think.

Anyway, it's very high. After one or two seasons it is a certain

bet that the skin will delaminate. This is because the stresses

I am a timber faller by trade. Fascinated by the forms and

weathered surfaces of the deadfall logs that litter the forest

-Peter Bennet, Ompah, ant.

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