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Fine Woodworking magazine during

Reprinted in full-along with selections from the magazine's "Methods of Work" column

and grouped into sections for easy reference, these articles offer you a rare opportunity to

learn from the masters. Our authors are all serious craftsmen, and the methods they share are

the product of long hours in the shop. Tage Frid, Bruce Hoadley, George Frank, Peter Child,

Ian Kirby-experts like these not only discuss their techniques, but also show you, with the

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ARICLES

1 through 30

Center Insert: Index, Issues

48 Building Stairs

Harry Waldemar shows the old-time way to a custom job

56 A Cabinetmaker's To ol Cabinet by David Powel

Updating a traditional design

59 A Pair of Panel-Raising Planes by Robert Bourdeau

Two is more than twice as good

63 The Planemaker's Float by Jay Sp erling and Bart Chapin

Converting worn-out files into useful tools

64 Carved Signs by Roger Schroeder

Freehand lettering with the Murphy knife

67 A Carver's Tr icks by Eic Schramm

Three methods from a period-furniture maker

Cover: Hafscale model and detad of an

open staircase, made by Hay Waldemar, of

Ardsley, N. . Waldemar uses such knock

down models to teach; he was 40 years a stair

budder befo re retirin g . Above, he demon

strates how to chop the housing in a closed

stringer. For how he budds an op en staircase,

see page 48.

75 Tw o Versatile Vises by Michael Stone

Holding the work where you want it

76 Sharpening Equipment by Rick Masteli

Our shop tests what's on the market

83 Slow-Speed Sharpening by Mark White

Lessening the chance of burning your tools

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On the back cover of issue #29, July ' 81, you carry a photo of

John Brombaugh and a pipe organ he has built. I'm writing

to question the phrase, "one of the few small, relatively new

firms in this country." The organ-building world has under

gone a signiicant revolution in the past 25 years. Relative to

other businesses, there may seem to be only a few, but our

organization, the American Institute of Organbuilders, has

150 member irms and will hold its eighth annual convention

in Cleveland this fall. For those interested, AIO's address is

P.O. Box 3132, Elida, Ohio 45807.

Yes, the pipe organ is a major form of woodworking. In

fact, I had the privilege of restoring the oldest organ in

America, built in 1770 by David Tennenberg. Some of the

pans had been destroyed and I had to reproduce them. I

gained great respect for the skill and craftsmanship of that

builder. In fact, certain parts, which fortunately did not need

replacement, were almost baling as to how, even with mod

ern machinery, I would have gone about making replacements.

-Joseph Chap/ine, PhIladephia, Pa.

Johann Sebastian Bach's own organ at St. Thomas's Church.

Well, they just haven't. The history of that organ is well

documented, and in highly condensed form, is as follows:

First built in 1356 by Joachim Schund. Rebuilt 1489, 1498,

replaced by new organ from Antoniermonche in 1525, re

paired 1538/39, 1580 and 1585. By the end of the century,

the organ was "falling apart," to use the historian's words,

and was rebuilt in 1590. In 1619/20, the organ was rebuilt

again, and enlarged. In 1657 minor repairs, 1670 large-scale

repair. In 1721122, a major rebuild by Johann Scheibe. More

repairs and rebuilding in 1739, 1740 and 1747. In 1755, new

Positiv division, new pedal division. Further repairs and

rebuilding in 1769, 1772, 1773. In 1889, the entire organ was

broken up and replaced by a new one by Wilhelm Sauer; ad

ditions were made by Sauer in 1907.

So much for tracker organs lasting for centuries.

-John S. Carol, Em/enton, Pa.

Andy Marlow has a nice homebuilt stroke sander Uuly '81).

But I must take exception to the business of crowning the

main drums. Approximately 15 years ago, I built a 4-in. wide

two-drum stroke sander. At the time of construction, I had

the pleasure of meeting Dick Merrill of Woodcraft Supply,

the innovator of their Mark II sharpening system. His advice

was, "use only one crowned pulley, and the longer' the belt,

the better. " I built my sander with a lat driver and a slightly

crowned "cocking" pulley. It worked lawlessly. Since then, I

have seen more problems associated with multiple-crowned

pulleys in a drive. With more than one crowned pulley, it is

virtually impossible to align the imaginary centers of the pul

leys to each other. As a result, the various crowns ight each

I am getting slightly tired of those who denigrate all modern

pipe organs, and claim that electric-action organs fall apart in

10 years, while trackers will last for hundreds. It just ain't

true, alas. The pipes and casework are alike in both, will last

about the same length of time, and pipes and cases are often

re-used in rebuilds of old organs. The fragile part of the elec

tric organ is the action-pneumatics, made of leather, which is

admittedly perishable, but there are newer types of electric

action containing no leather.

There is much faking on the whole subject; I know people

who have visited Leipzig, and claim to have heard old

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