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DEPR TMENTS

4 Letters

12 Methods of Work

Sharpening jointer knives; trammel heads; bandsaw fence

16 Questions & Answers

Fixing barred-glass doors; wood storage; dyeing pearwood black

22 Folow-up

Polishing up finishing articles; defining "reader written"

96 Evens

102 Books

Plate-joinr machines, reviewed on p. 60, fr the

small shop a fas, accuate and economical method

of joiney. Cover: Ths pencil-post bed y Christian

Becksvoort graces a oom at the bed-and-breakfst

106 Notes and Comment

Finnish woodworking exhibition; product reviews; dovetail boxes

Bagly House in Freepor, Me. (See article on p. 32)

32 The Pencil-Post Bed by Christian H. Becksvoort

Jigs for machining tapered octagons

38 Shoulder Plane by Maurice Fraser

Unmatched for precise trimming in

90° corners

Editor Dick Burrows

Art Director Roland Wolf

Associ"te Editor Sandor Nagyszalanczy

Assst"nt Editors Jim Boesel, Alan Platt,

Charley Robinson

Copy Editor Cathy McFann

Associ"te Art Director Kathleen Creston

Editori"' Secret"y Mary Ann Colbert

Contributing Editors Tage Frid, R. Bruce Hoadley,

Michael S. Podmaniczky, Graham Blackburn, Christian

Becksvoort, Michael Dresdner

Consulting Editors George Frank, Richard E. Preiss,

Norman Vandal

Methods of Work Jim Richey

Indexer Harriet Hodges

42 Building a Display Cabinet byJeffrey Greef

Production-shop speed with small-shop tools

47 Ebonizing Wood byJohn McAlevey

Home brew lets the grain glow through

49 Black inishes for dramatic accents

50 Aniline Dyes by Michael Dresdner

Coloring wood with moden chemicals

51 Mahogany by Jon Arno

Classic-funiture timbers are getting harder to find

54 Three Benches

Park seating with a Japanese flair by John Goertzel

Walnut settee by the sea by Thomas Hughes

Art-nouveau garden bench by Bim Burton

60 Plate Joiners by Allan Smith

Comparing eight portable slot-cutting m achines

65 Laying Out Compound Joints by Graham Blackbun

Getting an angle on splayed sides

68 Campaign Chest by Vernon Harper

Locking drawers and a drop-jront secretaire

72 Segmented Turning by Michael Shuler

Swirling pattens by cutting and reassembling a single board

76 Lit Cabinets by Scott Peck

Remote-control devices open the possibilities

79 Honeycomb-panel construction

80 Desig Build by Scott Smith

Architects in the shop

Associ"te Publisher John Lively

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Letters

More articles on Shopsmith tools-I see you have excluded

Shopsmith from one of your comparison articles again! Why?

There are thousands of Shopsmith owners out there who read

your magazine, and I can tell you for a fact that we are not happy

with you.

g heads - I'm concerned

about the molding-head cutter described in the article on blanket

chests in WW

gs on hree-cutter mol

#75. The picture on p. 49 shows John Dunham

roughing out the curved sides of the chest with one of these

molding heads, which is fitted with three cutters and designed to

run on a tablesaw. In describing the operation, Dunham states

that the molding-head cutter keeps the work pressed against a

clamped fence, and he advises to "think safety." Well, I did, espe

cially since I suffered a severe hand injury in 1988 while using

such a molding head.

Despite 40 years of injury-free use on a 10-in. tablesaw and a

keen awareness of the dangers of the molding head, I let my

guard down for an instant and suddenly all hell broke loose.

Your recent article on scroll saws (

#74) did not in

clude the excellent model Shopsmith makes. For the money,

the Shopsmith brand is the best deal you can get: variable

speed, 20-in. throat, 2-in. capacity, stand and motor, 60 blades,

153kin. by 203/4-in. table, parallel arms, 450 table tilt right and

left, plus a foot that will tilt to remain parallel to the table,

which I've never seen any other scroll saw do. All this for only

$549. None of the saws you mentioned beat my machine.

-Matt Ko ttman, Derry,

my saw, has a cutting-tip speed of nearly 0.2 miles per second.

Depending on the blade shape and sharpness, depth of cut and

work-feed speed, this tool can generate high horizontal and ver

tical dynamic forces. This cutting tool is perhaps the most dan

gerous in the woodshop.

Dunham's fixture compensates for the workpiece's horizontal

travel caused by the cutter blades. No fixture is provided to keep

the work from moving upward, away from the table surface. All

Dunham has to stop this movement are his hands and fingers,

which might not be suicient if the cutter blade strikes a knot or

hard wood area. One or more dull blades on the cutter head

will cause even greater and unpredictable dynamic forces. Be

cause of the great danger of this and other operations, perhaps it

would be extremely beneficial to readers if WW

Dado sizes with Delta

am - The article on radial-arm

saws in WW

#73 states that the Delta Model 10 will not hold

in. worth of dado cutters. This is incorrect. Delta

specifies that their saw will hold up to 13/16 in. of dado cutters.

This is accomplished by using the thin arbor lange on the inside

and the arbor nut on the outside without an arbor flange.

-Jef Keating,

a, Neb.

To Our Subscribers

Recent issues of Fine Wo odworking have been sent to you

wrapped in a protective plastic bag. Unfortunately, many

plastic products will retain their strength for hundreds of

years ater being discarded. Tests conducted with sophisti

cated carbon-14 tracing indicate that it may take 200 to 400

years to reach full disintegration. The interest in developing

degradable plastics has grown over the past few years, and

quite recently some manufacturers have begun to offer ma

terials that meet the needs of the magazine publishers. The

Taunton Press has been active in locating and testing these

products, and we are pleased to commence using them for

wrapping all of our publications.

What makes these plastics so degradable is the addition of

several new ingredients. One is a starch granule derived

from cornstarch, and there are also some oxidizing agents

formulated from fats and fatty acids. The aim is to provide

additional ingredients within the plastic that will promote

molecular breakdown of the plastic once it is buried in the

soil. The specific processes involve both chemical reactions

and biological activity. The current technology relies on the

presence of both moisture and micro-organisms, and is also

affected by environment and temperature. With this in

mind, it should be clear that the rate of degradation is vari

able, and not subject to clear standards. However, several

tests have demonsu'ated that degradable plastic

established a

specific section to address safety concerns associated with specific

tools and woodworking operations. Readers need to be in

formed and instructed as to how, when, where and why to

achieve safety-only then will they have an intelligent way to

"think safety." -Bill Hayman, Annapolis, M.

Pianos are wonde l but l e n es -s a professional

rebuilder of pianos and a longtime reader of WW

, I was excited

to see the back cover of issue #74. I feel the need, however, to

write a few words of caution, lest every other woodworker in the

country rushes out to perform miracles of cabinetry on old pianos.

First, it should be noted that the Wendell Castle Steinway was

built from scratch, and you can bet that the great technicians

from Steinway had a lot to do with the whole project. Emmett

Day's Steinway, on the other hand, was built in 1927; from the

article, I am assuming that the piano's workings and structure

were rebuilt by a qualified piano technician. Given that it was a

quality instrument when it was new, and assuming that its "di

lapidated condition" was not so far along that restoration was

impossible, Day probably ended up with a fine piano, provided

the work was done correctly.

I would strongly discourage woodworkers from starting such

a project without the close help and support of a qualiied piano

technician. It is too easy to begin with a lousy piano and turn it

into a piece of beautiul urniture, only to find that perhaps thou

sands of dollars of pano work is necessary to give the project

any value at all. Such eforts are a huge waste of time and energy:

n decom

pose completely within three to six years. (In one test, plastic

buried in a compost pile decomposed in 30 days). Yet the

shelf life and strength of degradable plastic are comparable

to conventional plastics. -Philp Va nKirk, Production

Ma nager of Ma gazines, The Ta unton Press

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