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15" PLANER

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• Max. thickness of cut - 2"

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MethodsofWork

Questions & Answers

Evens

Books

Truing a plane sole; horsepower ratings; acidic wood

Notes ad Comment

112

114

116

Setting up a guild seminar program; award winners

A pool table is a large projec, but not byond the

reach of the averag e woodworker. Pa ul Bowman

tells how on p.

38. Cover: John Dunham wxes his

blanket ches, which has dovetailed sides and a

wooden hinge (see article on p.

48).

RICLES

38 Building a Pool Table by Paul M. Bowman

Starting from scratch with nuts-and-bolts joiney

Editor Dick Burrows

Art Director Roland Wolf

Asociate Editor Sandor agyszalanczy

Asistant Editors Jim Boesel, Alan Platt

Coy Editor Cathy McFann

Assistant Art Director Kathleen Creston

Editorial Secreay Mary Ann Colbert

Contributing Editors Tage Frid, R. Bruce Hoadley,

Michael S. Podmaniczky, Graham Blackburn, Christian

Becksvoort, Michael Dresdner

C0lSulting Editors George Frank, Richard

43 Covering the rails and slate bed by Eldridge Tucker

45 Finishing with Oil by Michael Dresdner

Modn products for an age-old process

48 Blaket Chest by John Dunham

Dovetails and wooden hinge are easier than thy look

E. Preiss,

52 Sandpaper by Robert Erickson and Jerry Tecklin

A wide variety of grity choices

Norman Vandal

Methods of Work Jim Richey

Indexer Harriet Hodges

55 Abrasives in inishing by Michael Dresdner

56 Tambour-Top Jewelry Box by Jamie Russell

Pull the drawer and the top rolls open

Associate Publsher John Lively

Administrative Secretay Lynn Mefert

59 Complementary Template Routing by Patrick Warner

ight-fitting curved joints from a single pattn

Advertising Sales Manager James P. Chiavei

National Accouns Managers Don Schroder,

Dick West

Assistant Accouns Manager Ben Warner

Senior Sales Coordinator Carole Weckesser

Assistant Advertising Coordinator Kathryn Simonds

Advertising Secreay Sherry Duhigg

Tel.

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Shop-built workhorse for shapin, sharpening and smoothing

(203) 426-3434

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66 Kentucky Cupboard by Warren May

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Fax.

70 Reviving Period Hardware

by Gregory Landrey and Helen Stetina

Hints for restoring the gleam in the maker's ye

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Fine Woodworking, Box

72 Tuning Boxes by Kip Christensen

A perfect fit for lids and inlays

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granted publication rights to

75 Adjusting Bandsaw Wheels by Mark Duginske

Small alignment changes improve perfomance

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78 Making Marble Rolls by Richard Starr

A crooked path to fun and physics

82 Tuning a Japanese Plane by Robert Meadow

Taking the tool to its full potential

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Letters

( W' #72), I feel I must respond to ].

Osicek's letter in the following issue. First, let me assure him

and any other concerned reader that my face shield is certainly

used where appropriate. Secondly, if his concern is about shavings

from the bowl flying out, he will be greatly relieved to know that

the shavings come off the tip of the tool perpendicular to the

axis of the tool, impinge on the wall of the bowl and are cap

tured there by centrifugal force. And because these shavings

don't fly into my face, I don't wear a face shield. Lastly, although

unclear from his letter, if his concern is about the bowl lying

loose from the faceplate and engulfing my head like some car

nivorous creature, a face shield would be of little use in such an

event. This has never happened, needless to say, or I would be

writing about needlepOint, not wood turning.

The whole point of the article was to show that large turnings

can be tackled safely and successfully. Although it doesn't show

in the photo, I am sitting there, with my legs crossed, hollowing

the bottom of a 27-in.-deep bowl. If I weren't comfortable with

the Situation, I would certainly change it. And that most emphati

cally includes eye protection. -james

pt from intelligent and controlled loging and pocesing on a

much smaller scale, leave the trees there. Every day they are

worth more. When the world is prepared to pay the real price

and the benefits low to the country and not to foreign exploit

ers, then the trees can be farmed intelligently.

-. . Hendeson, Rabaul, Papua Nw Guinea

or note-As soon as I saw the November

1988 Smithsonan magazine article on the Steinway piano by

Wendell Castle, I knew it would be on the back cover of

astle piano is

WW s

next issue. Fortunately, Smithsonian writer Edward Rothstein, a

music critic, kept his head while the

W' editors were going

"Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!"

Rothstein is not one of those many who are infatuated with

Castle's work. According to him, the piano body was "artifiCially

'streamlined' -strikingly angular, with sloped side arms bracketing

the keys. It almost looked electronic. And when, past midnight, a

10-year-old prodigy sat down and played it, the sound was brittle

and unsubstantial."

Imagine! Castle (and the current Steinway management, for

that matter) thinking that he could improve on the design of a

musical instrument. Give us a break. The whole incident just

goes to show that when shallow, lashy, narcissistic, pop-art

"deSigners" come up against a test of true cratsmanship, they

fail miserably every time. -Willam

. johnson, Bstrop, Te.

A PNG residenfs view of deforesation-I'd like to respond to

comments on tropical deforestation made by Lucinda Leech in

W' #70, particularly with respect to the logging operations in

Papua ew Guinea (P G), where I live. Leech states that the de

veloping countries she visited cannot simply leave their forests

alone; they need the income from tl1eir timber exports.

There are several fallacies in this argument, and please re

member, I speak only of PNG, having no direct knowledge of

practices in other tropical countries.

Virtually all logging companies are foreign owned, with the

Japanese being the largest group of investors. Apart from the rel

atively low levels of funds paid out in local wages, almost no real

income is derived by PNG from these foreign loging operations.

Gross dishonesty is legion. Should the Ministry of Forests stipu

late minimum selling prices for various species, the companies

apparently falsiy the documens. I've heard of ases, for exan1ple,

where companies call the exotics, such as walnut and black

bean, some lower grade and sell at that figure.

W Thoms, Hilsboro, NH.

( W' #74), I found what I consider several errors

and discrepancies concerning our machine, the RBI Hawk, that I

would like to clariy for your readers.

The testing facility could not have read the owner's manual,

because the specifications in the information table on p. S3 do

not match reality or the information in the owner's manual. The

motor speed

SPM, incorpo

rating a dual-step pulley system that allows the owner to change

speeds in ive seconds. The testing facility also neglected to in

stall the rubber glides for the Hawk 220 saw, as is shown in the

photo on p. SO. The set-up instructions clearly state

s far as I can tell,

lumber dealers all have short rulers, too. It is generally believed

that the real measurement of logs exported is double the submit

ted igures. Invoices for shipping charges, machinery imports,

head-oice charges, consultancy fees and a mze of other coss can

be similarly distorted to ensure little or no profit is made in PNG.

Reforestation is an equally sick joke. Token stands are planted

in visible areas where the politicians may visit occasionally, but

there is no wide-spread program in effect. Natural regrowth is

also not oten successul. The massive damage done during the

initial loging operation normally leaves only undesirable saplings.

These can quickly dominate, and valuable species are simply eat

en by the competition. Selective hand-

o mount the

glides to the feet to level the saw. The end result is similar to

driving your car without tires on it: The car moves, but the ride

is rough and you get vibration.

Another misconception is the stability of the three-legged

stand. The article states that the three-legged stand is better than

a four-legged stand. We feel this contradicts basic physical laws.

How can a three-leged stand with 14 in. to a side be more stable

than a four-legged stand that measures 20 in. by 33 in.? It cannot

be. Try tipping over a three-leged stool with a small base; then

try tipping over a card table with four legs and a larger base. You

will ind it much harder to tip ove- the four-leged, larger base.

The bigest omission is the lack of testing of the scroll saws

nn g can greatly aid the

regeneration of a narural forest, but it is not generally arried out.

The real question is what does P G gain? Is logging necessary

nn CostagUola, Fred Monnes, Alice Saxton, Roen Weinstein; Pu.r·

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4 Fine Wo odworking

t er responds to safety conces-As the "guy with his

head almost in the center of a spinning tree trunk" in the article

on turning large bowls

for its economy? The answer, in my opinion, is a deinite no

certainly not in its present form. In fact, it's probably negative:

There is no signiiant income, and its forests are being destroyed.

BI disputes scrol-aw test-In reading the article "Testing

Scroll Saws"

(SPM) for the Hawk 220 is 700/1,300 and has been

for the last four years; the table tilts 4So both let and right. The

Hawk 220 now has three speeds of 37SnSOIl,5S0

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