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Build a Vanity Table

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About Maple

Sabersaw Evaluation

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DEPRTENTS

16 Methods of Work

Cutting half-blind dovetails; glue pot heater; miter gauge rail trick

26 Questions & Answers

Finish for butcher block; reducing shop humidity; camphorwood

Folow-up

Safety in articles; more sources; search for perfect shop

120 Evens

y oo re ssembles a double-tenon joint for a

small table. The tenons are k

126 Books

s make delighful ho y gts (article on p. 76 ).

130 Notes and Comment

We ekend woodworker secretaire; the brace; product reviews

RICLES

Elitor Dick Burrows

Mlnlging Elitor Jim Boesel

Art Director Kathleen Rushton

AssociJte Elitor Sandor Nagyszalanczy

Assistlnt Elitors Charley Robinson,

Gary Weisenburger

Coy Elitor Carolyn Kovachik

Assistlnt Art Director Aaron Azevedo

Elitoriid Assistlnt Alec Waters

Elitoriid Secretly Claire Warner

Contributing Elitors Tage Frid, R. Bruce Hoadley,

Christian Becksvoort, Michael Dresdner

Consulting Elitors George Frank, Richard E. Preiss,

Norman Vandal

Methos of Work Jim Richey

Inlexer Harriet Hodges

48 Making a Rocking Chair with Dowels by Ken Oldfield

Alignment techniques for drilling at odd angles

53 Woodworking in Alaska by Sandor Nagyszalanczy

Keeping the chips flying in the frozen North

58 What's New with Sabersaws? by Hugh Foster

Orbital action and variable speed rev up familiar tool

Publisher John Lively

Mlrketing Director James P. Chiavelli

Circulltion Assistlnt Brenda Hamilton

Coy/Proluction Elitor Christy McCormick

Mlrketing Assistlnt Sherry Duhigg

Public Relltions Mlnlger Donna Pierpont

Telemlrketer/Customer Service Lori Moir

Alminstrltive Secretly Susan M. Clark

64 Turned-and-Carved Vessels by John Jordan

Hand-tooled details hide the inside stoy

n Inconspicuous Vanity Table by Terry Moore

Hinged lid reveals makeup and miror

A Versatile Timber by Jon Arno

Sometimes fany, sometimes plain, but never dull

73 Maple:

Alvertising Slles Mlnlger Dick West

Nltionll Accounts Mlnlger Don Schroder

Associlte Accounts Mlnlger Barney Barrett

Senior Slles Coorlinltor Carole Weckesser

74 Which maple is which?

Alv i ng Coorlilltor Kathryn Mourruan Simonds

Alvertising Secretly Jennifer Dunbar

Tel. (800) 243-7252

76 Making a Nutcracker by Fred Sneath

An intrepid trio brings a d itional toy to lfe

Fx. (203) 426-3434

80 Building a Thickness Sander

by William "Grit" Laskin and David Wren

A large drum tuns an abrasive machine into a smooth operator

Fine Woodworking is a reader-written magazine. We welcome

proposals, manuscripts, photographs and ideas from our read

ers,

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and return those we can't publish. Send your conu'ibutions to

A Cherry Clothes Tree by Christian H. Becksvoort

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87 Frame-and-Panel Carcases by David Savage

A classic solution for sound construction

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See how he cuts the joint on p. 8. Cove: Nuack

51 Weaving a rush fiber seat

Fine Woodworking, ox 556, Nwtown, Conn. 47-556.

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Telephone (203) 426·8171. Second-class postage paid at Newtown,

Letters

n s about oily ags-I was velY interested

in the letter in WW #82 in which William]. Casmaer of Goleta,

Cal., described how he nearly lost his shop because of a fire

started by oily rags.

s a professional fire investigator, I have oten encountered

[he same scenario that Mr. Casmaer experienced, only with

much more disasu'ous results. My usual reply to inquiries on

how to prevent this type of fire is "read the instructions and

warning labels" on the finishing products you're using. But this

doesn't always cover all the bases!

Recently, I investigated two fires that desu'oyed new homes,

both within two weeks of move in, for a total loss of nearly

500,000. In each case the stain used by the applicator (one a

home owner and the other a profeSSional painter) carried no

warnings about spontaneous combustion potential for the waste

rags. I requested the material safety data sheet (MSDS) from the

manufacturer. The carrier for the stain pigment was mineral

spirits .. . a petroleum-base material that is not spontaneously ig

nitable. There should not have been a problem as there is with

linseed and tung oils.

The problem was the 0.02% cobalt metal, which was one of

the materials in the pigment. This metal is a catalyst. Tests by a

nationally recognized testing laboratY revealed that within 45

minutes of exposure in a test chamber, the fiberglass medium to

which the stain had been applied had reached 750' ...more

than sufficient to ignite rags.

My advice is never U'ust any rag that has any stain or inish

material on it. Place the rag in a water-illed steel container or

lay the rags out in the open flat to dly. Until rile rags are dY,

they pose a potential for spontaneous combustion.

The horror stories could go on and on, but I think readers will

get rile message wirll these two. Be carefu l with any and all fin

ishing materials, even latex. Even though tl)e latex might not cause

a fire, if you get used to handling all finishing materials rile same

way, your chances for disaster should be reduced grearly.

grearly appreciated. -Chyl Yee, a Gmnge Park, ll.

Need more i cles on women woodworkers - M y husband

and I both enjoy your magaZine. We are occasional hobby wood

workers and particularly enjoy the sections on techniques. I

would like to see more articles andJor photographs rlat show

women as woodworkers. I'm sure there are many like myself

who very much enjoy woodworking.

-. Dianne Looker, Wo fville, NS, Canada

Educational bl s rom a ps- I

sugested in the "Notes and Comment" piece in WW #83. My

"junk" has yielded so many rllings for neighbors and myself llat I

could never consider giving it up. I might be like le person who

has a sack labeled "string too shoLt to keep," but I don't unk so.

When Mr. Biagiarelli mentioned rllrowing away pieces of

wood, it occurred to me that I had a better idea for those pieces.

Any piece of wood that will make or yield a %x%x1

Y2 block will

make a dimensional play block. I heard anrllropologist Margaret

Mead once say rllat dimensional blocks were educational.

I've made several sets of blocks using the following dimen

sions that are all multiples of %: % in. and

112 in. widths.

When you use several kinds of wood, it is nice to have the vari

ety written on them. On sets I made for my grandchildren I added

le following: May you always be ... as long lifed as redwood; as

sturdy as the oak; as wily as hickOlY; as useul

11/2 in. thicknesses;

s all woods; as nice

looking as walnut; and reach for heaven like the pine.

- Wa yne French, Shaker Heights, Ohio

n rom coal n ers-In response to

-Bruce . Ryden, Shoreview, Minn.

the articles in WW #83 on rile hazards of wood dust, I write as a

retired occupational phYSician who spent 10 years working in the

coal-mining industry, where dust is a well-documented problem.

I want to stress that rlle dust-collection measures and personal

protection wirll masks described should be considered secon

dary only, and are probably the least effective and important

means of health protection.

In the coal mines, spectacular success in the control of lung

disease was achieved some years ago almost entirely by a two

pronged campaign of engineering action. The first prong is the

suppression of dust production. Water is the agent mostly used

in coal cutting, and while this is not applicable to woodworking,

the principle still applies, as stressed by your writers. The sec

ond prong is air-flow control. In principle, large quantities of

clean air are pumped to rlle dust-producing area and are carried

away with the dust by a different route. The work is arranged so

that workers are always in the clean air side. This is a principle

Are here any women woodworkers? - I enjoy your magazine

tremendously. I've photocopied many articles and tips from youf

magaZine for my woodworking file, but I have one question. Are

there any women woodworkers around like me? I've seen only

one featured in an article. The reason I ask is that it is dificult to

find tools and machinery to fit my petite size needs. I'm 5 ft. tall.

My hand size and height are real problems. If I find a small tool,

say a circular saw, rllat's the correct size, it doesn't have any real

power. I've opted to buy the best and most powerful tools with

in a moderate price range, but the switches are dificult to reach.

My hand position is stretched to the max in order to operate my

circular saw and router, which I don't think is a particularly safe

situation. I don't think I'll ever give up one of my favorite hob

bies, and so I'm looking for tips, articles and equipment for

m . Mary nn a gliola, Fd Monns, Alice

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easier to handle. Any information or tips by small-size

woodworkers on handling large work and machinelY would be

m an 89-year-old pack rat

and I don't think I'll ever stop being one, as Dario Biagiarelli

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