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Departments 6 Contributors 8 Letters 16 Methods of Work Spray-finishing small parts; Honing boards; Jig for chopping dovetails
24 Notes & Comment
Thomas Chippendale School of Furniture; Building for an audience
32 Tools & Materials
Benchtop planer handles wide
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90 Current Work e A gallery of our
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96 Rules of Thumb
Four-squaring with hand tools
100 Questions & Answers Hidden-spline miters; Is hickory
Tuning up a jointer, p.
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121 Finish Line
Tips for coloring wood
On the Cover: Mike Dunbar, contributing editor and a master of hand tools, illustrates a variety of hand-tool techniques while building an 18th-century one drawer lamp stand. See p.
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Routers for router tables, p. 86
Duplicating spindles, p. 68
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Jointer Tune-up Table realignment and knife
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Sevenduplicating rules parts 71 for 72 Where Door Meets Door
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Double doors on cabinets, p.
Installing 76 and locks bolts, catches 78
Master a Classic Style Innovative techniques
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Duplicate Spindles by Hand Getting good results at turned
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Tenoning Strategies
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C ontributors For the past couple of years,
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(Rules of Thumb) grew up in Bernardsville, N.J., and received an MFA in photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology. He now operates Lake Woodworks in Rochester, N.Y., where he makes custom furniture, teaches workshops and publishes a quarterly newsletter. Contributing editor ("One-Drawer Lamp Stand") li fe changed course when he bought his first Windsor chai r at a yard sale in Worcester, Mass. At the time he was a college student, with absolutely no woodworking experience, on his way to a degree in French. He studied the chair, trying to figure out how it was made. Hand tools were the answer, and by the end of his senior year, he had orders for 50 chairs. He is the author of seven books, including two from The Taunton Press: Make and Every year at his school, called The Windsor Institute, he teaches 350 students the craft of making Windsor chairs by hand. Dunbar insists that his wife, Sue, "is the brains behind the operation." He and Sue live in New Hampshire with their son, Michael. Carleton Graves ("Duplicate Spindles by Hand") got his start in woodworking by build ing sets for the Bard College Theater while he was studying physics. For the next 15 years, he worked as a computer programmer but dabbled in woodworking all the while. He took the plunge and switched careers in 1995, launching the Anthony Guidice
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and sent shards o f glass, bits of metal and vinegar all over my shop. I was not in the shop when the explosion happened, but I heard the noise from several rooms away. I lost some projects in progress, and I could have lost a lot more if I had been in the shop when the bottle exploded. Please alert your readers. Perhaps a hole in the lid would do the trick. -Tom Horst, Roswell, Ga. C H R IS M I N I C K REPLIES:
You are right. Iron
submerged in an acid, even a weak acid like vinegar, will form hydrogen gas as a reaction by-product. Poking a few holes in the jar lid to allow gas to escape would prevent the bottle from shattering if the mixture produced a lot of gas. However, I have made this stain for the past 25 years and have never had excessive pressure build up in the capped jars; I suspect that my habit of using only thoroughly rusted iron, the kind that falls apalt in your hand, is the reason. Thoroughly rusted iron is primarily ferric oxide combined with a small amount of ferrous oxide. Very little
than this. It does just about everything as long as the machine is properly adjusted and the blade is sharp. I rarely have to change to a different blade. -Walter Stanul, Malden, Mass.
elemental iron is present in the rusty mass to react with the vinegar; thus very little hydrogen gas is produced. Disagrees with sawblade recommen dation-In "All About Bandsaw Blades"
FWW #141 correctio ns-The Incra
( # 140, pp. 86-91), Lonnie Bird im plies that there is no universal bandsaw blade. He encourages readers to buy an arsenal of different blades and change them as often as needed. This might very well be true in industrial situations where economics and production demand tllat specialized blades be used for each type of cut. But for most home woodworkers, it makes more sense not to waste time constantly changing blades, but just leave one blade on almost all of the time. In my own shop and at the college shop I've managed for more than 13 years, we use a single blade (�-in. tpi, skip tooth) on all of our 14-in. bandsaws for just about every cut-from resawing 12�-in. logs to making delicate cuts in \-8-in. stock-all with acceptable results. It's hard to imagine a more universal blade
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