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since his father
got him started as a
y
oungster. He's been making custom furniture
full time In hIS Maine workShop for more than 30 years. He also
writes bookS and teaches woodworking, as time permits. Over
the summer, he led a series of three workshops at the Shaker
community at Sabbathday Lake
,
Maine.
In the years since
Steve
Casey
("A Low Console for Home
Theater") created the giant zipper that appeared on the back cover
of Rne Woodworlclngs Design Book lWo, he has turned his focus
toward home theater furniture
,
cabinetry, and case goods. When
not at his studio, he can
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Pacific coast
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always find him online at www.stevecaseydesJgn.com.
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Chris Gochnour
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discovered
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pleasure
of building things by hand as a teen, when he made his own
skateboards and snowboards. His enthusiasm for carving turns in
the Utah powder was eventually replaced
by
a passion for making
fine furniture.
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a hand-tool expert, Gochnour teaches at the Marc
Adams School of Woodworking and writes frequently for FWW.
Mike Zuba
(
"The Rule joint Done Right")
started woodworking
under
the
Instruction of lonnie Bird at the University of Rio Grande
in soutflern Ohio
,
then apprenticed at the shop of LW
.
Crossan.
Today
,
he is a furn
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ture maker at Kinloch Woodworking Ltd
.
In
Unionville
,
Pa.
Knowing how important It Is to learn the craft from a
master
,
he's wasted no time passing on his woodworking expertise
to
his
S-year-.old son
,
Mike Jr.
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work on a piece,
it becomes a part of our landscape. Our eyes can see nothing else. So it is very
difficult to look past our failures or perceived failures and see how lovely a thing
we ha\le wrought. Instead. we focus our attentions on what we missed. What we
could have done so much better.
Three decades ago, a local craft school here In Portland held a get
-
together for
woodworkers. We emerged from the gloom of our shops to blinK and peer at each
other. Our l:Jearde<l countenances looked back, and
we
managed to speak and say
:
-
You, too?"
One
ot
the exhibitors was a guy from Montana named Steve Voorheis. When
I finished raving about his fabulous piece In the show, a wonderfully sculpted
mahogany armoire, he asked me
,
In a conspiratorial tone
,
to come down to the
gallery. He took me up to the S-ft.-tall piece and said, "Look at those dovetails.
I
cut them all on ttle wrong side of the line. There are patches for each JOint.
"
I
was astonished. Here he was admitting his mistakes, and
showing me his
skillful II)(es. And here
I
was
,
with my supposedly critical woodworker
'
s eye
,
and
I
never
saw
them.
I
was so busy drinking
In
the rest of the piece that
I
didn't see,
and now didn't care, that he had screwed up. I was more Impressed by his ability
to recover and to fix and to move on.
10 PINE WQODWORKINl:
Few people halle the skill you woodworkers
have, to build things with your hands and
with machines. Few people have the patience,
the knowledge, the determination, and the
obsession to build the furniture that you do,
and for that matter
,
make the mistakes that
you do. So when you goof, just step away
from the project, Sir or Madam. Step away
and no one will get hurt. It's never so bad
that It cannot be fixed. And few will notice
what you see as a mistake.
-Gary ROgow5kl runs the Northwest Woodworking Studio in Portland, Ore., and is a contributing editor.
Don
'
t wad up y
o
u
r fi
n
is
h
i
n
g tags
1 just finbh!.:d four pk1Uf!.: fra01!.::--
u.~ingRolandJohnson's
reCipe from
FWW
#198
("
l
lot-Rocl
Your
Varnish"),
arxl
it's
a beautiful
and
very easy finish as
descnbed-!.:s(x'·dally
for
hobbyi:--ts
like me.
After completing
the
job
this morning,
J
threw
the used paper towels
in
a
plastic garbage can,
planning to
take
it
to the
dump this
afternoon. Well,
the fire
department just
drove away.
Within six
hour--;,
spontaneous
combustion igoit!.:d the wadckd
towels
inside
the
can. If we had
been out
at the
time, we'd
have
lost
the
entire house.
Asit was, th!.: can
mdted
completely before
1
could
dOllS!.:
th!.:
flames. Hopefully,
my carelessness will help one or more
of
your
readers
avoid a catastrophe.
A.~the article said, always sprtad out wd
finishing
rags
and let
them
dry
completely
before throwing
them
away.
-BASIL PAPAHARIS, New Canaan, Conn.
Ol
d
fli
es
a
s
turnin
g
too
ls?
I wa.~
a
hit
disappointed to see Ernk
Conover recommending
the
u.<;e
of files
to make
wood-turning scrapers CQ&A: "A
turnds
bask
1001
kit
,"
FWW'
#199).
Pi!!.:s
are
really
too
brittle to
use that way safely.
I
have
had
enough
Hies
break on me to
be
rather
leelY of
using them as turning
Sl:rapers
umnodifiecJ.
If
YOllwant
to
use
a file,
temper it
tirst at
aOOm 400
0P
in
a kitchen oven
for about
20
minutes,
then
quench it
in
Water. Another
method
is
to grind
the fit!.:
so th!.: steel
L~bright,
then
heat
it with a
torch
until you see
a
str(Jw-colored oxide
coating begin
to
form, and then quench it.
Another
disadvantage
of using old files
is
th!.: amount
uf grinding that
must
be
done to
eliminate
the teeth
, which will
either score
or
catch on your tool rest.
Bcttcr
sources
forsteel
to
use
for
st:rap!.:fs
an: uld,
incxj:x:n.sivc pin
or
t<lp!.:r
punches (often
availahle in sets), cold
chisels, pry-hars.
or
nKk-drilling hits.
-BRADFORD J. CHAUCER, Sneads Ferry, N.C.
Ernie Conover repll •• : Af:, a
stdo<i.arJ
disclaimer,
I always
used
to
caution
p!.:ople
to armeal files,
and
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at me. Secretly,
I had probably only once
annealed a file. Since the
n I
(and my
student~)have made several
hu
ndred
scrapers out of all manner of Hies, I have
nc"Vcr
had one
break
<Itthe lathe, or
seen
it
happen
.
A:;
for smoothing the surface, it
takes
unly Sl:Conds to dull
the offending teeth.
They don't
have to he rcrnovcd completely.
If
lI-lr.
Chaucer is breaki
ng flles, the
problem may lie with his scraping
tedmk.J.ue. A turning scraper
i.')
ground
t
o, or burnished to, a hUlTCd L·"dgc and
always
used
downhill-that is, at
;1negat
ive
anRie.
It is the dragging burr that
does the CUlling:.
The
rct.leeming quality
of a
scraper
is that when
it
doe.~catch, il
simply pivots away from
the work.
That
said, I only make small
scrapers
from files,
and use them at a
very
~hortAbout your safety
ijHiijiUi',
What do you use to
sharpen planes
& chisels?
40%
W
a
t
e
r
s
ton
es
20%
Sandpape
r
on
g
l
ass
9%
S
grind
low
·
er
sp
ee
d
8%
O
il
s
to
n
e
s
7%
Di
a
mond
s
tones
14%
Most
o
r
a
ll
o
f the abov
e
1%
Oth
e
r
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-c""Xtension
f
rom
th
e too
l
rest An
d
I
agree
t
hat a stronger scrape
r
ca
n b
e
m
a
d
e f
r
om a la
r
ge cement
-bre
ak
i
ng
chisel for a
n
elec
tric
impact tooL
boug
ht for less than
no
at a home
center.
Grind
i
t
to
a
dome shape and
you
have an excellent
bowl scraper that
is easily cantffi fa keep
it
dow
nh
ill
in any
situation
.
T
his
tool
C.1nbe im
proved
h
y
grinding
the shank to fit a piece of steel
water
pipe
a:-. a handl\:, then
using epoxy
to glue the t<XJ1 into
the
pi
pe.
To really
~upup the scraper, fill the p
ipe \vith
kad
~hulto give the
tool m
ore inertia.
Correction
In the Q&A
item "A turner's basic t(x)l
kit,~(FW,\F
1'"1
99), Ihe ialx:ls [ur
the
Y2~in. buwlgouge and the
1;1-io.spindle gouge were
swapped mbtakenly.
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Philip WIlson started
woodwor1dng In
seventh-g)'ade shop
class, building
bOxes and spice
racks. Since then
,
he's moved on to
bigger and better
things, building
hatf of the furniture
In his home, but
he stili makes the
occasional box for
friends or family,
Offset bolts
Bench serves as out/eed table for tablesaw.
Underbencn slofl!ge makes efficient use
~---
of space.and slots help prevent sagging.
Extension slides out to support
sheet goods.
Multipurpose workbench
Chopsaw tableSits flush with
bctlchtop.
is a space saver
My
cotin: shop must
fit
into half
of my
garage, so I
have to
make
the
most
of the available space. Toward
that
end,
I've built
a workbench that also serves as
an
outfeed
table for
my
tablesaw,
aoJ a power-tool
wOrkSl<ltiun
with
interchangeable
moouks.
When in
outfeed-table mode,
J
increase
the
support area
for sheet goods
by
sl
iding out
an
extension. This
dovetailed,
U-shaped frame
attaches to the
apron of
th
e
bench. Slots
in
the
from and hack of tho: extension
allow
it
to
slide
open 16
in.
At the
far end of
the
bench, rYe built a square
op<:nin~ thars designed to receive one of four
tool
m(xiuies:
a
down-draft
sanding
platform
,
a
chopsaw,
a hench grinder,
or
a router table.
Cleats
inside
the
opening
support the modules when they are
dropped in.
I
built the chopsaw
module
so
that
the
table of
the chopsaw
is
e\-'en with
the top
of the
workbench.
My
default
1:-,to keep the down-draft
mcx..lule
in
p
lace
because it
does
not interfere
with
the tab1esaw or
other
operations on the workbench,
When
the
modules
are
n
ot in
use,
I store
them
in
a
rack
on
th
e back wall
o
f
my
shop.
-PHILIP WILSON, Budol. TeKas
,
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J1
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Grooved clamping blocks for panel glue-ups
A
commonproced
u
rt: \vhilc
~dg!.:-g!llingsevera
l
board~into a panel
L~to u,<;c
clamps a
t th
e jo
i
n
t
s to align the
board,;, Bu
t
this often allows glue
to get trapped u
n
der the damp
head. wh
i
ch creates some sticky
.~iruationsand ditllcult deanups. To avo
i
d
thL~problem,
[
use g
r
ooved blocks under the alig
n
ment
damps
_
To make the blocks, I start w
i
th a 4-io
.
-wide p
i
ece of }A-in.-thick scrap. I rout a
1J.i-in
.
-w
i
de
by
lA-in,-deep groove down the
center, then cut 3-in
.-l
ong hlocks from that
workp
i
ece.
During g
l
ue-up, I p
l
ace one blrn:k above
and onr.: block
h
elow
t
i
l!:
g
l
ueii
n
e, wit
h
till'
grooves straddli
n
g
th
e joint so
t
hat no g
l
ue
touches the b
l
ocks.
=9f==
I ,AJign
bloc
K
s so
~-in.gf(J(lves
straddlegJue
l
ine.
I
Quick Tip
BlockS. 3 in.
by4 in.
When the glue starts
to
se
t
, after 30
m
in
u
t
es or
.~o, Ir
emove
t
he hlo
c
ks a
n
d
peel
the so
f
t g
lu
e
off
the join
t
wi
t
h
a
chisel.
-ROBERT HONEYCOMBE, Kitcttcner, On\., Canada
Tightening and loosening bar clamps has been getting more
difficult with arthrltts creeping Into my hands, so IVe started
to use one of those rubber pads made to grip and open jar
lids
.
This kitchen accessory gives an excellent grip on the
clamp's handle.
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FI"E W'OODWORKI:-lG- FORREST McCREADIE, VancoU¥er,Wash.
Easy-access shelf for drill-press accessories
Th
i
s shelf, made from 3A
-
in.-thkk Baltic-bi
r
ch plywoo
d
, keeps bits
a
nd
other accessori
e
s for my d
r
ill press close
by
and
prevent~them from
rolling otT onto
the
tl
oor
.
Hose clampAfter cutt
i
ng the
t
ray
t
o size,
[
used a ci
rcl
e
cutter
t
o make a
.
1
-ln
.
-d
ia.
cutout (to match til!: diameter
o
f
t
he d
ri
ll
-
p
r
ess co
lum
n),
cen
t
ered }
1/2in
.
from the end. Then
Iadded
th
e
lip
and
~~
O~I~t
l
ng
trimmed
t
he end
tocreate the U-shape that
slide.~eas
il
y
over the column.
The two-part p
l
yv.--ood mounti
n
g collar also wa.:;
m
a
d
e
1
using a circle cutrer. Size the illside
dia~n:C:-I:"~IO
~~~~~~
~
~
~
~
J.~_~
match
t
h
e
dr
ill
-p
r
ess column and make
the outside rad
i
us
JA
in. or
1 i
n. larger.
One
half of
~
-~
H
alf o
f
collar
s
c:m
w
ed to
lr
a
y
the collar is screwed
to
the tray, aligned
w
i
th the
i
nside edge
of the cuto
u
t, an
d
the
other half
fit!';
around
!h~column. The assembly is
held fast w
it
h a hose clamp.
-BRUCE MElTON. Roillng Prairie, Ind.
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Tray, 10 In.
DeG<~nell to .:apfure 91""'otSiiwdu'i\:
Making
thecut
from every
angle.
You don't have to
be
big to make a
methods of work
",Ii"""
Repairing veneer with a can
A
good
way
of
repairing
damag~dv\!necr
is to use a
metal can to ,Ruide
ide
ntical
cut~in
the damaged piece
and in the ve
n
ee
r
:-;
h
c
et
for
th
e rcp,ur.
Place
rhe
can over the damaged
area
and
h
o
l
d
it
S(:(ureiy
wh
il
e you cut
a
crisp
l
ine.
Use
a~ ,>malla can
as
pos!Il
b
le
to keep the repai
r area
.~malL If the darroge
ISon the l:dgc or tnd of
the
p1l..~C,jUhl
plal.'C
a
portion
uf
th~can ()\"er
the damaged
area, supponi
ng Ihe
res(o
n
a
S(. •
.lp
of
wood.
Tu dc-dn out the damaged
sectIon.
I
typll"ally
use
a
<:hisel,
but
you also
could use a router with a straight
bit
.~tto
make a cut that''> equa
l LO
the
thickne~,>uf
(
he vcnt:t:r. Nuw,
pla
ce the
can
un
OJsh
eet
of veneer that
matches
the
gr.lLnor
the
workpiece, and
\..'J
t
armmd
it
to
make Ihe
patch.
Trim the patch
if the
repair b
on
an edge,
then
,g
lue
it
i
n
p
lace,
Clamp
the
venee
r
in
place us
i
ng
a wood hlock
as a
caul, with
3p
i
ece o
f wax paper
hetween the repair and the hlock to prevt!n
l
the
hlock from
slickmg.
Wht'n
dry,
sand
lhe palch
flush.
-JOE K.AYE, Phenix. Va.I
Quick Tip
Caddy keeps sawblades organized
Caddy can
be
hung on walL Hardboard disks bet~n blades serve es prote<;tlYe spacers.
Veneer
patc
h
Support blockSawbladt:::;
.I
re expens
i
vt:: and
~d!iilyd:lmagoo
hy
poor l-t"torage and ha
n
d
li
ng
So I
<-"arne
up with a
sawb
b
de
odd)'
that
prott!(;ts
the blades w
h
i
l
e minimil'jng
~llr.tg\!I>pace and
permitting lidnsport
I
Inspect
my
lumber
before I run It
through the jointer
or planer, looking for
any
irit or
metal.
So
I was surprised to
suddenly get
a
chip
In my
Jointer
blades.
After looking more
closely. I realized
that
theend
of
the
plank had a few
small
grains of
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,
T
h
e ca
dd
y
i
s :>
i
mp
l
y
a
piece
of
I;z
-
i
n
.-thick Ba
l
t
i
c-b
i
rc
h
p
lywUlX
I \\
ilh a lA-in -dia
ca
rri
age bolt promlding
sand In
It,
probably
picked up while
it
was
standing
on end
In the lumberyard.
Now I make
it
a
practice to cut off
about
1.4
In.
from
both ends,
just to
be
safe.
_TOM KOVARIK. Gnysgke, IH.
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o
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the
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I
p
l
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b13
1.
ks
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t
he
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l
t
and
separa
l
e
Ih
ern
\\ ilh
I
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the
angle of
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for blade
drift.
J
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lever clamps and rotate
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mher. When
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the
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