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overlooked hardwoods

Cabinet for home theater

How to finish cherry

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SEPTEMBER/OctOBER 2008

ISSUE 200

features

32

5 Essential Jigs

for the Router Table

Grea

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fixt

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s and

renres

offer

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tter control and

new possih

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BY PETER SCHLEBECMER

Bench Chisels

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real-world

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BY CHRIS GOCHNOUR

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Side Table

with a Twist

Class

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table

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BY CHRIS GOCHNOUR

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Blotch-Free Cherry

We tried every

kn

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approac

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wilh rhe su

refire wi

nnerl'

BY MARK SCHOFIELD

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RULE )OINT DONE RIGHT

A Low Consol

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Cut a Mortise

in Minutes

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The

Rule Joint

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5 Overlooked Woods

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BY ANISSA KAPSALES

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FINISHING CHERRY

up front

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On the Web

8

Contributors

10

Letters

14

Methods of Work

Multipurpose workbench

is

a space saver

Grooved clamping

blocks

for panel glue-ups

Repairing veneer with

a

can

20

Tools & Materials

Beefy band saw fence

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Oneida rolls

out

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sawblade

great

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nery

26

Fundamentals

Get safer

, cleaner cuts

on

your

tablesaw

inthe back

80

Readers Gallery

84

Q&A

Concea

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on

walnut

or cherry

Tips fo

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working witt] bamboo

Cutting

mult

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shapes

on

the

tablesaw

90

Master Class

Pinned

miter combines

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contributors

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WOOd'Norklng has been a part of contributing editor

Christian

Becksvoort's

life

(

"

Cut

a

Mortise in Minutes~)

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

be

found In

the winding canyons along the

Pacific coast

,

at the throttle of a very fast motorcycle, And you can

always find him online at www.stevecaseydesJgn.com.

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Chris Gochnour

("

Bench ChISelS

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)

discovered

ttle

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.

As

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

i

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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saws an

d

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d

e

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iIICI\'S

#1 SFllJNG CA\lINET SA'IIt

(10)

letters

" I

I

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From the Editors

STEP AWAY FROM THE PROJECT

We woodworkers

,

If you haven't noticed, are an obsessl'le

bunch, tuned in to a frequency tew other people can hear, looking tor things few

other people care to notice. We get so invol

v

ed, so wrapped up In a project that It's

not only difficult to stand back, It's dang near Impossible to see the forest.

We are too close

,

of course. After several weeks or months

01

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.~ing

RolandJohnson'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.

As

it 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

YOll

want

to

use

a file,

temper it

tirst at

aOOm 400

0

P

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

for

steel

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

P(JillltT

(11)

MAKE IT A

HANDMADE CHRISTMAS

OZARK FOLK SCHOOL

NOVEMBER 13

·

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Pre·RlgiltRtion

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Adm.iu.lon is $SO per

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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

<It

the 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

;1

negat

ive

anRie.

It is the dragging bu

rr 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

~hort

About 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.1n

be 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

~up

up the scraper, fill the p

ipe \vith

kad

~hul

to 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. buwl

gouge and the

1;1-io.

spindle gouge were

swapped mbtakenly.

Working wood is inherently dangerous. Using hand or power tools

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methods of work

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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 table

Sits 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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Grooved clamping blocks for panel glue-ups

A

common

proced

u

rt: \vhilc

~dg!.:-g!lling

severa

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

.~iruations

and 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.

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I ,

AJign

bloc

K

s so

~-in.

gf(J(lves

straddle

gJue

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, I

r

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.

----Tray clamps around drill·press column.

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- 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 clamp

After 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 }

1/2

in

.

from the end. Then

I

added

th

e

lip

and

~~

O~I~t

l

ng

trimmed

t

he end

to

create 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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Wood lip keeps

items on tray.

Tray, 10 In.

(17)

DeG<~nell to .:apfure 91""'otSiiwdu'i\:

Making

thecut

from every

angle.

You don't have to

be

big to make a

(18)

methods of work

",Ii"""

Repairing veneer with a can

A

good

way

of

repairing

damag~d

v\!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~ ,>mall

a can

as

pos!Il

b

le

to keep the repai

r area

.~malL I

f the darroge

IS

on 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

.~t

to

make a cut that''> equa

l LO

the

thickne~,>

uf

(

he vcnt:t:r. Nuw,

pla

ce the

can

un

OJ

sh

eet

of veneer that

matches

the

gr.lLn

or

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

3

p

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 block

Sawbladt:::;

.I

re expens

i

vt:: and

~d!iily

d: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

the

end

of

the

plank had a few

small

grains of

""".",,,,(1''"'

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,

T

h

e ca

dd

y

i

s :>

i

mp

l

y

a

piece

of

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n

.-thick Ba

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t

i

c-b

i

rc

h

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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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