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Fine
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George
Nakashima
]ANUARY/FEBRUARy
'1979,
No.
14 $2.50
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There's a wealth of infornation and ideas
Our readers tell us they regard
Fine Woodworking
more as a reference resource than as a
magazine because of the timeless and hard·to·find nature of its contents. And because there is
so
much material to cover (new
ideas and techniques pop
up all the time)
we don't intend to
repeat ourselves editorially. All thirte�n back issues are now available and you can have a
complete set for your shop.
Winter
1975.
Number
1-The Renwick Multiples. Checkered Bowls, Tramp Art,
Hand Planes. Carving Design, Decisions, Woodworking Thoughts, Marquetry Cutting,
Which Three?, Library Ladders, A Serving Tray, Stamp Box, All in One, French
Polishing, Birch Plywood, Bench Stones.
niture, Chain-Saw Lumbering,
Rip Chain, Getting Lumber, Sawing
by Hand, Gaming
Tables, Two Contemporary Tables, Wooden Clamps, Elegant Fakes, Aztec Drum,
Gout Stool, Two Tools, Measuring Moisture, The Flageolet, Young Americans.
Winter
1977.
Number
9-Repair and Restoration, Designing for Dining, Tall
Chests, Entry Doors, The Right Way to Hang a Door, Drawer Bottoms, School Shop,
Health Hazards in Woodworking, Basic Blacksmithing, Carving Cornucopia, Carving
Lab, Routed Edge joint, Shaker Round Stand, Cutting Corners, Small Turned Boxes,
Unhinged.
Spring
1976.
Number
2-Marquetry Today, Split Turnings, Eagle Carvings, Hand
Dovetails, Mechanical Desks, Textbook Mistakes, Antique Tools, Spiral Steps, Gustav
Stickley, Oil/Varnish Mix, Shaker Lap Desk, Chair Woods, Back to School.
Summer
1976,
Number
3-Wood, Mortise and Tenon, The Christian Tradition,
Hand Shaping, Yankee Diversity, Plane Speaking, Desert Cabinetry, Hidden Drawers,
Green Bowls, Queen Anne, Gate-Leg Table, Turning Conference, Sttoke Sander, Fur­
niture Plans.
Spring
1978.
Number
10-Two New Schools, Wooden Clockworks, Hammer Ve­
neering, Claw and Ball Feet, Block-Front Transformed, Hot-Pipe Bending, Furniture
Galleries, A Two-Way Hinge, Laminated Turnings, Chain-Saw Carving, Circular Saws,
Louvered Doors, Small Workbench.
Summer
1978.
Number
ll-Harpsichords, Spinning Wheels, American Wood­
carvers, Drawers, Turning Spalted Wood, Scratch Beader, Leather on Wood, Notes on
Finishing, Building Green, Parsons Tables, Hanging a Door, Pencil Gauges, Dulcimer
Peg Box, Tiny Tools.
September
1978.
Number
12-Community Workshop, Greene and Greene,
Holding the Work, Scandinavian Styles, Tambours, Stains, Dyes and Pigments, Spindle
Turning, Cleaving Wood, Whetstones, Sharpening, Cockleshell, Dust-Collection
System, Sanding, Used Machinery, Wooden Wagon.
November
1978.
Number
13-Making Ends Meet, Scientific Instruments of Wood,
Making a Microscope, The Harmonious Crar, Laminated Bowls, Preparation of Stock,
Tung Oil, Relief Carving, Roll-Top Desks, Shaped Tambours, Cylinder Desk and ook­
Case, Basic Machine Maintenance, Portfolio: A.W. Marlow, End-oring jig, Scale
Models, The Purpose of Making, Lumber Grading, On Workmanship.
Fall
1976.
Number
4-Cabinetmaker's Notebook, Water and Wood, Hidden Beds,
Exotic Woods, Veneer, Tackling Carving, Market Talk, Abstract Sculptures from
Found Wood, Workbench, Ornamental Turning, Heat Treating, Mosaic Rosettes,
Shaped Tambours, Buckeye Carvings, Hardwood Sources.
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Spring
1977.
Number
6-The Wood Butcher, Wood Threads, The Scraper, Califor­
nia Woodworking, Bent Laminations, Dry Kiln, Expanding Tables, Two Sticks, Stacked
Plywood, Two Tools, Pricing Work, Going to Crar Fairs, Colonial Costs, Serving Cart,
Woodworking Schools.
Summer
1977,
Number
7-Cooperative Shop, Glues and Gluing, Winter Market,
Three-Legged Stool, Lute Roses, Bowl Turning, Wharton Esherick, Doweling, Spalted
Wood, Antiqued Pine Furniture, Solar Kiln, Carving Fans, ending a Tray, Two
Meetings, Index to Volume One.
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you want. Each back issue is
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7%
sales tax. Make
in the back issues of Fine
Woodworking
Fall
1977.
Number
8-0ut West, Steam Bending, Triangle Marking, Painted Fur­
Winter
1976.
Number
5-Stacking, Design Considerations, Keystone Carvers, Car­
case Construction, Dealing With Plywood, Patch-Pad Cutting, Drying Wood, Gothic
Tracery, Measured Drawings, Wood Invitational, Guitar joinery, The Bowl Gouge,
English Treen, Shaper Knives.
Publisher
Paul Roman
Editor
John Kelsey
Art Director
Roger Barnes
Contnbuting Editors
Tage Frid
R. Bruce Hoadley
Alastair A. Stair
Consulting Editors
George Frank, A. W. Marlow
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JANUARy/FEBRUARY
Assistant Editors
Laura Cehanowicz
Ruth Dobsevage
Production
JoAnn Muir, Manager
Deborah Fillion, Art Assistant
Barbara Hannah, Darkroom
Nancy Knapp, Typesetting
DEPARTMENTS
4 Letters
14 Methods of Work
Advertising
Janice A. Roman, Manager
Lois Beck, Vivian Dorman
&
Answers
34 Adventures in Woodworking
by George Frank: Fernan banks on ammonia
36 The Woodcraft Scene
by Richard Starr: Guitarmaking school
39 Events
27 Questions
Advertising Representative
Granville M. Fillmore
Marketing Representative
John Grudzien
E.
Ando, Manager
Gloria Carson, Marie Johnson
Cathy Kach, Nancy Schoch
Kathy Springer
Subscnptions
Carole
80 Bruce Hoadley:
Wood has to breathe, doesn't it?
82 Editor's Notebook:
A
portfolio of recent work
Mailroom
Viney Merrill
Business Manager
Irene Arfaras
Correspondents
Carol Bohdan, John Makepeace
Alan Marks, Jim Richey
Rosanne Somerson, Richard Starr
Colin Tipping, Stanley N. Wellborn
ARICLES
40 George Nakashima
by John Kelsey: For each plank there's one perfect use
47 Lester Margon's Measured Drawings
48 Tapered Lamination
by Jere Osgood: Slender curves can still be joined
52 Improving Planes
by Robert Foncannon: Eliminating common problems
55 Restoring Bailey Planes
by George C. Gibbs
56 Box-Joint Jig
by Patrick Warner: Router template indexes cuts
58
Five Chairs: One View
by Robert DeFuccio:
A
critique
World Globe
by Steven
A.
Hartley: Jig cuts segments for hollow sphere
Koa Table by
Ben Davies: Cove cuts emphasize joinery
Incised Lettering
by Sam Bush: Boldness is better than puttering
Bolection Turning
by Thomas J. Dufy: How to inlay around a bowl
Air-Powered Tools
by Lyle Laske: What's available and where to get it
Polyhedral Puzzles
by Stewart T. Coin: Sculptural art that comes
apart
Design Sources by
Cary Hall: Conventions stand in for genius
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Cover: Ater they have been air died and
kzln rie, planks are normaly stored stand­
ing on end at George Nakashima's work­
shops. Th e ones on edge, fo regoun, are
about
5
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wide and too long to stand up ­
niht,
despite
16-ft. cezlings. More about
Nakashima on page
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There is no need for Drew Langsner's froe club or maul
("Cleaving Wood," Sept. '78, pp. 64-67) to be "unavoidably
expendable." A properly chosen hickory or dogwood root
maul will endure many years of constant use. It will wear
down only by gradual pulverization and never by the splitting
or shattering that is inevitable in stem-wood mauls.
When you dig up your maul rather than cutting it down,
you have two important factors going for you. First, the cir­
cumference is largely composed of the end grain of the
severed lateral roots ....Second, these lateral roots have their
origin deep within the root stock, thereby binding the head
of the maul together.
To make a maul like this, ind a hickory or dogwood sap­
ling that is about 6 in. in diameter at ground level. Dig out
around it, cutting away the side roots with an old ax as you
go. Hickories will have a long taproot that must be exposed
by pulling the tree over. Dogwoods tend to have only shallow
lateral roots ...and are easier to cut loose. Wash as much of
the dirt and sand of as you can and immediately peel of the
bark. Rough-shape the entire afair with a sharp hand ax and
finish up the handle (about a foot long) with a drawknife or
rounder plane. As always, let it season well before you put it
to work.
Mr. Alexander's shaving horse (" Holding the Work,"
Sept. '78, pp. 46-48) is indeed a fine beast for the chair
bodger, or the cooper who works with short lengths of wood.
But if, however, you need a general workhorse that will take
any length of work and provide maximum holding power,
please go with a dumbhead horse. The typical dumbhead,
pivoting much closer to the business end, gives you a me­
chanical advantage of 4: 1. A bodger's bench, which pivots in
the middle, gives no such advantage. In addition to holding
Dumbhead horse
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the short stock of chair work with greater strength, the open
sides of the dumbhead make life a lot easier when you're
working with 7-ft long rake stails (handles) or shaving down
similar lengths of white oak for making splits.
-Roy Underhzll, Hzllsborough,
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C.
In Sept '78, you permit a reader on page 10 to threaten you
with economic sanction. Will you please cut that out? It em­
barrasses me. There is not an issue of Fine Woodworking that
doesn't contain a sentence or two which alone are more than
With Elmer's Carpenter's Wood Glue
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as useful as having an e<tra "pair
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Unique Clamping System
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sq. ft.
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with vises ad rotating bech
dogs lets you hold large
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4
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Now accomplish
more In your shop
than you
ever thought
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