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The Shape ofa Violin
MARCH/ApRIL
1979,
No.
15 $2.50
 The easy chair
on the eyes,
the bo
dy an
d
the pocketbook,
an
d it's easier
to make
than you think
-when you know
the secrets.
That's what you'll find when you read
Make a Chair from a Tree: An Introduction to Working Green Wood,
by John D.
Alexander, Jr. It will ease you into a chair you'l) be proud of-a chair to be cherished for more than a lifetime. This highly
illustrated instructional guide tells you exactly how to start with the felling of a tree, splitting and fashioning the parts,
and constructing the chair with interlocking mortise-and-tenon joints that tighten as
the wood seasons. You'll also learn how to strip and weave a bark seat that's as strong
and pliable to work as leather. And you'll need relatively few hand tools to make this
elegantly rugged chair. Author John Alexander lucidly details each step with a rarely
found compassion for the beginning woodworker, yet with new information profes­
sionals will find enlightening. All will benefit from the author's years of research and
experimentation with this almost-forgotten lore. And after reading it, you too will be
able to "bust chairs out of trees and build 'em better than they used to." Get a copy and
illustrations, soft cover,
x
9
inches,
128
pages, over
200
photos and
$8.00
postpaid.
make a chair this spring.
Box 355Al, 52 Church Hill Road, Newtown CT
06470.
Connecticut residents add
7 %
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Editor
John Kelsey
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Roger Barnes
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Contributing Editors
Tage Frid
R. Bruce Hoadley
Consulting Editors
George Frank, A. W. Marlow
Lelon Traylor
Assistant Editors
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Ruth Dobsevage
Editorial Asistant
Joanne Lasher
Corespondents
Carol Bohdan, John Makepeace
Alan Marks, Jim Richey
Roseanne Somerson, Richard Starr
Colin Tipping, Stanley N. Wellborn
Production
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Deborah Fillion, Art Assistant
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Associate Publisher
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Advertising Manager
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Advertising Representative
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Marketing Representative
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Subscnptions
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Gloria Carson, Marie Johnson
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Kathy Springer
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PRIL
1979,
N
UMBER
15
DEPARTMENTS
4 Letters
16 Methods of Work
24 Books
28 Questions & Answers
34
Adventures in Woodworking by Kenny Fisher: Making the big time
36 The Woodcraft Scene by David Habercom: College dropouts
39 Events
82 Editor's Notebook: Mortising machines, tree surgeons, carving duplicators
83 Sources of Supply: Summer Woodworking Courses
ARICLES
40 The Shape of a Violin by Harry S. Wake
44 Stalking Mesquite by Stanley T. Horn
46 Th� Mortise and Tenon Joint by Ian J. Kirby
52 Portfolio: W.A. Keyser
56 Router Tables by Wallace M. Kunkel
60 Treadle Lathe by Jim Richey
Ma/room
Viney Merrill, Manager
Robert Bruschi
Business Manager
Irene Arfaras
Secretay to the Publisher
Lois Beck
65 Freewheel Lathe Drive by Richard Starr
67 Milk Paint by Jon W. Arno
68 Flying Woodwork by Leonard E. Opdycke
72 Routed Signs by Frederick Wilbur
74
Staved Containers by Daniel Levy
76 Carved Shells by R.E. Bushnell
78
Tage Frid: Restoration calls fo r all the tricks in the book
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Gilding by Merlin Szosz
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by Hary Sebastian Wake of San Diego,
Calf , who explains the techniques by
which the violin body is made on page 40.
Cover photos: Gene Truax.
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Letters
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I read with interest the critique "Five Chairs" in yourJan. '79
issue. I realize that commercial designers such as Robert
DeFuccio have to appeal to the lowest common denominator
and that their attitude is heavily influenced by this require­
ment as well as by the limitations of commercial manufac­
ture. I am surprised, however, that you chose to publish this
review without comments since it would tend to discourage
the commission of custom-designed fu rniture .
Both chairs illustrated on p. 60 were made fo r me. Con­
trary to comments by DeFuccio, they admirably ill the pur­
pose fo r which they were designed. Richard Kagan's chair was
developed to be used in conjunction with a backgammon
table and is extremely comfortable even when games go on
fo r many hours. Alphonse Mattia's chair is a companion piece
to a sofa previously made by him and
:
a Victorian period
piece. It is made to my personal measurements, and the up­
holstery is firm at my specific request. I can sit in this chair
and read and be more comfortable than I have ever been ....
-Walter Rich, Phtladelphia, Pa.
priate fo r the curve of the letters.
Carving parallel to the grain is not more difficult than carv­
ing across if a center stop cut is made and the chisel is em­
ployed with a slicing action, rocking side to side. Also, I find
that when carving curved letters, the inside face is much bet­
ter performed using a small firmer or skew chisel. Unless one
has gouges that correspond exactly to the curves of a letter,
the edges of the gouge will score unwanted lines into the side
of the letter. Furthermore, using gouges, the inside face of a
curved letter will be convex, which is undesirable....
-Chstian W. Albrecht, Allentown, Pa.
Lest any readers of
Fine Woodworking
should panic at the
benzene hazard as described by ]. Kelsey in quotes from the
U.S. Department of Labor, they should also know that the
emergency regulation proposed by OSHA of the Department
of Labor was turned down by the courts, which qualified its
supporting data as unscientific and inadequate. Specifically,
OSHA presented a bulging collection of cases, most of which
were irrelevant to the fo cal point: cancer. Benzene, as any
other hydrocarbons fo r that matter, can be harmful. But, if
the OSHA "national emergency" arguments which the courts
rejected had been true, people should have been dying like
lies, and yet only six documented cancer cases were un­
covered in the U.S., and these involved exposures 20 to 40
times as great as OSHA had declared, and fo r periods of 12 to
17 years, every working day... .
The woodworking amateur can be exposed to benzene by
two sources: paint and varnish remover, and less likely, lac­
quers. Most fl ammable paint and varnish removers contain
benzene as a main ingredient. These removers have no excuse
fo r their existence, since nonflammable removers, based on
As Sam Bush points out "Incised Lettering," Jan. '79) , let­
tering is a fo rm of chip carving....The breakout problems he
mentions can be avoided by the proper stop cuts. Before carv­
ing begins, a center stop cut must be made. This is accom­
plished by tapping a vertically held firmer chisel so as to score
a straight line down the center of the particular letter bar.
This cut, though it need not be deep, will invariably prevent
breakout on the side opposite to that which is first carved, as
the chips will break away along the line and will not extend to
the other side causing damage and necessitating glue. The
same end can be achieved when carving curved letters by
making the center stop cut using gouges with a sweep appro-
own lumber rom downed trees and logs.
Granberg Alaskan
MK III lumber mill
Fits any chain saw. No holes to drill; clamps on chain
saw bar. Fits bar lengths 14" to 56". Makes dimension
lumber from logs, rough stock. Mills to desired
thickness 1/2" to 13", widths to 54", any desired
Use your chain saw and The Granberg MK 1/1 to
length. MK
III
is a rugged, precision tool available in
four sizes. Write for the name of your dealer.
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