Innehållsförteckning för February 2019 från Woodworker's Journal

Want more in-depth details and demonstrations about the projects and skills in this issue? Head over to woodworkersjournal.com, where we bring the articles to life with our More on the Web video features. • Want a closer look at the Router Table Organizer? Chris Marshall walks through all his favorite features. • Intrigued by using your lathe as a drill? Ernie Conover demonstrates many of his lathe drilling techniques. • Interested in upping your miter saw skills? Watch a short video with tips for cutting crown molding. Those are just a few examples of the latest More on the Web videos you’ll find on our site right now. Just pull up the site on your phone, tablet or desktop computer and start watching now.…

Although originally more common in the construction trades, miter saws have easily earned their place in the home workshop. While not as universal as a table saw, a miter saw does a very specific set of cutting tasks faster and, in many cases, better than a table saw. For example, for simple 90° cuts, there’s no need for a miter gauge or fence as with a table saw, and you don’t have to set the blade height. You just place the stock on the saw, line up the blade, and make the cut. Job done. And, while it’s possible to make a compound cut on a table saw by using a miter gauge and tilting the blade, it takes time to set that up and execute accurately. With a miter…

The Rockler Lock-Align Drawer Organizer System includes interlocking tray sections, bins and dividers that can be configured to fit specific drawers and specific contents. The tray sections are 13" long by 11 ⁄ 2" high and can be lined up end to end or trimmed with scissors to fit any drawer at least 15 ⁄ 8" high. Available in single and double widths, they interlock side by side and are made of synthetic rubber to protect tool edges. Both the standard dividers and bins have edge splines and hooked tops that lock into slots positioned every 1" in the tray sections. The removable bins measure 35 ⁄ 8" x 37 ⁄ 8"; two standard bins can fit side to side in the double-width Wide Tray. A Lock-Align System Starter Kit (item…

Scroll Away Home IT’S TIME TO SAY GOODBYE TO 2018 … With this first issue of the year, we have made a few changes in the magazine, in response to research that we’ve done over the past year. For one thing, when we asked readers about scroll sawing, I confess to being surprised at how highly popular it appears to be. The outcome of that research? We have a new department called, um … Scroll Sawing (I’m clever like that). Check it out, and also go online to find a free scroll saw plan from our archives. Ready, set … SAW! And don’t worry if you’re still easing into the new year: our focus on bread-and-butter woodworking projects and information remains the same. It is our goal to give you…

White House Collection is on Display Again “The White House Collection of American Crafts: 25th Anniversary Exhibit,” is on display for the first time in 18 years until March 31. The collection features 73 works created by 78 American artists, who ranged from emerging to established in the 1990s. Among those artists are woodworker Sam Maloof and glass sculptor Dale Chihuly. Clay, fiber and metal works are also represented. Assembled in 1993, the year designated “The Year of American Craft: A Celebration of the Creative Works of the Hand,” by a Joint Resolution of Congress and a Presidential Proclamation by President George H.W. Bush, the exhibition debuted during the Clinton family’s first holiday season in the White House. Objects were installed in public and private rooms. The exhibit is on…

A marking knife is a simple tool that every woodworker needs for accurate scribing and cutting of joinery. There is a wide variety of marking knives available, ranging from a $250 kiridashi handmade by Japanese artisans to a $10 tool bought on the Internet. Although a high-end blade can be well worth the money, there is a sense of pride that comes from making and using your own tools. The marking knife outlined in my process is, of course, no comparison to blades made by master craftsmen, but for $3.50 and a few hours of time, it is a trusted tool that performs well for me. I was first introduced to handmade marking knives while studying under Tak Yoshino at the Mount Fuji School of Fine Woodworking in Yamanashi, Japan.…

Crown molding can be tricky. Multiple angles, inside or outside, left or right – no wonder it’s confusing. If your miter saw has a tall fence, you simply place the molding against the fence exactly as it will mount on your wall, adjust the miter angle to 45°, and cut. But that does require enough fence and clearance under the cutterhead, and holding the molding at the correct orientation against the fence isn’t always easy. But with the most common miter saw around — a single-bevel compound model — you cut molding with the back side flat on the table, meaning it’s easier to hold and you can cut moldings a lot wider than many saw fences can handle. Assuming your walls have accurate 90° corners, for the most frequently…

Submit your Trivia to Woodworker’s Journal, Dept. Trivia, 4365 Willow Drive, Medina, MN 55340. Or send us an email: trivia@woodworkersjournal.com Your Trivia Test: Q Where is the lifesize bronze statue of a Women’s Timber Corps member located? Answer The lifesize “Lumberjill” statue is in Queen Elizabeth Forest Park near Aberfoyle, Scotland. It was dedicated in 2007. Kimberly Sutherland of Smoot, Wyoming, will receive a Armor Tool Auto-Jig Pocket Hole System for having a contribution selected for the Trivia page.…

Scrap Wood Tool Chest Just wanted to share a tool chest that I recently built with my own design from some scrap pieces in my shop. Doug ChasseKittanning, PA First Try with Live Edge My German grandfather was a cabinetmaker. The genes went to work, and I made my first piece of furniture in eighth grade shop class. For a long time, I thought antique reproductions were the thing to make. Then, about the time “free edge” pieces started showing up, a builder friend gave me a walnut tree from a lot he was clearing. I harvested it, had it slabbed and ended up with some really pretty pieces of wood. The first use of the wood was to make some coffee tables (one for the builder also). I thought…

The mystery tool from our October 2018 issue, belonging to Ray Consilvio of Croton-on-Hudson, New York, “looks like a bottle capper or corker,” said Randy Waldrip of Metamora, Illinois. “The bottle capper would be smaller, as the corker would be tall enough to fit a wine bottle under the plunger,” said Bruce Dumelin of Hinesburg, Vermont. Uses? Randall Wood of Cockeysville, Maryland, says, “homemade ketchup.” Victor Frausini of Waterford, Connecticut, guesses, “probably used by moonshiners.” Larry White of Delta, Colorado, remembers that, “We’d make homemade root beer.” And Jim Davis of Charlottesville, Virginia, said, “looks like what my dad used to put the caps on his good ol’ homebrew.” Back to the tool, which is most likely “a vintage French style wine bottle corker,” as identified by Ben Hughes of…

James Krenov was renowned for his elegant cabinet work, and he used mostly knife hinges (custom-made by a small shop) for hanging cabinet doors. In The Fine Art of Cabinetmaking, he notes that such hinges “are easy to fit neatly, and give me a wide choice in the way I fit and hang my doors — which in turn allows me more freedom in composing cabinets and the like.” When I build heirloom quality cabinets, I follow his knife-hinged approach, but I only use double-offset knife hinges because I prefer inset doors, a hallmark of fine cabinetry. The trick to mastering the knife hinge installation is to use a pair of marking gauges, as you will see. Here is a Krenov-style cabinet I recently made using mostly hand tools —…

If the area inside the base of your router table is empty, you’re missing an opportunity for better storage. After all, there are accessories that go along with table routing — bits, wrenches, bit insert rings and featherboards, to name a few. You might also have a box joint jig, other boxed sets of specialized bits or guide collars, push pads and various odds and ends that could really use a drawer. While sizing up my Rockler router table recently, I set out to give that empty “real estate” under the tabletop more productive purpose. Made of 1/2" and 3/4" Baltic birch plywood, this organizer provides a catchall drawer, a place to stow necessary tools and two racks that can hold 70 router bits. A metal track in back (see…