Innehållsförteckning för June 2022 från Woodworker's Journal

Boring Details Readers gauge this tool’s depth. Dave Smith, hailing from Sikeston, Missouri, was pleased to see Geoff Strauss’s February mystery tool up for consideration, because he has the same item but doesn’t know its purpose. “It might be two identical attachments to another Stanley tool, such as a combination plane?” he wonders. Larry Spitler, who inherited his from his father-in-law, will also find consolation in this tool’s big reveal, because no one he’s asked has been able to identify it, and “my father-in-law went to his grave never knowing the answer.” James Hall of Bella Visa, Arkansas, ventured a guess that the two-piece gizmo “allows you to measure to the bottom of a t-slot, and it measures dadoes, too. Mike Frewer thinks it’s a centering jig: “Insert the foot…

Follow Char Miller-King on Instagram @woodenmaven. Woodworking is a hobby that sort of found me. I have always been a self-starter and an avid learner, so creating things with my hands has been a passion of mine for as long as I can remember. When I graduated from college 20 years ago and got my first apartment, I couldn’t afford a bed. After several trips to the furniture store, I decided that I could make my own bed instead. How hard could that be? You see, my father made all sorts of projects from mirror glass, and my uncle is a carpenter. My mother, grandmother and aunts are also crafty, so I knew this was in my genes. With a borrowed drill and a battery-powered screwdriver, I built a platform…

I’ve been using a ONEWAY Wolverine Grinding Jig mounted under my 8" grinder for nearly 20 years to sharpen my bowl and spindle gouges and scrapers. Ernie Conover writes about this system on page 22, and it’s arguably the fastest, easiest way to keep lathe tools ready for action. I love mine! Trouble is, my grinder is located across the shop from the lathe, so touching up my bowl gouge a half dozen times or so on a Saturday morning might help me get my steps in for the day, but it’s a bit inconvenient. The closer the sharpener is to the lathe, the more the sharpening process becomes a natural part of the turning process, which makes for cleaner, easier cutting. That’s why I think this Lathe Tool Sharpening…

While they’re not the showiest or most complex woodworking joints, rabbets, dadoes and grooves are, nonetheless, three of the most practical and versatile joints you can make. Best suited to cabinet and furniture carcass construction using plywood, MDF and similar sheet goods, all three joints are also good for some solid-wood applications, such as building simple boxes and drawers. Rabbet Joints Rabbets are cut on the ends or edges of boards and panels by removing one corner along the face to create a short offset tongue. Typically, a rabbet overlaps the end of a mating workpiece to hide its end grain. The intersection creates a strong, simple way to join together the sides of a drawer or tray, add a recessed lid to a small chest or attach a cabinet’s…

https://www.woodworkersjournal.com/magazine/more-on-the-web/ https://www.woodworkersjournal.com/magazine/more-on-the-web/ To watch us install Lid-Stay Torsion Hinge Lid Supports, please visit woodworkersjournal.com and clicking on “More on the Web” under the Magazine tab. Lids on chests and other large boxes can be heavy, especially when they’re made of solid wood. To counteract the potential for slamming and pinched fingers, you’ll typically need to supplement a lid’s hinge system with a separate lid stay or support hardware of some sort to hold the lid open. But not all lid stay options counteract a potential free fall as a lid is being opened or closed. They also can be tricky to install accurately and waste interior storage space. Some of the hardware options aren’t particularly attractive, either. Rockler’s popular Lid-Stay Torsion Hinge Lid Supports solve a number of these shortcomings.…

HELP US SHARE THEM IN SHOP TALK Everyone loves a good story. We humans use narratives to put the world around us into a form that makes sense — as much as that is possible. And often those stories are about interesting people or events that spark our imagination and sense of wonder. That’s what we are trying to do in our Shop Talk department. We are perhaps the only woodworking magazine that has a regular department that explores the “human” side of woodworking. So whether it is a story about an organization that teaches boatbuilding to at-risk youths, shines a spotlight on an up-and-coming woodworker, talks about people replanting a forest or showcases an amazing piece of woodworking, our Shop Talk department is about woodworking writ large. Take this…

We asked about domestic and non-domestic wood species as well as how adventurous woodworkers are about trying something new. 1. What species of domestic wood do you build with most frequently? Here are the top four answers: a. Oak 34% b. Pine 15% c. Cherry 13% d. Walnut 11% 2. What species of non-domestic wood do you build with most frequently? Here are the top four answers: a. I don’t use non-domestic wood species (40%!) b. Mahoganies (African, Central and South American) (18%) c. Purpleheart 8% d. Padauk 5% 3. Do you ever try a new wood species as an impulse buy? a. Yes 57% b. No 43%…

Cheaper Infill Option to Epoxy If you need to create a colored infill, as I did for filling the recesses of the card suit symbols in the maple block at right, I’ve discovered that fiberglass resin mixed with craft glitter is a more affordable alternative to today’s popular (and expensive!) epoxy resins for woodworking. It does tend to shrink a little, but I like that 3D effect, because it makes it obvious that this is not some simple decal. Roger Mickelson Mesa, Arizona Crosshairs on Router Table Zero in On Bit Center Points I often need a reference to the exact center of a router bit on my router table. I usually had to resort to measuring, which was not always accurate. To solve the problem for good, I decided…

Tim Inman is a professional woodworker and finishing expert and the author of The Art of Classical Furniture Finishing. Q I am planning to make a salt box and pepper mill from a jobillo wood blank. My question is, after hollowing out the insides of each, should they be finished/sealed with poly, shellac, a food-grade oil or anything at all? I’m not sure if the oils from the wood are harmful or will react negatively with either the salt or peppercorns. A Astronium graveolens is the “other” name for jobillo. It is an oily Central American wood. I would seal the inside, if it were my project, for two reasons: stability and toxicity. Sealing will help stabilize the wood and prevent it from distorting. You can’t stop moisture exchange, but…

Conover’s Windsor Stool Here’s my version of Ernie Conover’s “Four-legged Windsor Stool” from the December 2021 issue. The seat diameter was too large to turn on my lathe, so I glued up a flat seat from contrasting pieces of board lumber, rounded it on a disk sander and routed the edges. The 1/2" tenons on the stretchers were too small (I broke one), so I made them 3/4" instead. I used my band saw to cut kerfs in the tops of the legs for wedges. I really enjoyed the project! Wes Demmon DeWitt, Iowa…

Spalted woods … are a nightmare to a freshly sharpened edge. This is because the black zone lines in spalted wood are not really wood anymore. Instead, they are mineral-based deposits left over from the spalting process as the fungi crept through the wood, destroying cell structures in their wake. As far as the tool is concerned, cutting these zone lines is more like turning seashells. One good slice, and the edge of your favorite [turning] tool is gone. That is the reason I never run spalted wood through my band saw. Sharpening the teeth on my chainsaw is lesson enough. David Ellsworth Ellsworth on Woodturning Fox Chapel Publishing; ISBN: 1565233775…

If you have friends or family who live in apartments with balconies or small patios, this little three-tiered plant stand could make a great gift to help them beautify a small outdoor living space. Its three boxes are just large enough to hold a couple of 4" pots, and the swept-back angle of its framework will ensure that the bottom and middle plants receive enough sunlight and sufficient room to grow upward. In terms of construction, I think the corner box joints are as attractive as they are strong, and they’re fun to make, too! If you build your plant stand from African mahogany as I did, it will hold up well to sun exposure and regular waterings without prematurely rotting — mahogany is an excellent choice for outdoor projects.…

Creating pleasing, eye-catching geometry should always be one of our goals as woodworkers. And this stepped chest, which is loosely based on 19th century Japanese Tansu styles, will definitely give you that chance! The corners of its three-tiered carcass and six drawers showcase the best of what box joints have to offer: a repeating interplay of lighter face grain and darker end grain in those interlocking pins. Notice here that the pattern on the drawers doesn’t break from top to bottom on the chest, regardless of whether the drawers are separated by shelves on the tallest and center tiers. The joints progress as light-dark-lightdark, all the way down. Another design factor worth considering carefully is grain pattern. That was very important to me. I wanted the horizontal grain of the…

Contact Information Festool 888-337-8600 festoolusa.com Metabo HPT 800-829-4752 metabo-hpt.com Microjig 855-747-7233 microjig.com Rockler 800-279-4441 rockler.com https://www.woodworkersjournal.com/magazine/more-on-the-web/ https://www.woodworkersjournal.com/magazine/more-on-the-web/ For videos demonstrating featured tools, please visit woodworkersjournal.com and click on “More on the Web” under the Magazine tab. A Quick-Draw Marking Gauge from Rockler (item 55120; $29.99) could take the place of your combination square and traditional marking gauge for carrying out small layout tasks with onehanded convenience. Its aluminum and reinforced-plastic T-square will set lines squarely to workpiece edges, while offering both Imperial and metric graduations along its length. A spring-loaded pencil holder slides and locks along a dovetailed keyway in the T-square’s ruler, for drawing lines up to 9" away from a workpiece edge and parallel to it. The holder grips an included HB No. 2 pencil. Clear scale indicators…