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BUYER'S GUIDE TO PLUNGE ROUTERS A Look At The Lineup For 1989 by Hugh Foster 40 SLAB-WOOD BENCH Furniture Doesn't Get Much More Basic Than This by Dana Martin Batory 42 THE MARKING GAUGE How to Make This Basic Layout Tool by Ernie Conover 46 WOODEN BRIEFCASE Tote Your Papers In Style by David Sloan 52 ANILINE DYES Brilliant Colors You Can't Get From a Can by Bob Flexner 7 DEPARTMENTS 3 HIGH-WIRE cycList 24 LETTERS Q&A TECH TIPS THE TOOLBOX | BOOKS & VIDEOS WOODWORKER'S CALENDAR GALLERY NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 1988 4) Pee Multimax 2 Here's your chance to got the scroll saw you've always wanted, ‘absolutely FREE! 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Canada one-year 32 (wear Sd (Canadian fads Foren on ent S34, twosear $86 (US. finds) US sews | Sana Witctateg by Ester Neve Dit Ic, 1130 Cleveland Ray Sandusky, OH 4680, SECOND-CLASS POSTAGE: paid a1 Emmaus Pen orl mang ofits POSTAASTER. | Stod"adess changes to AMERICAN. WOOD- WORKER 13 & Minor St, Emmaue, PA 18088 CONTRIBUTOR GUIDELINES: svalsble upon ‘eaves, We val treat unciied eater ith Se but we cant sume responsi fo ss SIR: ‘So much emphasis is placed on doing things with machines that_ many woodworkers have lost touch with the hand-tool tradition. Magazines like yours would be doing a great serv ice to oureraft if you put more empha. sis on using hand tools as an alterna- tive to machines. Most of us have hand tools but few of us know how to use them. Let's see more articles on tuning up these tools and how to use them efficiently. Maybe an article on planing a board from rough sawn to square and smooth, I'd also like to see articles on using old tools like wooden planes and molding planes, There must be other woodwork out there who feel the way I do. BILL SORRENTINO Evansville, IN SIR T've been subscribing to your maga- zine for six to eight months and I like it very much. I particularly like the project plans and related work notes 4p. 1Ov ‘Fence tits 45° dot nays. Fully adjustable 219015. wre $299.00 [ships treightcolect) 1-800-845-9356 Lette Over the year, I tried most of the woodworking magazines on the mar- ket and have found most to be too “handyman’ oriented with simple pro- jects. Your magazine seems to meet my needs as a serious, but amateur cabinetmaker Twas interested in the Shaker rocker article (March/April, 1988 AW) and I decided to make the No. 7 rocker with arms. It was a good oppor- tunity to gain experience on the lathe, which is my least-used piece of equipment Tuan W. Evans. JR Richmond, Va. SIR Re: Tech Tips July/August, 1988 AW Tike the idea of having a chuck key and a brush handy on the drill press but I think that even light chai potential hazard. Ifthe chain ina tantly becomes caught in or on the moving parts of the drill press the po- tential exists for flying shrapnel. Why not use a string or light cord which is TS15-6 Planer * f Spine Dia Spindle So0/a.0 tem 1 phase, 3hp motor $330 bs $795.00 {ships trelgnt ctec) * Dust Collector #1. lov niet * Commercial Gualy « Compuct size 22. $209.00 (Shp. & Haig. $30.) or in S.C Pare ULy pos to 220¥) Optional stand & Dust Collector Avilable Capacity less apt to create a problem? Tenjoy your magazine and usually read it cover to cover when I receive it. Keep up the good work Dox Drakes Littleton, CO SIR. Ifound Nick Engler’s article on resaw: ing very helpful (September/October, 1988 AW) as I thought I was the only one who had trouble resawin; Thave an Inca 20-in, bandsaw that I can run at three different speeds Nick said nothing about whether one should resaw at a fast or slow speed given the choice. Could I get some vedback on my question? Many thanks—I love your magazine—it's the best! Dav St. GEORGE Essex Fells, NJ NICK ENGLER REPLIES: Conventional wisdom is to resaw at slower speeds. 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SIR: T built the Shaker sewing desk on the cover of your September/October is- sue. It took me a long time but the re sults are great. Thanks for a good ar- tice. Russet Roti Saddle River, NJ SIR picked up your July/August issue to- Jday and can safely say you have a top- notch publication for all woodwork- fers. | especiallly liked the articles on doweling jigs and jointers. Those are the kind of articles I believe a lot of us ‘woodworkers find most helpful. Keep em coming. GeRaLD SzeFLNSKt Greendale, WI SIR’ Thave just finished reading my first is- sue of AMERICAN WOODWORKER, ‘The size and format of the magazine, as well as the nice coated stock make for a really tasteful touch. T must say that, overall, I love the “new” AMERICAN WOODWORKER, I truly hope it is around for a long time and I look forward to getting my next issue PETER M. Sak Somerville, NJ SIR: Dennis Watson’s router mortising jig in your May/June issue has some good design features and some underde- signed features that I feel could b proved. The stop blocks that define the ends of the mortise can_ swivel on their single bolt making adjustment a little difficult. Two bolts on each stop block would improve the setup. The end blocks that locate the mor- tise on the stock are nice but don’t have enough travel. At least half the time my second mortise on the same leg isa Tot more than $ in. from the The clamping method tends to self- destruct the jig. The clamping action spreads the jig apart. I suggest using a deep throat C clamp so the part is clamped to one side of the fixture only and can't push the jig apart. There are substantial _counter- forces on a router bit that is cutting ‘on two sides and the bottom of a mor- tise simultaneously. You can end up with chatter marks on the walls of the mortise if you try to remove too ‘much wood in one pass. If you cut the mortise with a narrower bit and two edge-guide settings (cutting one side of the mortise and then the other) you'll reduce chatter marks on thi sides of the mortise and you won't have to buy a lot of mortising cut- ters—one or two cutters will cover your mortising needs ParRick WARNER Escondido, CA SIR: Tam an amateur luthier and enjoy your magazine's informative techni- cal articles as well as the "Gallery" fea- ture. Ym interested in building a ba- roque clavichord and then eventually a harpsichord. 1 would appreciate your help in locating a source of plans or even kits or partial kits, I have not seen such advertised for some years and don't know where to Took. Can you help? Tow BINKLEY Tucson, AZ EDITOR'S NOTE: Plans for an 18th- century German clavichord are avait- able from: Division of Musical History, American History Musewn, Smith- sonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560. Clavichord and harpsichord kits are available from Zuckerman Harp- sichords, Box 151, 15 Williams St Stonington, CT 06378. SIR: Thave subscribed to your magazine since December 1986 and I enjoy the format. I suggest you publish a curm lative index of articles and projects. It would be most helpful. SouN T. LarHant Severna Park, MD EDITOR'S NOTE: We're working on it. We hope to have an index ready some- time in 1989, Watch for it SIR: Thanks for printing _ Michael Dresdner’s article on bleaching wood (September/October, 1988 AW). Bleaching has always been a mystery to me and the few times I've tried Letters bleaching wood with Clorox it never worked. Thanks to your article, now I know why. Please keep the good arti- cles on finishing coming KEVIN ScHUMACHER Roanoke Rapids, NC SiR Tthink what I like about your maga- zine is its simple directness. You aren't pretentious. Please stay that way (CuirroRp Mernine St. Clair Shores, MI sir Because I subscribe to several wood- working publications, several months ago I began trying to weed out those publications that I didn't care much about. Your magazine was not such a publication. I intend to keep subscribing to AMERICAN WOODWORKER. ANDREW D. HARLAN. Trout Creek, MT SIR Treally do like your magazine. It is ab- solutely the best woodworking maga- zine I have ever seen, (Chartes W. Mies Austell, GA. SIR: Jn your article on tuning a spoke- shave (September/October, 1988 AW) you say to put a file through the ‘throat of the spokeshave to flatten the area that supports the blade. When I tried it [found that a regular file was too thick to fit through the throat on my spokeshave so I used a thin, auto “points” file used to file ignition points back in the good old days ‘when you didn’t need to be an electri- cal engineer to fix your car. Any thin file will work Manin Parrixa Modesto, CA ERRATUM: ‘The address for Colonial Tool Sho} in the SeptemberiOctober Toolbox is incorrect. The correct address is: Co- onial Tool Shops, Inc., P.O. Box 147, Downers Grove, IL 60515. Send your comments, compliments, complaints and corrections to: Edi- tor, AMERICAN WOODWORKER, 33. E, Minor St, Emmaus, PA 18098, ‘SHAKER PEGS CANDLE CUPS, For Information on our MUG PEGS Deny Caving Clases 51795 po 100, prepaid or to receive our FREE, Wide salection of otter poor and Wocdearvers Catalog $200 Ore ith order Tools and Supplies ar Catalog Benny’s Woodworks Pema nS” ere eee 1200 285-1535 P.C. English, Inc. = PO. 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While there's no standard form, crown molding generally consists of from the top down, a large cove fol- lowed by a large roundover, followed bbyasmaller detal at the bottom, usu- ally a cove, as shown in the drawing. Most of the crown moldings I make for furniture and bookcase tops are about 4! in, t0.5 in, wide. It is better toerron the wide side in erown mold- ings. as nothing looks worse than a skimpy crown molding on a large piece of furniture. If you're making crown molding in quantities of over 100 It, you should invest in either a heavy duty shaper, ora planerfmolder that cuts moldings Gn a thickness planer cutterhead us- ing special knives. Foley-Belsav, W Tiams and Hussey, rbindustries and Woodmaster Tools all make planer molders. I don't have any of those ma- chines, and 1 find that for smaller runs a combination of tablesaw and router or small shaper works nearly as well Design a pattern that pleases you and cut a profile of it from heavy pa- per. Trace it onto the end grain of Short piece of stock with the same sec- tion dimensions as the stock from ‘which you plan tocut the actual mold- ing Cut the large cove at the top first. For crowns under 3in, wide, eut the cove with a shaper cutter, a tablesaw molding head or a I-in. dia, radius 6k AMERICAN WooowoRKER end-cove router bit (Sears Craftsman 9HT25526) on a router table. For wider moldings, cut the cove on the tablesaw by passing the stock over the blade at an angle with the aid of auxiliary fences, as shown in the drawing. With the saw turned off, lay the sample piece on the table with the face of the molding down, Raise the blade as high as the deepest sec- tion of the cove. Now, sight along the blade at the outline of the cove. Vary the angle of the sample relative to the blade until the circumference of the blade blocks out your view of the en- tire cove. Draw a pencil line on the ta- ble along each edge of the sample, as shown, and clamp a fence along each line. I make the cut with a 24-tooth carbide rip blade. Support rollers help on long pieces. Make the first cut with the blade very low. Runall the stock through be- fore raising the blade slightly for the next pass. Continue until you reach the layout line. Now, turn your attention to the roundover. Put the standard rip fence ‘on the saw, and angle the blade to cut as close as possible to the layout line, A molding head or dado blade will ‘make the cut in one pass. ‘Cut the bottom cove with a router cr shaper, and then cut bevels on the bback of the molding at the top and bot- tom. The bevels determine the angle at which the crown is installed, and usually range from 35° to 45% Now the hand work begins. Even up the large roundover with a block plane. A goose- neck scraper removes the saw marks from the large cove section. Sand with 80- to 100-grit sandpaper held around a block of wood that follows the contours of the cove. Finish sand- ing with finer grits of paper. ‘glue the molding in place because I don't like nail holes in furniture. ‘The exact technique depends on the piece, but I find that adding a trian- gular glue block behind the molding makes for sturdier construction. BEN ERICKSON Cabinetmaker Buta, AL MIXING SHELLAC Qu. nat ordered some shellac flakes which came with general direc- tions, but 1 like to be able to custom ‘mix shellac for specific applications What isa good ratio of alcohol to she lac for French polishing? For brush- ing? For sealing end grain priorto stain- ing? ANDREW GREEN Washington,DC Q&A L$ A. For French polishing, I dissolve 2spounds of shellac flakes in one gal- lonofdenaturedalcohol. For brushap- plication, I dissolve 3'/: pounds in a gallon. OF course, you don't need to mix this much at once—liquid shel- Jac has a limited shelf life. Just keep the proportions the same and mix up smaller quantities. I keep my. dis- solved shellac in glass containers well sealed and properly labeled. 1 call the French polishing solution “Pind. cut hell” and the brush ing solution “3%-1b. cut ‘shellig.”” telned the word “ebcllig” tn diftten tiate liquid shellac from dry shellac flakes For work needing exceptional care, I strain my “shelliq” through a piece of cloth or, in rare instances, through filter paper. (GroRGE FRANK Woodfinisher and Author Venice, FL JUDGING LUMBER QUALITY Qa he local umberyard has some ‘i airedried luan. The surface is badly checked. Ist going to be shot on the in- side, too? Even if I can't use it for fur- nniture, can Luse it for structural build ing? DJ. Wetcant Augusta, GA A. if you can, purchase a foot or two from the end of a beam so you an sce a cross section of the plank This will tell the whole story about the depth of the checking. If the em: ployees at the lumberyard aren't ex Cited about lugging a heavy plank over to the radial arm saw, you can feta fairy good idea about how deep the checks are with a stiff piece of pa. pet, a strip of index card oF a piece of thin plastic, Probe into one of the larger cracks at several locations. You'll be able to tell how much plan: ing will be required to remove the checking and whether it's even poss ble or desirable Rough-hewn bam beams, log cabin and old ceiling beams were al most always installed green. If the beams weren't cracked or checked from theoutset, they certainly wereal- ter the dryness ofthe first winter. But even ifa plank has fairy severe checks ing, there should be very little, f any Joss of structural strength. Ifan ex: bE ay UNIQUE TOOLS THAT MA APERFECT XMA PAGES 62-63 CAL gro aezaa NOVEMBER/OECEMBER 1988 47 tremely large erack goes all the way through a plank and runs nearly full length, it would be smart to use it as a vertical post and not as a load-bear- ing beam. By the way, luan, often referred to as Philippine “mahogany,” has no re- lationship to the true mahoganies ex cept in appearance. It is, however Quite good in outside applications be cause it has some waterproof proper Dick Bork Manager, "The Sawmill Martin Guitar Company Nazareth, PA LOW-FUME FINISHES Qa our new house has interior pine trim thatthe builder stained but did not varnish. I want to protect the wood somelion, but Twant to use a finish that doesn't smell so bad that it drives tus all out of the house. Any sugges- tions? Wiutiaa FAULKENERRY Westminster, MA Q&A = A. appl good durable clear finish on interior wood trim is much like painting a house: Fumes are un- avoidable. You can minimize them, however, with a quick-drying polyure- thane finish, There are several brands on the market, and any formula called “quick-drying” or “one-hout” polyurethane tends to smell for much Tess time than the standard formulas. Td recommend a satin sheen, as it tends not to highlight flaws, Put on two to four thin coats—you'll find a sponge applicator lays on a thinner, more even coat than a brush. Scuff sand with 240-grit_sandpaper_be thween coats. Sand gently, and be care- ful not to sand through the stain, An- other good alternative is Mohawk’ new Pour-N-Wipe, a quick-building polyurethane finish you apply with a rag, I's fast drying. Just smear it on with a rag and pad it off with another rag, much Tike an oil finish, It works wwell, but the finish may be a bit thin ner than with a brush-on polyure tha When doing any kind of finishing always try to have cross vent It’s a good idea to have a fan ‘out one end of the room and a door or window open at the other end. {Gut JonNsoN Custom Wood Finisher The Johnson Co. Newton, MA WHERE TO FIND IT Replacement drive centers, live cen- ters and other turning tools and sup- plies are available from Craft Sup- plies USA, 1287 E. 1120 S,, Provo, UT 84601 Guitar parts, exotic woods and neers are available from Woodwork ers Dream, P.O. Box 329, 510 Syca- more St., Nazareth, PA 18064. Stenciling supplies are available from Armor Products, Box 445, East Northport, NY 11731 Got a woodworking question for the experts? Send it to Q&A, AMERICAN WOODWORKER, 33. Minor St, Ein ‘maus, PA 18098. Erinn Cra NOW! Plane, Mold and Sand with Infinitely Variable Power-Feed! 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All with Automatic Power Feed! 30-DAY FREE TRIAL OFFER!!! rennin ‘ACT NOW! ia Coupon Petey ‘Brings re) Ful Detatst Edge Banding Made Eas: oe eae apes ca reel solid stock, do two shelves at once. Glue a I"/in. wide strip of wood be- tween two plywood shelves LO When dry, rip the strip down the middle. You'll have a ‘iin. solid facing on each shelf with a perfect joint in less time with fewer clamps, BRIAN J, O'CONNOR, Wolverine, MI Sanding Wooden Wheels Tcut wooden toy wheels with an ad- justable-cirele cutter that leaves a '/ in, hole in the center and a “tread! 's sanding. I cut the end rat-tail file (the file must be heated with a propane torch first to remove the temper) and chuck the handle end of the file in the drill press with the tang pointing down. I press a wheel onto the tang, which provides enough of a grip to hold the wheel for sanding. Run the drill press at a relatively low speed (300 to 400 RPM). Richa WNUK Kalamazoo, ML 10 A AMERICAN WOODWORKER Tech Tips Slippery Screws > An old-time trick 10 make wood screws drive easier is to rub the screw over a cake of soap before driving. ‘WatrER MORRISON Northport, NY String-Loop Elipse Most people know that ovals or clipses can be drawn using a loop of string that revolves around two fixed points. However you may not know how to choose the fixed points to draw an oval the size you want. Here's how to find the two points. 1. Determine the width and length of the elipse you wish to draw. (For ex- ample we'll use 7 in.x5 in.) 2. Draw the horizontal line AD the length of the oval (7 in.) 3. Draw the vertical line EF perpen- cular to and through the center of ne AD. Line EF should be the length of the desired ovals width (5 in.) di- vided equally on either side of line AD. 4. Set a divider to one half the Jength of AD (Gli in.). Place one leg of the divider at point E or F and swing across line AD at points B and C. 5. Insert a small nail or pin at points B, E and C. Tie a loop of string around these points. Remove the nail from point E and you are ready to draw your oval, Jae W. BERNTHIAL ‘MicHaeL. J. BERNTHAL ‘St. Louis, MO es Hera anget Doweling Impossible Places recently redesigned my kitchen cabi- nets and decided to replace the exist- ing wide doors with two narrow doors. This meant installing a 2-in. wide vertical stile in the center of each existing door opening. { wanted to dowel the stile at both top and bot- tom. The top dowels were no problem but I had to figure out how I could dowel both ends ofthe stile without re- moving the entire face frame to insert the dowels in the rails. I drilled the dowel holes as usual, but then drilled an additional ‘iin, hole in the back of the stile into the bottom dowel holes as shown. I in- serted short dowels in the bottom holes, flush with the end of the stile, After applying glue and placing the stile in position, I put the point of a steel scriber in'the '/-in. holes and foreed the dowels down into the holes in the rail LAMBERT G, Spun ‘Chula Vista, CA No-Dirt Dip ‘To avoid getting dust or dirt into var nish and other finishes, don’t dip the brush directly into the can. Use a dis- posable plastic cup to dip out a por- tion of the finish from the can. This leaves the remaining finish clean and, since you aren't pouring out of the can, the rim stays elean fora tight seal Bor Lirscows Concord, GA ‘Changing Sander Belts To change a sander/grinder belt you have to remove the table ‘on most machines. To change belts, without remov- ing the table, cut a slot with a sweep to one side as shown. This allows you to remove the belt easily BILL Brown. 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In each article I'l also show how to carve a progressively more difficult project, using these projects to explain the techniques of carving In this first article I'll discribe how to carve a simple mahogany patera, an ornamental disk used as an applied decoration on furniture. Carving the patera will get you used to handling the tools and reading grain direction You'll learn to handle new tools in new ways. But before ‘we get started, let’s tackle some of the preliminaries first—which tools to buy and what wood to carve. Selecting Your First Carving Tools Carving tools—the different kinds, and how to select, sharpen, and hold them—is a vast subject that usually takes up the first year of a carving apprenticeship. There are roughly 20 different shapes of carving tools and up to 30 sizes in each shape—a lot of tools. Which to choose? Before you invest in tools, you must decide whether you need heavy, sculptural tools, or standard carving tools for the sort of carving you'd like to do. The heavy tools generally are used for shipcarving, large figure carv- ing and architectural carving. Anyone working on smaller-scale carvings or furniture probably would find them too robust or clumsy. A professional carver probably will own about 300 tools, of which 70 will be used most of the time. I recom- 18 A AMERICAN WOODWORKER mend starting with a set of 11 tools—the most often used of that group of 70 tools. I've chosen these 11 tools be- cause of their versatility and usefulness and because they're light, precise, and comfortable to use. Get used to sharpening and using these tools before buying more. Ifyou use these 11 tools a lot you'll come to see not only what they can do but what they can’t do, When you buy more tools, you'll know what shapes and sizes you need to complement the 11 that you already have. Don’t buy the exotic tools until the time comes when you need ex- actly that funny shape for a job and no other tool will do, That narrows the list down to four basic shapes: gouges, parting or V-tools, fluters and veiners Here's what I consider to be a good starter set Gouges: 8 20mm, #5 20mm #7 14mm #8 10mm #9 5mm Fishtail Gouges: 8 12mm (Spade tools) 6 8mm #5 2mm Parting Tools: #12 8mm (W-to0ls) Veiners or Fluters #1 4mm 4it 10mm What do these words and numbers mean? The words refer to the tool shape and to the shape of the cutting edge. These are groups or categories of tools and can be thought of as being similar to the differences between, say, a block plane and a jack plane. The number refers to the different degree of curvature or angle within that tool-shape group. For example, parting tools have differ [Apatera is an ornamental disk glued to furniture ‘8 a decoration. Carving a par of them wil get you used to handling tools and reading grain direction. ent numbers to denote the degree of angle between the two faces, They can be either 45°, 55°, 60°, or 90°. A #12 tool is 60°, a #13 is 90°. The measurement in millimeters is the distance from one side of the cutting edge to the other. ‘Which tool does what? Each carving tool has a very specific use, and though they can be bunched together as, ranges of tools, they are as different asa few hundred dif- ferent nuts and bolts, Gouges are the most useful and the most used tool Gouges also are the most simply-shaped tool, with the cutting edge based on a segment of an arc. The higher the number, the tighter the arc. The #2 gouges are al- most straight; #9s are very curved. Gouges are used to remove excess wood, to give the overall shape to a piece of work, for modeling and for giving sharp profiles or edges. On many jobs you'll use a couple of dozen gouges of different numbers and sizes and no other tool. The fishtail gouge and its more useful predecessor the spade tool are highly maneuverable and versatile ‘gouges. They have the same edge shape as gouges, but, they differ in that the shank of the tool narrows quickly behind the cutting edge. This thinness is invaluable in tight, complicated work; it allows you to carve in small spaces without the impediment of a thick shank. It's, called a spade or fishtail gouge because of its flaring, shape. These tools are delicate and precise, a joy to use. Because of their delicacy, never use a mallet on them. An- other drawback is that they wear out quickly because they have only one-fifth the usable length of a similar gouge. These are minor drawbacks, and every carver, Will reach for these tools before any other. I've included the three most useful in the recommended starter et of 11 tools. Parting tools part or separate wood, relieving it before using another tool. In relief work you would carve around the outline with a parting tool before setting in dM Lay out the patera and draw the rays by tracing around a thin cardboard template far left). Cut around the button with the parting tool (abowe. Rest two fingers on the wood and pivot the tool around them. the sharp edges with gouges. Sometimes the mark that the parting tool makes is left in the wood, but usually it prepares the way for other tools. Fluters and veiners can be used for the same purposes as parting tools, but their primary function is decora- tive. They are the last tool used in 18th-century foliage carving to decorate the leaves with sweeping lines, and they also are extensively used in figure carving to give life to hair, eyes and other details. They are tools that Jeave a strong visual mark on the surface and should be used very carefully ‘When it comes to shopping for brands of carv tools, I prefer Pfeil tools, sold in North America as P “Swiss-Made" (available from Woodcraft, 41 Atlantic ‘Ave., Box 4000, Woburn, MA 01888). They're highly fin ished with nicely shaped handles and they even come sharpened from the factory. They cost more than some other brands (expect to spend roughly $200 for the 11 tool set) but perhaps not if you consider the hour or so ‘you have to spend smoothing rough edges and honing an ‘edge on most other tools. Carving tools get dull. They get dull quickly and often. This is an inescapable fact and ignoring it or putting off learning how to sharpen your tools will only lead to wasted time and frustration, Using sharp tools decreases the time spent on a job. The sidebar on page 22 explains the basics of sharpening. It's enough to get you started Ina future article I'll cover sharpening in more detail. With tool selection out of the way, the next subject to consider is the carving material itself. Woods for Carving What are good woods for carving? What is “carveabil- ity?" Wood that carves crisply and easily is the quick an- swer. Any wood can be carved, but some woods are far easier to carve than others. The ideal carving wood is one that’s soft enough to carve quickly yet is crisp ig NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 1988 a7 enough to have sharpness and good definition. The ideal carving wood also must have a regular, even grain that doesn’t fight the tool. When you plane wood ‘you have the option of reversing the direction of your cut if the grain is tricky. Because you're cutting in three di- mensions, carving doesn’t always allow that luxury. Com- bining an awkward tool angle with tough, interlocked grain ends up with a ragged finish and a lot of hard work. On the other hand, a wood that's too spongy or res- inous or one with weak adhesion between the growth rings will crumble each side of the cut and leave you with a muddy mess ‘The woods I recommend for carving are good-quality pine, basswood, linden (called lime in Britain), South American mahogany, and similar soft, even-grained woods. The attractive hardwoods are just that—hard They are difficult to work, they blunt tools quickly and they require laborious finishing. I don't recommend that inexperienced carvers use hardwoods for their first cou- ple of projects because the pain and frustration of work- ing them blunts the desire to carve as quickly as it does the tools. I suggest using them only if the color and grain of a particular wood is vital to a design Trestore and make gilded furniture, mostly picture and mirror frames and 90% of the wood I carve is Que bee or Baltic pine. I's the traditional wood for frames— crisp, easy to carve and relatively cheap. But pine isn't a very strong wood and isn’t suitable for a lot of carving work, especially where the wood must bear more stress than a picture frame. I would use mahogany or beech in jobs where strength mattered. What should make your choice for you is the final fin- ish you intend to use. Will your piece have a clear finish that emphasizes the grain and color of the wood? Will it be painted or covered with another opaque finish or will it be gilded? Ifthe look of the wood is important, use ma: hogany, walnut or cherry. If the grain is going to be ob- scured’ by the finish then only consider the wood's case of carving and its structural properties, With the preliminaries out of the way, Ill explain how to carve a patera. You can apply the techniques you'll learn and the practice you'll get to whatever type of carv- ing you plan to do. FIG. 1: DRAWING THE PATERA 20 A AMERICAN WOODWORKER ‘Taper the wood surrounding the button with a #3, 12mm fishtail ‘gouge. Start about "/ in, out from the button to give a gentle taper. With your parting tool, make a V cut down the center of each ray line. Power comes from the hand on the handle. The Fingers ofthe other hand guide and contro the cutting edge. ‘Trace around Carving a Pair of Paterae Carving a patera will give you the chance to use your tools and an opportunity to see how small carving jobs are tackled. Paterae (plural of patera) are small oval or round carvings and turnings used to decorate flat sur- faces on mirrors or furniture. They are carved separately and then applied to the piece with veneer pins and spots of glue. The spiral patera shown is carved from mahog- any and is similar to paterae used to decorate the hoods of late 18th-century Connecticut highboys. Maple, wal- nut, cherry, and mahogany would be appropriate woods. I suggest using South American mahogany be- cause it's the easiest of these woods to carve. Paterae are usually applied in pairs, one patera being the mirror image of the other. For the sake of efficieney, it makes sense to carve both at the same time. As you ‘can see from the photos, the rays on the paterae spiral in opposite directions—one spirals clockwise, the other counterclockwise. Do the same sequence of cuts on each patera. First, dimension some mahogany to ‘h in., mark two 3if-in. circles with a compass, and carefully bandsaw them out. You'll need to glue the two circles to a piece ‘of plywood so you can clamp them to the bench for carv- ing. Find a piece of scrap plywood big enough for both circles and the clamps that you'll need to hold the ply on ‘your bench. Glue down the mahogany using yellow glue {PVA) and a paper “gasket.” The gasket is simply a piece ‘of paper (newspaper is fine) sandwiched between the ma- hogany and ply. The paper prevents full adhesion from taking place. Once the work is finished, the joint can be soaked with alcohol, which weakens the joint and allows, the carving to be gently pried off the plywood. This tech- nique isthe cue fo holding down delicate shapes while carving them. Clamp or screw the ply to your bench. If you're using ‘acabinetmaker's bench, it may be too low to be comfort- able, Most carvers work on benches with a work surface 4 in, below their elbow. I recommend raising your paterae to this level for comfort with a few blocks of ‘wood. A few hours of bending over will give you a tre- mendous neck ache and back ache. Now you're ready to start carving. That means pick- ing up your pencil. It’s nearly impossible to carve these paterae without marking them out. In general, unless you are extremely confident in what you're carving it's always best to first draw what you want to carve. Be- lieve me, it makes carving far easier and faster. Fig. 1 shows how to draw the patera. 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