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Featured this month is Jim Chandler's workshop built in a restored 111-year-old barn.
What does a retired Industrial Arts Teacher give his 15 year old grandson for a gift? Seeing that
he is the starting catcher on his high school baseball team, why not make him a baseball bat?
Here in the first week of the Major League baseball season, Jack Masten gives a step-by-step tutorial for turning
a classic baseball bat from Northern White Ash.
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Shop Made Cauls
By P. Michael Henderson
Tustin, California
Cauls are found in almost every experienced woodworker's shop. They were used by our woodworking
ancestors hundreds of years ago, and maybe even thousands of years ago. They're so common that when
we talk about woodworking techniques we usually forget to mention cauls - they're just there, like
the air we breathe. But for new woodworkers, cauls can be a mystery.
This month's SketchUp column shows you how you can use SketchUp to design a draftsman's table. Beginning
with this issue of
Wood News Online
, I'm using a simpler format for presenting the process step by step,
with easy-to-understand captions labeling each image.
Is it safe to use water based dyes and finishes on veneers bonded to MDF?
By Alan Noel
Atlanta, GA
The
number one reason for working on furniture made from veneered MDF (medium density fiberboard)
relates to water damage that causes
swelling of the substrate due to moisture absorption, typically around the edges of tops and along the
lower edges of case goods. So obviously, water based anything is tricky to use on veneered pieces
made from MDF.
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Meet the Wood Whisperer at our
Spring
One-Day Sale
May 1, 2010
Join us on Saturday, May 1 for our big Spring One-Day Sale! We'll have great savings on hundreds of items throughout the store, entertaining
educational demonstrations by our factory reps from Festool, Micro Jig, Kreg, Freud and others.
And all day long you can see ongoing demos by Marc Spagnuolo, well known around the cyberworld as the Wood Whisperer.
Canadian Woodworker Vern Fish builds award winning Maloof Inspired Rocker
Woodworker Vern Fish of Bracebridge, Ontario scored a proverbial woodworking "hat trick" with his Maloof-inspired cherry rocker at the
Muskoka Arts and Crafts show last month.
No
woodworking book or DVD we've ever sold before has generated the response we've received from customers to Charles Brock's excellent plan bundle that
provides everything you need to know to build your own Maloof-inspired rocking chair.
Now Chuck has singled out the specific tools he uses when
building the chair and listed them in one place for easy selection by woodworkers undertaking this challenging project.
More well-deserved recognition has been visited upon Dilo Fernandino, the man who builds
full-size rosewood baroque masterpieces by hand in his 42 square foot workshop. After his first
solo exhibition in Belo Horizonte, Brazil in February, TV Globo, one of the world's largest
television networks, featured his signature work and interview during a program on April 3, 2010.
The Micro Jig GRRR-Ripper is a wise investment for use with your tablesaw, router, jointer and
bandsaw, especially when you need to rip or trim very small workpieces.
I just
recently purchased a Wood Slicer band saw blade for my Grizzly 14" G0555 band saw and I have to say
that this blade is absolutely unreal. I have never in my life seen a blade to equal this one and I
first used a band saw approximately 50 years ago. I am cutting hardwood to a thickness of 1/16" with
no saw marks and no additional sanding or finishing of any kind required prior to gluing. Very
little finishing is necessary prior to applying a final finish. The speed of cut with this bandsaw
blade on either soft or hard wood has probably doubled, I have not timed it. I would hate to change
back to an ordinary bandsaw blade but I certainly won't risk hurting this blade on ordinary work.
Again, this bandsaw blade is incredible! — T.G.
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More well-deserved recognition has been visited upon Dilo Fernandino, the man who builds
full-size rosewood baroque masterpieces by hand in his 42 square foot workshop. After his first
solo exhibition in Belo Horizonte, Brazil in February, TV Globo, one of the world's largest
television networks, featured his signature work and interview during a program on April 3, 2010.
