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December 2016
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December 2016
Projects
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HOLIDAY GIFT
SECTION!
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page 31
Trapezoid
Band Saw Box
Page 42
By David Picciuto
Make a simple box with not
much more than a band saw,
clamps and some sanding.
Page 72
By Chris Marshall
Made-to-order inlay adds an elegant stripe
which ups the ante on a basic picture frame.
3 Kitchen Doodads
By A.J. Hamler
These quick-to-make
kitchen conveniences
include a set of tongs,
a banana hanger and
a pasta pair: measure
and server.
Page 58
By Kimberly McNeelan
Handcarved boxes made with green
wood Viking technology.
Page 50
By Alan Vondran
A router jig with two
templates creates
the recessed
storage for your
pizza cutter in
this handy
storage block.
By Ernie Conover
A turned cylinder forms the basis for
rolling pins with rotating handles or without.
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Departments
8 Letters
24 Readers Survey
74 Whats in Store
86 Finishing Thoughts
26 Shop Talk
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Y
ikes, its already November! I dont know about you, but every year
the holiday season sneaks up on me and I have to scramble to make
a bunch of gifts. If youre in the same boat as me, youll be happy to see
several great project ideas in this issue, and you can find many more on
woodworkersjournal.com.
Dont forget to take pictures of your finished work and send them to
us. Seeing your work is an inspiration to your fellow subscribers.
Here are the best ways to share your projects:
1. Upload them to Readers Project Gallery at
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4. Mail your photo prints to: Woodworkers Journal, 4365 Willow Dr., Medina, MN 55340
I cant wait to see what you build next!
Dan Cary
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Stepping Up
Being left-handed and doing
most everything backwards,
I found the golf ball suggestions for file handles quite
useful [Tricks of the Trade,
August 2016]. I also figured,
if you use a step drill, you
get a nice tapered hole that
seems to hold my files quite
snugly. Thanks for the tip. I
even aligned the logos on the
golf balls so they look nice.
Ace Potter
Moline, Illinois
Goosed?
On the trivia page of the
August issue [Hey, Did You
Know?], you say that Howard
Hughess Spruce Goose flew
quite successfully. I think
thats a bit of a stretch. The
plane flew only about a mile,
in a straight line, lightly loaded, at an altitude of 70 feet,
which is well within ground
effect. By all reports, the tail
was twisting and vibrating
badly. Its been debated
ever since whether it could
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effect or carried anywhere
near its design load. I think
most experts think not, at
least without significant
modification.
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Letters continued
Please Be Seated
Saw an article in the Letters
section of the October issue
on the Adirondack chair.
Thought I would share
with you one I made for
the granddaughter. I scaled
down the measurements using a ruler I purchased that
dropped an inch to .618 of an
inch and all the increments
accordingly. All the measurements were as the plan
said except that they were
scaled down and it worked
perfectly well. I had to
scale down the screws
also and used stainless
panhead 6-gauge and
plugged the holes.
The color is her
favorite, and she is
pleased with it having come from her
old pop. Thought it
might give others
an idea for other
items that may also
be made smaller
and in scale.
Barry McIntosh
Greymouth, New Zealand
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Grooves or Dadoes Using a
Router Table. In the video,
Chris makes a drop cut,
lowering his workpiece onto
a spinning router bit. I was
wondering why it was done
this way and not starting
from the open end of the
intended cut?
It would seem to this
long-time DIYer that it may
prove tricky to lower the
piece down exactly where
you want the cut to start even
with the reference lines.
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Instead of starting both cuts from an open end, as shown here, pairing a
drop cut and an open-end cut when making stopped grooves on opposite
sides of a drawer can ensure that both grooves will be correctly aligned.
The same face is against the fence on both cuts.
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Burls can produce dramatic turnings, but they can also be tricky to turn
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Readers Survey
Woodworking Gifts: Given and Received
By Woodworkers Journal Staff
This time out, our topic is woodworking gifts the best you ever
gave and received, as well as a few other questions about the topic.
Toys top
the list, at
12%, of
the kind of
woodworking projects you
make as gifts.
Next in line
are jewelry
boxes at 10%
and picture
frames at 9%.
Only 2%
of survey
respondents
dont make
wooden
gifts.
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children/stepchildren at
23%. Grandchildren
came in at 17%.
When it
comes to
gift-getting,
tools top
woodworkers lists.
24% say
the best
woodworking gift
they ever received was a
new stationary power
tool, with 17% saying
it was a handheld power
tool. (A sad 11% have never
received a woodworkingrelated gift.)
December 2016 Woodworkers Journal
What do woodworkers
wish for? While 25%
of woodworkers would
be happy to see a new
stationary power tool in their stockings,
20% are wishing for a gift card to a
woodworking retailer.
While a significant number (36%)
of woodworkers do production
runs (making multiples of the
same item) for gifts, most (64%)
focus on an individual item, with
one-offs.
Received:
A recurring annual subscription to
your magazine.
A box of pencils.
The love and knowledge of and for
woodworking from my grandfather.
A class.
Sign made by my grandsons.
Wife took a woodturning class.
Came home and said, Do you
have a band saw? You need a
band saw!
Locally grown lumber.
A gift from my mother: corded drill
50 years ago.
$1,000 gift card to my favorite
woodworking store.
Dust cyclone.
Shop apron.
A cabinetmaker letting me hang
around his shop, asking questions
and getting his cutoffs.
Saw blades.
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Shop Talk
The Library CarveWright Built
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couple of beers and come
up with all sorts of crazy
ideas. The brothers
are with LHR Technologies, inventors of the
CarveWright CNC System, which theyve
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and two template assemblies from sheet
stock as shown in the Drawings above.
I use springs on the carriage bolts to
help push the templates up when the
knobs are loosened, to make the block
workpieces easier to slide in and out.
These blocks can be made from a
single piece or multiple laminations. I
start with a blank 41 2" wide, 8" long and
about 2" thick. Split your block through
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When the blocks are routed and first glued together, the
opening at the top (inset) is just a rectangle. Steps shown
in subsequent photos create the longer arched opening.
21/2"
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Give your block a thorough sanding. I
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including flooding it into the recess
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apply a durable topcoat. These blocks
make such great holiday gifts for others
that my wife is still waiting for hers!
Alan Vondran is a woodworker in Asbury, Iowa.
His sons girlfriend got the first pizza cutter block.
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Woodturning
Turning Rolling Pins
By Ernie Conover
Master the challenge of turning a cylinder, and youll be able to create either a
baguette style or a handled rolling pin.
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VIDEO
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10" to 14"
1
Handle
4 /2"
3
/8"
Trunnion
1/2" diameter
1" deep
1/2" diameter through hole
1/2" diameter (slide fit
with drilled hole)
1"
Baguette pin
Use a spindle roughing-out gouge to bring the blank nearly round, then
lightly touch the back of the piece with your fingers while holding the tool
with your thumb. Sweep side-to-side to feel when the flat spots disappear.
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Woodturning continued
tiations depending
on your choice of
style. I show the
methods for creating both styles in
my videos.
To create a
baguette pin, you
start at about 4"
from each end and
create a taper that
reaches about a
The French baguette pin tapers, starting 4 from
each end, to about 1 in diameter. You should
1" diameter at the
be able to set a ruler down and have it touch
end of the cylinder.
everywhere on this straight taper.
This should be a
straight taper, with no curving in or out.
To create an American
style rolling pin, you will
need to drill 1/2"-diameter
by 1"-deep holes at each end
of your cylinder. You will also
need to turn the
handles.
The starting
blank for the
handles of the
traditional pin
should be 412"
long by 1" square.
You need to drill a
1/2"-diameter hole
that extends all the
way through the
Most of the trunnion shaft needs to be turned at
handle. You can
least 1/32 under 1/2 for a sloppy fit in the haneither drill this in
dle so the pin works even when soaking wet.
a drill press or on
The last 1 has a 1/2 diameter to be a slide fit
with the hole drilled in the main cylinder.
the lathe, which I
If you dont have a four-jaw chuck, you can turn the tapered tenon between centers, tap it into the hole in one end of the handle, then mount the
tapered tenon to the drive center and the other end of the handle centered
on the cone of your live center.
Making a
Pasta Cutter
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Final Assembly
After you have finished your
turnings, sand all parts thoroughly, but only to 120-grit.
A sanding pad in an electric
drill is great for quickly
sanding the working cylinder
of either pin. It will bring
everything smooth and to a
constant diameter.
To assemble the American
style pin, push the trunnions
through the handles, then
apply a bit of waterproof glue,
such as Titebond II, into
the 1/2" holes drilled in the
pin, and inset the trunnions
into them. Remember: the
trunnion cannot trap the handle; there needs to be about
1/16" of side-to-side play to
allow for swelling if wet.
I finish my rolling pins with
a bit of walnut oil or olive oil.
Now, go ahead and bake a
pie or make a pizza.
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Glue up the five box laminations. Apply an even bead to each face, spread it with a foam paint roller
or small brush, and sandwich the pieces together. Ordinary yellow wood glue works fine for this job.
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The box back must be removed before work on the drawer can begin.
Set your band saw fence 1/2" from the blade, and feed the stock
slowly along the fence to cut the back free.
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Box
Exploded View
Drawer
Full-size Pattern
To download this template
as a PDF, visit this issues
More on the Web section
under the Magazine tab at
woodworkersjournal.com.
Glue and clamp the box to close the entrance cut for the drawer, as shown
here. Apply just enough clamping pressure to hold the joint closed.
Reattach the back to the box sides with glue and plenty of clamps all around.
If you align the grain carefully, this seam will disappear when the glue dries.
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Begin creating the drawer by cutting the drawer back off of the rest of the blank. Make this panel
1/2" thick, just as you did for the box back, using the rip fence as a cutting guide.
The drawer consists of three main pieces: the back panel, drawer face and an interior section. Cut
the drawer face 1/2" thick to match the drawer back.
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Back at the band saw, cut away the inside of the drawer with your narrow, skip-tooth blade. Cut just
to the waste side of the pencil line, and proceed slowly and carefully around the tight inside curves.
At this point, even though the big outer surfaces of the box and drawer are
fairly smooth, the edges are still sharp.
I like to round these over for a more finished look. A 1/8" roundover bit mount-
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That last chunk of core material from inside the drawer will give you more than
enough material to make the little drawer pull. I cut a blank for my pull about
3/4" thick thats both walnut and just a
few thin layers of Baltic birch plywood
for contrast. Photocopy another pattern
so you can apply the drawer pull portion
of the pattern to your blank with spray
adhesive. Then cut out the drawer pull.
Sand its surfaces smooth, and round
over the edges by hand until the pull is
pleasing to the touch. Center the pull
carefully on the drawer face, and glue it
in place. A small spring clamp will apply
plenty of pressure to hold it there until
the glue dries.
Final Touches
Most any finish could work on this box,
but Ill suggest a couple of options.
My favorite is a three-part mixture of
boiled linseed oil, polyurethane and
mineral spirits. It wipes on easily with
a rag and warms up the color of most
Using a portion of the full-size pattern affixed to a scrap piece, cut out the
drawer pull. The authors pull consists of both walnut and a few thin layers
of Baltic birch plywood.
Sand the drawer pull by hand to soften all of its sharp edges. Then install
it on the drawer face. A little glue and a small spring clamp are all it
takes to mount the pull permanently.
If youve decided
to take my advice
to flock the inside
of the drawer
and even the inside
of the box if you
like do that
now to complete
The author blends equal parts boiled linseed oil, oil-based polyurethane
the last big detail.
and mineral spirits to form a simple wipe-on finish for this project.
Ill often flock the
Spray-on shellac or lacquer would be other good choices, too.
insides of boxes
try a few band saw boxes of your own
where the drawer fits a bit looser than
design! It doesnt take long for them to
Id like. It takes up some of that extra
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unwanted gap.
When the flocking dries, your Tennessee Box project is a wrap and
David Picciuto is a woodworker who blogs
at this time of the year, its a perfect
at makesomething.tv and hosts a YouTube
project to wrap up for gift-giving. Then
channel focused on creative woodworking at
get back out there, be creative, and
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wear a dust mask and use proper ventilation. Applying flocking inside
open-and-close action. You can buy flocking supplies online and from
3 Kitchen Doodads
By A.J. Hamler
Toasty Tongs
Rounded sides plus a wedge fulcrum create tongs that can
be adapted in length to serve a variety of functions.
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Banana Hanger
Handy for hanging bananas, this handsome addition to your
countertop has other uses as well.
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Pasta Pair
This matched set of utensils will take you from cooking pasta
to serving it with style.
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Pasta Measure
(Top View)
MATERIAL LIST
Each square = 1/4"
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1/2" x 2" x 12"
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The techniques for making these Scandinavian style shrink boxes, or krympburkar, date
back to the days of the Vikings but theyre just as fun for modern woodworkers.
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You can choose among several styles of grooves to fit the bottom of your box. The
author preferred the style in the middle of the drawing above.
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Next trace around the inside of the box onto a piece of basswood, an
easy-to-carve choice for the box top and bottom.
The author left a 1/8 flat on the side of the bottom piece and then carved
an angle before fitting it into her groove.
Finally, use your palm to apply pressure and pop the box bottom into place.
The alignment mark acts as a guide for the custom fit.
Trace around the flour that is left after flipping a flour-filled box onto a
dampened piece of wood that will serve as the box lid.
With the band saw tilted to 67, be sure you are cutting on the side of the
line that will make the lid larger, rather than smaller.
Marking with a pencil where you need to remove material makes the process of carving your lid to fit into your box pretty easy. (The lid will stand
slightly proud of the box sides.)
Finishing Options
Now you are ready for surface treatments! You may want to leave the box
textured with your knife cuts. Or you
could get out your carving gouges
and add more texture. Jim did a great
demonstration using milk paint, a wonderful way to add color to any project.
Whether or not you paint your shrink
box, youll want to apply a finish to
protect the wood. We discussed walnut
oil, non-boiled linseed oil or beeswax as
When you put the knob into the lid, make sure
your wedge will be perpendicular to the lids
grain. That is shown here with pencil marks.
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Todays Shop
Make Your Hardware Handsome
By Sandor Nagyszalanczy
Choosing Hardware
Peruse the pages of a hardware catalog, and its easy
to be overwhelmed by the
number of choices. Unless
the style of the piece youre
building dictates the style of
hardware youll use (Shaker,
Craftsman, Ultra Modern),
your hardware choices can
have a significant effect on
the appearance. For example,
a simple, clean-lined cabinet
fitted with stainless steel
wire pulls will tend towards
a contemporary look; white
ceramic knobs offer a
country feeling, and antique
brass bail style pulls lend a
classical appearance.
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Screw-on Hardware
One of my biggest hardware
mounting pet peeves is
seeing beautiful, expensive
screwed-on hardware thats
either mounted crooked or
has screws with stripped
heads. To prevent these
problems, here are some
practical steps to follow when
mounting hinges, latches,
trunk corners, or just about
any other kind of screwed-on
hardware. Start by determining and marking the exact
position of your hardware.
If the hardware spans two
separate parts, say a clasp
fastener that locks two
halves of a tabletop, set the
parts together just as they
will be after final assembly.
If theres supposed to be a
gap between the parts, use
cardboard or thin wood
strips to shim them. Now set
the hardware in place and
either clamp it down or use
double-stick tape to secure it.
To assure perfect pilot
holes for the mounting
A brass darkening solution can
take the shine off brass or bronze
hardware to match other hardware
or achieve a look you prefer.
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Double-stick tape
holds hardware in
place while you
drill pilot holes
with a self-centering bit. A springloaded sleeve on
the bit centers and
seats in countersunk mounting
holes on hardware.
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Nail-on Hardware
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Mounting Hinges
Hinges are needed for any
project that has a door, lid,
hatch or other articulated
parts. Proper installation
varies considerably: some
hinges are designed to be
surface-mounted; others
must be mortised into place,
while still others require
special drilled or routed
recesses.
Surface-mount hinges,
suitable for a wide variety
of projects, are the easiest
to install. Butterfly hinges
are a good choice for small
wood boxes with thin lids,
work, position
each hinge leaf
and mark its
outline with a
razor or marking
knife. For rounded or irregularly
shaped hardRocklers Easy Mortise hinges have semicircular
ware, stick the
leaves designed to fit into shallow recesses
leaf down with
created with a 30 mm Forstner bit.
double-stick tape
and carefully trace around
a large pocket hole (usually
it. Next, use a small plunge
35 mm) for mounting one
router (or laminate trimhalf of the hinge. On large
mer) with a small-diameter
doors, these holes can be
awkward to bore using a drill straight bit to remove the
press. An alternative strategy mortise waste. In most cases,
mortises should be cut just
is to use a drilling guide to
deep enough to position the
keep the big bit square to
hinge leaf flush or just slightthe surface.
ly proud of the
wood surface.
But there are
exceptions, such
as when the
mortises must
be deep enough
to compensate
for the thickness
of the hinges
barrel.
Before routing, darken your
A drill-mortising guide like the JIG IT keeps a large knife lines with
Forstner bit on-center to create a clean, cylindrical a pencil, so you
hole for mounting a concealed hinge. A pre-drilled can see them
1/8 pilot hole helps guide the Forstner bit, and
more easily, then
a collar locked on its shank stops the bit at the
rout to within
correct boring depth.
about 1/32"
of each line. By setting the
Mortised Hinges
When a project calls for basic bit depth carefully, routing
assures a flat pocket of conbutt hinges or any hardware
sistent depth. If you accidenthat requires mortising into
tally rout too deep, you can
the surface of the work,
compensate by putting a bit
heres my preferred methof tape on the underside of
od. After determining the
the hinge leaf, or by shimlocation of the hinges on the
With regular rectangular hinges, its easiest to use a try square or other
layout tool to guide the marking knife when outlining a hinge leaf.
Sometimes, you will need to make an adjustment to your depth of cut for
a hinge mortise such as when one leaf from each hinge is surfacemounted, instead of being mortised.
After routing away the waste, use a sharp bench chisel to clean up the
edges and corners on your hinge mortises.
If you end up with sloppy or mis-cut mortises on the edge of a box side
or frame, its usually possible to cut off the bad edge, glue on a strip of
matching wood, then re-cut the mortises.
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A backplate fits underneath a pull or knob and covers up the surface under
it, including any mis-drilled holes. Fitting a backplate can also cover up
old holes when changing from one size pull to another.
Drawer Slides
If you are using metal drawer
slides in your cabinet or furniture project, your choices
are almost as overwhelming
as those for hinges and pulls.
Basically, you need to choose
a set of slides with adequate
length and weight capacity
as well as enough extension
to allow easy access to items
in your drawers. These days,
some slides are available in
different finishes, including
black, white and brown.
Using a black slide with
light wood drawers can look
classier than the typical nickel-plated steel slides.
Once youve picked the
slides that best suit your
application, you face the challenge of building your carcass and drawers to suit the
requirements of the slides.
Read thoroughly through the
mounting instructions before
you start building to avoid
ending up with drawers that
dont fit or wont work with
your slides. One problem to
avoid at all costs is ending up
with a cabinet and/or drawer
boxes that arent square. If
the sides of the carcass are
not parallel, or arent square
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After soaking, thoroughly wipe off all surface oil and prop the parts up to dry. Allow
at least two days to dry before using.
Film at Eleven
Items that dont get cut,
exposed to high heat, or
scrubbed every day, like
candy bowls and peppermills,
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by French polishing right on
the lathe. For a tougher film,
use oil-based polyurethane,
either wiped on and off, coat
after coat, or brushed on for
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My Favorite Spatula
This handy little ergonomic helper is comfortable to use, versatile and strong
enough to scrape a cast-iron pan, yet wont scratch nonstick coatings. I cut
quarter inch slices off a 10"-long block of 8/4 figured maple. Because theyre
flat and thin, I can slice 16 spatula blanks from one board foot of wood.
Set the table saw blade at 45 and your miter gauge fence at 20 to cut a
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