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Canadian Woodworking is distributed 6 times a year. Every month, we pack our magazine with tips, plans, tool reviews and more. Our articles focus exclusively on the subject of woodworking; from intarsia, to dust collection. Take a look at our current issue. If you like it as much as we do, feel free to subscribe, or request a free trial issue.
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On The Cover: Click Floor TricksBy: Steve Maxwell (Aug/Sept 2009) Router Skills: Raised Panel DoorsBy: Michael KampenMichael shows that there is more than one way to build the common raised panel door, and in this article, he teaches you a few techniques that you can try in your shop. Wood will expand and contract as the relative humidity changes. This movement must be taken into account when constructing furniture. Fail to account for this seasonal expansion and contraction and your panels will split and your joinery will fail. Michael is a router professional, and he shows it in this article. In addition to setp-by-step instructions, he also provides photos and explanations of various panel raising bits. Home Project: Message BoardBy: Michael KampenThis handy chalkboard will help to ensure that important messages don’t get lost. Michael says that sicky notes just add to the clutter in his office and computer-based ´to do´ lists don’t work for him either; it is just too easy to ignore all of those warning bells and alarms by hitting the snooze button. Writing these lists on a chalkboard keeps them up on the wall and visible, acting as a constant reminder to get the items on it done. Michael also has one in his shop that he uses to work out construction details on during the build process. Then, when he needs to make a copy of the drawing, he simply take a photograph with a digital camera and transfers it to the computer. Placed in the kitchen, this chalkboard can serve as a message centre for the whole family and a handy drawing surface for young children, giving them an outlet for their creative energies, reducing the chance they will redecorate your walls with crayons. Michael makes this project especially easy with his easy-to-follow instructions, detailed materials list, and an illustration showing all of the parts and measurements. Be sure to put this project on your ‘To Do’ list. Furniture Project: Dining Room TableBy: Rob BrownEvery dining space is unique, so this particular project shows you how to make a table that fits your space. Rob’s design is both simple and elegant. He did a superb job at designing a table that can be adapted to whatever space you are setting it in. It is one of those projects that looks so much more difficult to make than it actually is. Rob leads you through the building process with easy-to-follow instructions, a complete materials list, a detailed illustration, and a special reference illustration showing all of the important measurements (such as table height, apron clearance etc.). He also gives you eight full colour photos of the building process. Skill Builder: Low Angle Block PlaneBy: Ted BrownWhile the smoothing plane excels at preparing face grain, the block plane, with its special set of features, is a necessity for working on the toughest cuts of them all – end grain. The low-angle block plane is a fine tool used for cleaning up end grain after cutting a board to length, for removing the arris (the sharp edges formed by two flat surfaces meeting on the edge of a milled board), for shaping of outside curves, and for cutting angles such as an under-bevel on the bottom side of a board. It differs from the more common smoothing plane in that it has an adjustable mouth, no cap iron, and the blade is installed bevel up. The iron has a primary bevel of 25° and a bed angle of about 12°. The attack angle, that is to say, the angle at which the blade enters the wood, is the total of the bevel angles, plus the bed angle, or roughly 37 to 39°. The relatively low angle is well suited to cutting end grain. Hardwood fibres are aligned longitudinally with the length of the board like a bundle of straws. If you try to cut the end of the bunch of straws with a plane bedded at a higher angle, the blade tends to dive between the straws and into the work. The 37° attack angle of the low-angle block plane attacks the stack of straws from the side, which reduces tearing, and provides a clean cut. And that’s just the beginning. In this article Ted leads you through: Tuning Your Block Plane; End Grain Applications; Setting Up for a Fine, Chatter-free Cut; Planing End Grain; Shooting End Grain With a Shooting Board; Removing the Arris; and Shaping. Turning Project: Honey DipperBy: Allan CusworthMake your honey more accessible and less messy with this turned project. A honey dipper is a great turning project for new turners. It gives you a great opportunity to practice spindle turning techniques with the blank mounted between centers on your wood-turning lathe. It is also a good project for practicing your skills using a skew. Since this is a useable utensil, the wood selected to make it must be nontoxic and it must not add any unwanted taste when it is used. Two such woods are birch, and maple. There are others but a study on that issue is beyond the scope of this article. The finish you use must also be food safe. For this project, Allan chose beeswax. Follow along as Allan teaches you: Basic Design; Preparing the Blank; Laying Out the Dimensions; Turning the Project; Applying the Finish; and Completing the Honey Dipper. He also provides a Suggested Tools and Materials List to make the project easy and straight-forward. Skill Builder: Mill It Yourself HandrailBy: Steve MaxwellSimple tools and techniques for routing this traditional architectural feature will make it too simple not to try. Great as it is to build cabinets, tables and shelves, woodworking skills offer more than this. Your workshop know-how can also be used to create valuable, wood-related, built-in features for your home – features that add beauty and elegance in ways that would otherwise cost big bucks. Stairway hand railings are a case in point. Few woodworkers realize how simple it is to make spectacular shopmilled railings in traditional profiles using ordinary workshop skills and a router. You don’t even need a shaper. If you’ve got a need for hand railing, milling it yourself might just be the most satisfying – and cheapest – way to get what you need while making the most of your woodworking skills. Steve makes this project as easy as falling down stairs. He teaches you how to: Prepare the Blanks; Tweak Router Bit Height; and Rout the Railing. He also gives nine full colour photos showing the full process, and handy tips throughout the article make this an especially satisfying project. New Tool: Delta Reinvents the UnisawBy: Graham McCullochSeventy years after the Unisaw’s debut, Delta completely redesigns their flagship table saw to put the controls front and centre. After much anticipation, the Delta Unisaw is finally appearing on showroom floors. More than a year has passed since the first hyperbolic ads started appearing in the trade magazines. These ads promised a brand new Delta Unisaw, re-built from the cabinet floor on up. For those not familiar with the Delta Unisaw, it is the standard from which all other table saw manufacturers have based their products. The world’s first tilting arbor table saw was produced over 70 years ago, in 1938. The woodworker’s world was turned upside down with the introduction of this extremely accurate cabinet saw. Since then, hundreds of thousands of Unisaws have found their way into home and cabinetmaker´s woodshops around the world. Delta has tweaked the Unisaw in those seven decades but they never made a major overhaul. That is, until now! In this article Graham gives you a full tour of the newly redesigned Unisaw, pointing out all of it’s incredible new features. Wood Finishing: Milk PaintBy: Marty SchlosserMilk paint has been around since the time of the pharaohs, yet it is only recently receiving attention due to its environmental friendliness and a host of unique properties. Milk paint is a highly durable, breathable coating that never peels or chips. Unlike conventional topcoats and oilbased paints, it is absorbed deeply into the fibres of the wood. This paint’s basic ingredients include milk, limestone, clay and natural pigments such as berries, seeds, minerals and coal. Because of this, it is non-toxic, non-polluting and is virtually fume-free. On the downside, because it has a natural milk base, any unused product must be discarded after two days. Depending on how thickly it is mixed, it can be used as paint, a coloured wash, or as stain. It is used by antique furniture refinishers and those with an interest in producing furniture that has a timeless look about it. There is a wide range of colours, all of which are colourfast (won’t fade) and which can be blended together to create a wider palate of colours. With all of this going for it, it’s not surprising that milk paint is making a resurgence. From this article, you will learn: How to Prepare; How to Apply; and How to Achieve Special Effects in Finishing. Shop Jig: Adjustable Circle Cutting JigBy: Marty SchlosserThis jig will cut any circle you need for those special curvy projects. Those of you who have made large table tops and similar projects requiring circles or arches know the value of an adjustable circle-cutting and routing jig. Although it is possible to cut a large circle using a bandsaw, it is much easier doing this task with a jig-mounted power tool. This article will show how you can make yourself a very precise, adjustable circlecutting jig that will accept jig saws and routers alike. It will also cover using this jig to cut out circles where you don’t want to drill an unsightly pivot hole in the top of the piece you’re cutting. This is one jig that will be around for a long time. Wood Chuckle: Goosing My CareerBy: Don WilkinsonIn this article, the third installment of his escapades into wood carving, Don continues to go against the grain, with hilarious results. You can subscribe to our magazine by clicking here. |
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