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PLANS TOOLS & TECHNIQUES DEPARTMENTS

24 On the cover: Outfeed Table 31 Make Your Own Plywood 1 Taking Measure
At the end of the day, stop, drop, and roll Don’t settle for home-center faces; add Escape to the shop.
away this support system with storage. exotic veneer to beautify the beast. 4 Wood-Wide Web
30 Phone and Tablet Charging Station 36 Shop Test: Dust Collectors 25 project plans for $ Twice.
Corral cord clutter inside this elegant, Forget specs: We measured airflow and 6 Sounding Board
easy-to-build accessory. filtration equally to level the playing field. Your voice, your projects, your shop.
42 Icebox with a Secret 54 Plumb for Compressed Air 14 Ask WOOD
This totally cool project hides huge Skip the trippin’ on air hoses when you Jig up to saw circles.
storage inside its classically styled skin. scatter hookups around your shop.
16 Shop Tips
48 Army Artillery Toys 59 Tools & Materials Double-dowel joints, and more.
Jeepers! Our Mil-spec series salutes the Bench grinders, a cordless trim router,
ground game with two tough toys. and more. 72 What’s Ahead
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YOUR VOICE

How do you figure?

Many furniture projects in WOOD magazine use
“figure-8” fasteners to attach the tabletop to the
apron. But I can’t seem to find them at any home
centers or hardware stores in my area. Where can
I get them?
O.J. Cain
via e-mail
That fastener, sometimes called a “desktop
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You may have to go to a mainline woodworking
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Rapping on wood
While attending the International Builders Show,
WOOD’s Daniel Wells had his photo taken with
rapper-turned-DIY-TV-host Vanilla Ice (below). So
we asked our Facebook and Twitter followers to
come up with a good rap name for a woodworker.
Here are some of our favorite responses:
Leonardo Murphy Busta Knuckle
Gareth Glenn 50 Centimeters
William Head Chisel in da Dizzle
John Connor Flava Lathe
Victor LaDonna Kinnick Sir Sawzalot
James Cook Dust Collecta
There’s gold in them thar back issues Eddy Harrell Little Piney
While reading issue of WOOD® magazine (Dec/Jan /), I was again reminded how it is the Daniel Przybylski Eight Penny
only woodworking publication that actually teaches you how to build things and provides detailed plans.
(The 4-square Table and Chairs article is like having a coach by your side.) And it always has been.
Case in point: The dust-collection hood we built for our radial-arm saw left a lot to be desired—
because it also left a lot of dust everywhere—especially when pivoted off a 90° cut. In search of a better
solution, I spent many hours on the internet Googling and searching YouTube and found only bigger,
more cumbersome boxes.
Coming up empty there, I went old-school, manually searching through my old copies of WOOD.
That’s when I found issue 43 (June ) with its dust-collection box for a radial-arm saw: a louvered
box that you pin behind the blade oriented at the angle of the cut. Elegant and brilliant!
—Pamela Peerce-Landers
Sanatoga, Pa.
You’re making us blush, Pamela! Our online article index at rushbrookrathbone.co.uk would have found
that article for you quickly (just search for “radial arm saw”). For readers who don’t have that issue, we’ve
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YOUR PROJECTS

Don Glencross, of Maynard, Mass.,

Pete Jacobs, of Yorktown, Va., made a playful version of our

Hidden-hook Coat Rack in issue (July ) as a gift for his
musically inclined daughter. Pickling stain colors the white keys;
ebony stain keeps the black keys looking sharp.

What to do with your leftover wood scraps? When they’re from

a garapa (Brazilian ash) deck, you turn them into a matching
patio table, as Ken Cook, of East Longmeadow, Mass., did.

Unwilling to settle for

an off-the-shelf carrier
for his three-wheel
Catrike, Bart Schmidt,
of Loudon, Tenn.,
crafted his own from
maple, red oak, and
birch plywood.

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YOUR PROJECTS
Finishing
Answers Instead of pine, as called for in the plans for
this Chairside Chest in issue (November
), Randy Webb, of Martinsville, Ind.,
Each issue, the finishing experts at Varathane
chose curly maple, making the project
anwer your staining and finishing questions. both simple and elegant.

Question:
How do I stain a large table
top and get consistent For this Greene-and-Greene-style clock from issue
color across the entire (November ), Bob Wolak, of Salisbury,
surface? Md., replaced the ceramic tile with a marquetry
panel he created. The clock body is sapele finished
—Daniel W. - Belton, MO with clear shellac.

Answer:
Staining a large surface is
different than staining a
small surface. You need to
work a little more quickly
when staining a table top
to achieve desirable re-
sults.
Quickly and evenly apply a
generous coat of Varathane Jeff Kunde, of Kenwood,
Premium Fast Dry Wood Calif., transformed a load of
old Douglas fir 4×4s
Stain over the entire area harvested from a wine cave
and let it set for a couple into this inviting arbor. He
bulked up the posts and
of minutes. Then quickly beams by binding four of
wipe away all excess with them together with steel
strapping.
consistent, medium pres-
sure.
This one step process will
allow the product to dry
 
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Mini-split heat pump

32'
Mortiser Clamp racks Finish and
Storage glue
storage
Dust collector Mitersaw Belt sander
Planer Spindle
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Workbench Drum sander Can Small

Sheet storage wall parts
Scrollsaw
Dust port
Trash can Bandsaw
24' Tool
Lumber Outfeed tower
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Lean-to
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Small-part
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Y
ou could say that Pete Lynah has had his first workshop more than 35 years ago, room for 5" metal dust-collection ductwork
sawdust in his shoes since age 10 when and after retiring he decided it was time for under the floor, running to a sealed room
his dad gave him and his brother a a shop upgrade. So he built a new one— where his 2-hp dust collector resides, vented
lb keg of 6d common nails for Christmas. essentially an upsize version of his previous outside via three dryer vents. The ductwork
He’s since moved on from hammering space, right down to the tool layout. leads to ports at his tablesaw, mitersaw, and
together tree forts and go-karts to building Pete framed, wired, and insulated a new by two benches. A shop vacuum services his
small exotic-wood boxes, oval Shaker boxes, 24×32' metal-clad pole building. The 3⁄4" smaller tools.
corner cabinets, dining tables, and cedar- plywood floor rests on pressure-treated 2×6 A mini-split heat pump regulates tem-
lined hope chests for his daughters. He built joists over a concrete slab. The joists provide perature year-round. During extended
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 A retired environmental science teacher, Pete felt compelled to install a 5kW solar array on
the south-facing roof of the shop. The electricity it generates is subtracted from his utility bill.
During summer months, the solar system produces more power than the shop consumes. The
lean-to provides lumber storage.
In an alcove, a “tool tower”
on the right stores portable
South-facing double doors provide natural light and make easy work of moving materials and power tools in their original
projects in and out. cases. The machinist’s chests
and stationary drawers next
time out of the shop in cold weather, Pete shuts off the mini-split, to it hold small tools such as
and a separate room with baseboard heat keeps finishes and glue screwdrivers, files, chisels, and
from freezing. sharpening equipment, as well
as mechanics tools, including
Pete built in loads of storage. A walled-off alcove in the back of the sockets and wrenches.
shop houses shelves for miscellaneous items. At the opposite end of
the shop, Pete built wall racks for his raw lumber, sheet goods, and Show us
cut-offs. He organizes hardware and fasteners for woodworking and your shop
household maintenance in metal cans of all shapes and sizes, then Send high-resolution
arranges them on his “can wall.” digital photos of your
A amp breaker panel provides electric service for six shop to
woodmail@
amp, V receptacle circuits, two amp lighting circuits, rushbrookrathbone.co.uk
and four V circuits to supply his tablesaw, dust collector, and and we may showcase it
baseboard heater. in the magazine!
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YOUR QUESTIONS

Starter hole

¼" hardboard

Elevate the workpiece on a 4×4 to provide clearance for the blade, and rotate the panel as needed. Cutting slowly reduces blade flexing and gives the best finished edge.

Q
Jig up a jigsaw for circles and circle meet. When you put the saw in
I don’t have a bandsaw or router, but need to place, the blade must rest snugly against the
cut a circular tabletop. Can I outfit my jigsaw edge of the workpiece (or the flat edge of
with a trammel to do the job? the hole) without deflection.
—Brian Davis, Normal, Ill.

A
Although a jigsaw wouldn’t be our first
choice for cutting circles, Brian, it can be
cle
done. Begin by making an auxiliary base s of cir
from 1⁄4" hardboard. Align the edge of the Radiu
saw’s foot with one end of the hardboard
and cut a slot for the blade. (We got good
results cutting circles with a tooth-per-
inch blade.) Then attach the saw with screws,
if your base has them, or double-faced tape if
it doesn’t. Mark a line on the bottom face of
the base parallel to the edge and aligned
with the blade teeth.
Measure from the inside edge of the blade
and mark your desired radius along the line.
Drill a hole for a finish nail at this point, and
at the centerpoint of the circle on your work-
Have a question? piece. When marking the centerpoint, either
Drop us an e-mail. measure from the workpiece edge, or drill a
askwood@ blade starter hole tangent to the edge of the An auxiliary base eliminates tear-out and also reduces lateral blade movement.
rushbrookrathbone.co.uk circle and chisel a flat surface where the hole You may need screws longer than the stock screws to attach the auxiliary base.

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