Issue 263
Issue 263
What Can You Get For A Buck?
How about hours of pleasurable workshop entertainment, or perhaps a useful homefront improvement? A piece of woodworking history? That perfect shop-made gift?
What would you say to all of the above?
One of our big efforts at Woodworker’s Journal over the last year has been to take many of the woodworking projects from our out-of-print back issues and create electronic downloadable plans from them. Why did we do it? So often, we get a request phrased something like: “Back in 1979, I built an elephant horn from a plan in your magazine and now I have lost the issue, but I need another elephant horn … can I get a copy from you?”
Sadly, we often have to say, “no … the elephant horn plan no longer exists.” (Just to be clear, a plan for an elephant horn, to the best of my knowledge, never existed. That was just an example …) But now, we have more than 60 “new” plans from our back issues, and they are available for just $1.00 each! (Yup, that is a bargain!) And we will be adding more plans all the time.
So, if some of your back issues have mysteriously gone off to the secret magazine burial ground, perhaps one or more of your favorite projects is now available online. And even if you were not a subscriber back in the day, you might be interested in one or more of the revived projects from our archive. Check them out here, and let me know what you think.
Rob Johnstone, Woodworker’s Journal
Q & A
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Walnut Shavings as Compost?
I have avoided adding any walnut shavings to my compost pile, being afraid that it would kill anything I used the compost on. Can you verify this fact for me?
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Should I Buy a Shop Vac or Dust Collector?
Which would be better and more useful in a shop a good shop vac or dust collector?
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De-stinking Stained Drawer Interiors?
What can I do to neutralize or get rid of the odor of the stain? Will I need to varnish the drawers inside?
Industry Interviews
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Wally Keller Tool Museum: A Testament to Industrial-era Hand Tools
f you’re a vintage tool collector, an aficionado of things forged from iron and steel, or a regular follower of our “Stumpers” department in the print magazine, here’s a vacation destination to put on your bucket list: “The Wally Keller Tool Museum” in Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin.
Feedback
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Congratulations, Adulations — and Chainsaw Advice
Several eZine readers wrote to congratulate us after Rob’s editorial last time out mentioned the Woodworker’s Journal eZine’s recent receipt of the Gold Award for Best e-Newsletter from the Minnesota Magazine and Publishing Association. To which we say, aw shucks. And thanks.
What's In Store
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Metabo KSA18 LTX Cordless Circular Saw
The Metabo KSA18 LTX cordless circular saw is a 6.5-inch saw with a Metabo’s patented air-cooled battery system for its 18-volt lithium-ion battery.
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I-Mark Self-Marking Tape Measure
The I-Mark® Self-Marking Tape Measure is a 16-foot tape measure with a 3/4” blade and a pre-installed marking cartridge that eliminates the need for a pencil or additional marking tool.
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Carving 18th Century American Furniture Elements
Carving 18th Century American Furniture Elements by Tony Kubalak is a step-by-step guide to carving 10 authentic detail elements from the Colonial era
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Makita LCT208W Lithium-Ion Combo Kit
This 12-volt Lithium-Ion kit actually includes two tools: a 3 3/8-in.-diameter Circular Saw and a 3/8-in. Driver-Drill.
Tricks of the Trade
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Wine Cork Cleans Abrasives
Cleaning residue off your sanding discs, belts or drums will extend their useful lives, but you don’t have to buy a cleaning stick to do it.
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Jamb Nuts for Threaded Inserts
Instead of using a screwdriver to install threaded brass inserts – which often breaks them – I use an Allen bolt and nut.
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Arbor Nut Saver
The dust port on my contractor’s saw is below the blade arbor, and more than once I’ve dropped the arbor nut down inside the hole when changing blades.
Today's Woodworker
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Kevin Mack: Federal Furniture — Plus Farflung Styles
Kevin Mack recently won, for the second year in a row, the “Best in Show- Traditional Furniture” award at the Fine Furnishings…
Reader's Project Gallery
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Black Walnut Cradle
This is a Colonial cradle made of black walnut for our new grandbaby. All glued and pegged with black walnut dowels made with a dowel plate.
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Coasters from a Log
The coasters pictured below were made from a 4-1/2 inches in diameter log that was about 4-1/2 inches in diameter gotten from trimming a Linden tree.
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Entrance Table
This is what I call an “entrance table” as that is what the friend I built it for wanted. It is made, entirely, of 3/4 inch oak sawn from an old solid oak church pew.
