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"Most of the tools I use I've dreamed up myself but not all. Fact is,you've just got to use what's around you,and even that can get you hole time. For the most part, however, the guards know it keeps me busy and I don't make things to hurt other people with so they leave me alone. In that I am blessed." —Ralph Baze Ralph Baze holding a clock made to look like a banjo.The dial is lacewood with wenge and maple inlaid on the dial.The neck is red cedar with a fretboard of purpleheart and maple for the frets.The tuning keys are walnut. \ i Y The humidor built by Ralph Baze with an inlaid eagle on the lid.The eagle is made with more than 400 pieces of wood. Then comes the issue of clamping your lamination. Baze and other inmates constructed clamps that look like the traditional F-style clamps in every woodshop. However, these clamps were made from laminated wood, and instead of a metal screw, the clamp closed tightly thanks to rubber bands on the backside of the clamps. Baze had even built some 24" bar clamps for larger work. The other clamping method was to use binder clips — those beefy black spring clips that can hold a federal budget together. The 3/4"-long clip has a 5/i6n opening, the 11/4" clip opens to Vf and the 2"-long clip opens to just over 1". Drill bits were not allowed. So how do you make holes? Baze used pieces of broken "rabbit ears" TV antenna for drilling holes Vs" to 3/s" in diameter. After drilling a starter hole, Baze used dowels and sandpaper to increase the hole's size. For smaller holes, Baze used heavy-duty staples from boxes to drill his holes, twisting the sharp end in the wood to bore through it. To smooth the wood, inmates could use sandpaper. Baze also made a miniature hand plane using the razor from a Bic shaver. Finishing was a problem because the 12 Popular Woodworking April 2000 |
